a: I am not Bruce, and 2: the person posted their portfolio, and while they were certainly free to apply with it, I didn't think they'd be approved with it.  Oh, and C: I have nothing to do with the application process.

I'm starting to think this weird fascination is just a hobby of yours or something.

Odd, since the agreement makes no distinction between a raster created from a vector or any other raster: "Because iStockphoto offers different categories of content, this agreement may differentiate among categories of content that you produce, such as still photography, which includes all raster files"

Well, whatever.

Quote from: KimsCreativeHub on September 26, 2014, 08:00

WME worst month in 10 years, for the 1st time summer beat September !

$63.  From a port that used to net me $1500 In the good ol days.

I don't know what I'm going to do.

It looks like you are selling exclusive raster versions of nonexclusive vectors.  It seems unlikely that you will get many sales of your exclusive rasters if you are selling the nonexclusive vectors at 1/3 the price.

How can you be exclusive for rasters at IS when SS offers raster versions of vectors?

Quote from: spike on September 25, 2014, 13:30

Stocksy is a joke.

All that you need to do is compress the tonal range (less contrast, push the RGB curve up in the left bottom and down in the right top) and do split toning (blue in shadows, orange in highlights).

You do this and you'll get accepted.

Good luck in your next try.

Really?  Is that what I've done?

Don't worry - he's an angry elf.

Yes, I'm Bruce.  Come see my tattoos.

"Last Chance: Call to Artists"

http://blog.stocksy.com/blog/2014/9/23/last-chance-call-to-artists

If you will think outside of the box and recognize what stocktal is you will realize we are changing the business from the ground up.

Sorry, how are you thinking "outside the box" and "changing the business from the ground up"?  Now, Canva is a good example of thinking outside the box.  What you are doing just looks like another microstock site.

Boot 'em.  If they can't cover their own processing fee cost, cut royalties and introduce a subscription plan, then kick 'em to the curb. 

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on September 22, 2014, 09:07

Sales on Stocksy are about to pass my BME and there's still a week to go. 

Are you saying you are having a BME or just your best month at Stocksy?

BME at Stocksy. 

I see the pimp thread is "Let's showcase 3 - 4 Vetta images that are now a great value for our buyers!" .  There still seems to be this idea that Vetta is hanging around.  It's gone, right?  Kaput.  No further collection.  Same with S+.  "Vetta" is just a click button to nominate images for Getty, afaik.

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on September 19, 2014, 08:53

That's a thesis?  He asked a bunch of questions of others, made charts from the answers and then said what was in the charts.

That was my first thought. When I got my masters I remember one of the professors would always challenge your conclusions by saying, "so what?".  I would love to hear a so what conclusion.

Right.  I thought you were supposed to derive some conclusion from the research, or make a point, or a discovery.  Some sort of extensive look into why things are the way they are, or where they are going.

Sounds like Jim did the thesis, instead

Unfortunately, the Vetta content is buried in 10 million other files.  And isn't really "Vetta" anymore anyways because of that .  Vetta said hasta la vista last week.

Besides, I'm just responding to people who are upset and yelling about it in a public, crowded park.  If you see an upset post about another agency, you could probably respond too...