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1076
« on: March 29, 2013, 14:53 »
I can't test this myself as image processing isnt working yet for me, but does the new file name of the image (which comes from the title I understand) also have "stock-photo" added to it? I notice that most of the images from the agencies have "stock-photo-your-image-title-here.jpg"
Should I add that manually?
Steve
1077
« on: March 29, 2013, 11:44 »
I'm actively working as well, but stuck with some 1and1.com hosting issues at present that are impacting image processing. If I solve them (with Leo's help), I'll post full details for future users of this theme. I'll be an active participant in these networks, but I'm a bit stuck for now. It is going to be http://www.backyardstockphotos.comI've updated my logo and added bits to the licenses to refer to the owner of the website rather than just the website itself (my business entity), but that is about as far as I have got. More to come!! Steve
1079
« on: March 28, 2013, 17:22 »
I'm not sure I understand the response, but the only way I have found to speed up Dreamstime is to go to the last image you uploaded in your unfinished images queue and complete the categories for that one and add a MR if needed. When you submit that one, it automatically shows you the next one in the queue (starting from the end) and you can copy across the same categories if the image is similar.
The reason I start at the end is that I have more images in my unfinished queue than I have upload slots for, and I want to work on those newer images first.
Never found a way to do it faster than that. Sorry!
Steve
1080
« on: March 28, 2013, 15:22 »
I know that I am doing fine in the sense that money is coming in - the point I was trying to make with the graph is that I'm not doing as well as I used to do in terms of earnings per online image, and something started to go wrong for me in November. I continue to add images of a similar standard as before (and not copies of older ones), but the steady and regular weekly growth that the graphs used to show went haywire from December onwards, and now I get erratic performance with very slow days/weeks and then a few good days with an ED or larger SoD. If everyone else doesn't see a change from December onwards and SS is behaving like it used to do, then I'll shut up.
Steve
1081
« on: March 28, 2013, 13:11 »
Thanks for this! I believe the pattern that was very established for my portfolio changed in November and I've maintained earnings (approximately) because of some good one-off EDs and SoDs, but the basic sales trend of subscription and ODs changed for the worse. Maybe the increase in new contributors with some great portfolios, maybe the Google Image changes, maybe the focus on different things after the IPO - not sure. I'll plot the sales from the different categories of downloads once the results for March are in.
Is everyone else seeing the same pattern in those little graphs as I displayed, or is it steadier and more normal for the other contributors?
Steve
1082
« on: March 28, 2013, 11:35 »
I've been a silent observer up until now, but this is a fantastic project. Just got my clean install online using today's build of Symbiostock. Tried my first upload of an image and got this when I tried to process to Drafts: Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /homepages/23/d89856409/htdocs/bengal/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/wideimage/lib/WideImage.php on line 194
Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.backyardbengal.com/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/symbiostock-watermark-small.png) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /homepages/23/d89856409/htdocs/bengal/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/wideimage/lib/WideImage.php on line 194
Warning: unpack() [function.unpack]: Type c: not enough input, need 1, have 0 in /homepages/23/d89856409/htdocs/bengal/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/wideimage/lib/vendor/de77/TGA.php on line 90
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'WideImage_InvalidImageSourceException' with message 'File 'http://www.backyardbengal.com/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/symbiostock-watermark-small.png' appears to be an invalid image source.' in /homepages/23/d89856409/htdocs/bengal/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/wideimage/lib/WideImage.php:225 Stack trace: #0 [internal function]: WideImage::loadFromFile('http://www.back...') #1 /homepages/23/d89856409/htdocs/bengal/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/wideimage/lib/WideImage.php(183): call_user_func(Array, 'http://www.back...') #2 /homepages/23/d89856409/htdocs/bengal/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/symbiostock_image_processor.php(106): WideImage::load('http://www.back...') #3 /homepages/23/d89856409/htdocs/bengal/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/symbiostock_image_processor.php(997): symbiostock_image_processor->symbiostock_process_image('_MG_3480', 10) #4 /homepa in /homepages/23/d89856409/htdocs/bengal/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/wideimage/lib/WideImage.php on line 225 I'm hosting with 1and1.com - is this as a result of some restrictions on what commands they allow? Anyway, is it fixable? Steve
1083
« on: March 28, 2013, 09:28 »
I had the same issue - I think they are having technical issues at present. I sent a message to David
Steve
1084
« on: March 27, 2013, 10:54 »
Thanks guys - I do wonder if the inclusion of great shots from iStock are having an impact as you suggest! I better up my game!
I know I am doing well taking one year with another - my reason for posing the question was to see if other people are also seeing the same sort of volatility in the past three months that I have, or it is just the normal ebb and flow. I did have some good EDs and a $50 SOD that explains some of those peaks.
Steve
1085
« on: March 27, 2013, 09:39 »
I've been a bit uneasy recently about the volatility of my Shutterstock earnings from week to week. Yes, perhaps I am getting paranoid, but I wondered if anyone else was seeing something similar. This chart explains my concern:  Look at the two year picture first - I've been steadily uploading images throughout that time - and the earnings have been steadily increasing, with occasional weeks when I get an ED and the numbers are bumped up. All the excursions from the mean are to the upside all the way through November 2012. The one year focuses in more on that period. Since early December, the pattern has been very different. The low weeks are at levels that I last saw in the summer, and the growth that was steadily happening has just disappeared. Yes there are some good weeks, but the consistency and reliability has dropped away. What makes it worse is that I have continued to upload similar images through December, January, February and now March with little impact on earnings - I have 500 more images online this morning than I had at the end of November. Am I alone in seeing this unfortunate trend? Steve
1086
« on: March 26, 2013, 19:33 »
I got an email back from support to say they had issues that they were working on. My ftp folder seems to have cleared earlier this evening and I was able to submit my images
Steve
1087
« on: March 26, 2013, 18:00 »
Please feel free to email me direct if you wish - and thanks for the review on Amazon for my book!
