Quote from: goldenangel on September 21, 2009, 19:45
I guess you are trying to see your images for sale online. When you are logged in Alamy, you can try:

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography-link-to-alamy.asp

Then click on link "Click to see your My Alamy Homepage"

I hope this helps.

Thanks,

yes I could see them now.

I wasn't sure if the batch with the one rejected got trough.
Some did say if there is one rejeceted in a batch the whole batch got rejected.
But  everything worked fine all 8 are for sale now.

Hi All.

I was sending in 4 images and all passed QC
second batch 4 out of 5 image passed QC one failed of image size

I ad some keywords to all QC passed images.
Every thing went fine but were can I see my images ?


 

Yeah I like  HP Pavilion dv7  worth every euro I spend on it.
If only I could rid of the vista I have on it......(I wait for window 7 to install on this machine)
 

Quote from: Magnum on September 13, 2009, 14:38

Quote from: kaycee on September 13, 2009, 13:36

Quote from: Sergey on August 18, 2009, 09:28
IStock is right.

i've never seen so many overphotoshopped images like on micros.
you'll hardly find anything "normal", even a simply postcard style
picture with a sky and a mountain will need to have purple layers
in the clouds and oversharpened rocks and ice on the mountain
with more sh-it layered here and there to add more fakeness to
whole composition.

and colors .. gosh .. you'll hardly find a picture on micros with normal
colors .. everything must be oversaturated by default .. grass is always
supergreen, sky is as blue as a diving pool, flowers are booming in a lysergic
raimbow ...

what ?

From My own experience with Istock my images plain convert from RAW to JPG got rejected for over filtered while other images got accepted wich one I did indeed use some filters on it......
In Istocks point of view  if your image looks over filtered it got rejected if you desaturate the colors or using filters  as long as they looks natural they will accept
these images

Raw software adds sharpening as default if you didn´t know.   Not much, but it´s Istock...

Convert from RAW to JPG I did do it as long as I know.
Never had problems with it also most of my images got accepted with I stock.
I treat every image the same.
That was not the point.....

But if I stock thinks it's over filtered you know color wise they will reject it.
You can use filters,saturation,color etc as long as I stock beliefs they look natural.

for example:  I can't help it if a red rock  is indeed  bright red ------->rejected for over filtered (converted RAW straight to JPG)
                    The same image and desaturate the bright red ------->accepted   (import RAW file desaturate and make some minor
                                                                                                                    adjustments than convert the RAW straight to JPG)

That was what I mean.                      

Quote from: Sergey on August 18, 2009, 09:28
IStock is right.

i've never seen so many overphotoshopped images like on micros.
you'll hardly find anything "normal", even a simply postcard style
picture with a sky and a mountain will need to have purple layers
in the clouds and oversharpened rocks and ice on the mountain
with more sh-it layered here and there to add more fakeness to
whole composition.

and colors .. gosh .. you'll hardly find a picture on micros with normal
colors .. everything must be oversaturated by default .. grass is always
supergreen, sky is as blue as a diving pool, flowers are booming in a lysergic
raimbow ...

what ?

From My own experience with Istock my images plain convert from RAW to JPG got rejected for over filtered while other images got accepted wich one I did indeed use some filters on it......
In Istocks point of view  if your image looks over filtered it got rejected if you desaturate the colors or using filters  as long as they looks natural they will accept
these images

I have in my portfolio a lot of halloween or fall related images/illustrations.You could use those.

He thanks John I see one of my new images is on  the home page (featured archive)

strangely snapvillage did better for me than veer so far.

WHY NOT???

I like if some one dare to take a turn or twist at the usual stock stuff.
I think with me alot of designers too.

indeed upload system is to time consuming, also the 300dpi requirements s.....
I have only a few uploaded over there the rest I deleted .

Quote from: a.k.a.-tom on August 14, 2009, 14:28
On the other hand.... and I wonder how many others of you this has happened to?

Several months ago, I was contacted by a subscriber on IS thru my profile contact wanting to buy two images privately, I was under the impression that they wanted to buy the rights to the pix...
   I never responded.

Anyone else have this happen anywhere?  =tom

Yes with me.
Some one wanted to buy exclusive rights for one of my pictures and were aware that it sold already several times.
After nice e-mail conversations we made a deal. 
I like those deals it's gonna get me closer to buy my new camera gear.

HMMM sincelast week I can't upload illustrations.
Any one the same problem??

Photo's no problem at all.

Snapvillage did better for me then veer sofar.
Just wait and see what's gonna happen.

BTW I Hate the upload systeem I go crazy when I upload some vectors and the bars for editing name/description/keywording
are flipping to the top and bottom. 

I got 68 illustrations online  and about 100 still in the pending area for over a month.
I contacted Jamie why my illustrations are still in the pending area.she was telling me that a lot of new artist were at clipartof
and she got a lot to do  so it takes time to get the illustrations online.

Uptill now no sales.

