Hi Johnnie,

Possible to give feedback to your management about getting the downloads details information available?

There is no other website just give me a lump sum number of cash, without letting me know which images had been downloaded, and at what price, and how many times it had downloaded. It is not a fair way to us, the contributors.

I would like to know this feature is coming within a date.

so the website is not itchy anymore?

unbelievable..

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We're aren't (usually) talking about vectors here,

Although there are some extraordinary vectors about.
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2010/01/incredibly-photorealistic-vector-art.html

Hi guys,

I accidentally come across some very nice isolated food photos that i though it was a photo taken in studio with good skill, then i realize it is more than just a photo, and it is like so called realistic illustrations, based on photos.

http://www.lorianzalone.com/illustration/photo-based/photo-based.htm

http://www.pbase.com/dannysmythe/food&page=2

there are two links that gave you some idea, i can't really tell it is an illustrations till i found the lighting condition is too perfect.

Anyway, i tried to google informations of how it is done without success, i know it takes many illustrations skill and a good photo to make it. Anyone know some good websites to read more about it? issit done in photoshop? what is the term for this kind of illustrations?

thanks.

Hi guys,

I notice that there is only 1 price for eps vector in cutcaster? so the system isn't generating different sizes for sale?

is there a way to batch edit all the price?

thanks.

it seems like this case, without www it fails. Thanks!

for me canstockphoto.com is down, but www.canstockphoto.com works.

there is still no info of which images had been downloaded and how much had been paid?

all i got is a sum number of royalties every month. I want to know what had been sold and how much it had been sold.

I have some questions..

there are 3 price ranges, premier, standard and microstock.. i know we should choose microstock if it is available through other microstock agencies. How about premier and standard? when i should choose premier or standard?

if there is a faster way to 'request approval' from every agencies? it seems there are 6 agencies to be requested and have to repeated 6 times for selected pictures.

do you guys apply for the '3rd party sales' something? i think you need to apply it in yaymicro with at least 100 images you choose.

one can import pictures from flickr..and smugsmug also?

I just tried it out..and if you want to make your book available through their online store, your book had to be bought first..by yourself, or your friends?

Not one is using blurb? It seems a good place to create your own coffee table book..

Personally i had great expectations in zoonar when they offered uploading bonus, i found the uploading is good and hoping that it will generate certain income there..but so far had been quite disappointing and the polylooks partnership is gone..

I also find the portfolio interface is a bit awful, we need to scroll down all the time instead of a thumbnail pages for portfolio, and it takes many times to choose and opt-in every partnership..

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Quote from: jsnover on February 27, 2011, 02:36

Perhaps it's a silly question, but why not just sell through Alamy directly? Although you have one more agency to upload to, you then get to keep all the royalty Alamy pays (60% is what I get - I think that's standard).

+1

Take care with partnerships. Sometimes if you accept one, you will not be able to contribute directly with the partner agency never. Read all the agreement before accepting it.

That`s only one side. The other is:

Agencies like Zoonar have no or not much rejections, we have a good search rank (especially at Alamy important) because we put in different photos with different licences and styles and we put the photos to 10-20 partners and you just have to work (keywording) once. We also did the work for essential keywords, the work for submitting, translating, and the work for additional informations (at alamy: how many people, kind of photo (cutout, photo, illustration) and so far). So if you don`t have much time or very many photos it CAN be much more efficient to use a distributor like zoonar. With 60% comission we are one of the best paying distributors on the market. We also do the german manual (!) translations for free, so you also will have sales at picturemaxx, DDP, Strandperle and other Zoonar-Partners. One handicap i have to admit is, that we need many time to put in photos into the all partner databases and search engines. But this is normal and not only Zoonars fault, because the partners need many time to release new photos. After 4-7 months photographers they use the whole partner network will have good earnings.

if i remember correctly, usually those stock video are only accept clips around few second to few minutes..