Testing it right now and I think the final product is going to be pretty good..

- one thing many of you are going to love is that this works with any theme you can have your site look exactly the way you like..

- licenses are a lot less complicated as well..

- there are shipping settings as well as a dedicated tab for taxes..

- download expiration is there too (you can set a time limit or a max number a file can be downloaded)
 

*** bad joke alert ***

good to see batman finally got some proper help with the project.. 


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I am glad symbiostock is coming back stronger!..

do they seriously think we are going to waste our time for this 

Nice work dude. I agree, more talking and moving the outro to the beginning and make it your intro.

Thanks Ron! I will have to do that now 

Wow, it's so much work with one graphic project! I'm not sure if I had so much patience And your work is great! Good luck with your conpcept, keep it going and never give up, I believe it will work well for you... I've tried something similar with my photos, making slideshows for YT. I got to many people and focused their attention, I've found clients this way and can tell you it works

Thanks..

about the part I bolded: not every drawing takes this long.. there are very big sellers in my port that I created in 10-15 minutes (no time lapse)

this took longer because it's a little shinier and I hadn't drawn anything for a while, so felt a bit rusty.. plus the recording software was a new thing to deal with.. some parts of the drawing process are missing, even though I thought I recorded it  you have to remember to press that "record" button.. it sounds simple but mistakes do happen when you are not used to it..

Great job! I liked the video and subscribed (I'm nosheep on YouTube) to your channel.

I would like to see some more basic tutorials as well. For example, you say that you can refine your curves and lines. That would be a great topic for another tutorial.

While I understand that you want to keep your intro short, a cut-down version of the end montage wouldn't be out of place at the beginning.

Love the icon and keep up the great work!!

Thanks for the sub and valuable feedback.. 

I have some more icon drawings lined up.. your suggestion definitely sounds good and I will try and do a tutorial about that at some point.. (hopefully soon..)

current intro is an extremely cut-down version of the end montage.. I prepared the ending montage first and just took the final bit and placed it to the start of the video.. I will see what I can do about it.. If I can keep it below 20 seconds, that could be acceptable..

Thanks again..

Nice job! Interesting to see how someone else works. Some suggestions from someone who creates commercials for a living:

Move the montage of your icons and your website URL from the end to the beginning. End with your website URL right after the tutorial is over. I thought the video had ended there until I looked at the time bar. You might want to incorporate a screenshot of your site.

More explanation, less music. For example, why radial gradients? (3d, light source, etc.) why the colors you chose? Any filler info about good icon design? (simplicity, strong shapes, etc.)

Turn the music down. It gets really loud when you stop talking. Is that because it's free thru YouTube so you can't control volume? If so, you may want to license one piece of stock music to use in all videos so you have volume control.

At the end, Suggest people visit your site for more icon design and to license your icons!

Best of luck...I hope this brings a lot of traffic.

Thanks for the feedback.. so many things that I missed..

music is from youtube audio library, but I could have turned it down.. I will try to optimize that next time..

I will probably try and improve on all things you mentioned..

the reason I had the montage at the end, was that I didn't want to bore the audience with my website ad right away it's a bit too long (30 seconds) and youtube suggests to keep the intros short, so people don't go away..

I had trouble drawing while trying to record the screen at the same time.. I need to get used to it.. that should naturally improve if I continue doing it I guess..

Thanks again!

I haven't read any of the posts in this thread and I don't intend to, because it's not worth to waste long sentences on alamy..

Just replying to the thread title with all caps:

ALAMY IS NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE!

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fotolia must be giving some contributors better search placement or some other kind of special treatment..

What makes you think other agencies don't do that? It's all about special treatments in stock.
Always amazes me that contributors that have been at this for many years still have no clue how this business works.

When fotolia, - a supposedly big 4 site -,  makes half the amount of bigstock, canstock and envato; and is on par with the likes of yay, gl, veer etc. you know something is not right.. I make regular monthly payouts even on low earners and bottom feeders.. when you have as much data as I do, it is pretty easy to spot that something is weird.. poll results are very accurate for me except fotolia..

So with all this "data" you have you weren�t able to find out that FT is big in EUROPE and not the US? Fotolia is the No.2 agency for most european contributers.

"Local" images get a better search placement. If a european buyers searches for "money" he wants to see � and not $ images. That�s the same at pretty much every agency. There is no need for conspiracy theories about "special treatments".

a "great post" full of unsupported assumptions..

1- I am not a US person
2- I don't have localized content.. If anything, I probably have "one of the most universal" ports around.. if I do have some local content, it is european..
3- My US sales on Shutterstock (for example) are less than 1/3 of my total SS sales.. most sales come from Europe and other parts of the world..
4- also, I have enough sales on my personal "sites" to clearly see that my sales are universal, not local.. the same image gets about the same attention on all parts of the world..

if anything, your post totally supports my opinion.. fotolia is the only agency that delivers strange results..

you are bound to think like me when you are making regular monthly payouts on low earners and fotolia is hardly on par with those smaller players.. surely it's not the content.. bad content doesn't make monthly payouts on low earners..

I may be wrong about "special treatment and placement" but there must be a logical explanation and yours is not a good one in this case..

fotolia must be giving some contributors better search placement or some other kind of special treatment..

otherwise, I don`t see how it is even remotely possible for fotolia to out-perform Shutterstock..

I make more in a weekday on Shutterstock than what I make on fotolia in a month..

fotolia is one of my worst earners, I wouldn't even notice if it goes down..

it's either;
- a vector specific case
or;
- I was too late to join, that I couldn't reach emerald before the thresholds were increased..

whatever it is, this thread is as puzzling for me as they get..

Looking at it from a symbiostocker's perspective,  I can see at some point paypal starting a service to handle VAT on sellers' behalf..

That would be a smart move for them..

too many responses for too little information..

the OP could post his images here and we can see if there is a copyright violation, which I think is the reason for him being banned..

this issue has nothing to do with exclusivity.. as Sean said, IS is not that smart to spot 10 images out of millions on shutterstock..

thanks  for the answers.. very helpful and saves me (and some others) a lot of time..

last thing I need is another bottom 5 site..

especially when I am still in the process of getting rid of some of them..