For now still with my Konica Minolta dynax/maxxum 5D but hopefully after the vacation a brand new
Canon 5D mark II with the 17-40 is L F4
                                       70-200 L F2.8 lenses
                                 

Quote from: clustershot on August 04, 2009, 20:39
As our pro-accounts were discussed above I thought I would give everyone the heads up that they are now live.

Feature set:
http://www.clustershot.com/help/upgradingtoapro

Example of a pro store:
http://danjames.clustershot.com/

Custom watermarking (as discussed above) is included in the features. $20/year.

As always, feedback is welcome.


I just wait and see.
Maybe after I gonna have a sale I will pay the price but I guess I'm better off with closing my account. 
I think not that many people will go for a pro account.

BTW how does the watermark look I didn't find a sample

You mention photographes and illustrations but the main thing I see are only photos.
Also I see a lot of photographes of one person....

Yep hmm candy I know what you mean.
But some customers  want only pictures from IS and some will only have images from SS etc.
The same as with clothes if you wanna have white T-shirts soe will go to their fav shop and buy an expensive one while the shop next door has the same t-shirt but 50% cheaper they still want to have the expensive one from their fav shop.  


I just figured out why i had a sale with YAY : I was in the blog a week ago about best of the day...
 

Quote from: cidepix on August 03, 2009, 13:22
I guess you didn't know about this forum then. Because the list on the right pretty much tells us what to do.

I don't think you should close your accounts! If they are not selling well, instead of giving your earnings to the agency, just stop selling with them.

Keep the accounts in case that site becomes a big surprise and rises to be one of top 7 or 8.

It is up to you of course, don't listen to me  But I would definitely not sell with them If I am not going to get my earnings quickly.

Imagine that you get a few more miraculous sales with yay and reach 8 dollars or something. You may never get that money if yay decides to close down. They will keep your money forever if that happens. Yes, 8 dollars is not a big deal, but HEY, Why give it to them??? It is your money, your commission, your 8 dollars, not Yay's!

Yeah your right. ok I will leave up my accounts.
Maybe I reach payout when I become 80 and gonna buy me a drink from that money.

Quote from: cidepix on August 03, 2009, 03:05

Quote from: kaycee on August 03, 2009, 02:03
Hi I just checked Yaymicro and guess what yes 1 sale   € 2,50 WOW my first one.
I stopt uploading over there one month ago ,almost no views  with over 750 images/illustrations in my portfolio.
And now I have my first sale .....gonna wait and see what's gonna happen at Yay.

Miracles happen! Keep waiting and you might get another one in the next 5 years  And at that speed you might reach a payout before you are 80.

Congrats anyway. But don't expect much.

Just out of curiosity, can I ask you a question? (actually I am curious about this in general, everyone who submits to really LOW profile sites not only you, so don't misunderstand)

How long do you have to wait to reach the $30 payout on BigStock? If it is long, then YaY will take your years!

Last year I was starting with selling pictures to stocksites and had no clue what was a good or bad site so I tried (almost)everything.
While I let my portfolio grow and give every site one year time to sell my images and learned a lot about stock.
Also I have only nature related images and most stock agencies don't sell nature that well and I had to decide what to do.
Even with some major site my sales are very low so I have no good comparison.  some are great. my top 4 are SS,StockXpert,DT,IS the rest start selling when my portfolio was over 500 images.
At this moment the year is over for several agencies and I stopped uploading to many of them and I will close some accounts if they cooperate.
We all have to learn good and the bad things .Some are doing great on one site and some doing great at others we all need to figure out what works best.   

Hi I just checked Yaymicro and guess what yes 1 sale   € 2,50 WOW my first one.
I stopt uploading over there one month ago ,almost no views  with over 750 images/illustrations in my portfolio.
And now I have my first sale .....gonna wait and see what's gonna happen at Yay.

I send them also some images.
See what's gonna happen.
Lots of views . 

Very ironic...

Same here .Yesterday I was missing 5 images  too. not pending, not approved and not rejected. I did upload them again.
Today I looked and saw the missing ones got approved. (5 I uploaded yesterday are still pending)

Quote from: RacePhoto on July 27, 2009, 17:34

Quote from: kaycee on July 22, 2009, 01:10
Hi all,

Am I  missing something...
Just checked my albumo account and saw that almost 100 images still pending. I thiink by now a couple of months.
Did I miss some announcement that Albumo stopped reviewing/selling/uploading ??   

Newest "new image" was reviewed on July 16th if I'm reading the site right.

I still see in my account :Uploaded Photos: 569 and Images On Sale: 471 and this date was the last that got approved 2009-05-02 15:16:54

@clustershot ...
I mention in an  earlier e-mail to you about water marking the images. You responded that would be a feature for a pro account in this case I don't think many people would go for the pro account. 
For now I leave my 50 images on your site and see what happens in a few months.
But I have a feeling that the low res images would ripped of your site (they could use it for web) so you and I gonna loose money.