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« on: May 23, 2011, 13:09 »
When you log in to your Submit Shutterstock page, you will notice at the top (been almost a week now): New: We've removed the "Illustration/Clip-Art" category from the Content Editor. When submitting illustrations, simply select "Yes" for "Illust./Clip-Art," then choose the 2 best content categories Now us Illustrator can't be lazy anymore, we'll have to choose TWO categories...! 
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« on: May 22, 2011, 15:32 »
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« on: May 13, 2011, 20:55 »
how much time and pain in the ass it takes to deal with clients' special requests, questions, legal considerations, technical problems and so on.
Amen sister. This is one of the biggest reasons I like the agency model. Not having to deal with clients. Chasing money, dealing with personalities, games, negotiating, yeech.
I will gladly pay a premium to not work directly with clients but I, like probably everybody else, think agencies take way too much of the pie.
Those agencies also invest millions in publicity to keep alive, but I am sure with the profit they announce each year that there could be a better contributor consideration... but business being the way it is, unless they run out of files to sale because contributors remove their portfolios to get a better pay, I am not sure we will get a much better part of the pie. I for one appeal a lot to the "no hassle with clients" part. Running my own graphic design company for 6 years now, dealing directly with clients, deadlines and employee, I am glad to be making slowly my switch out to full time microstock. I think the liberty you get doing what you like and getting paid in the same process is great. Yes it's still hard work and you have to commit to it, but if you love getting up in the morning with only you, you camera (or computer) to take care off, that's a blessing. ;p Guess there would always be a love-hate story between contributors and agencies ;p.
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« on: May 12, 2011, 10:24 »
Not to be the downer guy, but it seems like you have a lot of images that could be the victim of a policy shift at any time. That would scare me if I were you. What if they decide not to allow public domain images or company editorial products. They could shut your whole portfolio down overnight. Not that it is going to happen, but it is definitely something to think about.
I just started recently uploading some Public domain images as I currently have an oppurtinuty to generate income which I cannot miss. More income means that the switch from doing part time micro and doing it full time is a lot easier. If Fotolia stop accepting PD images I don't much care as they are not the main seller of those images. Shutterstock is. But I doubt VERY much that they will do so. Those images are in demands. For shutterstock: Displaying results 1 - 100 of 22,638. If you write the word "engraving". 10k images on istock. Will only be sad if Shutterstock does that, but until then, I will ride the train. Basically to answer your question, What if they decide to not allow public domain images anymore? I will just keep doing what I was doing before uploading those and keep creating images. Slower income, slower process, but the results will be the same over time. Let's adapt to how the market goes, and grab opportunities when they present themselves. But be realistic. Refusing public domain images might make a lot of contributors angry. Customers most likely so as there is a high demand for them from what I see. They will will cut part of their income to the profit of those company who accept them. Not only Stock images site sells public domain image, some sell shirts, some sell reprints, and for the buyer it always come down to How much time will it take me to find the source of that public image, acquire it, scan and prepare it when I can get it for a few $$ here. Time vs. money. Does that make my portfolio artisticly astounding? No. Does it show great creativity? No. Does it need to be to generate income? No. Basically it helps generates a good revenue, in a point in time when I can decide to stop accepting client and reducing the work of my graphic design company, and spend time doing stock photo I appreciate doing instead of doing a "monk's job" scanning, live tracing and editing those images 
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« on: May 12, 2011, 09:37 »
When I was young they were telling me that Nikon produces cameras and Canon produces fax and copy machines
What are they saying now that you are old? Just kdding!
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« on: May 12, 2011, 09:34 »
Congratulations Morph. Glad the problem was resolved quickly
Thanks. Yes it was resolved quickly which is great. I read other threads here that some waited 2 weeks, or months to get this resolved. Just pointing out a suggestion that maybe informing the user about what is happening to his account and how to resolved it, even by an automated email, wouldn't be a luxury, and would at least show a form a respect for their customer and contributor instead of blocking an account without specifying a reason, without contacting the account holder and without giving any hint as to how to resolve the issue ;p
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« on: May 11, 2011, 18:02 »
Alamy's payment can take a long time. I had cleared balance of $200 since Feb., my current balance is around $500. Since some are distribution sales, I am not sure when they will be cleared. It may be June or July or even after July for the next cheque. But they will come.
Yes I guess the good thing in this is that it will come... in time. I like the "surprise" we get out of Alamy each time we see a sale there, and rewarding to see the sale price of some image too. I wasn't expecting much out of them when I joined in January but I will definetly take the time to upload the rest of my portfolio. A few more payments here and there can certainly do a difference year to year.
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« on: May 11, 2011, 17:10 »
doesnt sound good, contact them again or better explain them once they dont had the respect to contact you and talk openly
That's about what I did. I read a lot of threads on this forum dated of 2009. I have to say that now my account is already unblocked after contacting them. For those interested, the answer they gave me was... : Fotolia : The account is no longer blocked. We will speak with the editing team.I guess don't are not paid per words written as their answer is pretty... straightforward and non-informative. But I can say they addressed this pretty quickly, don't have to complain about that The whole process took a day instead of a few weeks or month some other reported. Hi!
