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Messages - heywoody
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« on: May 25, 2014, 05:21 »
What disorderly said ..
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« on: May 24, 2014, 11:15 »
No seeing a problem. If you have done your bit and they haven't done theirs, not your problem. No harm to let them know you're starting to upload elsewhere having resigned exclusivity...
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« on: May 23, 2014, 17:09 »
Waiting for next project to start so very, very bored in the office. Started playing with MS Office VBA & pulled port & sales data from the various sites. Looking at RPI, which is probably the fairest way to compare site performance, I have some lessons (my strange little port may not translate to the more commercially minded).
Lesson 1 (recent. jpg): Ranking on the right holds up except to reverse DT and FT the chart below accounts for getting FT sales in . Also, even with all the lousy decisions, IS (with PP) looks like firm #2 and pretty close to SS have to force myself to put the rest of my port there.
Lesson 2: (fromstart.jpg) Look what happened to IS they were blowing everyone outta the water and now
Lesson 3: Interesting how the contribution form IS and the PP has changed over time
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« on: May 23, 2014, 16:52 »
Some agencies are "fair", some show complete disrespect (IS, FT) BUT look to the right and decide if it's max $ for your work or a warm fuzzy feeling you want
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« on: May 21, 2014, 15:08 »
Probably better than average 
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« on: May 18, 2014, 07:11 »
Yes, I have also explained how they use technology. I have no idea where that quote is, its somewhere on a forum. I think even Scott came in here and explained it.
They open the image automatically for the reviewer at 100% on the screen. To speed things up. The reviewer still makes the decision. How do you explain inconsistency on the same image, if it was 100% automated? Technology is not ambiguous.
Probably the system proposes to the inspector some possible "verdicts" and the inspector, hurry to reach his quota of reviewed images for the day, to then go to smoke cigarettes and drink beers with his unemployed friends, pushes hastily one of buttons correspondent to the various rejection reasons offered by the system
(Or do they just use blind people as inspectors??)
Absolutely no evidence for that. As Ron said, they use technology for workflow, not for decision making and the killer argument is the apparently inconsistent decisions software will always produce the same outcome based on the same data.
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« on: May 18, 2014, 05:42 »
Is that last graph a return per image counting your total number of submitted images as the source? I have almost 6000 images on some sites and just less than 3000 on Fotolia - hence my graph should be halved if you count the earnings per image I have taken and submitted to them. My graph shows the images they have selected (which you would expect to be the best (in their view)) and even with that it is a really poor performance.
Steve
Much smaller port but, yes, the graph is based on number of images on line in a given month - the real drop is from the price changes sometime ago. I haven't finished coding the IS extract yet but that will show a much much bigger drop.
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« on: May 17, 2014, 18:05 »
You are wasting your time! I was trying to explain people here that we all need to promote agencies with better deal for us, but people like more "regular" money .from big houses..
Problem is that 50%, 60% of bugger all is bugger all where 10%, 20% of something is something
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« on: May 17, 2014, 16:45 »
Seeing and increase in subs volumes, no increase in commissions - can't say yet if I'm getting subs instead of credit sales or at the expense of sales on other sites
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« on: May 17, 2014, 16:39 »
...They've certainly upped their standards, but there are enough totally idiotic rejections - such as wrong white balance for pre-sunrise/sunrise/sunset images - that aren't borne out by sales if you talk them into accepting the image....
I'd agree with that. Frequently, if left to my own devices, would use a warmer light for stuff like candles, time of day etc but, figuring that would lead to white balance rejection, don't do it to the detriment of of the image and (possibly) sales - course, the poxy isolations sell better than any attempt at being creative anyway so probably makes no difference except that they still get accepted.
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« on: May 17, 2014, 15:51 »
SS are now just a bit more picky than the others and can afford to be - I've had a few over the last year vs none elsewhere and can see why (whether or not I agree)
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« on: May 14, 2014, 16:17 »
I haven't been following this DPC thing so dumb question - is this an opt in / opt out thing & how do we know if we have been automatically opted in?
Everyone's automatically opted in. You have to opt out, which only became an option after the peasants revolted (and a very hard to find option).
