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Gotta be hurting sales!

Quote from: dbvirago on November 17, 2013, 17:29

So is BigStock.

Wonder what coordinated program SS and BS are about to launch?  Bridge to BS for everyone?

Nope.

Already asked them this earlier this year and they said it is done and it will not be for anyone else, those who got invited were it and no one else at any time now or in the future.

If you want to know if a site is down or not you can use
http://www.websitedown.info/

It will tell you if the site is working.
It will not work with the specific page addresses but if the main (domain) address is not down you can suppose that the whole site is working. So if your link does not work you can suppose that it is not correct.

Yeah it works and shows that SS is down.

The connection has timed out

The server at submit.shutterstock.com is taking too long to respond.

    The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
    If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.
    If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

And the real question is!

If this stuff is floating around in space where there is no gravity how does it fall into the earths atmosphere and to the ground?

Why doesn't it just float away?

Something that makes you think!

Oh come on now!☺

I got a letter on oct 15. offering me a free 1 year Experian membership to check my credit report.
Having already been a victim of ID Theft we are pretty much on top of this stuff all the time anyway - but I will take them up on the free year of monitoring.

Same here.

"It works like this: Reseller A sells the product for your recommended advertised price of $50, then reseller B sells it for $45 to compete with A, and then C sells it for $40 to compete with A and B .

Thoughts?

Once buyers find out they can get the same image from say site F why would they pay more for the same image from site A so rather then exclusivity just submit to site A only and then they have no choice but to get it from site A or look for a similar one from someone else on site F.

This in turn still gives you freedom from exclusivity.

Another older link.


http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1828&highlight=exclusivity#1828

Nothing on the site about it and no email either ?

I have only had a few eds in the past

ED's?

ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION'S?

Now we really know where to go when we are in the city for Friday Pizza!☺

Armed with a camera of course.

Ha yes for anyone who ever lived in Hawaii the SPAM was the best thing on the planet before it made it to the continental States, and still is Hawaii's number one food and good right out the can or fried in a pan.

Also Irish stew, spaghetti, roasted chicken, pork chops, peanut butter jelly and fluff, pancakes eggs and bacon, corn on the cob, toast with butter and jelly, toast with cinnamon and sugar, hot dogs hamburger and french fries, mashed potatoes and gravy, fish sticks, Turkey and stuffing, fried bologna sandwiches, Campbells chicken noodle soup, beenie weenies.

Probably lots more that I have forgotten as well?

And you have read this I take it? Starts another war!☺

Hi everyone,

Just to chime in on this one point: downsizing will only hurt your sales and the overall community.  I'll explain why.   

Shutterstock has over 550,000 customers, ranging from freelance graphic designers working with a variety of clients to high-end advertising agencies and publishers who buy images in volume.   Some of those customers buy individual images, some buy image packs and others buy images via the subscription model.

The point of uploading large (or your original) file sizes is to make sure that your images are suitable for the widest variety of customers and widest variety of uses, irrespective of how the image was purchased.

For example, some advertising agencies will buy images under agreements that allow for a royalty of up to $120 per download.  If you upload smaller images that fail to meet an advertising agency's requirements, you'll either leave them frustrated or turn them off to your portfolio.

As others have pointed out, it's in your interest to try to capture the widest variety of sales from customers already transacting at Shutterstock, which means providing high quality files suitable for the widest variety of end uses.

Best,

Scott
VP of Content
Shutterstock
� Last Edit: January 20, 2013, 12:26 by scottbraut �

Here's the answer, even if it doesn't say so in the FAQ. And pay attention to Megapixels and Megabytes!

Image size is not limited, image size on disk is limited. Someone is now saying HUH?

Image Size on disk is the FILE SIZE not the image size. I too have had an image bounced by the system, not a reviewer, the automatic system, for being over the maximum allowed. It didn't say how much, but from others experience it seems that 30 Megabytes is that limit. The upload is rejected before getting into the system.

Depending on compression, you could make a huge image, less than 25MB on disc, and with DPI and resolution, you can make a much larger file, with a smaller image. Physical file size is the limit.

Image Size is not restricted, but I don't know why anyone wants to upload huge high-res images for 25-33-38 cents? Make it smaller, it's not going to make a difference for the buyer if it's Godzilla size or just Gargantuan size.  It's not going to take a day to upload either. Hint: reducing the image size will make any flaws less visible, more files will get accepted if you downsize.

Wiki can say what they want but the standard (where there is no standard) prints from panorama film cameras were 4:12 inches 1:3 in other words. The large frames for panorama posters are... 12:36 = 1:3. Or 3:1 depending on how you view it? Not 4:1

Panorama is whatever it needs to be to fit the image, but the standard, off the shelf frames, are 1:3 not 1:4

Quote from: ruxpriencdiam on October 08, 2013, 06:59

From my understanding SS does limit the Pano size, there is a thread about it because this was brought up before by someone who had their Pano rejected for image size.