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« on: July 19, 2016, 10:32 »
paulie, when you check the first images submitted to shutterstock, you will see it wasnt high quality, it was never the case that amateurs submitted higher quality than pros, if there was high quality, it was from the pros jumping in when they found out amateurs were making a bundle with their crappy shots. if so, we are to blame, not the amateurs. Macro was a closed shop and pros were sitting on their high horses, wich ultimately led to the creation of low priced images in a different payment model
627
« on: July 19, 2016, 02:29 »
sharpshot has a point though, the offset against exclusives dropping from 35-40% t0 20% against a rise from 15-16-17 to 20% might just give them the edge below the line
628
« on: July 19, 2016, 02:26 »
in the end us pros ruined our own business by submitting content to the micros, dont blame the amateur, blame your fellow pro shooters, like me, made a bundle in micro but its getting tougher, no business lasts forever, unless you are coca cola
629
« on: July 19, 2016, 02:22 »
etudiante, dont post made up facts, I still get 90 dollar SODs, 2 in the last 19 days, just not enough of them
630
« on: July 18, 2016, 17:25 »
it is the holidays period
631
« on: July 18, 2016, 14:54 »
I am back to earnings levels 4 years ago but double My portfolio
633
« on: July 18, 2016, 05:06 »
agree
634
« on: July 16, 2016, 15:27 »
i work with lightroom, dpp and photoshop and always used MS picture manager to quickly view photos at 100% because of its simple UI however, since upgrading to w10, picture manager is no longer reading the exif orientation tag correctly, basically ignoring it.
i am looking for a small, simple program with easy UI to quickly do the same as before, LR, DPP are too big and bulky for that simple task, looking at Faststone image viewer, ACDsee, irfanview, etc. which program is a good alternative and not too expensive. ive used faststone and acdsee before, and liked them, just wondering if there is something better
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635
« on: July 16, 2016, 03:39 »
theres been many factors why sales are dropping and cumulatively all these factors are hurting our earnings at SS. constant algorithm changes, more contributors, lowering of acceptance criteria, rapid increasing number of images, new competition from Adobe, lowering of royalties, you name it. and wanting the old days back is understandable, but never will happen, so really, accept it or move on. constantly ranting about is not going to help anyone, look at Paulie Walnuts, hes not ranting, hes changing his ways, and is now picking the fruits. as for entitlement as cathyslife calls it, i dont think many people here think they are entitled. i certainly dont feel entitled to anything, the Op sounds entitled to me though. i dont respect people that think they are better than others, out with the old, in with the new, we need a change of guard in this business, its like bread, old bread goes stale, its not nice anymore, it needs to be fed to the ducks (pun intended) PS: this communication from shutterstock explains some of why people see changes in their sales Posted 11 September 2015 - 03:38 PM by vincent shutterstock
The search engine algorithm is proprietary, and there are numerous reasons why we are not going to share what it is. The algorithm is constantly tested and changed (several times a year, not just once every few years) with the simple goal of increasing downloads for all contributors.
Why and how we change the search engine algorithm is very simple: we test a new algorithm in a select market or on a random part of our customer base. If the new one gets more downloads we change it for all customers, if the new one does not result in more downloads we revert to the old one. We will always choose the algorithm that gets the most downloads.
Ultimately our goal is to keep it fresh and keep the customers interested (i.e. downloading) so an image showing on top of the search result for 8 years may be good for Laurin, but it is very bad for everyone else because customers do not want to see the same image every time for 8 years and will go elsewhere if it does as our tests have shown.
