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« on: April 13, 2007, 13:41 »
Its a pity that DT referals only pay for 6 months
As now we can see who are referred photographers in theory you could keep an eye on your referred photographers who's keywording isn't too hot and help them out so the 2c would be a meagre advance on the 5c-20c you would earn from downloads now their images can be found.
Unfortunately with the 6 month limit and the lengthy wait for keyword reviewing it isn't really worth the effort.
Are there any keymasters out there?
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« on: April 09, 2007, 07:40 »
I think size of the eps file is a bad way to price files either do it like DT and StockXpert a flat fee which will net the illustrator $4 or $2.50 respectfully or iStock how complex the file looks. An eps file or equivalent should sell for more as the buyer can scale it up and can use elements from it.
99% of my illustrations are less than 3 meg, just because the file size is realitively small doesn't mean it took ten minutes to make.
I am not going to bother with an unwieldy upload process and slow sales for $1.
Unfortunately even though BigStock has a similar number of images as DT they can't compare in quality or sales so I am not holding my breath for them to increase their prices it may mean people just upload their rejects their.
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« on: April 09, 2007, 07:18 »
uploaded by FTP to BigStock within the last hour though the odd description was lost.
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« on: April 09, 2007, 02:58 »
It seens to be getting worse I type in my title,description and keywords in pixvue upload them but the IPTC reader at the microstock site fails to read the information usually 10% or less (so a couple of problem files per uploaded batch).
Strangely enough if a file has problems on one site it usually has problems on another. SPM have the best IPTC reader and SS among the worse for me, maybe it depends on the volume of file being uploaded
I am having problems at SS with my vector file and preview JPEG one frequently gets lost in transfer, which means I have to upload again and again. Did someone mention once you can upload a zip file with both eps and jpeg file together?
During their upgrade at the beginning of March they suspended uploads officially at 123rf now over Easter they seem to have unofficially suspended uploading again, well I am having major grief with their site.
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« on: April 09, 2007, 02:48 »
SS 1,700,323 (1,671,459) [1,642,594] +28,864 IS 1,600,474 (1,576,000) [1,562,000] +24,474 # FT 2,882,022 (2,820,839) [2,757,211] +61,183 DT 1,113,908 (1,093,949) [1,075,000] +19,959 BigStock 1,016,000 (997,000) [979,000] +19,000 123 700,000+ StockXpert 478,000+ CanStockPhoto 401,392 (395,327) [391,000] +6,065 FP 235,450 (229,550) [224,750] +5,900 SPM 119,114 (117,583) [116,017] +1,531 # reviewers obviously in a good mood accepting a few more pics than usual. Well two ipods were won last week but not by me 
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« on: April 09, 2007, 02:40 »
FT have offices in NY, London, Paris, Germany and probably a few other european countries as well.
Their Beta site actually started up in France when they hit 300,000 images in November 2005 they expanded to different countries with different languages.
I know some of my images will be reviewed first in London and some will get a second opinion in NYC.
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« on: April 09, 2007, 02:34 »
One thing I was very surprized about was according to that posting at SS the entire operation is based in Manhattan 25 staff and two offices. Quite a surprize with globalization with most other sites having their workforce spread out around the globe usually in places with lower rents and wage costs. I guess very few subscribers are DLing anything like 750/month to support some of the highest overheads in the business.
Though one question is what are they charging clients for extended licences the going rate is somewhere between $50 and $100 and at SS we only get $20 maybe this is how they support their business model.
How do people extended licence sales compare at SS most of mine are at DT or FT.
I would image the payrise will be between 1-5c hopefully nearer 5c.
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« on: April 02, 2007, 02:23 »
Its Monday here are the counts looks like two lucky people will win an new iPod sometime this week at DT and BigStock.
SS 1,671,459 [1,642,594] (1,599,558) +28,865
IS 1,576,000 [1,562,000] (1,520,000) +14,000
FT 2,820,839 [2,757,211] (2,629,920) +63,628 *
DT 1,093,949 [1,075,000] (1,037,000) +18,949
BigStock 997,000 [979,000] (930,000) +18,000
123 700,000+
StockXpert 478,000+
CanStockPhoto 395,327 [391,000] (384,777) +10,550
FP 229,550 [224,750] (213,250) +4,800
SPM 117,583 [116,017] (112,364) +1,566
* actually figure is probably 1.4 million or less
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« on: April 01, 2007, 04:16 »
I find it easier to upload at the weekend especially eps files with their JPEG during the week it can be very frustrating when the server is overloaded one file usually gets lost.
Of course at SS they review all JPGs or vectors in your queue all once.
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« on: April 01, 2007, 04:09 »
At Fotolia if you have 100 Dls in total and the photo is exclusive to them then you can set the prices The more Dls you have the higher your prices and cut of the sale price price listIf you have over 10,000 Dls then you can set the price of your non-exclusive images as well Featurepics give you maximum choice of prices and a nice 70% but don't get the visitors.
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« on: April 01, 2007, 03:59 »
Darn I usually start this thread that will teach me for waiting for March to end on the west coast.
SS 38 %
DT 20.4 %
FT 11.7 %
StockXpert 10.6 %
iStock 8.4 %
BigStock 4.2 %
123 3.6 %
SPM 1.2 %
CanStockPhoto 0.8 %
FP 0.6 %
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« on: March 26, 2007, 05:01 »
StockXpert will certainly be higher up in the ranking of earnings this month, starting to accept my illustrations though I found a few where they were selling the eps file for 1 credit instead of 5 credits.
