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Veer / Re: Introducing the new Veer
« on: July 21, 2010, 11:27 »
let's us know what we didn't do it right to make the keywords being part of the searchable controlled vocabulary.. educate us, it is a win-win situation for agency and contributor. I would like to be able to edit my keywords too, i think majority of people is edited for correct keywords instead of spamming with keywords.

Brian said that the keywords can not be edited after submission, which only compounds the problem.

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Veer / Re: Introducing the new Veer
« on: July 21, 2010, 10:23 »
so any reason why my keywords are not shown as the controllable vocabulary?

http://marketplace.veer.com/images/2259338_rice-terraces?slot=15&pg=1

how about my image of this rice terrace? i put both 'rice terrace' and 'rice terraces' in my keywords, both none of it had shown up.

there are the keywords or searchable CV under the images - mountains landscapes travel villages Philippines rice paddies

my original keywords are: agriculture, Asia, landscape, Philippines, travel, mountain, farming, village, rice field, rice terrace, Rice Terraces, bananue


if i search 'rice terrace' only 58 images are shown and none are mine.

Possible to give more informations on the keywords and controlled-vocabularies? so everyone can benefit from it, and how can we edit and fix it now. thank you.



I hope we get some answers for these problems. It seems the main keywords have been removed from the CV. Like I've said before....my example...a "bottle of Calcium" should pull up just that, a "bottle" of calcium. A buyer shouldn't have to put in "calcium pills" to pull up a bottle of calcium if that is what they are searching for, when the main subject is a bottle of calcium and bottle is in my placed  keywords as well as in the title. Mainly all "bottle of Calcium" pulls up is bottles of milk, no bottles of calcium. Yes milk contains calcium, but it should pull up "calcium bottles" also. I'm afraid to do a search on any of the other images I have on there and I'm afraid with a messed up search engine like that I will not have sales, which is really making me lose faith in their system. That photo is one of my best sellers on all the sites.

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Very interesting read. Not that I've ever gotten one about art, but if I ever do I will know what to look for.

804
I'm still trying with shutterstock and stock. I just have to have the magical 10...

Don't give up. It sometimes takes awhile to get through shutterstock watchful eye then it's much easier. Just keep on trying.

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It depends on how much the buyers like your images and what you consider a "modest income" to be.  Some people will do well with 500 images, others will need 2,000 or more.

I agree with sharpshot. It really depends on rather you have a niche or not and have good sales. Just because you have a ton of photos doesn't really make a whole lot of difference it they don't sale. It depends on where you live also. Some can make it on a few hundred a month whereas others it takes a few thousand.

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Image Sleuth / Re: Yaaaaa...Flickr.
« on: July 19, 2010, 10:48 »
Yes I saw those links. I also could tineye the background photo and it shows a Getty contributor. When you click on that link, the contributor is gone. Maybe he sold the photo outright to the free skins people? Not sure but it all looks hinky.

Tineye has a tendency to pull up Getty when in fact they are on iStock. I don't have images on Getty and a lot of times Tineye shows them on Getty when they are not. When you click on the link it always says "We're sorry. Item .......... is no longer available." It doesn't do it on all of them, just some times. So I don't think that really means it was a Getty contributor.

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LOL....oh yeah if I was only that young!!!!

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Image Sleuth / Re: Keep an eye on ebay!
« on: July 16, 2010, 16:29 »
The sad thing is that they have been doing it for awhile because they are power sellers with 100% positive feedback. That's what I always look for when buying off e-bay, those power sellers...now it makes me wonder.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: How cheap can you get!!??
« on: July 16, 2010, 14:40 »
Thanks ladies :) He grew up suddenly in last few months. You know how it goes....kids grow suddenly, than stop for few months, than grow again and so on.

Careful Ivan they grow up way to fast. Before you know it he'll be making you a Grandpa!!

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123RF / Re: 123RF is NUTS!!
« on: July 16, 2010, 14:18 »
I'm going to leave my earnings money to my great great grandchildren.....by then I might reach payout. Worthless agency. I don't even upload there any more.

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Good luck....I admire your courage... ;D

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Veer / Re: Introducing the new Veer
« on: July 16, 2010, 13:20 »
I've pointed out the same thing with my keywords and I'm not going to go through all my photos to make sure they pull up the right keywords. I don't have time. The photo I referred to earlier in this tag had the keyword "calcium" "Pill" "Bottle" It does not even come up with a search for calcium bottle. Bryan said that was because the keyword Bottle was in the title, but not the keywords. Well it was in "my" keywords under my dashboard. Sorry to say that "Bottle of Calcium" is a bottle of calcium and not a calcium pill. So from the way I am seeing it...keywords in the title aren't used because if they did it should have pulled it up that way... and for some weird reason the keywords that we uploaded with the picture are in our dashboard keywords, but are not search able. I will be shocked if that picture ever sells when it is one of my best on the other sites and it is of a Bottle of Calcium. I give up

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Badstockart.com
« on: July 14, 2010, 19:44 »
I have never laughed so hard in all my life at the shoes....and the disabled.. :D At least I ended my day with a smile on my face.

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Thought you'd never ask! :)

I have a site that is totally made for beginners wanting to learn photoshop
http://www.tutorvid.com

Otherwise YouTube is good, search for Photoshop in iTunes or Lynda.com if you want to spend money


I was just getting ready to suggest that when I saw your post. Guess you beat me to it.. :D

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Raster accepted but Vector Rejected
« on: July 13, 2010, 13:24 »
Yea...with text you have to convert the fonts to shapes. If I remember correctly... you just right click on the word and convert to shape.

