Author Topic: 5 new lightboxes are open for submission (Read 12091 times)

leaf · « **on:** May 14, 2009, 02:58 »

The 5 new lightboxes are now ready to go. Here they are.

You can submit your files here
http://www.microstockgroup.com/istocklightbox/

Submissions are limited to 5/person/lightbox

I will update the lightbox images once we have a few files to pick from.

goldenangel · « **Reply #1 on:** May 14, 2009, 03:29 »

Thank you Leaf. That was quick!

ThomasAmby · « **Reply #2 on:** May 14, 2009, 04:24 »

Forgive me for asking this question, but I don't know much about the "culture" of iStock

What do these lightboxes do? Do they improve sales in any way or is it just a way to categorize images?

leaf · « **Reply #3 on:** May 14, 2009, 04:36 »

People mostly use them for their own portfolios.

You can put your similar images in a lightbox - then bring a buyers attention to your lightbox by putting a link in a number of your images.

If you check out this image of mine
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-4726056-female-climber.php

You can see it has a link to a lightbox for my climbing images. By linking a group of your own images, you will get buyers staying within your own images (hopefully) instead of looking at other peoples.

With the microstockgroup lightboxes, we are sharing our traffic. So if a buyer looks at our image, they might also look at the microstockgroup lightbox and then also buy another one of our images.

dbajurin · « **Reply #4 on:** May 14, 2009, 05:18 »

Can we submit video clips?

leaf · « **Reply #5 on:** May 14, 2009, 05:25 »

Quote from: dbajurin on May 14, 2009, 05:18

Can we submit video clips?

Hmm. i didn't think about that.

I suppose someone building a website or something may be shopping for both stills and video.
I don't see the harm, so sure.

runamock · « **Reply #6 on:** May 14, 2009, 06:57 »

Am I doing something wrong? I keep getting 'The search query you entered did not find any matching results' for the new lightboxes.

leaf · « **Reply #7 on:** May 14, 2009, 07:12 »

Quote from: runamock on May 14, 2009, 06:57

Am I doing something wrong? I keep getting 'The search query you entered did not find any matching results' for the new lightboxes.

when are you getting that error message?

runamock · « **Reply #8 on:** May 14, 2009, 07:21 »

I've just put one in the travel destinations when I click on the link I get this:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=6240497

leaf · « **Reply #9 on:** May 14, 2009, 07:29 »

Quote from: runamock on May 14, 2009, 07:21

I've just put one in the travel destinations when I click on the link I get this:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=6240497

I see 27 images when I click on that link. I think the lightbox is just empty for you (for now). Give istock some time and it will re-populate the box contents.

runamock · « **Reply #10 on:** May 14, 2009, 07:30 »

Thanks

ThomasAmby · « **Reply #11 on:** May 14, 2009, 10:52 »

Quote from: leaf on May 14, 2009, 04:36

People mostly use them for their own portfolios.

You can put your similar images in a lightbox - then bring a buyers attention to your lightbox by putting a link in a number of your images.

If you check out this image of mine
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-4726056-female-climber.php

You can see it has a link to a lightbox for my climbing images. By linking a group of your own images, you will get buyers staying within your own images (hopefully) instead of looking at other peoples.

With the microstockgroup lightboxes, we are sharing our traffic. So if a buyer looks at our image, they might also look at the microstockgroup lightbox and then also buy another one of our images.

What a great idea!

One more question though; I noticed that some of my images have been added to several public lightboxes. Why would anyone bother doing this when they are not the author of my image? Does this increase traffic to the creator of the lightbox, I mean, adding images from other users?

kaycee · « **Reply #12 on:** May 14, 2009, 11:06 »

maybe a very dumb question .But how to ad some pictures to these lightboxes

?

kaycee · « **Reply #13 on:** May 14, 2009, 11:08 »

Quote from: kaycee on May 14, 2009, 11:06

maybe a very dumb question .But how to ad some pictures to these lightboxes ?

Oops I'm sorry for the question I see now if your logged in to this forum you will see the ID number you have to ad to the lightbox...

kaycee · « **Reply #14 on:** May 14, 2009, 11:16 »

Quote from: kaycee on May 14, 2009, 11:08

Quote from: kaycee on May 14, 2009, 11:06
maybe a very dumb question .But how to ad some pictures to these lightboxes ?
Oops I'm sorry for the question I see now if your logged in to this forum you will see the ID number you have to ad to the lightbox...

I tried but it failed I got this message:

There was a problem adding this image to the Spring lightbox
It looks like you still need to add the appropriate banner to this image.

Here is the text you need to put in the description.

