There is a 12 month exclusivity on the image and the photographer gets the standard Getty 40% return AFTER they have been paid for the image.

I just read an article on it too.  Apparently with the Getty purchase, commission went down from 50% to 40% and exclusive period went from 3m to 12m.

The advantage though is that if the photo is good, they will put it on the Getty editorial site.  You can expect a few DL if that was to happen!

Worth joining up just in case I happen to be somewhere when something happens and I have my camera and I take a good shot and there are no other photags there.

Cool, I was waiting to hit $100 this month, looks like I'll get a payout earlier.

Dont forget to go in and set the lower limit.

One point I think would need discussion: what kind of business model are you thinking of?  Macro, micro, both?  Each member setting his own prices?

One important thing mentioned by Bateleur: image quality inspection.  This is very important but might be a source of conflicts...

Other questions that will have to be considered are:

-who keeps the books (ie, looks after and tracks the money)
-who looks after the IT (who pays for this and the start up costs, running costs until profitable)
-how will you correspond (assuming you aren't all in the same location,timezone, meetings could be difficult - Coops are enormally localised)

The other thing that would be considered is how is this going to differ from featurepics which already offers 70%.  Are all costs etc going to be less than 30% or revenue?

I changed about a year ago by emailing them.  Dont know how long it took as it was a couple of months before my first payout.

They have decided to make a change where keywords must be entered by whacking you head against the keyboard.  If you do spellling mistakes, they will be reject and can not be resubmitted.

leafs thing to the right says they are now back up (were down a few minutes ago)

1 credit is 1USD.

Depending on what site you are registered on depends on your payout.

I was registed in the UK but changed to US as I wanted it to go to paypal in US$.  I think you can also select � if you want.

They have a fixed exchange rate which I assume can go for or agaist you depending on the actual forex.

4. Select "color range"-"highlights", check "invert" box,click "ok"

5. Add layer mask

I dont think I can do this in elements.  Is there an option for us poor elements users?

Note to self - buy CS3.

i would do batchs of say 10 and submit once on lot gets reviewed.

Reasons:

If you do a large batch, and the find something the dont like, there is a risk they will look for that in the rest of the photos (eg. once they find noise, they will be really pick on the rest).

If you submit another batch before the last batch is review, it gets added to the previous batch.  this is hand when review times are long as you can submit one photo (as a place holder) and submit the rest when you have time.  Not an issue at the moment as they are turning them around i less than a couple of days.

Doing it over a period of time will also spread out the new photo effect.  So if you have groups of photos (say 10 flowers from different angles - bad example i know), if you submit them all at once, high risk of getting them regected for "too many" but also designers will see them all at once and not download them all.  If they see them over a say 2 month period (I dont know how many photos you have), then they might buy a few.

Note: the first is the main one, plus the chance to avoid the "too many"/"similar photo" rejection.

I everyone this bad or are you all emphasising for dramatic effect?.  I average over $15 per month.  Not much but my portfolio is small so it borders on top 6 for me (about equal with BigStock and StockXpert).

I will be hopeing for payouts every 3 to 4 months now (as opposed to about annually before).

I hadn't tried the estimator, but I have just been there to see.  It says I might expect for the next 12 months to earn US$910 (I'm looking forward to that!) or US$1138 if I become exclusive.  Hmm.  I suppose I can get the extra US$218 elsewhere.  Both numbers were estimated using an estimate sales growth of 5% per month (in fact lately it's been more than that to me).  If I use 15% sales growth, numbers change from US$1800 non-exclusive to US$2400 exclusive, again for the next 12 months.

INteresting.  I was wondering if they factored in extra exclusive sales.  Doesn't really make exclusivity look that appealing.

Congrats 

Just out of interest, what does the exclusive calculator say?  Do they make it optomistic or just what you would expect?

as they have just lowered the payout limit to $50 for paypal users.  And it will come 2 weeks earlier (or some might say "still 6 weeks too late").

That is about the only interesting news from their latest email.  Normal stuff like better, faster, strong search and servers.  A bit about the new brighter site.  Interviews, free photo of the day and other stuff (my mine is a bit of a seive at the moment but I think that was it).

Lower payouts is good - they have finally listened to the submitters.

Image vortex - I think you choose from$20 - $200 though I haven't looked there in over 1 year.