some links from our support center:
http://support.shutt...bat02/000006579
http://support.shutt...bat02/000006621
636
« on: July 16, 2016, 00:46 »
pauws, stop patronizing people on this forum, i meant ss is more and more turning into IS
637
« on: July 16, 2016, 00:42 »
Trumpstock is a way better comparison
638
« on: July 15, 2016, 02:37 »
well this is great
639
« on: July 14, 2016, 23:50 »
symbiostock is funny, they sell work of copycats,,, my word
640
« on: July 14, 2016, 23:48 »
minsc, 100000, not 30000,
thats, what I mean people dont seem to get that if you triple the suppliers, your part is one third
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641
« on: July 14, 2016, 23:47 »
rinderart, this dicussion has nothing to do with what ones port looks like, you slag off newbies without seeing their port, someone trying to get in doesnt count. if youd paid attention to what i post here youd also known i hve been around for a lot longer, maybe just as long as you. and i know for fact that you were moaning about your footballers image had dropped a lot later than march 2012, i cant be bothered to look up your comments on the ss forum. as for building up ss, no one is entitled to anything, if you dont understand that more images and more people is less earnings per head, you will keep getting disappointed, and if you are sooooooo worried about contributor well being, why are you submitting to dp and bragging about how good they are for you ..........selling off your work through api at 3% royalty !!!!!!!!!! you talk from your behind,
642
« on: July 14, 2016, 19:17 »
rockefeller did the same, writing is on the wall
643
« on: July 14, 2016, 19:09 »
that most popular algorithm changed over a year ago if not longer, has been explained countless times it is not about sales only, but keep complaining about it, that helps
we are sharing the pie with a lot more people than when we joined, simple math, you get less per head, it will never go back to the golden days, accept it or move on
644
« on: July 14, 2016, 02:48 »
OK. been in 11 Years .......newbies before march 12th 2012 need not Post Or who cares if ya do.... But, Sales after that date was the telling Point for me that something was amiss...........search went crazy. Most Popular disappeared and all hell broke loose. Some noticed nothing..... Probably due to small noncommercial work, BS or super small Ports. OR... the wooHoo crowd thinking Buyers love there work....?. And when i first took Notice Because Up until that date the slight variations were normal. Lots Of posts along the way since then. But Just for me and many swings that were quite large ...this july 2016 is a total Joke I mean serious Joke after uploading no less than 100/200 a month going On what I've told newbies you must do.. Im sorry I don't believe that crap anymore and Im tired and the Koolaid is getting distasteful and I apoligize to anyone I said that to.
This july has be a disaster. Less than My commissions from 10 Years ago.
Go Ahead Jon...Farm all the 25 cent folks you can. this is getting so Out of control. I Pray a new site comes in and "SCARES THEM STRAIGHT" I doubt it. ego and Money has Changed My Old friend. the mistakes they are making.  ?? they don't even know about.
Sorry About the Rant. Thats what a veteran does. I don't know. I leave the critique forum and after 11 years in one week Fools are critiquing Others that have no clue what there doing themselves. MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOA. I guess I have to let this go and Move on. It's tough But I will. I see crap people are posting and it's Mind Blowing. HEY LEAF.............Heads up ,here come your new forum Posters. they will be here real soon. I won't, I'll be out making Money, these fools have no Idea about that part because we know How.........
every 3 months you write a post like this but you never leave, seen your rants for years, even before 2012, and your first sentence shows your true character, why not be a gracious old man. hit the bong man, think of your heart, take a rest, its nearly 1 am
645
« on: July 12, 2016, 15:44 »
the front runner of contributors well being still submitting to dp, you cant make it up
646
« on: July 12, 2016, 15:42 »
was it a photo of you twisting your nipples? haha
647
« on: July 12, 2016, 15:41 »
how about an art director calls a photographer and commissions him to do a photoshoot? i believe that concept is around since 1826
648
« on: July 12, 2016, 08:43 »
yea, my sale are slowing down on bigstock as well
649
« on: July 11, 2016, 16:19 »
lightroom
650
« on: July 11, 2016, 16:17 »
in every comment you mention that paypal is earning interest of off your money, you seem to be wanting to make a point with that, hence my comment. anyway i am not a paypal fanboy, i just dont get onboard the conspiracy train, evil paypal blah blah, they have hundreds of millions of customers, buyers and sellers, if paypal were so evil they werent in business anymore.
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