Author Topic: CitizenImage (Read 5146 times)

ichiro17 · « **on:** June 01, 2006, 10:29 »

Does anyone have any sales at CitizenImage. I haven't bothered to upload more than 2 pics because of the ridiculous amount of time it takes since it won't take the data from the JPEG file.

madelaide · « **Reply #1 on:** June 01, 2006, 18:59 »

I have 5 images there, no sales.

Regards,
Adelaide

leaf · « **Reply #2 on:** June 02, 2006, 12:53 »

i haven't been too tempted to sign up yet.

fintastique · « **Reply #3 on:** June 04, 2006, 10:23 »

A new contender for first to go belly up if they can't read IPTC data, who is going to bother uploading to type all that stuff in?

madelaide · « **Reply #4 on:** June 06, 2006, 22:59 »

IPTC works for me. I think it doesn't read the title only.

Regards,
Adelaide

leaf · « **Reply #5 on:** October 11, 2006, 01:28 »

it looks like they just did some updates here.. so i thought I would bring this thread back to the top. anyone else have any luck here?

photoshow · « **Reply #6 on:** October 11, 2006, 18:18 »

I don't know how excited I can get about an agency that does not understand the difference between MegaByte and MegaPixel. The specs in their submission Technical Specifications http://www.citizenimage.com/articles/articles06.jsp are all Wrong, they have MB and MP mixed up

eendicott · « **Reply #7 on:** October 11, 2006, 20:55 »

Started uploading yesterday. Be sure you read the contributor agreement. This is a traditional business model, not a microstock. They require a 2 year marketing agreement for images that are sold royalty free and they require a 3 month exclusivity on those first two years for editorial images. I know there are many that don't like this idea so I thought I'd point it out.

leaf · « **Reply #8 on:** October 12, 2006, 01:24 »

Quote from: photoshow on October 11, 2006, 18:18

I don't know how excited I can get about an agency that does not understand the difference between MegaByte and MegaPixel. The specs in their submission Technical Specifications http://www.citizenimage.com/articles/articles06.jsp are all Wrong, they have MB and MP mixed up

i don't think they are getting them mixed up, they just have a crazy way of calculating how many MB's an image is. They want you to do a calculation, and not just look how much room it takes up on a hard disk.

Quote

The image size in MB shown below is based on the following calculation.
Image Size = number of pixels wide
X the number of pixels high
X the number of bytes per pixel

This is not to be confused with the file size of the image, which is the amount of space that it takes up on your hard drive after being saved in a particular format. The image's size maybe seen in various ways. For example by selecting the "Image Size" menu option in Adobe Photoshop.

For example, a 48MB image file can be JPEG compressed at high or low settings, yielding a file that takes up 3MB or 10MB of disk space; however it remains a 48MB image. In other words, the amount of space the file takes up on a disk is irrelevant.

photoshow · « **Reply #9 on:** October 12, 2006, 13:07 »

i don't think they are getting them mixed up, they just have a crazy way of calculating how many MB's an image is. They want you to do a calculation, and not just look how much room it takes up on a hard disk.

Quote

The image size in MB shown below is based on the following calculation.
Image Size = number of pixels wide
X the number of pixels high
X the number of bytes per pixel

I am sorry but that formula WILL NOT tell you how many MB (MegaBytes) a file is
That fromula WILL tell you how many MP (Mega Pixel) a file is

Mega Byte = File Size - How much space a file takes on a disk
Mega Pixel = Image Resolution, how many pixels the total file contains which when divided by usage resolution will give you the finished print size

Very simply put the information they are providing is WRONG

leaf · « **Reply #10 on:** October 12, 2006, 13:58 »

pixels in the length X pixels in the width / 1,000,000 = megapixels in your image

pixels in the length X pixels in the width X number of bytes per pixel (8 byte image or 16 byte image) = some strange Megabyte size that citizen image uses.

photoshow · « **Reply #11 on:** October 12, 2006, 16:42 »

Oops my bad, I read the formula as Pixels and Pixels so I in fact am wrong buit you are correct that is some very strange system they have set up!

leaf · « **Reply #12 on:** October 12, 2006, 17:05 »

i think it is totally ridiculous when sites use MB to determine the size quality of an image. Why don't they just use the actual pixel dimensions. Alamy does this as well... however if the image is filled with white pixels it takes up a lot more disk space than an image filled with black pixels... that doesn't mean that one has better resolution than the other, just different colors :S

masterpiece · « **Reply #13 on:** October 26, 2006, 18:38 »

hi! folks,
... I got some problem. Having successfully registered with
CitizenImage, I can't upload any images when clik the
"UPLOAD" button, it keeps asking for my login id and password
when I want to upload (can't even see the UPLOAD page).

Java is always active, I have deleted the cookies, liaise with their
Support Team but to no avail. I don't know what when wrong
and the Support Team is also unable to diagnose the problem.

Any idea what's happening?

Thanks and best regards in advance.

eendicott · « **Reply #14 on:** October 28, 2006, 17:34 »

I've uploaded individually there and through their upload tool. As I write this message I am uploading a batch of 163 editorial photos. Granted it has taken about 4 hours to do about half of them, it is working.

Not sure what the issue is on your side. Did you log in before uploading? (upper right hand corner)

masterpiece · « **Reply #15 on:** October 29, 2006, 05:00 »

... already singed-in with id and password successfully.
regards

madelaide · « **Reply #16 on:** October 29, 2006, 10:32 »

I sold an image there early this month. US$20, I'm not sure if this was the sale price or my share of it.

Regards,
Adelaide

MicrostockGroup Sponsors

Author Topic: CitizenImage (Read 5146 times)

ichiro17

madelaide

leaf

fintastique

madelaide

leaf

photoshow

eendicott

leaf

photoshow

leaf

photoshow

leaf

masterpiece

eendicott

masterpiece

madelaide

Sponsors

Microstock Poll Results

Sponsors