I uploaded a batch of images recently, I have more to follow but for some reason you rejected this batch with the mention shown in subject, while before you approved them.
Your system does not allow us to upload a Property release, which in case of Public domain illustration you might require?
The images refused are image from 1870 and 1890 books, which are all have been in public domain for a minimum of more than 20 to 40 years.
iStock have some of the images I submitted. Shutterstock have 1000s of approved images I submitted there initially, all in the batch your refused. 123rf, Bigstock, Shutterstock, iStock, Veer, Alamy, StockFresh to name a few are all sites that Accepted the images that was refused. Can you please review?
Plus your system does not give us a visual or name of the image refused, only a number so I cannot know which to re-upload. Thank for helping me on this.
Answers:
Fotolia : Can you please provide image id's? 05-11-2011 07:15 pm
Your answer : 31603152 - 31603146 - 31603178 and a lot more. Do I have to list them all?
Also I just noticed today that my account is BLOCKED without reasons. Can anyone give me a reason as to why you are blocking my account? I have been a customer and contributor for more than 5 years. Is this your way of doing business by blocking accounts without giving any reason and without even asking questions??? 05-11-2011 09:44 pm
Fotolia : The account is no longer blocked. We will speak with the editing team. 05-11-2011 11:51 pm
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« on: May 11, 2011, 15:08 »
I have been a client of Fotolia for more than 5 years, and a contributor for about 3 years now... I uploaded public domain scanned files over the last few months, which were all approved. At Fotolia, Shutterstock, Bigstock, 123rf, Dreamstime to name a few, which I uploaded a property release for it (except Fotolia since they don't have any property release option in their file submission). Public domain files like what many contributors upload (except that I convert them to vector for a more flexible use): - http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-15159460-the-hatter-s-table.php?st=a6102e7- http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?searchterm=engraving&x=0&y=0&search_group=&lang=en&search_source=search_form#id=75844009 (one of mine) - http://www.123rf.com/photo_5830285_rhino-old-engraving.htmlHell, even Fotolia Infinite collection: http://www.fotolia.com/id/9568339and I know you can find thousands out there on different site. I submitted a new batch last week, and got them all refused for Possible Intellectual Infringement. Fine, I contacted Fotolia the week after, then surprise, today I find my account blocked. No email. No questions. No reason. Find this funny to get treated like dirt after all these years. I also see my sales continuing to grow there while my account is blocked. I saw a few thread relating similar issue. I think they should at least take contact with the contributor before imposing actions on them. I know for a fact that I own the copyrights of all images I use for stock, unless they are public domain which in this case there are no copyrights at all. There is a minimum of 130 to 160 years old engraved images that use, so I can't understand why I would get my account blocked. Please share the light Fotolia, I am sure other contributors would like to know more about your "blocked account treatments".
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« on: May 11, 2011, 13:48 »
Wow this thread is depressing! Moving on to the next one, might increase of a few cents!
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« on: May 11, 2011, 13:45 »
I am not sure how payments work with Alamy, I filled in my Bank account information which I think is right (I am from Canada not sure they are doing bank transfer there). Do I need to request a payout or it does so automatically?
Congrats on the increasing sales
At Alamy, they pay automatically after you have $250 or better in your account. The catch is, the buyer's payment has to clear, and that takes 4-6 weeks, on average. Once you have enough cleared payments to total over $250, you will get a payment around the first of the following month. I get mine via check and it takes about two weeks for me to get their check (cheque) here in Florida. So basically they are not fast money, like the micros, but it is very nice money when it does arrive
Haaa, now I understand better ... Balance carried forward: $182.26 Cleared balance: $8.68 Basically I have 8.68$ for sure hehe. So 250$ is the target, I'll just wait and be patient. I just hope they will let me know in case there is an issue with my Bank Account information, I am not all that sure I gave the right "swift" informationt they needed. Anyhow thanks for the information LisaFxx, I appreciate :p
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« on: May 10, 2011, 07:50 »
Yes definetly seeing some action. Joined Alamy in January. Up until late april my sells were a few .87 novel use and one 8$, about 3 sales in those month. End of april I saw a mythical 215$ sales (135$ profit) and I was really surprised. From the 30 of april up to here I had 3 sales, which is a lot more than usual for me, and another 80$ sale, which is refreshing I am not sure how payments work with Alamy, I filled in my Bank account information which I think is right (I am from Canada not sure they are doing bank transfer there). Do I need to request a payout or it does so automatically? Answer to this question here, yes, definetly 5 times the action of usual for me 
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« on: May 04, 2011, 10:13 »
Shutterstock now rejects everything! That can not be right!
Still at 99% approval at Shutterstock for the 3 years that I have been there, I don't find they are too harsh, maybe it depends on the topic or content you submit.
