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Messages - DallasP
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« on: June 08, 2018, 15:23 »
You shouldn't be using any bitmap work in your vectors anyway. As a buyer and contributor I can say that it's incredibly irritating to download your "vectors" and then have to fix raster elements used.
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« on: June 06, 2018, 19:56 »
SS has been dead for me for sure. Still seems like some trickles coming through FT.
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« on: June 06, 2018, 16:32 »
As I understand it the big ticket items are often found by SS staff for big account holders much easier to manipulate that that playing with a super complex algorithm and hiding contributors from buyers and risking losing them because they can't find content.
Meh, not really ... it honestly could just be as easy as a backend sort of ranking system giving contributors a number between say ... 0-10. They start earning more than they're supposed to you just knock their rank down a bit, less than they should then bump them up a bit. It's silly to assume that they wouldn't control it. It's also silly to assume that they would control it on an individual basis, I'd imagine that if they are manipulating it then it's pretty automated.
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« on: June 06, 2018, 16:25 »
Here is a hypothetical since we are not allowed to post actual numbers.
Contributor A makes approx 400 bucks every two weeks, plus or minus 20 bucks or so.
In the first week of the month, they make a large SOD for 100 bucks and their sub sales drop from 30-40 dollars a weekday to 5 bucks for the next 3 days. They know, demonstrably over the course of the last year, they will have low earnings for the next week until they make 400 at mid month.
That is what some of us are saying is happening. We don't know why this is the case, or how it could be some random happenstance that occurs every single month.
That pretty much nailed it. Also, and I'm just throwing this out there ... inconsistent revenue, net income and operating expense makes shareholders very nervous. Especially new investors. If you're worried about not making image sales, buy some SSTK instead! lol.
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« on: May 04, 2018, 15:47 »
The universally unknown WMK is not easily converted and the need to trade in Crypto is just one more obstacle to getting your $$$. 80% of ICO are scams. I won't put a pixel into anything that is not tried, true, and tested.
They offer crypto currencies to pay.
if you don't like this don't apply, where is the problem?
It's not an obstacle it's a choice.... Crypto currencies can be changed in usd or euro or whatever you want.
Every month I change my earnings I euros, so?
They are not an agency and change different coins is not their job, exactly what all (majority) of agencies do, paying in dollars. After all is up to you to change, or not?
So this is really not the point.
Cryptocurrencies are very volatile. One day you might get $8000 for your bitcoin, the next day $10k, the day after that $7.5k.
Similarly finance managers won't be sure how much the picture is going to cost in dollars (or whatever their company's accounts are in).
So it will be an issue until cryptocurrencies settle down.
No, if for instance, you buy a WMK or whatever at $1 and the next day it's price dropped to $.75 you still have invested the dollar. Spending the WMK will cost you a dollar. Similarly you could buy a couple more at the lower rate, for investment or to use as you saw fit. The more people that buy in the more perceived value and the price goes up until more "coins" are created. Which in the case of bitcoin is done through the processing of transactions. The price that you paid for the WMK is constant, whether it loses or gains value.
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« on: April 28, 2018, 18:43 »
Looks like a decent incentive to upload early.
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« on: April 26, 2018, 16:12 »
"beta of 1.16"? I'd think it's a much more risky investment than that ... ROE of only 8.43% is pretty low. Those shares seem about double what they should be.
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« on: April 05, 2018, 17:05 »
I pay for the hosting and the bandwidth has limits. I don't like it when someone steals my paid bandwidth for their cheap site or for a blog. I don't believe you should either.
Oh, but it's so much fun to switch pictures on them when they do that.
There are "free coloring pages" sites that regularly hotlink to the thumbnails on unseengallery.com. When they do, I redirect my page to a duplicate, and replace the image they're linking to with lemonparty or tubgirl.
LOL Bahahah. That's the best idea I've ever heard.
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« on: April 04, 2018, 15:49 »
Would you not just file to avoid being late and/or at the back of the line yourself? By February I just start doing them. We always need the extra return after winter anyway. If another business drops the ball in their reporting that's their own fault. But, as long as you're balancing your accounts every week or so I wouldn't even worry about it. The 1099 is for your benefit, for people who don't keep track really.
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« on: April 04, 2018, 15:26 »
It's like say having a bag of cookies for sale in costco, and getting mad at costco because they are giving out free samples to 'non-paying' customers. Sure, some will never have an intention of buying that brand of cookies whatsoever. But others, they think, mm these are good cookies, and then buy them, maybe even buy a few and tell some friends.
More often than not that's a vendor of the product. But, since Microstock is Costco ... snag me up half a pallet of marijuana pictures.
