Well, it is almost a year old.
Qtalk is geared to artists and collectors. We offer to promote your work for free. We do not charge members and do not get commission from POD sites.
The idea is to combine all your POD and even stock items and promote it in one place. As of now, we have mostly FAA images, but are open to all.
We have a searchable gallery, a small forum, many social media groups and pages and handpick uploaded work for promotions.
I'm sure some of you will like it and others won't. We like to invite you to take a look, registration as anything else is free.
We would love if you find it beneficial for you and make use of it. We read IPTC on gallery uploads and display the description, keywords and some camera settings. There is an approval queue for images, it usually takes 24 hours or less. Although not perfect, uploads are painless.
What we are proud of is that you can link to many of your selling sites in the description.
Follow this link http://qthecollection.com/qtalk/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=15 and see how I link to FAA for purchasing a print, but also to Alamy for licensing the image.
If you are interested, please view the FAQ in the forum, where many questions are answered.
Rules are very lose, all we ask is that you keep it family friendly, respect copyrights and be fair. Uploads are unlimited. All images are right click protected and you are welcome to use your own watermark.
Please give it a chance
http://qthecollection.com/qtalk/index.php


Please let me know what you think ...........
All the best
Gunter Nezhoda

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Please check it out, it will be interesting for top artists. Go in the discussions where you will find the submission info.

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One thing I don't understand is that the agencies and everybody else always calls our payout a commission. Maybe I'm wrong, but my understanding is that we pay commission to the agency. They are, well, an agent, we have the merchandise/product, they sell it for us and receive a commission. Which means, that to some of the agents or on some of the transactions the seller (Photographer) pays 80% commission. I don't know any other industry where those numbers would be valid. 


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