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« on: March 14, 2009, 11:04 »
No luck. I still don't understand the complaint either. It is about the new search options on Dreamstime. You can now look for images with and without people. He thinks this is a useless feature since all customers - according to him - are looking for travel, industrial plants and surgery room images with people.
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« on: March 14, 2009, 10:55 »
The stock gods giveth and the stock gods taketh away  And Atilla ruins Their plans.  What's the god of stock by the way? The god of wine and parties is Dionysus, the god of Dreamstime is Achilles, the god of thunder is Zeus. What would be the god of iStock? I go for Narcissus. Narcissus -- in Greek mythology, was distinguished for his beauty. His mother was told that he would have a long life, provided he never looked upon his own features. His rejection, however, of the love of the nymph Echo or of his lover Ameinias drew upon him the vengeance of the gods. He fell in love with his own reflection in the waters of a spring and pined away (or killed himself);
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« on: March 14, 2009, 10:44 »
I think of him a lot. Me and Bob talked just about daily, over yahoo IM. His friend that inherited his computer logs onto yahoo messager sometimes, and it freaks me out. Miz is alive? It makes me do a double take every time. I need to remove him from my buddy list. You should have told the friend to extend his domain registration on unnaturalphotos. There were great tutorials on it. Now it expired and a domain shark got hold of it. He had a comment section too, with valuable input. That's all gone. We must all die but at least we can live on in cyberspace. For now, all that's left is the fantom on the waybackmachine. Most content is unavailable since you had to register. I personally valued the tutorials of theMiz a lot. If something productive has to come out of all this, and before it's too late, somebody should get hold of his PC, copy at least the tutorials from it, and put them back online.
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« on: March 14, 2009, 10:30 »
My problem ... especially evaluating Stock images at 100% ... is cleaning the edges. All the techniques seem great until you get right down to cleaning the jagged edges around the primary subject. You can quickly go around the edges with the dodge tool. The feathering obtained is perfect, no jaggies. Sometimes you'll have to isolate by hand when the background is not perfect #FFFFFF and the subject itself is near-white. In that case I use the polygonal tool at 3-400%. Just make sure you have a feathering of at least 0.6 px then (menu: Select > Feather). Also, what are all the FFFFFF references? The whitest possible in 8 bits (256 possible values). FF is the hexadecimal notation (0..FF). Decimal is 0..255. The deepest black possible is #000000, or decimal 0. In principle, you can isolate on any background color, but since dodging highlights and burning shadow end at 0 and 255, #FFFFFF and #000000 are the easiest backgrounds. You can avoid all this postproduction work by having a white over-exposed (2-3 stops) background in studio and work on manual.
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« on: March 14, 2009, 08:45 »
This is great stuff. Do I have a dodge tool in PSE with the same capabilities he was demonstrating? I assume yes since dodging the highlights is a basic tool in any isolation. The right value is 10% with a very soft brush, as said in the tutorial. He used a rectangular marquee selection to do the fast cleaning to #FFFFFF but I use the polygonal lasso tool to draw a rough outline quickly around the subject, then edit > fill > white (or delete if it's a background layer). Doing so, you get rid fast of all speckles and darker corners you might miss by the dodge. The rectangular marquee is just too simple if the subject sticks out an arm etc... What I missed in the tutorial is the verification of the isolation. For his CD artwork it's not that important but for stock it is. I do this with the Magic Wand Tool, Tolerance 0, Not Antialiased, Not Contiguous. Just click somewhere in the white #FFFFFF and the selection should fit perfectly around the subject. If there are "islands" left somewhere (#FFFFFE is not visible to the eye), Select > Inverse, dodge those islands and recheck.
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« on: March 13, 2009, 07:30 »
It's just strange coming across his old posts now and then, and knowing all that energy is gone. " In the sweat of thy face shalt thou photoshop and upload images, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." (free adaptation from Gen 3:19). Hundred years from now, microstock, all our images and we ourselves will - if lucky - just be a footnote in history.  
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« on: March 13, 2009, 04:33 »
Good luck with that one too, I requested my account to be cancelled about a month ago, then 3 weeks ago someone from Crestock wanted me to emailed them with a confirmation...guess what, my account still active.  After asking a couple of times politely, I made a row on their forum and here, and that did the trick. Good riddance.
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« on: March 12, 2009, 23:39 »
Your cam or PS was fooled by the (I bet) blown out highlight on the pen which monopolizes the histogram at the right side. Just fill in the highlight (since it's simple) with light gray and do autolevels again. In the levels you can drag the middle cursor a bit (1.20 max) to the left to get it lighter. To get rid of the blueish shadows and objects, just adapt the white balance, or desaturate the non-colored objects.
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« on: March 10, 2009, 14:45 »
It seems like the auto category option is not working anymore. I check it when I click on Process Files but none of the categories are filled. Anyone noticed the same? Yes, also the keywording. They got accepted anyways. I figure they abandoned categories...
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« on: March 10, 2009, 12:32 »
Does anybody know where I can find a payed script for stock photo... I spent more than 2000 dollars for buying scripts like xpoze and ktools and light box without result every script has a limitation... All I need is a script similar to shutterstock, fotolia, dreamstime, etc.. I'm currently working on a mod of Coppermine, just for fun. It depends on what your goal is. Is it multiuser-multishopping cart, or just one user (you). Showcase or sales too? Ktools is pretty good. A "script" like DT is not for sale, not out of the box, but the result of the effort of a development team.