Cheers for that. You're not kidding on the hard to find bit, buggered if I can see it...
Go to your Contributor page (http://us.fotolia.com/Contributor is mine).
Under My Account, select My Profile (https://us.fotolia.com/Member/Modify).
Select Contributor Parameters (https://us.fotolia.com/Member/Modify/Contributor).
Find Sell my files on DPC and click Modify.
Thanks man, would NEVER have seen that (the link just looks like an option to add a phone number)
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« on: May 14, 2014, 16:11 »
Most sites view from registered buyers are counted but I suspect lots of the views on DT are bots
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« on: May 13, 2014, 17:25 »
I haven't been following this DPC thing so dumb question - is this an opt in / opt out thing & how do we know if we have been automatically opted in?
Everyone's automatically opted in. You have to opt out, which only became an option after the peasants revolted (and a very hard to find option).
Cheers for that. You're not kidding on the hard to find bit, buggered if I can see it...
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« on: May 13, 2014, 16:54 »
Looks like this across 4 sites
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« on: May 13, 2014, 16:40 »
I haven't been following this DPC thing so dumb question - is this an opt in / opt out thing & how do we know if we have been automatically opted in?
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« on: May 13, 2014, 14:16 »
Interesting.. This hae happened only in the case of 10 or so images in may case & never had to submit any kind of actual property or model release
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« on: May 13, 2014, 14:11 »
DT should not be listed under "Big 4". 123RF sells tons better.
For you, but not for me. DT usually generates about 4x what 123 does
+1 If someone, for example, has 10 time the images on 123 because they don't do rejections , it will probably earn more. The thing about DT is that the levels system means RPD does increase over time quite significantly.
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« on: May 12, 2014, 16:53 »
Price / credit varies HUGELY. In my case:
Min - 0.14
Avg - 0.32
Max- 1.00
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« on: May 12, 2014, 16:16 »
for CG work they require a release, basically a screenshot of the models in the 3d application and a line or two stating you created the models.
They don't - they (generally) realise the source and the fact that these items are licenced for commercial use. Previously, when this has happened, I've uploaded a "model release" just stating that it's not an actual person.
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« on: May 12, 2014, 14:38 »
Is it just me or is there something about the first one other than just not needing a model release?
Classic  My take on flagpole sticking out of head...
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« on: May 11, 2014, 15:57 »
Have a number of images pending model release.. Some excuse here (as long as reviewing consists of a quick look at the thumb which is probably what happens these days)  but this??? 
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« on: May 10, 2014, 16:36 »
lb for lb MACs are at least twice the price - I'd prefer to spend on CPU and RAM than badges or complete non-essentials like SSDs.
I would hesitate to put SSDs into the non-essential category. The increase in performance is pretty amazing!
I'd agree. I tested the boot time between a HDD vs Hybrid HDD/SSD. HDD was 42 seconds. Hybrid was 20 seconds. I haven't timed anything else but a lot of apps seem a lot quicker to load and run with the Hybrid.
And I'm not sure the price thing is accurate. I always believed this too but when I spec'd out a Dell laptop with similar configuration to a Macbook Pro the price was pretty close. Seems like Apple doesn't make bare bones stuff which is why PC is cheaper on average but not apples to apples.
Of course it's quicker to load. What do you spend your time on, loading or working and is 20 seconds at the start really worth the money? When working it's all in RAM anyway.
It's not much money so that alone would be worth it. Also it would be obvious to anyone with a bit of computer literacy that starting programs and swapping/caching is also hell of lot faster with ssd... because no, it's almost never ever all RAM when working, even if you have a lot of it. It's right there in photoshop, one of the most basic settings to do after install, swap disc / ram usage: edit-->preferences-->performance. Glad I could help.
You didn't - anyone with basic computer literacy knows that processing requires the program and data to be in RAM - SSDs certainly get it in there faster but, unless you're working on high transaction volumes, it's not much of an issue.
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« on: May 10, 2014, 10:17 »
#1 is 2 separate reasons, #2 and #5 are outcomes. Root cause is lack of vision coupled with unfounded arrogance, leading to really bad "initiatives".
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