I'm so glad I read this post, I had no idea that was happening, I got several of those sales which is awesome but I can't help but wonder if it is effecting SS sales as I have noticed in the same time frame a decrease in sales in SS which if that is the case I am not sure if its a good thing or bad.

I need to zip some jpg photos so I tried win zip and also the compress info on my Mac feature to zip a 5mb file but when I checked the zip size on both Win Zip and the Mac zip they still said 5mb. Am I doing something wrong or do jpg files not zip further down than 5 mb?

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I can not wrap my head around the numbers, SS pays me .38 cent for Subs but a Purchaser pays SS $199 a month and gets 25 downloads a day. An average month is 30 days thats 750 downloads. 750 downloads x .38 = $285. So that would put SS at a negative $86.

Does this mean that they are basically giving the subs away at a loss and attempting to make up the difference with the other download types?

Does anyone know what the price breakdown is for the different download types. For example how much does a purchaser pay SS for a Sub Download, A on Demand , A Enhanced etc. ?

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How do you find out if someone is using your images in a way they are not supposed to? I certainly can't police the internet, is there a google search that will pull up all your images?

Quote from: pixel8 on February 17, 2015, 13:08

Does anyone know how to turn off Auto Complete in Lightroom 4 it's driving me crazy!

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Preferences > Interface > Auto-complete textin Keywords Tags fields

Thanks! Its been years since I turned it off and my computer recently crashed and so I had to reconfigure everything. I couldn't remember how I did it since its kinda of a one time thing.

Last year was my First year in Stock Photography and during the Holidays I freaked out because my sales dropped from Dec 23 till Jan 10th. This year It has followed that same pattern although I was hopeful it would pick back up faster to normal speed. Does anyone else have a down turn in sales during this time period and if so when do you typically see your sales go back to normal?

So far as a stock photographer I have only done studio with objects. Now that I have that down pretty good I am planning on learning how to photograph people. My question to those of you who photograph people is would you choose a 85mm lens or a 70-200mm lens or would you use both? Also if you could only pick one lens would you choose 85mm or 70-200mm if those where your two choices?

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I am looking into buying a 70-200mm Lens for my Canon, my question is what is the importance of the Image Stabilization feature as the lens without it is $700 and with the IS the lens is $1,299? I plan to use it primarily in studio with flash so my thought was that since flash freezes the shot why bother with the IS except for those instances that I am outside with it, but even then is it really needed? Still being new to photography I don't know anything about Image Stabilization and wether it makes that much of a difference?

Also one version of this lens opens up at f4 and the other at f2.8, does this make a big difference as well?

I am working on a photo with a lot of fibers and I want to isolate it on a white background at pure white. Typically when I do isolations I will take the photo into photoshop and use the pen tool to select the object and then put in a 100% white background. With a bunch of fibers, using the selection tool is not going to work out.

How can I get a 100% white background in this situation? Do I blow out the backdrop with a strobe? Or is there a method in photoshop I can do?

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Just the news I was looking for, Sales down yesterday and today! Uploaded today just fine.

Go to Google Trends and type in IS, SS, and Getty and see the results. SS has surpassed both. Both Getty and IS are trending down while SS is trending upward.

It seems like it would only make sense that SS or any Stock site for that matter would change up the images so as to look fresh to the regular buyers who shop there. Just like Google constantly changes things up. Also it seems like they would have some sort of organic system that doesn't always show the same results otherwise people searching for photos will always pull up Yuri.(For Example)

In the end although it stinks if you rank very high on the search results, overall I think it helps even the playing field so that more of everyones images are seen and sell especially as more and more images are uploaded.

Just like on Google, how many pages back is someone going to go when looking to buy an image? On Google when I look for things I typically go back two pages and almost never three. I think Stock Searches probably have some sort of max as well unless you need something really specific.