My first camera was canon PS A60 then canon 350D till now, next buy would be full frame from sony I think.

Fotolia is nice agency...check this http://admin.fotolia.com/p/180036?order=creation
seem everything he uploaded was approved. 

Hope yuri don't show his workflow very detail, I don't know what happen if many people copying yury workflow, difference style of editing and shoting make stockphoto industry more interesting.

First I doubt about the problem, I'm sending the message on 05-31-2008:

Dear,

On May 30, I got sold image with ID 7352674 in XS size, my credit increase from 46.98 to 47.33, but after few hour when I refresh my page and found that my credit go back to 46.98.

Please investigate the problem.

best regards,



And I got replay:

We are not sure we understand your request. Our records show the following information for the transaction you made reference:
05-29-2008 12:00:15 pm Photo Sale credit +0.35
Everything seems to be fine.


It happen twice, I forgot the first one.

I love IS, with only 57 files...my download is comparable with 630 files in FT.

Quote from: paulacobleigh on May 22, 2008, 22:36
I have been uploading onto Fotolia for about a month now and I finally got my first sale(s).  Yay!  I was just about to forget about the other sites and just focus on SS since that was the only one that I was making any money on. 

Wow congrat, I'm not upload on SS. Many people said there is no future on SS, is that right?

mine 15-34 days..... 

uploading (and approved) 10-15 photos every day.  I don't care about sales because last time I focused at my sales, my spirit go down...

I need help how to create lightboxes banner with link and attached them on related/similar images step by step.

Thank's

this is like traditional trader...buy cheap(from SS) sell high, he is using SS as wholesale store.

FT    = 54%
BigStock  = 12%
123  = 11%
IS     = 10%
DT    = 8%
StockXpert  = 6%

Sales at FT is increasing every month for me

Quote from: Chode on March 24, 2008, 17:24
Lately, I have the feeling, the more files I've got, the less I sell Dont know why. I hope it is related to easter, and holidays, but I am not happy with my sales at all in last 7 days, especialy today.

Watch your rank in fotolia, if you sell a litle but your rank is up, that's mean sales slow in general not only you.
I just sold 2 photos yesterday and my 7 days rank up from 670 to 564. To reach 560 rank usually I sold 5-8 photos a day.

How much exclusive photo/photographer will get for subscription sales?
$0.3?

very slow for me...

my 15 images, here is three of them:
http://www.fotolia.com/id/6698212
http://www.fotolia.com/id/6698211
http://www.fotolia.com/id/6656593

also get property release rejection, I thing no body know what room hotel is that.

FT is less problem for me, very consistent approval time and sales.
IS is more picky and unconsistent approval time.

you can not sent tiff file but JPG only, upsize your image to 3400x5100 (51M uncompressed) save as JPG highest quality, let see how big they are, and send it to alamy.

Quote from: Chode on February 19, 2008, 11:53
what is uncompressed file? what extension does it have? jpg? bmp?

I dont see anything about MBs, in Image size dialog:



confused....

just take attention to pixel dimensions size, if reach 48M or more you are ready to alamy.

We have to clarify this,
from what I know that 48mb uncompressed is not JPG file size.
is that correct?

It's different between size of JPG file and uncompressed file, right?
Dino.. may be you missing something.

My 51mb uncompressed is only 4.3mb in jpg file.

dreamhost.com

No problem here...

Quote from: Chode on February 18, 2008, 21:31
What the heck is this? At alamy 48mb is the minimum size? Why in the name of God? And How am I gonna achieve that? My raw file is 10MB, my jpeg 10MP is 4MB?! LOL!

Dino...
Open your 10MP file in Photoshop and go to image - image size you will see your uncompressed file size, that's what alamy mean.

My 8mp (3mb) file around 22.8mb uncompressed.

you can make cheap DIY Studio Lighting.
here is the Link:
http://www.diyphotography.net/the-strip-light-that-wont-strip-you

Karimala: thank's for sharing.

CCK: Is that Content Contruction Kit, one of populer drupal module?