Is anyone else getting reminders for missing keywords? I used to wait until they had passed through the review process before checking for errors now I get reminders before they are reviewed and rejected, a tad annoying.
If they are "not looking for such images right now" why do they need the keywords.
Also the only site I submit to that rejects for unclosed paths on eps files
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« on: March 26, 2007, 04:54 »
Last Autumn I had a 50 day trip around the Canada and USA, and was uploading almost every day. BUT I did have a laptop for editting and keywording but was pleasantly surprized by the amount of free wifi available. One library in NYC even had power sockets as wifing really eats the batteries.
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« on: March 26, 2007, 04:49 »
I was away in Oxford last Monday so I missed an image account for the usual suspects. Sorry for neglecting this forum of late I've been trying to catch up on my quota of uploads for the month after a slow start.
SS 1,642,594 (1,599,558) [1,576,275] +43,036
IS 1,562,000 (1,520,000) [1,500,000] +42,000
FT 2,757,211 (2,629,920) [2,565,396] +127,291
DT 1,075,000 (1,037,000) +38,000
BigStock 979,000 (930,000) [915,000] +49,000 #
123 700,000+
StockXpert 478,000+
CanStockPhoto 391,000 (384,777) [380,495] +6,223
FP 224,750 (213,250) [207,575] +11,500
SPM 116,017 (112,364) [111,741] +3,653
SS and iStock seem to be having similar growth
# someone should be winning an iPod here in the next week
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« on: March 14, 2007, 08:13 »
Glad I have uploaded just about every shot of London I could think of by now.
Does that mean they will arrest thousands of tourists a year if they don't have an ID card?
A bit hypocritic when there is a CCTV camera on every corner.
Looks there will be a lot landscape photographers out there
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« on: March 14, 2007, 08:07 »
I had problems with eps files not being rasterized so no thumbnail to keyword yesterday morning.
Admin were very prompt and supportive though the problem didn't sort itself out on my computer until the evening.
Hopefully they won't be trying to change the site again, at least they didn't decide to start using categories and expect us to do all the work.
As long as the upload process runs smoothly I will continue to support them
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« on: March 12, 2007, 08:09 »
uploaded 40 eps files to 123 thru their website but no thumbnails are being generated so impossible to keyword and their FTP isn't working at the moment. Only good news the reviewed my submissions from the beginning of March 
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« on: March 12, 2007, 03:51 »
UPLOADS are back well I haven't tried it yet but I have an upload screen appearing
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« on: March 12, 2007, 03:00 »
Another week has past
SS 1,599,558 [1,576,275] (1,549,608) +23,283
IS 1,520,000 [1,500,000] (1,478,000) +20,000
FT 2,629,920 [2,565,396] (2,500,308) +64,524
DT 1,037,000
BigStock 930,000 [915,000] (900,000) +15,000 #
123 600,000+
StockXpert 478,000
CanStockPhoto 384,777 [380,495] (376,738) +4,282
FP 213,250 [207,575] (201,625) +5,675
SPM 112,364 [111,741] (109,532) +623
# so another 4-5 weeks and someone will win an ipod at BigStock
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« on: March 09, 2007, 06:20 »
Well I had vowed no more signing up to new agencies
Just signed up and waiting for the FTP confirmation.
Glad to see a UK based microstock agency sick of getting screwed over with the exchange rate from US dollars.
Good to see that your learnt from LO with an easy upload process, I have yet to test it.
Other questions prices for images?
1 for web sized
3 what size?
5 what size?
minimum payout? (obviously a long way away)
One suggestion tighten up the footprint of each image the info box is over twice the size of the thumbnail which means there is a lot of "wasted space" scrolling to see more images. I am sure the designer wanted to be different but it would takes ages to browse through a large portfolio or wide search.
In my opinion most revelevant info
image size
DLs/views
photographer
not so relevant
file size
DPI
clipping path
floating larger image, add to lightbox, clipping path could be handled with icons with explanation with mouse over.
Does RSI actually supply images in RAW format?
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« on: March 09, 2007, 05:24 »
I had an extended licence (but there are still a lot of old credits about) but I had my first $4 eps illustration sale and a $2, eight mp sale so hopefully things can only get better.
canakris bare in mind some of us have portfolios of over 1,000 images as your portfolio grows so will your sales
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« on: March 09, 2007, 05:18 »
why not set up a lightbox at DT to show the images that have been rejected at SS.
noise is a major issue there but also diversity ten photos with a wide variety
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« on: March 07, 2007, 03:24 »
I had to laugh today an image that got rejected at a few sites for bad light had an extended licence sale at StockXpert which earnt me $50.
Certainly a sweeter taste than after entire batches being rejected
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« on: March 07, 2007, 03:16 »
Looking back I have always been around the 50% acceptance rate here, I think other sites have improved whereas DT stayed the same
Fortunately they are growing to like my illustrations and with new credits an eps file with earn me $4 had my first the other day the only sign there actually is a new price structure in effect.
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« on: March 07, 2007, 03:08 »
Certainly more cheerful but not to keen on those drop down menus for accessing photographer tools checking stats etc. Not to mention the fact we still can't upload been a slow few days in terms of things to submit 4 days and counting.
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