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« on: April 02, 2018, 15:11 »
I just buy the images even for mockups. With a sub it's literally like ... a buck or something and the credits roll over. Before the peak winter months I had so many * fotolia credits that I was just buying stuff to try out ideas.
A legal battle might not pay off in the end but, you could certainly put together a cease and desist and hope that it does some good. Doing nothing is almost certain to yield no result. They might just reply "Oh, we're planning on buying them but, we uploaded everything just to make sure the code was compatible with hosting" or "Hey *, we stole these fair and square" but, what's the harm in trying.
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« on: April 02, 2018, 15:04 »
lol, you & shema must be democrats. someone disagrees with you and you resort to silly namecalling, instead of actually thinking about what is being said and addressing that.
And yet you are calling people democrats when a) what does politics have to do with this discussion and b) you are calling them democrats because you think its a derogatory term. In essence, doing some of your own name calling. LOL. Clearly a hypocritical Trump supporter. Whatever THAT has to do with people stealing our images. 
"Wrong" 
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« on: March 22, 2018, 14:44 »
Awe *. I guess it'll take even longer to get my payout ... I'm up to $17.79. Go 123rf go!
(I've had 144 images there since like 2013. lol)
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« on: March 08, 2018, 21:10 »
I think that your all kinda forgetting that for the most part these images just get used for some social media thing or websites ... They don't really need to be publication quality if they're just going to be forgotten in 3 days ... and consumers don't really care if it's grainy or a bit soft. Especially if at the intended resolution it's not going to be noticed. We might as well just jump on the bandwagon and upload everything we see.
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« on: February 19, 2018, 13:52 »
It's been like ... a whole week of you guys arguing about the same thing.
Can we move on to like .... #fergienationalanthem or something?
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« on: February 15, 2018, 18:39 »
.jef - The stitch-based file that is read by the MemoryCraft 10000.
.sew - The stitch-based file format used by MemoryCraft 5700, 8000, and 9000 machines.
.pes - A stitch-based file format used by Brother and Babylock embroidery home sewing machines.
.pec - A stitch-based file format used by Brother and Babylock embroidery home sewing machines.
.hus - The stitch-based file format used by Husqvarna/Viking embroidery home sewing machines.
.pcs - The stitch-based file format used by Pfaff embroidery home sewing machines.
.csd - The stitch-based file format used by Poem, Huskygram, and Singer EU embroidery home sewing machines.
.xxx - The stitch-based file format used by Singer embroidery home sewing machines.
.dst - The stitch-based file format used by Tajima commercial embroidery sewing machines.
.exp - The stitch-based file format used by Melco commercial embroidery sewing machines.
.jan - The file is the file that contains the embroidery's object properties.
lol. It's certainly a loud, hot embroidery machine. I think after he's got all the paths set up and stuff he archives them as .dst? ... I can't be certain, it's been a while since I've been down there. I just know that when sending him stuff .eps or .svg were the only things he could import.
I think it's funny that when we talk about codec standards, graphics standards, CDs went through many standards as DVD tried a few more, embroidery or vector standards, there's always a long list that comes from each company or software having their own version of what's right, or trying to control how we work by making their "standard" only work with their software, products or machines. Or at the least makes working with their standard difficult for others. What kind of raw do you have and why does it change? Obsolete standards are more and more difficult as they become impossible to open and use, without old software or computers.
I think the why to EPS is simple that more people can open and work with that and have. Doesn't mean it's better, just that it's most used and universal. PDF is definitely more universal, free software to open and read, used for documents, has security and portability pretty much any device can read them. I wouldn't know how to extract a vector or insert one in a PDF?
To extract an eps from a pdf: open the pdf with Illustrator (or other software supporting vectors)
To insert a vector in a pdf: save your vector file in pdf format from the software you have used to create it.
It often has a clipping mask around the art as well that is nice to remove. Otherwise spot on.
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« on: February 12, 2018, 18:10 »
.jef - The stitch-based file that is read by the MemoryCraft 10000.
.sew - The stitch-based file format used by MemoryCraft 5700, 8000, and 9000 machines.
.pes - A stitch-based file format used by Brother and Babylock embroidery home sewing machines.
.pec - A stitch-based file format used by Brother and Babylock embroidery home sewing machines.
.hus - The stitch-based file format used by Husqvarna/Viking embroidery home sewing machines.
.pcs - The stitch-based file format used by Pfaff embroidery home sewing machines.
.csd - The stitch-based file format used by Poem, Huskygram, and Singer EU embroidery home sewing machines.
.xxx - The stitch-based file format used by Singer embroidery home sewing machines.
.dst - The stitch-based file format used by Tajima commercial embroidery sewing machines.
.exp - The stitch-based file format used by Melco commercial embroidery sewing machines.
