The image on you sites are almost in high resolution and without any watermark, practically you are giving them for free...

http://alfaday.net/

It is  full of stolen images and it's possible to download "packages" for free.

This is the way that Microstock sites protect their workers...

Quote from: Beppe Grillo on March 17, 2013, 10:51

Quote from: topol on March 16, 2013, 15:41
Istock by far. they gave me badly done isolation on photos that were not isolated. They have monkeys pushing buttons.

I agree with you, I had a similar problem with a photo realized on white background and no isolation at all.
And they have rejected two of my images because of noise... They were not photos but 3D renders  ...

I didn't know Beppe Grillo was a 3d artist, i thought he was only a  stupid Italian comic.

Everyone speaks about volume. It's not the true really, the parameters to be successful in microstock are IDEAS, QUANTITY, QUALITY and also a lot of LUCK! there is people with less than 1.000 images selling a lot  more than people with over 20.000 images!!!
Now days EL are very rare while subs are so predominant and it's impossible to get decent money only with subs also if you have 100.000 image in your portfolio.

Quote from: Poncke on March 14, 2013, 17:56

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Quote from: cthoman on March 14, 2013, 16:56

Quote from: michey on March 14, 2013, 16:48

Are you telling that really exist people paying for a logo?

Yep, just finished one for a client. There are a lot of savvy buyers out there that love a stock art image of mine, but want something custom or exclusive. Most of my freelance work now is from walk-ins that saw one of my stock images. It even pays all the bills. It's almost like a real business. 

Oh god, do you think i had to ask for money for the apple logo i did a lot of  years ago?

So how did you create the apple logo then? How did the design take form?

A weird guy named Steve Jobs asked me for a nice logo for his new computer brand. We met at breakfast, he wanted a nice logo, something simple but cool. We was eating and when i was biting my apple he said: "Holy crap! i want that  apple", i said i had already bitted the apple and there was a lot of apples in the basket. He said the apple is healthy, sweet and an apple at say keeps the doctor away! Everyone wants an apple!
The rest is history..
By the way maybe he didn't eat many apples...

Quote from: dingles on March 14, 2013, 17:22

Quote from: michey on March 14, 2013, 16:55
Do Istock Bosses really think there are so many people paying 10x more than other sites and paying artistes 10x less so stupid to continue "working" for them?
Now The new consults will tell them to give the "slaves" a "candy" so they can continue to work for them. You will see increments of 0.01% in your revenues, new games, new tips but it will remain the same s**t.

Have a bad taste in your mouth there?

How do you know that? Are you stalking me?

you are telling you didn't pass any test of  all major agencies?
Then you can try fotolia, they accept crap too and they don't want any test. Dreamstime doesn't have tests to pass but they randomly reject images.

Quote from: cthoman on March 14, 2013, 16:56

Quote from: michey on March 14, 2013, 16:48

Are you telling that really exist people paying for a logo?

Yep, just finished one for a client. There are a lot of savvy buyers out there that love a stock art image of mine, but want something custom or exclusive. Most of my freelance work now is from walk-ins that saw one of my stock images. It even pays all the bills. It's almost like a real business. 

Oh god, do you think i had to ask for money for the apple logo i did a lot of  years ago?

Do Istock Bosses really think there are so many people paying 10x more than other sites and paying artistes 10x less so stupid to continue "working" for them?
Now The new consults will tell them to give the "slaves" a "candy" so they can continue to work for them. You will see increments of 0.01% in your revenues, new games, new tips but it will remain the same s**t.

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Quote from: daveh900 on March 14, 2013, 13:13
@sweetgirll - No, I do not sell at clipartof. Thanks.

UPDATE: I contacted the business via their Facebook page. The owner responded and was very surprised to see this. He had paid a "designer" friend of his to develop the logo. He is very disappointed with his friend but glad to know the truth. The owner of the restaurant and I are now discussing how we can make this right.

Thanks to all the MSG folks who offered their input, I will let you know how this all unfolds.

This type of thing is rampant these days as the tools are available to anyone..and anyone with the tools can call themselves a designer. Good to hear they are working with you.

