420 for me

Early in the month, I put price up from $2 to $5 based on (yours?) comments on this forum and the fact that istock put price up 50% and I had BME on there (so pricing is too cheap). Anyway FP is not a bigger seller for but I still ended with BME (by $2) for fp for Jan. So going from $2 to $5 didn't do me any harm.  In another month or so, I'll take it $10 and see what that does

Hi,

there are few different ones of this, isn't it just like the extract? command in photoshop?

I struggled with isolations until recently, so I just didn't really bother much. Laurin and others always push learn  photography properly and you don't have problems with noise, isolation etc.  And as I progress I see that this is definetly true. 

Anyway there has been stuff I wanted to do recently on white. I spent time stuffing around with lights (household lights and flashes) and then with a horrible softbox (I know they have there uses and sometimes invaluable but I dont like them, too restrictive).  Anyway I gave up not getting the shots I wanted so went outside for a cigarette and sat depressed anyway then it hit me, it was a darkish overcast day, perfect diffused light with just about no shadows. So white table in the garden, still getting shutter spped around 1/100 and we were away.  Each shot that I have processed has taken a minute, quick levels and healing brush. no isolating just perfect, not a lot shots done yet, but all accepted

So now I have a lighting solution, and nice place to shoot and a heap of ideas, and of course I keep getting bright sunny days  *LOL*

Phil

Yes they are a US product, but b&h etc will ship overseas BUT they only have US power connections

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out of 27
7 overabundant photo category
7 type of photograph

123 also knocked back 7 of them (which was much worse than usual, and I had been pleased with this batch, thought I done better than my average), anyway only 1 of their 7 was in the 14 refused by fotolia

Found this on another forum would anyone comment before joining

Let's be very clear about this. DT will not allow you to DELETE any images after the requisite 6 month period is up. You can only "disable" them as I said, which is of course another way of saying, we're going to hold onto them for as long we like because if we actually let you delete anything you also inadvertently reduce the value of our company.
 
Which also means should they decide to sell up or go bust he still has a bucket load of stock to open his next stall with.

Cha ching!

And then to add insult to injury you also forfeit all earnings if you happen to be a few cents short of the $100 mark as we were when we decided we'd had enough of these scam artists.

Need I say anymore!!!!

hi, my thoughts

I dont see how disabled images could improve the value of a company, I dont see how they have any value??
I also dont think DT is likely to go bust in a real hurry.
I also dont think they are likely to restart another agency with all the disabled images if they were to go bust
I think it is first time I've heard DT referred as scam artists (maybe I just haven't been listening?) I think someone got their account canned or something and is very bitter about it???

Phil

TV is SOOOoooooo 1900's

I cant remember the last I actually watched tv (as opposed to a dvd). I can quote probably every disney or pixar movie, and pick the voices excellent as my kids have them on while I am photoshopping etc.  But I couldn't name a single big hit series at the moment.

Even then my kids dont watch "tv" as such, if not a dvd, there on the net or off doing other things.

Thanks for the suggestions.  I will try the "Fave" thing and see if it makes a difference for me. 

Connie

within a couple of weeks of doing the faved, my sales increased heaps.  Once a week I spend ten minutes, have a look and my old faves, new images I want to be faves, faves that haven't sold etc.  Its a system I like.

This month 123rf will be my number 4 at about 6% of sales, double what I get from StockXpert.

Phil

Well, this was an enlightening thread... I just got accepted to StockXpert (first try) and currently have 150 images in the queue and at least that many in my briefcase waiting to be transferred at 50 per day.  It will be interesting to see what happens when they get reviewed.  I think I will continue to upload what I currently have until I see what happens and take it from there.  I see that StockXpert is in the "big 6", which is strange!  I figured BigStock or Fotolia wout be above it, but I only have about 500 images in my portfolios.

they are 2nd-3rd worst for rejections for me, and of course review times are a joke, I've had faster reviews at alamy.

But re big 6.  some people rave about how well they do and how it is up and coming, it is their number 3 etc.  Personally it has been declining since september and it will be continue to be number 7 for me in january with less than 3% of earnings.

hmmm... well the plugin looks good  ... LOL

can post a link to the plugin or even write down the name.  My hearings not the greatest and whilst get most of things said I cant quite make out the name of the plugin.

Thanks
Phil

They have chosen the best moment for being auctioned

yep, ebay had half price listing fees last week (at least here they did) would be quite a saving on $1.5bn