hi guys, I try to search about the copyright of a atlas book, it seems the company had bought over and no existing anymore.

the book is copyrighted 1980, saying no reproduced in anyway, without permission in writing to the publisher.

is copyright still consider legal even the company is gone?

hi all,

Due to several agencies that paid in different currencies. I have US, EUR, GBP..

whenever i want to draw some from paypal to my local bank, it seems I can only draw from one of the currencies. I have little amount like �1.16 and �0.80 GBP, is there a way I can convert them to USD so i can clear them?

may i know who is the pro photographer in beijing? since all name are known, possible to share it? is it in microstock also?

I saw one of the frequent microstock girl model in asia countries, but I can't really find more things about the photographer, wonder is it the same one?

In my previous interview to Yuri, he said Andres Rodriguez was No.1 stock photographer and now No.2.

I did not doubt it until yesterday I visit a pro photographer in Beijing, China.

Now I know two photographers can earn millions per year, are there more?

anybody know?

Hi steve, is your earnings in alamy is the sales or the commissions? sometimes it gets exciting to see alamy sales but what the real earnings is only like 60% of it..

A great month �April doesn�t normally outsell other months of the year,but this month I romped home with total sales of just over $1450 �a personal best. The month was helped by three sales on Alamy,for a total of $214,three video downloads on Pond5 for $75 and another great month on Shutterstock of $513. iStock recovered from a poor March to end with $271 compared to $235,and the other sites were OK if not at their best. That makes three sites with a best month ever earning total for April �Shutterstock,iStock and Alamy.




More graphs on my blog as usual.

Steve

Hi all,

I found out recently that shutterstock had a separate affiliate account.. affiliate.shutterstock.com instead of the usual contributor account.

It seems like showing more information about affiliate, and one can even know who is your referred members. I think it is useful for blogger or buyers who aren't interested to contribute images, without interface of submitting images.

the above link is a referred link. If you are a contributor then you can login with same username and pw too.

i use lightroom for raw to jpg.. and use adobe bridge to edit keywords.

I wonder is lightroom works perfectly for keywords and possible to dump the adobe bridge totally? one thing i like lightroom is the zoom feature is really good to check the quality of image, the zoom in bridge is not really helpful.

Hi All,

adobe bridge CS5 is running extremely slow, I usually use it as a image browser and key in metadata, but it is getting so slow that it will become non responsive.

I wonder what I can do to improve it..

I read about the harddisk space is important, is it the harddisk space of cache or the drive where i keep my file (external drive).

I keep all my photos by year, so it is kind of big size folder, maybe like 2-3k images a folder, will adobe bridge able to handle size like these?

I notice there is a cache of preview thumbnail, should i purge it once a while?

if you are a designer or photographer with a lot of existing own materials that you own it, then try to get in shutterstock, it pays from 0,25 to $28.. it is really the only microstock website that works.

and what is selling in microstock is really some materials for design (illustrations) or concepts oriental photos.. if you are taking different kind of photos then it is better to start from alamy.

Finally i found someone do the same thing as me.

I didn't have problem with istock, but just recently got a rejection because of the no fill and no stroke frame.

It seems some system will generate thumbnail from the eps, so without the frame, i think the jpg preview will fit to the vector instead of artboard.

here are the istock rejections:

Please remove the white shape from behind your illustration. Adding backgrounds limits a client's ability to place the illustration onto different colored backgrounds.

In addition, please note we do not accept files with unfilled/unstroked objects in backgrounds as they cause clients problems when editing and/or importing files into different programs.Please crop your preview more closely to the subject. The composition of your preview contains an unnecessary addition of blank/negative space.

I recently adopted this technique of an invisible frame around the artboard (not transparent but with no fill and no stroke). Mostly for the sites that generate the jpeg on the server side. For now, I had no rejection by Istock for that reason.

Quote from: mtkang on April 22, 2012, 00:28

saying the invisible frame can be a problem to some applications.

Would be nice to have confirmation of this.

just want to give allyoucanstock some supports, i am not actively upload there, but they do a good job in a lot of area.

there are many things that still can be improved, like making the ftp transfer easier, extended license option, some collections or galleries to browse (instead of the whole images by search), get some big names like yuri..


 

Hi Robert,

what I understand is panthermedia let's the buyer have an option to purchase RF image based on usage with different price and name this special license as 'RM'. I have no problem with RF image that i have submitted to Panthermedia that opt in this option.

But it is different with traditional RM license right?

if i list my image in Panthermedia, my image will still consider as RF, that's mean buyer will still able to buy it as RF but not RM only license. Is there a way to choose on RM license?

@mtkang,

unless you have not signed an exclusive ditributor agreement, there is no conflict. If you sell the same images as RF anywhere else, then there is definitely no conflict.

Best regards,

Robert

hi all,

Bigstock still doesn't accept eps vector upload + preview jpg with IPTC info?

is there a way to get IPTC read for eps vector upload?

thanks.

I thought paste the object over pure white will be precise enough, so i didn't keep the clipping path.

should i make it to black and white and select the outline to create a path?