Quote from: cthoman on August 20, 2017, 11:24

What's the discount for something that never really had an established value to begin with?

Whatever the different segments of the market will bear.

I wish that was happening.

Look, I know I'm nothing special, but don't we actually want stock sites to kick all the other contributors out besides us? I know it's not fair, and it could be me next... but, I can't help but think that this is really the only way to preserve incomes for artists. You just can't divide a pie a million ways. That said, I'm sorry for what happened to you. It's never a good thing or a pleasant feeling.

Looks like you've got yourself some unprintable RGB colors. I usually try to avoid those.

It kind of looks like the uploads are leveling off at Fotolia and iStock.

so, if my son starts to make photos - he cant open account on same pc -  ip address as mine - is it correct?

I would assume it is just the same email and name.

While constantly keeping our contributors in mind, we are committed to compensating them fairly.  We gave flexibility of pricing and have honored one of the highest commissions in the industry.  It is very challenging to make both contributors and sellers simultaneously happy, and I think that is very evident when reading through the tens of thousands of negative posts about the top tier agencies, where most contributors generate the majority of their revenue.  Most agencies are buyer-centric, and apparently the contributors here in MSG do not seem to believe they are fairly compensated for their work, despite those being their highest revenue sources.

I appreciate it. I'll continue to upload while the new site gets built.

It's been about the same. I like the pricing model better though, so they have my support.

It took a couple days, but my images did eventually generate.

Disagree. If you ask what their budget is beforehand if it's too low you can tell them it's not within your range and see if you can work something out. So what about if you tell them your X-Y first, say $2,000-3,000 and their budget is actually $50,000? They're most likely not going to tell you the actual budget now that you've given them a cheap quote. If you knew their budget upfront that may have allowed you to offer them more or better options for more than your initial X-Y.

Not sure a bakery is a good comparison to a custom photo shoot unless you offer prearranged packages. Then I could see starting with A/B/C package range to see how they react.

I mostly do the same types of projects, so I don't feel comfortable charging one person this or one person that. It's pretty much the same for everybody regardless of budget.

I suppose you can't refund a subscription download though.

I like to make my own fonts or hand drawn text to avoid any changing or future conflicts. You can never really go wrong if you created it.

Welcome to the world of illustration. File conversion can be a fickle beast. There probably isn't one best method, so experimenting to get the results you want is probably the best bet. I don't have many issues with Photoshop, so you may try to experiment some more with that. Different color spaces (especially from different countries) can cause a lot of issues though.

I haven't uploaded in a while, so I'm not sure what I'd say. Do they still have the large batch errors for vector uploads? It seemed like you couldn't upload more than 20 images at once unless you wanted untangle a mess. Not sure if that is still the case though.