I gave up on Stockmon a couple of years back - I think he stopped updating the plugins and as the websites changed, it became less useful. I don't bother to track the sites regularly any more - I tend to look at SS every day, iStock (although that is getting less interesting) and occasionally at some of the others. I then do my full accounting at the end of the month.
I think there are other services to track income - lets see if anyone else chips in!
Steve
1088
« on: March 25, 2013, 14:16 »
Ditto - the iStock site is so slow, you got in before me!!
Steve
1089
« on: March 25, 2013, 12:38 »
Same for me. I've sent an email to the support team to try to get them "freed" from the FTP folder
Steve
1090
« on: March 25, 2013, 12:38 »
I would go for Lightroom - not only is it a lot cheaper than Photoshop, but it also gives you some great tools for organizing your images, keywording them and exporting to JPEGs for upload. I find that probably 80% of my images can be completed totally in Lightroom and I only go to a full image editing system to remove complex logos and things like that.
Steve
1092
« on: March 21, 2013, 13:27 »
I have had problems loading editorial to iStock with the shutterstock caption.... they get rejected for all CAPS, and not having enough info. I like using Lightroom for my catalog, but don't want to have to caption for different sites.
Glenn Glenn Good catch - I use Deepmeta for iStock, and when I mark that as editorial, it automatically copies some of the title into the editorial caption. It sometimes gets the date wrong as well - so I always create a new editorial caption for iStock and don't use Capitals. They also don't care about the second use of the date as required by SS. Finally, I don't think they care about the "newsworthy fact" that you need to add for SS. I meant to say that I have no issues with the SS editorial format for other sites apart from iStock and I use Deepmeta to create an appropriate caption for them. Steve
1093
« on: March 21, 2013, 08:29 »
Chris
Fotolia works OK for me - and when I checked just now it looks like I am using the standard Fotolia "channel" with my user number and password. Some of the others needed a separate FTP channel to work, but not this one.
Glad my workflow made sense and has helped! And thanks for the glowing review on Amazon - that channel to the market seems to be picking up for me this year, and great reviews like yours really help.
If you need any more help (or have ideas for what I should cover in issue 3 of the book), please email me directly if you prefer - my email address is "sales" at "BackyardSilver.com"
Steve
1094
« on: March 20, 2013, 19:59 »
Yes, I just got my first spam email from Clickbank as well as a result of looking at the book - which is massively overoptimistic in what most people can achieve, in my humble view.
Steve
PS - being open and honest, I'm also the author of a book about "getting started in stock", so please disregard my somewhat negative comment if you would like.
1095
« on: March 20, 2013, 19:55 »
I don't do this promotion very often, but if you are new and seriously want to have a go at stock photography, I wrote a book that gets pretty good reviews and goes through each of the sites outlining their pros and cons and any quirks that you should be aware of.
My blog contains details
Steve
1096
« on: March 18, 2013, 17:42 »
Well, I'm a happy Lightburner user. I changed some of the distribution channels from the default web-based ones into FTPs (you can add any number of FTP distro channels), and 95% of the time it works fine. One upload to Lightburner results in 20 uploads to my stock sites. If I see in the email report that there has been an issue, then I find that changing that site to FTP works fine from then on.
They delete the large file after 4 days and only keep a thumbnail (so not sure what the objective is of deleting files) and each file on their site has an info page that shows when it was uploaded and to which sites. So, yes, you do get a record of what went there. It is an image by image thing though, not a tabular record.
I've found the owner to be very helpful (I think the idea of the email came from a discussion I had with him about the issues of not knowing if files had been distributed). I'm sure he would be interested in developing some more functions if there is a good demand for it - eg a table showing distro of files, for instance.
As far as I can tell, the site if funded by people signing up for new stock agencies using a referral link (which makes sense if you don't already use that agency)
Steve
1097
« on: March 18, 2013, 11:04 »
I wondered about the impact of showing reasonably big files on FAA together with the Google Images change. I thought it may have been behind the recent drop on Single downloads from Shutterstock.
Interesting to hear another view of it! I think I'll delete my popular stock ones from FAA and see if things change on the SoD front.
Steve
1098
« on: March 17, 2013, 14:28 »
Interesting! Those pieces of old worn wood have paid for themselves many times over!
Nicely composed and photographed!
Steve
1099
« on: March 17, 2013, 12:55 »
Hi Nailia
You have some very nice "arty" shots on FAA! Do you find that your flowers sell best? It definitely isn't as easy as uploading your standard stock photos and hoping for the best!
Steve
1100
« on: March 15, 2013, 09:51 »
For me, the last 12 months have been a roller coaster for percentage of earnings from Singles:
2% 6% 12% 7% 13% 14% 11% 11% 17% 21% 15% 2%
This is the trend from Mar 2012 to Feb 2013.
Steve
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