I dont get it we only need the ID number of the Istock image we want to ad to the light box or ...

??

etienjones · « **Reply #15 on:** May 14, 2009, 11:30 »

You have to first put the code of the Banner in the Description area of the image you want to submit (this in IS), then come back to MSG to add the image number to that Lightbox. Thats how I did it . . . . and it does take a little time for that image to show up in the Lightbox.

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goldenangel · « **Reply #16 on:** May 14, 2009, 11:39 »

I added one image to a lightbox then changed my mind and added it another lightbox. However, it now appears in both lightboxes. Is it going to be updated by itself automatically or is there a way to remove it from the original lightbox?

etienjones · « **Reply #17 on:** May 14, 2009, 11:43 »

I added one image to two lightboxes also, . . . . being new here I hope that is OK.

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kaycee · « **Reply #18 on:** May 14, 2009, 11:53 »

Quote from: etienjones on May 14, 2009, 11:30

You have to first put the code of the Banner in the Description area of the image you want to submit (this in IS), then come back to MSG to add the image number to that Lightbox. Thats how I did it . . . . and it does take a little time for that image to show up in the Lightbox.

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to much work so no lightbox for me. bey.bey...

Gannet77 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 14, 2009, 12:04 »

Quote from: kaycee on May 14, 2009, 11:06

maybe a very dumb question .But how to ad some pictures to these lightboxes ?

There is more detailed information on how to add the banner code in the old thread here:

http://www.microstockgroup.com/istockphoto-com/microstockgroup-istock-lightboxes/25/

The screen shots are from the old iStock interface but it's basically the same.

Xalanx · « **Reply #20 on:** May 14, 2009, 15:06 »

I put 2 images in spring lightbox and 2 in macro lightbox. Then I got tired. Does it really help?

leaf · « **Reply #21 on:** May 14, 2009, 15:54 »

The nature lightbox has been viewed over 5000x That is a potential 5000 customers you may not have been exposed to otherwise.

madelaide · « **Reply #22 on:** May 14, 2009, 16:04 »

I forgot... can we have the same image in more than one lightbox?

etienjones · « **Reply #23 on:** May 14, 2009, 16:10 »

Thats what I did, . . . . I hope its OK.

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madelaide · « **Reply #24 on:** May 14, 2009, 17:24 »

Leaf,

Maybe we are having a bit of overlapping here?
"Summer, Sun, Sand "
"Summer Sports"
"Summer"

Are you going to make the banners with images, like the old ones?

kaycee · « **Reply #25 on:** May 14, 2009, 17:54 »

Quote from: Gannet77 on May 14, 2009, 12:04

Quote from: kaycee on May 14, 2009, 11:06
maybe a very dumb question .But how to ad some pictures to these lightboxes ?

There is more detailed information on how to add the banner code in the old thread here:

http://www.microstockgroup.com/istockphoto-com/microstockgroup-istock-lightboxes/25/

The screen shots are from the old iStock interface but it's basically the same.

Thanks for this link .I have tried it and it worked sofar.Only don't see the images in the lightbox I guess the will appair later on...

leaf · « **Reply #26 on:** May 15, 2009, 01:45 »

Quote from: madelaide on May 14, 2009, 16:04

I forgot... can we have the same image in more than one lightbox?

yes

leaf · « **Reply #27 on:** May 15, 2009, 01:46 »

Quote from: madelaide on May 14, 2009, 17:24

Leaf,

Maybe we are having a bit of overlapping here?
"Summer, Sun, Sand "
"Summer Sports"
"Summer"

Are you going to make the banners with images, like the old ones?

Yeah, i guess you are right. I think I will leave it for now though. One is mostly sports, one is perhaps more beach related and one is just summer, and I guess people can then upload 15 images total if they use all three boxes.

goldenangel · « **Reply #28 on:** May 15, 2009, 02:12 »

Can we remove an image from a lightbox?

leaf · « **Reply #29 on:** May 15, 2009, 09:07 »

Quote from: goldenangel on May 15, 2009, 02:12

Can we remove an image from a lightbox?

You can't do it yourself, I should make that option available, but so far you have to send me a private message saying the image number of the file you want removed (and perhaps the lightbox, if it is in more than one)

Lior · « **Reply #30 on:** May 15, 2009, 15:45 »

I don't know if it has anything to do with the lightboxes, but I just sold one of the images I added to the macro lightbox.
So... thanks MSG...

teekaygee · « **Reply #31 on:** May 16, 2009, 07:31 »

why am I just seeing coloured boxes instead of images in these lightboxes? will the images populate at a later date?

leaf · « **Reply #32 on:** May 16, 2009, 11:09 »

Quote from: teekaygee on May 16, 2009, 07:31

why am I just seeing coloured boxes instead of images in these lightboxes? will the images populate at a later date?

