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Vector Illustrations on Alamy
DallasP:
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on March 29, 2020, 14:05 ---
Thank You, I'll take a look at that. Most of the older files I do have the JPG with the data. I'm just lazy. What I mean is finding the file, renaming them to match and created a zip of each one, takes more time than pasting the keywords I have ready in a text file, adding a few specific terms and a title.
Awful previews wouldn't be good for sales, would they. I'll reconsider.
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You could always use Adobe Bridge and Image Processor to batch the JPGS. If you've already got the metadata with the vectors it would make sense and take ... maybe 2 seconds each. (and then the upload obviously).
Noedelhap:
I uploaded mostly vectors on Alamy and I say, don't bother. Your mileage may vary but I've uploaded around 1100 images (both vector and raster (not photos)) to Alamy and after 8 years it's good for a whopping 0.2% (you read that right, zero point two %!) of my total stock revenue.
Then again, they mostly have 'poor discoverability', because I couldn't be bothered to select 'supertags' for each image.
AnS:
I also tested Alamy out uploading ~50 of my more successful illustrations three months ago. Took the time to bother with keywords and all, almost half of them have now good or optimized discoverability. Since then: 0 sales. It's not that I expect immediate sales, I know how microstock is and heard about rare but good sales in case of Alamy too, but here's the catch: if you upload vectors, there's just one fix price, 10 euros (you get 5 euros), for a license that says: all rights, all media, worldwide in perpetuity! :o That's basically an enhanced license for very cheap! Giving away a vector illustration for this license and for this price is not worth at all! I'll never upload anything under this circumstances.
Now, in my opinion, the only viable path left is to upload the illustrations as rasters, the ceiling is not so low and they may earn you more, based on different licenses.
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: Noedelhap on March 30, 2020, 16:00 ---I uploaded mostly vectors on Alamy and I say, don't bother. Your mileage may vary but I've uploaded around 1100 images (both vector and raster (not photos)) to Alamy and after 8 years it's good for a whopping 0.2% (you read that right, zero point two %!) of my total stock revenue.
Then again, they mostly have 'poor discoverability', because I couldn't be bothered to select 'supertags' for each image.
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Good discoverability is a flawed indication, you're fine. Supertags beats the old three box system.
--- Quote from: DallasP on March 30, 2020, 13:37 ---
You could always use Adobe Bridge and Image Processor to batch the JPGS. If you've already got the metadata with the vectors it would make sense and take ... maybe 2 seconds each. (and then the upload obviously).
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I'm not at all familiar with bridge, I know it's there, I see the name. ;)
So you mean I can paid up vectors with the rasters and bridge will make a zip file? That would sure be what I'm looking for, instead of putting files in a folder and one by one zipping them myself.
And that's a yes, the rasters already have the metadata, plus never a bad idea to have that for anything that's uploaded, just in case months or years from now, I want to upload someplace else.
--- Quote from: AnS on April 01, 2020, 02:55 ---I also tested Alamy out uploading ~50 of my more successful illustrations three months ago. Took the time to bother with keywords and all, almost half of them have now good or optimized discoverability. Since then: 0 sales. It's not that I expect immediate sales, I know how microstock is and heard about rare but good sales in case of Alamy too, but here's the catch: if you upload vectors, there's just one fix price, 10 euros (you get 5 euros), for a license that says: all rights, all media, worldwide in perpetuity! :o That's basically an enhanced license for very cheap! Giving away a vector illustration for this license and for this price is not worth at all! I'll never upload anything under this circumstances.
Now, in my opinion, the only viable path left is to upload the illustrations as rasters, the ceiling is not so low and they may earn you more, based on different licenses.
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Sounds logical and easier. I would say, maybe give them a little more time, like a year. I've been with Alamy from the start and the activity for my images has always been very sporadic. I wouldn't call anything predictable, by season or subject. Best selling on SS, Adobe, IS... nothing on Alamy. But to be clear that's photos, not illustrations.
This is a test project and from the answers here and on Alamy forums, I think I'll revisit in a year. I don't see much value in spending time, rather than investing time. 8)
Same as the previous, good discoverability is a waste of time, and closer to spam than just doing things right. I wish they would make that clear for people. It's a guide not a important scientific measure.
zsooofija:
--- Quote from: Hannafate on March 29, 2020, 12:23 ---I have been busy uploading jpgs of my vectors as separate images. They insist on generating their own jpg previews for vectors, and they look awful. So, for the sake of jpg sales, I'm uploading them separately.
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Sorry, I know this thread is old, but I have a question: Can you do that? Upload JPG version of already accepted vectors? Did they accept your JPGs? I would also like to do that as prices for vectors are 5-36 (!) times less than JPG illustations. Does not make any sense, but that's how it is. :(
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