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« on: May 04, 2011, 10:10 »
but I am under the impression that with subs people are downloading more pictures than they actually need
which means that real RPD is actually higher than it seems, and cannot be directly compared with credits
Yes having a quota of 25 images per day to fill, most buyers if they care about their money will simply make lists of images they THINK they might need, ths more download for us. Some images they would download where in other in pay per download they might hesitate before buying. Cuts the hesitation in half ;p. Since it's all numeric, there is no environnemental cost at this encouraged consumerism
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« on: May 02, 2011, 19:45 »
I just wish they would drop the categories.
+1
I dont see the problem on categories, you can even pick a few pictures and add the same category
Choosing categories takes seconds (or few minutes depending on how many images you upload). You can select multiple images of the same categories and apply them in batches. Nothing like fotolia 1 images at a time submission, or Dreamstime for that matter. (won't talk about iStock )
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« on: May 02, 2011, 13:54 »
I'm in the "happy" field as well on average, but what I don't like are the 100% rejection or even the 100% acceptance which are happening lately. That can't be right.
Same for me. I would say from the day I joined Shutterstock (Illustrations mostly), I had only less than 1% rejection. I don't find them too hard on me.
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« on: May 02, 2011, 13:53 »
Yeah, Shutterstock is the only site I completely trust and I would actually consider for exclusivity, yet I'd prefer to stay independent. Tomorrow never knows.
I would definetly consider Exclusive images with Shutterstock. I am lining up a lot of images for sale only there (as some other sites (Ex: Dreamstimes, iStock) say those images a irrelevant if not modified from their original source. Fact is, those images are getting sold like hot pancakes on Shutterstock and are making more than 1/2 my sales there. I agree what Lagereek says. Great stats, great and STEADY sales, and they keep an ear open for the contributors. Definetly a leader!
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« on: April 28, 2011, 21:02 »
Since I do mainly illustration, I have to rely on my FTP program to upload (pretty straitghforward if you ask me), then do manual submission on the sites, but most sites have nice batch submission for the images so easy to assign similar image batch categories and off they go
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« on: April 28, 2011, 20:59 »
My answer would be... not yet . Working on it this year. I own a small graphic design and advertising company (graphic design, print, web, video). But since the beginning of January this year been working hard on microstock and happy to saw that I am increasing my Monthly revenue each month by 100 to 150$ so I do hope to make it full time by the next year, or at least greatly reduce my company work and gain more freedom and personnal creativeness (if that's a word)
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« on: April 28, 2011, 20:53 »
Sorry to take this OT. I love the cockney words for money. See if you can work this out. If they owe you a monkey, you might get lucky and get a gregory to stick in the J. Arthur. Don't think they pay out for a pony or a score. If none of that makes sense, I did this hubpage that might shed some light. http://hubpages.com/hub/Cockney-words-used-for-money
Hehe you guys gave me a good laugh ... It now makes me happy to look at this thread... keep it up
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« on: April 27, 2011, 13:43 »
...or admits to nothing) about StockXpert or ThinkStock.
Hehe... If I were iStock, I would be the first to try not to be associated with StockXpert failures :p
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« on: April 26, 2011, 15:23 »
For my part I love the way Shutterstock shows stat. Have the simple list of day to day sale, with a small thumb of images sold on each day when you click them. You also have the overall stats and the price each images gave you as profit over time.
I also agree with lagereek. Knowing the keywords with which our files were found is a pretty interesting feature/
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« on: April 24, 2011, 07:29 »
BTW the "ContactUs" on the StockXpert site front page, (the one that says Dec. 13th) is a dead link.
It's a dead link since the site is down. Of course if you a question related to your iStockphoto account you need to use iStock website account. If you have questions and want to remove you files from Opt-In, you need to do some from iStock, not from Thinkstock and the other "partners". I was mentionning that if you have issues (like everyone is having right now) with StockXpert, then the address I gave was the one I received an email from after using StockXpert contact form. Yes I guess you are right that it may not be IS support that deals with it, or it may be but if you don't use the right email address it does not go to the few person who might be support StockXpert.
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« on: April 23, 2011, 18:20 »
If you ask IS about StockXpert they will say, they have no answers, they work for IS. If you ask StockXpert anything about IS they will say, they don't have an answer. They may be under the same owners, but the staff at the two places, at least when I've asked over the past year, are not in any way connected with each other. They don't answer questions from a difference division any more than Chevrolet will tell you anything about your Pontiac or Buick, even though they are all GM cars.
Now ThinkStock there's a good question? Both have images there, so who's answering their questions, or are they just feeding them and don't know anything?
Anyway, don't write to IS and ask about StockXpert it's a waste of time. Heck writing to StockXpert and asking about StockXpert is a waste of time. 
... iStock are the ones providing support and answering StockXpert user. You definetly have to address iStock support for it... Using the StockXpert contact form will get you a reply from iStock, using this address: S X P [at] istockphoto [dot] comCan't be clearer than that So if you want to Spam support, use that address.
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« on: April 20, 2011, 20:27 »
Yes Veer takes a lot of time to review, better not be in a hurry when you upload to them
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