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« on: March 10, 2009, 12:26 »
Nope these aren't exclusive...they sell on other sites...this is the first time I've ever put photo's on a pick your price site so I don't really know what is a good starting price... On Cutcaster as well as on Zymmetrical, I let them set the price. You have to trust these agents have contacts in the industry and they know what the market can take. It's their expertise. Just let them do their job. I don't think it's wise that a contributor will start price competition, especially on the low levels you mention.
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« on: March 10, 2009, 11:37 »
I was reading some of the comments and one guy is accusing Hero Turko of stealing from another pirate site - duh, how cheeky is that! It's as funny as the mentioning of Chinese copyright on the pirated home-copied Philippines versions of the "genuine" Chinese pirated DVDs.
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« on: March 10, 2009, 11:29 »
But it still doesn't say anywhere, that I can find, that people who upload to Panthermedia agree to allow Panthermedia to claim copyright to their photos. They don't. That's probably why their collection is called 'Lynx'.
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« on: March 09, 2009, 14:49 »
Last 12 downloads:
(Stockxpert pay-per-download) 2 $2.00
(Stockxpert subscription) 1 $0.30
(Photos.com subscription) 1 $0.30
(Jupiterimages Unlimited subscription) 8 $2.40
Exactly the same period in 2008, with 1/2 portfolio:
(Stockxpert pay-per-download) 2 $1.50
(Stockxpert pay-per-download) 2 $1.50
(Stockxpert pay-per-download) 1 $0.50
(Stockxpert pay-per-download) 1 $1.50
(Stockxpert pay-per-download) 1 $0.50
(Stockxpert pay-per-download) 2 $4.00
665
« on: March 09, 2009, 14:27 »
I'm sometimes nostalgic also, but I won't go back to the toilet outside with newspapers. And without? 
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« on: March 09, 2009, 00:49 »
this feature has been there since enhanced was introduced - hope that helps. Sure! Thanks! There are a couple of typos in the mrf management too, but it's not that important since the buyers won't see it. One is "caucaisan" instead of "caucasian". It would also be handy to be able to remove models with no images attached. I made a couple of mistakes and they are duplicate. No big deal though.
667
« on: March 08, 2009, 23:24 »
One of the advantages of digital is you don't get brown fingers by poking the sheets around in the developer.
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« on: March 08, 2009, 21:52 »
Whats up with "Allow Enhanced License" checkbox? It checks itself??? I forgot about it first and went back to do it. Already done! Did I miss anything? It comes up unchecked here. I have to check all boxes. I would prefer they had a check-all on top. If you want to be fast, you can easily click the 'exclusive' box under it by accident. Also, the categories seem to be gone totally. It looks as though they made the categories optional. In fact the only thing you have to do is check extended and attach MRF. I wish they'd remember the extended setting, like DT does. Still better, make it default. I don't grasp why you should offer an image without an extended license.
669
« on: March 08, 2009, 21:34 »
Its a fact in your mind and in your wishes and fantasies, I concede that. Sure honey, whatever. Byeye and PLONK.
670
« on: March 08, 2009, 17:39 »
IS's greatest strength is their marketing, they could treat their exclusives how they want and the majority would still woohoo their little hearts out in the forums.
Of course, that's just your uninformed opinion.
No it's not, mr. Anonymous. It's a fact. Stay happy and avoid the IS forums. Just log in to ask payment now and then.
671
« on: March 08, 2009, 17:33 »
Let me know what you think, I'd love to hear it. Get rid of Flash! Apart from being SEO unfriendly, it's useless overhead and takes ages to download.
672
« on: March 08, 2009, 17:18 »
If you less money still
Use PSE and Bridge. Opinions and workflows may vary. If you have little money, use PS and Irfanview. I don't like to be dependent on the proprietary implementation of IPTC from Adobe. Just as I don't like PDF and Flash and Mov. Open Standards are all you need, apart from love of course ;-)
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« on: March 08, 2009, 14:59 »
There was a short discussion here a while ago about PS and LR. As far as I got it, LR can't do layers but it's good at general things like levels and curves, and metadata. But like you, I don't need metadata and databases since I use Irfanview and my own classification system that works well. For instance, you can't clone in LR I heard, and cloning is kinda vital in stock. My conclusion was that PS did all that LR did, but not vice versa. So, obviously, PS is the tool of choice for many. There are also many tutorials on line since starting from scratch, you will have a very steep learning curve.
PS is so endless rich in features and workflows that I don't think anybody can master it totally and all alone. Everyody seems to have his own style and workflow.
@Sharp: what doesn't Elements have that the full version has?
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« on: March 08, 2009, 00:08 »
SOOOOOO.....which program would best fit my needs? I don't want to spend $700 on CS4, only to find out that Elements 7 would've worked just fine for me. If you're on a budget for image software and you don't have the Photoshop CS workflow in your fingers yet, why not try the Open Source (free) package GIMP? Karimala (I think) once mentioned she used it. It's supposed to be equivalent with PS. You might also try to have a bargain CS2 or CS3. If your PC has 2Gig RAM or less, they're even supposed to work faster. In any case, use XP with PS, not Vista. Vista slows everything down.
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« on: March 07, 2009, 20:14 »
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