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Stocksy / Any illustrators selling on Stocksy?
« on: November 23, 2023, 08:52 »
I am selling (hand drawn) vector illustrations on various Microstock websites, and I have taken a break for a little more than a year now (for personal reasons). Now it's time to get back to work. And I see that Stocksy climbed the ladder in the earnings poll results. So I wonder, is it worth it to apply as an illustrator? I know it wouldn't be vectors, just JPGs. That's fine.

Let's say I apply and get accepted - I don't want to create content specifically for Stocksy, which then doesn't sell. And then I can't upload it anywhere else because of the exclusivity agreement.

Any successful Stocksy illustrators here?

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Shutterstock.com / Unpaid earnings discrepancy
« on: June 20, 2019, 06:43 »
Anybody else seeing discrepancies in their earnings summary? Since last night, my "Unpaid Earnings" are $108 higher than my "Jun 2019 totals", and I have no idea where the extra $108 are coming from. I mean, I'm not complaining about a little more $$$, it's just very strange.

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Shutterstock.com / New dimension for EPS files (4 megapixels)
« on: April 04, 2019, 16:03 »
Starting on April 8, 2019, Shutterstock will require the dimensions of EPS files to be at least 4 megapixels.

I work entirely in Inkscape, and so far have kept the dimensions smaller than 500 pixels on the largest side, to avoid rejection (Design is either too large or too small on the artboard)

The new requirement is therefore highly worrying - does that mean in the future all files created in Inkscape will be rejected, because in order to make them fit the artboard, they have to be smaller than 4 megapixels?

Someone else having the same worries?  :(

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Shutterstock.com / Editorial vs. commercial
« on: November 11, 2016, 02:39 »
I recently submitted two illustrations, one of Virginia Woolf, the other Frida Kahlo. Virginia was accepted, Frida not, I was told to put her into the editorial section. But there are illustrations of Frida Kahlo on Shutterstock in the commercial section, and Virgina Wolf was accepted in the commercial section too. I don't understand the rules, do you know if are there any guidelines with regards to famous persons that are no longer alive?! why are others allowed to sell drawings of Frida Kahlo commercially, and not me? confused...

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DepositPhotos / Depositphotos invite - join or not join?
« on: November 08, 2015, 10:26 »
Two days ago I received an email by Depositphotos, "waiting to establish prosperous and effective cooperation" with me. I assume that they found me through Shutterstock or Fotolia, where I have a link to my website with my contact details.
I'm a newby, I started with Microstock at the beginning of this year, I do vector illustrations. I had joined Depositphotos in March but only earned $0.44 the following month. I didn't want to accumulate income that I can never withdraw due to low earnings, so I de-activated all images.

Ignore their email or give them another chance? What's your experience with Depositphotos, especially with vectors? Has anybody ever joined after an invitation? (they promise to promote my stuff, will they really?). I read some posts here of people hesitating to join, so I would like some more opinions.

Moreover I thought about joining 123RF, since they appear to be in the "middle tier". Worth it? (I'm currently on SS, IStock, Dreamstime, Fotolia and Creative Market)

Thanks in advance for your input!

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I recently uploaded a vector image to Shutterstock, Fotolia and IStock. I use Inkscape to create my vectors, therefore I cannot check my files in Illustrator. Shutterstock rejected the image, saying "no bitmaps allowed", and after carefully screening the whole image, I found a small section in which I had accidently used transparency, which was likely the cause for the rejection.

To my big surprise, the same file was accepted by Fotolia and Istock. I am a little confused, I mean either my file contains bitmaps or not??? Should I resubmit the corrected file to Fotolia and IStock? Is it actually possible to replace an already accepted image?

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

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