.jan - The file is the file that contains the embroidery's object properties.
lol. It's certainly a loud, hot embroidery machine. I think after he's got all the paths set up and stuff he archives them as .dst? ... I can't be certain, it's been a while since I've been down there. I just know that when sending him stuff .eps or .svg were the only things he could import.
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« on: February 12, 2018, 18:06 »
Solution: Don't update premiere.
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« on: February 11, 2018, 19:19 »
My guess is to limit the things that get uploaded and ease the review process. .pdf can contain all sorts of different (and even interactive) elements. Whereas .eps basically ensures that it's a proper vector file.
You can place raster elements, fonts, etc. in an eps as well. I assume most of it is just old school design. Back in the QuarkXpress days, you really dealt with two main file formats TIFF and EPS.
Right but, they're way easy to see. I bought someone's crappy eps the other day with raster elements in it. Irritating ... EPS is more cross-compatible with older software and corel/adobe/whatever. Like, I have a friend that runs a metal cutter and uses some silly free software. In order to use elements it has to be EPS, and then SVG and then some software thing converts it into odd like, on/off paths ... it was quite confusing when he first set it up.
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« on: February 10, 2018, 20:52 »
And why not pdf?
Today pdf is more universal that the eps, and it can contain the vector file and the jpeg preview.
My guess is to limit the things that get uploaded and ease the review process. .pdf can contain all sorts of different (and even interactive) elements. Whereas .eps basically ensures that it's a proper vector file.
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« on: January 27, 2018, 14:50 »
There's a way to move through them pretty quickly in Lightroom. I'm not sure how though.
Google images guesses fairly well though.
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« on: January 10, 2018, 06:54 »
I've used manual for most of mine but, I have a friend that shot a 3 day timelapse a year or so ago and he swears by Aperture Priority. I tried it once on a sunset and all it did was destroy the tonal range.
It all depends on what you are photographing and what end result you want. If you shoot a sunset with the sun as the main subject, you might just want the sequence to go from light to dark when the sun is gone. If there is nothing interesting left when the sun has set, it doesn't make much sense to raise the exposure. Manual, fixed exposure is your choice then.
But if you are photographing a city with a setting sun, you might want to show the city light up after the sun is gone. Now you need to gradually increase the exposure. The easiest way to do this is with the aperture priority mode and fix the flicker in post. Auto ETTR could be even better as the camera analyzes the histogram after each picture.
Sony cameras have more consistent metering than for example Canon cameras, resulting in less flicker in AP mode. There will, however, always be flicker since the incremental changes in shutter speeds are not that small.
You can blur the flickering a bit with longer shutterspeeds but, anything moving will be blurred also and might not look great (For instance I don't like the blurry clouds on the 1"6 exposure.)
For motion blur that matches standard film, just use a shutter speed that is half of your interval. If you take a picture every 5 seconds, a 2.5" shutter speed will result in "natural" motion blur.
Obviously, you've done them more times than I have. His 3 day set was of a snow storm, shooting through the night the same as shooting through the day would be impossible. lol. Still, it defeats the purpose if you're after the dynamic range included in say, those guys flower shots. Or at least mutes them a quite a bit. Yeah, "natural" motion blur is what we'll call it ... most of the time I'd just call it a poor shot. (The only acceptance being night photography) ... I don't do video though, and have yet to post one on micro ... I applaud you people paying the bills with this.
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« on: January 09, 2018, 21:44 »
I've used manual for most of mine but, I have a friend that shot a 3 day timelapse a year or so ago and he swears by Aperture Priority. I tried it once on a sunset and all it did was destroy the tonal range.
You can blur the flickering a bit with longer shutterspeeds but, anything moving will be blurred also and might not look great (For instance I don't like the blurry clouds on the 1"6 exposure.)
Vic, the next video that played was the lightroom tips video. If you set up the SSDs in raids you can essentially get storage space, speed, and redundancy.
I've wanted to do that for years but, the resources always just seem out of reach :/
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« on: January 03, 2018, 11:07 »
When the money gets into my bank account, that's when it is reported.
Exactly.
It'd be too complicated and time-consuming to keep track of every single unpaid sale on every agency, if not impossible. You can get refunds, clawbacks and accounting errors from the agency.
If the tax collector is gonna say I'm doing it wrong, I'll happily invite him for a cup of coffee and a place at my desk to manually investigate thousands and thousands of individual sales. He'll be gone as quick as he came.
Yeah, that would be quite a task.
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« on: January 01, 2018, 23:11 »
Awesome, thanks fam. Yes, I have to have accounts receivable ... They're the only way to keep track of the money. lol Everyone else pays within 30 days regardless of the amount. Microstock is just kind of ... there right now ... sitting. Accounts payable? Receivables? You're making it too complicated.
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