Do you mean in the image for the lightbox? I have to put the images in there. I will do I after there is a few images in the lightbox to pick from

teekaygee · « **Reply #33 on:** May 16, 2009, 20:16 »

Quote from: leaf on May 16, 2009, 11:09

Do you mean in the image for the lightbox? I have to put the images in there. I will do I after there is a few images in the lightbox to pick from

yes, that's what I meant. thanks for the explanation...makes sense now.

kaycee · « **Reply #34 on:** May 20, 2009, 07:52 »

When does the pictures I ad to the ightbox appair in the light box

?
It's been 6 days ago but non of my pictures are visable in the lightboxes....

leaf · « **Reply #35 on:** May 20, 2009, 08:16 »

Quote from: kaycee on May 20, 2009, 07:52

When does the pictures I ad to the ightbox appair in the light box ?
It's been 6 days ago but non of my pictures are visable in the lightboxes....

can you give me a couple image numbers so I can check them out

and did you add your images to the correct lightbox on this page?
http://www.microstockgroup.com/istocklightbox/

kaycee · « **Reply #36 on:** May 20, 2009, 14:13 »

Quote from: leaf on May 20, 2009, 08:16

Quote from: kaycee on May 20, 2009, 07:52
When does the pictures I ad to the ightbox appair in the light box ?
It's been 6 days ago but non of my pictures are visable in the lightboxes....

can you give me a couple image numbers so I can check them out

and did you add your images to the correct lightbox on this page?
http://www.microstockgroup.com/istocklightbox/

Here a few nr 8445180 I put this one in the travel destination lightbox
nr 7070601 I put this one in the transport lightbox
nr 9316318 I put this one in the spring lightbox
nr 9061991 i put this one in the macro shots lightbox

I put a lot of images 6 days ago in the lightboxes but as far as I can see non are visable...
On the I stock site when I click on the images you see the lightbox in question but no picture of mine ar in it.
May be an I stock problem...

?

leaf · « **Reply #37 on:** May 20, 2009, 14:52 »

when you go to this page
http://www.microstockgroup.com/istocklightbox/

do you see thumbnails of any of your images? If not, you haven't added them to the lightboxes yet through microstockgroup. You do that at the top of that page.

kaycee · « **Reply #38 on:** May 20, 2009, 16:06 »

Quote from: leaf on May 20, 2009, 14:52

when you go to this page
http://www.microstockgroup.com/istocklightbox/

do you see thumbnails of any of your images? If not, you haven't added them to the lightboxes yet through microstockgroup. You do that at the top of that page.

Sorry leaf I did as requested see my post a couple of days ago .
I did everything what was possible...
Maybe I'm real stupid ,but if it is not working, I'm doing no trouble anymore .It took me over and hour to get the pictures in those lightboxes...(I thought)
I give up, no lightboxes for me, until you come with something easier ....at this time to much pain in the a..... to and it doesn't pay off.
Sorry

Hmm for some reason I don;t know what but suddenly they are now in the light boxes......magic or what...
But still it's to much work to get some pictures in the lightboxes...there has to be an easier way...

leaf · « **Reply #39 on:** May 20, 2009, 16:20 »

Quote from: kaycee on May 20, 2009, 16:06

.there has to be an easier way...

if you come up with it, I'll gladly implement it

kaycee · « **Reply #40 on:** May 20, 2009, 17:38 »

Quote from: leaf on May 20, 2009, 16:20

Quote from: kaycee on May 20, 2009, 16:06

.there has to be an easier way...

if you come up with it, I'll gladly implement it

I would if I could but I have no clue about scripts or programming sorry....
But I'm glad it finaly worked for me.... thanks for your patients...
Maybe just some thought ... the first step we have to do (you know) put the url in the I stock discription must be enough...or not...

leaf · « **Reply #41 on:** May 21, 2009, 08:21 »

Quote from: kaycee on May 20, 2009, 17:38

Quote from: leaf on May 20, 2009, 16:20
Quote from: kaycee on May 20, 2009, 16:06

.there has to be an easier way...

if you come up with it, I'll gladly implement it
I would if I could but I have no clue about scripts or programming sorry....
But I'm glad it finaly worked for me.... thanks for your patients...
Maybe just some thought ... the first step we have to do (you know) put the url in the I stock discription must be enough...or not...

Have you made some lightboxes of your own with banner links linking all the images together? If not, you should so you can see all the steps you have to do. I don't feel this is any more work and we are networking 100's of photographers images together.

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