http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=125816

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Better late than never. It only took them a few years to implement my suggestion. 

Regardless, a good feature that was much needed. It will be interesting to see what they came up with.

I know it's a different thing but... it may easily turn out to be a better option than my own web site on Photoshelter (where sales are non-existent, and I even pay for storage).

Doesn't work for me, I am one of those getting the reported bugs 

The new Display Name and portfolio URL features are currently broken. You can't set them.

I wish we had that on Getty...

It's a server load issue - because we are all trying to do the same thing at the same time. They have posted about it in their forums a have implemented some fixes - It worked for me now.

http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=125817&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

Anyone else want to show how they've chosen galleries? It's not really pimping as there aren't any buyers here, but I'd be happy to comment on other people's choices to make suggestions if others want to do the same.

Here's my gallery set. I figured I'd move the order around seasonally, as sales indicate.

What do they mean by "public" sets - does it mean these images will be offered for free? I am confused by the word "public" - my entire portfolio is publicly accessible on SS, anyone can explain what would be the difference?

Quote from: Elenathewise on November 12, 2012, 19:49
What do they mean by "public" sets - does it mean these images will be offered for free? I am confused by the word "public" - my entire portfolio is publicly accessible on SS, anyone can explain what would be the difference?

Explained here
http://www.shutterstock.com/buzz/introducing-portfolio-pages

Quote from: Elenathewise on November 12, 2012, 19:49
What do they mean by "public" sets - does it mean these images will be offered for free? I am confused by the word "public" - my entire portfolio is publicly accessible on SS, anyone can explain what would be the difference?

It's comparable with Istock's lightboxes; you can create various sets of similar photos or illustrations for display on your profile page. It allows customers to easily find images from the same collection, thus increasing sales.

Ok - thanks! That makes sense.

Quote from: Noedelhap on November 12, 2012, 21:45It's comparable with Istock's lightboxes; you can create various sets of similar photos or illustrations for display on your profile page. It allows customers to easily find images from the same collection, thus increasing sales.

Too bad (for me, anyway) that they don't allow footage to be added to these. 

Too bad they didn't do this years ago when I had relatively few files, instead of now when I have to organize over 7k images if I am going to benefit from this feature...

Quote from: lisafx on November 12, 2012, 22:52
Too bad they didn't do this years ago when I had relatively few files, instead of now when I have to organize over 7k images if I am going to benefit from this feature...

It's a lot easier to organize given that you can search in the catalog manager interface and then select everything from that search to add to a set. Give it a try with some top categories (senior couple, gorgeous husband...) to see - even if you only do 10 sets you'll get some boost from a nice portfolio page with galleries. It's tons better in that respect than iStock's interface...

Lisa, it may take a few seconds to find and sort your 7k images but ... it should be well worth the effort.  As Jo Ann pointed out ... the manager does the work for you.  Many of your files will be in more that one "set."  Just do key word search and move the entire search to the new "set."
Took me some time to figure out how easy that was.  The part that is kicking my butt now is how to use social media ... or, is will social media really offer benefit?

@ Jo Ann, are you using social media ... facebook, twitter, etc?

I really don't want to mix SS up with my personal facebook and I don't have a "business" one that's separate. I do have Linked In and Twitter, but I've never seen any point in using them for business purposes (and I know every business on the planet thinks that this is the hot thing, but I'm not convinced you do anything but piss people off )

That's a long way of saying "No"

my thoughts too.
Looked at your sets.  All I can offer is envy.   

Quote from: jsnover on November 12, 2012, 23:27
I really don't want to mix SS up with my personal facebook and I don't have a "business" one that's separate. I do have Linked In and Twitter, but I've never seen any point in using them for business purposes (and I know every business on the planet thinks that this is the hot thing, but I'm not convinced you do anything but piss people off )

That's a long way of saying "No"

thank you for saying it, cos I too think you just annoy people. Lately I've been unliking Pages on fb cos I'm just annoyed at how often they post, and the content is drivel. Don't get me started on Twitter!  and Pinterest is a dirty word, even though it's fast becoming the ItGirl of social media.

I too have portfolio envy

Quote from: WarrenPrice on November 12, 2012, 23:38
my thoughts too.
Looked at your sets.  All I can offer is envy.   

I looked at your sets, and I think my feedback would be to break things down a bit more to avoid too many unrelated images in a group. So in the Travel & Tourism section, for example, you have a ton of pictures of people racing dirt bikes, some vintage cars, some food, some isolated flowers, etc. Even if you had to travel to get the bluebonnet pictures, I don't think I expect to see isolated flowers in that section.

I'm trying to decide if I should set a maximum on how many images I put in a set. The thinking is that if it gets too big, no one's going to look at the last pages, so we're better off to keep it to one or two.

I see what you mean.  My port (key wording) needs some work.  Any time I used a state for keyword ... it also got to be travel/tourism. 
I need to fix that before I get 7 thousand images.   

I'm hoping this will give buyers a better tool to find me with ... without getting pissed off about "unintended" spam.   

Quote from: jsnover on November 12, 2012, 23:27
I really don't want to mix SS up with my personal facebook and I don't have a "business" one that's separate. I do have Linked In and Twitter, but I've never seen any point in using them for business purposes (and I know every business on the planet thinks that this is the hot thing, but I'm not convinced you do anything but piss people off )

That's a long way of saying "No"

So true. I hope SS aren't falling into the trap of over-complicating their product like IS have done so absurdly. The KISS principle has worked very well for SS so far.

Quote from: gostwyck on November 13, 2012, 02:14
So true. I hope SS aren't falling into the trap of over-complicating their product like IS have done so absurdly. The KISS principle has worked very well for SS so far.

I'm just happy I can finally put a link to my website. I'm sure that has cost me some money over the years in lost freelance work. It's shocking that it took them this long to implement that.

Quote from: cthoman on November 13, 2012, 02:26I'm just happy I can finally put a link to my website. I'm sure that has cost me some money over the years in lost freelance work. It's shocking that it took them this long to implement that.

Not really. Their job as your agent was to sell your work via their own portal rather than promote your own which excludes them.

Quote from: gostwyck on November 13, 2012, 02:32

Quote from: cthoman on November 13, 2012, 02:26I'm just happy I can finally put a link to my website. I'm sure that has cost me some money over the years in lost freelance work. It's shocking that it took them this long to implement that.

Not really. Their job as your agent was to sell your work via their own portal rather than promote your own which excludes them.

Their job is to make money for themselves. I'm just a not-so-necessary evil.