I have seen it many times...usually a customer comes to me and shows me what other "designers" have done and it turns out to be clip art. Then they specifically ask me for a custom logo, which is what they thought they were paying for from the previous "designer".

Are you telling that really exist people paying for a logo?

Please stop about complaining the usage of your images, you will never know where and how your microstock image is used, this is the world of microstock. In the worst scenario , if someone uses an your vector image and he puts a copyright on it, you can be sued too.

... Or better you will see crappy images shots with Hasselblad too...

Now, you need an Hasselblad to sell on Dreamstime...

I don't think so, vectorial images on Ft start from 4 credits for simple and 8 for a very detailed,  anyway lesser than a xxl  with a price of  10 credits.
I sold an image ion BS for 20 cents  and i found that on a free web template the full image at 800 x 640, no other sites allow this.

A lot of people says "i will not accept to sell a 0.20 cents" then you see this guy putting photos everywhere for free too.
This is the microstock illusion, only illusions.
Few years left and the databases  of clients will be full enough to allow them don't buy nothing anymore.

1) I really don't understand why vector images have a so low price at Fotolia , 4 credit  lower that same xxl image sold at 10 credits.
2) I don't understand why at bigstockpohoto someone can buy an image for 0.20 dollars and put it in 800*640 in a free to download template on the web.

It is funny to see that to fight spam they use spam

i have same problem now, i m in another account and i can see his data.
Now where is my account?
This is a very serious bug and a serious site should close to fix it, i don t wanna other people see where i live, my phone an other stuff.

Quote from: madelaide on September 29, 2009, 01:18
Maybe this is a chance I FINALLY get a payout? 

i think they will pay you with image credits so you can buy other images , not to convert into money 

 
pure io qui, per caso

Maybe i was not very clear.
if your account is blocked they will not speak you anymore, they will not refund you the credit left in your account and This is not very "professional".
If i work for a serious agency or a private client, if there is a whatever problem (mine or their), they speak to me and we can try to solve it and i am not speaking only about fotolia but also all other kind of microstock agencies have same problem.
Hey guy we are speaking about 20-30 cents per image and for a decent earning we have to put thousand of images.
Sorry again if i write my problems here but where have i to write then?
Sorry if i see almost 100 credits lost for credit card refused on fotolia after 2-3 months the image is selled.

Quote from: puravida on July 01, 2009, 16:55
This is getting a bit too much. Fotolia is not some two-bit new stock site or some tiny site established with only a P.O. Box or email address. Everything is there with phone numbers,etc. You don't hear of contributors being banned by them other than the handful who have been posting these mysteriously unjustified (in their own words) ban. You get banned if you infringe on the agreement, as michey admits: ie. copyright infringement.  Property rights, intellectual rights, copyright,etc.. or if you are exclusive elsewhere, or RM,etc..  I think if your cause of banned is as unjustified as some say, you won't have a problem with Fotolia, or any of the Big 6 for all that matters.
I cannot believe that it is always Fotolia's fault. They did not stay in business this long by screwing their contributors. Enough said already.

hey puravida i don't admit nothing, i am ok and i think aliencat is ok too so speak for yourself only please.
there is people on fotolia that have total stolen images, take his money and goodbye...

maybe i am wrong, but look at the winner of the video contest that won 3000 credits, i am not sure but his images (only flags) look like very very similar to some other images on wikipedia and other sites...

yes my account was blocked too like other other guys on fotolia, you can read more about this on previous posts.

The weird thing is that they  blocked all this accounts in the last 3 months and without any explanation, also for people that "worked" for them for many years.

1) I hope people who had the account blocked don't have a lot of credits left in their accounts because they will not refund you.
2) If your account has been closed it s very very very very hard they will reopen it.
3) If they closed your account probably they did that for copyright infringement.

They are changing politics there, so if you are an illustrator(for photos is very rare) control your portfolio and delete as fast as you can all images that look strange or you are not sure.

another fotolia blocked account...

destructive for what?
i see other people in this forum and other forum with a blocked account, this is not a my statement.
however sorry for my bad english, maybe few people is better...
thanks perseus, i hope you will not have a blocked account too and without any explanations.