...I'M MORE A VECTOR ARTIST. I'M REAL SERIOUSLY INTO THIS BUSINESS AND CAN AFFORD TO WORK HARD, REAL HARD INTO IT TO HAVE A COOL AND QUALITY PORTFOLIO(MAY BE 2500 IMAGES BY THE END OF NEXT YEAR). YOU EXPERIENCED MICROSTOCKERS HERE, ADVICE ME PLEASE. AFTER HOW MANY MONTHS(BASED ON GENERAL CASES YOU KNOW BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME FOR ALL) WHAT IT TAKES(MONTH, PORTFOLIO SIZE, ETC....) TO ATTAIN $11000? I REALLY NEED ADVICES NOW. I WANNA DO IT, BUT NEED MORE MOTIVATIONS....AND ADVICE ME ALSO ON THE BEST OF AGENCIES...THANKS A LOT TO EVERYONE WHO CONSIDER THIS AND REPLY ME..

Nice work you do.
On the other hand I'm surprised - I thought this kind of work is more valuable than just 0,30$...

Why delete.. The day will come some small gifs will sell at SS too
I already sell ad banner .gif animations (not at SS).

Quote from: DallasP on December 17, 2014, 14:17

How in the world do I do that? lol

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But, maybe I'm a Chicken Little. I'm one of the many that does not find CC attractive, and will stay with CS6 as long a possible.

posted on their forum:

Hi Everyone,

 I wanted to post an update here, as I understand there are some questions regarding views and vectors. The two are unrelated, but are two outstanding technical developments that contributors may have noticed:

 VIEWS:
 Views are not being updated presently. We're updating some of the code behind the scenes as we work on rolling out some exciting search improvements, and views is presently a casualty of that. We will restore the functionality, but given it's primarily a "just for fun" feature, we're focusing on the bigger improvements at the moment before circling back and getting it working again.

 So if you notice your files are not getting views, that does not mean they are not being seen - as many of you will now have files with 0 views and 1+ sales.

 VECTORS:
 Vectors have been a real pain for many of us recently. We've had an ongoing issue with processing vectors, as we for a while have been barely able to keep up with the flow of vector files coming in. That's a great problem to have, of course. But if a contributor uploads 10,000 vectors at once, it means the entire system can be delayed for a day.

 Vectors are deceptively complicated to process in the back-end, as there are so many different ways the files are saved and so many possible issues to run into. So they have always taken much longer than JPG images for us to process.

 One issue we have had more and more of is people uploading vector files that just contain a single JPG image in a layer. Not only are these files that we would never want to sell, as it's deceptive for customers, but it also is very hard for our system to handle. Our system assumes that .eps files are true vectors - so when rasterized content is included, it tries to make sense of it, which can lead to it crashing. I think people would be genuinely shocked at how many files like this, and otherwise invalid files we get. Those tend to hurt the system and slow down things for everyone.

 So we launched an entirely new vector processing system, which is 10x as fast and able to better detect invalid files. This should mean in the future there won't be any delay in vector files being processed, which many of you will be happy to hear. Over the last week we have been using it to catch up on the backlog. There have been some glitches, however, with thumbnails being broken for some files as one such issue. As a result, we have been sending files back in batches to be re-processed. We have also been working on systems to remove the poor files I mentioned above.

 We're on the home stretch now and hope to be caught up with the vector processing and fix broken thumbnails shortly. Thanks for your patience for all of this, as we think the end result will be worth the speed bumps we've had over the last week or two.

 Duncan

2% here.

Volatile sales, easy upload though.

Quote from: cuppacoffee on October 17, 2014, 13:51

Adobe software is a staple in big, big corporations - advertising and marketing, publishing, merchandising and textile design just to name a few. You might be thinking of personal users but Adobe's market share of the industries that create content other than for the personal artist or photographer is huge.

Big companies use what their employees use. Adobe users will increasingly be seen as the previous generation IMO.

Fewer and fewer people need these big bloated old fashioned programs in order to achieve the results they want. And the big bloated suites may actually slow people down.

Quote from: cthoman on October 17, 2014, 14:07

I guess you haven't been reading what Adobe has been working on lately. Lots of smaller mobile apps. Lots of integration. Very interesting stuff in my opinion.

No I have been completely following them. Other companies are doing much more interesting stuff today. They're kind of like Microsoft in the sense that big companies still use them but they never do anything interesting anymore.

Adobe apps are not going to generate the sorts of incomes which their investors are used to - nor the sorts of revenue growth which investors expect. And tech and new media stocks are in trouble now anyhow (SSTK got close to the 52 week low several days ago). The apps they have shown so far have been rather lame - if they were a startup you would ignore them.

I don't think Adobe has hit the wall (or ceiling) of potential subscribers to CC.
Right now, there are 2 groups who have not jumped into CC :  the people who use CS5 or CS6 illegally, and the people who use the legal version but are happy with their CS5 or CS6 version and refuse to pay a monthly fee for something they already have.

But what will happen in 2 to 4 years?  There will be a new version of Windows, and suddenly, CS5 and CS6 will not be compatible with the latest Windows anymore, and the "old" program on new computers will get buggy or not work at all.   Then there will be no CS7, but only CC to go to.

i shoot isolated with 3 to 5 lights...one behind, one under for isolation.... and others to give shape to the object (left, right, up)...taslucient background is needed

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on October 18, 2014, 17:48

Quote from: DallasP on October 18, 2014, 10:58

I've been favoring the pen tool. What process do you guys use?
http://drpgraphicdesign.com/isolating-photos-right-way/

The best process is to do it in camera.  The pen tool will give a result that needs to be modified because any good isolation will have variable softness across all edges.  That's why clipping paths aren't a solve all answer.

Exactly. What is this 'pen tool' of which you speak? Duh!