you get 0.23 per sale. (that is what you get, dont make up some weird mathematics like you never saw subsription site, and talking about some 8 cents, dont be ridiculous).


I think that main problem here is too many photographers. If you dont want to participate, thats ok, there will be somebody else to replace you. Photographers are not important any more. Even Yuri. There a ton of photographers who copy his work, some are doing very well. If Yuri is, then we all are.... they dont give a rats ass about us.

I'm more close to a thought  that a photographer is  replaceable but  a large group of photographers with decent portfolio size and quality are not.

I'm just a newbie at this stuff, I'm in fotolia and dreamsatime,but fotolia is giving a lot of problems lately(the last one, I can't enter into my account) SO I'm thinking seriously in moving all my pics only to dreamstime. I've tried also 123rf but no one sale, it's very quiet. And istockphoto it's impossible to get anything accepted!!

please opinions???

Well the fact is , that if you move all of your stuff only to DT you will never know how much you lost with that move , and if you don't do it you will surly know how much you could have lost if you did it.

Nas opet izbacilo iz kombinacija 

I don't know the work flow of their rejections/approvals mails being sent , but according to them the rejections were super fast generally , and someone has actually reviewed 37 images in a single minute , than few images in the next few minutes , than more than 60 again in the same minute.

Funny

Well I'm just to break my own rule not to complain about rejections , I never said a word against a reviewer  , ever , but I got rejector on steroids this time. 

I haven't submitted to fotolia for some time , so I had a quite large batch submitted few days ago , and this evening I was doing categories all evening , and the rejector did them more then 95% in few minutes and im  talking about hundreds of them .

Considering the fact that I had approval rate probably high about 90% , with less quality images before , something must have changed drastically there , or I just wasn't lucky enough and got a reviewer that was pissed off for some reason today. I'm talking about images approved at all other sites , images that were in SS top 50  , few of my bestsellers that have gone over 100$ at other sites etc  all rejected in matter of minutes for various reasons.

So should I contact someone (and Is there a way to request another review) or  should I just let it go ?






 

Quote from: pauloresende on May 16, 2008, 09:20

But we can�t use the loops that programs like garage band have to make some new loops or tracks and upload to sell???

Exactly. All parts of any loops have to be 100% something you created or have a signed release for. That also means you can't sample anything.

Well after visiting istock audio  forum , according to them , its ok to use commercial  free vst-instruments single notes  , single drum beats , etc , if the license allows that, and creating your own compositions  from that , if I'm not understanding it wrong. 

Well anyway here is what they say:

Generally using hardware or software instruments to create a completely new composition is ok, just read the companies end user license. We are more concerned with presets or instruments that have complex melodies or rhythms programed in. However if it is a single note triggered by software, keyboard or other means, free free to use these to create a new composition, as long as the companies end user license permits it.

Just curious since I have never done any audio before....if you wanted to make recordings of various sounds, but not music, what type of equipment would you need.  Any articles around on this sort of thing?

Ill try to answer that.

Firs you will need some hardware , probably another sound card , the one that is integrated to your motherboard usually has low quality inputs and it will give you headache with noise problems. If you are buying one try to buy one  that is ASIO 2 compatible and avoid Creative labs stuff , thats for gaming not for recording Then you will probably need a mic preamp , if you want to go cheap Behringer has some nice stuff for low price. You will also need a mic , there are also some good cheap ones outhere.You may want to buy all that second hand online like on ebay ... and you a ready to go for less than 50-70$.

Then you'll need some software to record with , Im not in music making waters for few years , but I remember that there was a nice free software there , i think it was called something like n-track , n-track studio or something like that.  It had a possibility of 16 tracks recording and vst plugins support , so you could easily bring some nice effects to your work , and there are tons of free vst-plug ins and instruments that you can use with it. 


There is a nice forum online that involves everything about making and recording music , people are nice and friendly and always ready to help, but I dont know if its ok to put a link here . If Leaf agrees I will put it.


Hope it helps

Again , their part of the rise and our are two different worlds , and I'm sorry but numbers like 3 6 and 8 sound like an insult to me , if they are rising subs for 50% they should at least round the numbers to 5 and 0 , and still take nice part of our pies.



 

Oh that explains it , my sale are up significantly  last few days and I'm getting sales from images that were never sold before. 

I never did  any reorders to my alphabetically sorted  keywords just for Fotolia ( and I never will) , so maybe that has something to do with that change , but maybe its just a coincidence

I agree , I also think its stupid.

I cant stand one more thing , when a topic is opened , any subject doesnt matter but not like show me etc , and suddenly every other post  has a photo attached that is somehow connected with the matter or the poster thinks its connected.

Sometimes is funny , I mean there are many conceptual stuff out there that fits in , but mostly is all about pushing photos just to be seen at any price. I feel like when watching TV when those stupid commercials start.  What is it all about , even if it gives you attention and maybe you get  few more sales ,but  is it seems like falling real low at least to me.
   

No , I wouldnt ask if I did  .

And how can they know when are the photos taken ?