Yeah I understand that, but there is no text in those last two illustrations. Or does it some how read it as text because of the shapes?
it shouldn't do. Make sure that the embed fonts box is unticked when you export the eps in case this is the problem.

When I get my computer up and running and reinstall everything I'll try resaving the them at EPS 10 and make sure I have the embed font's box unchecked and see if they fly that way. If they do then I'll know what the problem was.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Raster accepted but Vector Rejected
« on: July 13, 2010, 12:11 »
Yea...with text you have to convert the fonts to shapes. If I remember correctly... you just right click on the word and convert to shape.

Yeah I understand that, but there is no text in those last two illustrations. Or does it some how read it as text because of the shapes?

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Raster accepted but Vector Rejected
« on: July 13, 2010, 11:44 »
If you make your illustrations in Illustrator, none of your gradients should rasterize in eps 8. I save all my files in eps 8 and have never had any problems. I've heard that Inkscape rasterrizes gradients, but I don't know a lot about the program. To check for any raster elements, open the links palette in Illustrator.

I use Illustration CS4. The first one was rejected as a BITMAP same thing with the last two, but the last two also said "Text--Please convert text to outlines." Where they got that from I don't quite understand.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Raster accepted but Vector Rejected
« on: July 13, 2010, 11:20 »
I am not sure but I think with EPS 8, the gradients rasterize or something. I am just doing ESP 10 just to make sure all remains vector.

i wonder why it doesn't show up with the rest of the sites. Once I get my broken computer fixed and everything reloaded I guess I ought to resave the .ai files to EPS 10 and see if they fly then.

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Dreamstime.com / Re: Less sales, but even less subs
« on: July 13, 2010, 11:16 »
PS:  I'm not sure if DT has any rules about posting numbers on here?   ??? ???
If that was the case then we'd all been fired by now.. :D
No you don't get fired. Achilles has a big handle next to his desk and he will push it far down for your account. Every mark on the stick means one page behind in the search results. I'm not kidding, I had a revelation about this from an angel in my sleep last night and he had a green swirl on his head.  ;D


LOL....I retract my statement with a new one....

"Dreamstime is the greatest site I've even had the honor to partake in. It is the easiest to upload to and they only let the best through. I make $100,000.00 a month and it increases every month. I just love them...they are the best of the best..... the reviewers are the kindest people I know"

You think I just got catapulted to the top??  ;D

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Veer / Re: Introducing the new Veer
« on: July 13, 2010, 11:08 »
I have an isolated generic bottle of calcium in my port. I just did a search on a "bottle of calcium" in the low price range. It pulled up 324 photo's, but out of those not one of mine was in there. 90% of the search results were a bottle or glass of milk. I'm not real comfortable with their search engine since it didn't even pull it up. I noticed also that there are only 24 per page and it only showed 4 pages which is only 97 images, not 324. Anyone else noticed this or am I doing something wrong?

Hi donding -

I did a quick check - looks like that particular image has the term "bottle" in the title, not in the keywords.
Titles are not included in search. Try searching on "calicium pills"or "calcium pill" and you should see your shot.

Let us know if you see any other bugs or search issues.

- Brian

Brian
We talked about the search of "bottle of calcium" and you pointed out the keyword bottle was in the title and not the keywords....well after all the posts here about the keywords I checked mine on this image. Under my dashboard the keyword bottle is listed. I wondered why I wouldn't have put bottle under the keywords and didn't check until I saw all these posts. That was why it didn't pull up under the search result.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Raster accepted but Vector Rejected
« on: July 13, 2010, 10:54 »
I've been having the vector rejected for bitmap but the raster's always make it through. Big stock, Dreamstime, Veer all accepted them. I haven't tried iStock. Could it be because I'm submitting them as EPS8?

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You need to ask yourself rather you want to make a living at this. If that is your goal then your looking at years down the road to build up a port that will be able to do that. A lot of the members here that do make a living at it got their starts in the early days and have large ports. Today it is much harder with upload limitations and stricter reviewers to reach that point. Also there is a lot more competition these days so to get up there in the higher ranks is a lot more difficult. A lot of these websites are based on contributor popularity. In other words the more downloads that picture got the higher up it will be in the search results with a "best match" search. It will pull up those older images first simply because they have already been there for years and have a lot of downloads. So unless your photos are unique in nature and pop right out at you, they will not always be real popular. You can make money, not always a lot, but as far as making a living that is a bit more complicated.

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Veer / Re: Introducing the new Veer
« on: July 12, 2010, 12:55 »
I'm seeing all 324 - at 100 images per page. Can you double-check the number you are seeing on each page?
Currently there is no way to edit keywords post-publish.

Now it is showing them all. Don't know what the deal was. I did count the ones that were displayed because it didn't appear to be enough images for the search result and it only showed the 24 per page and at the last photo it said "Next page of results". Anyway they are all showing up now so I don't know what the deal was.

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Veer / Re: Introducing the new Veer
« on: July 12, 2010, 11:06 »
I have an isolated generic bottle of calcium in my port. I just did a search on a "bottle of calcium" in the low price range. It pulled up 324 photo's, but out of those not one of mine was in there. 90% of the search results were a bottle or glass of milk. I'm not real comfortable with their search engine since it didn't even pull it up. I noticed also that there are only 24 per page and it only showed 4 pages which is only 97 images, not 324. Anyone else noticed this or am I doing something wrong?

Hi donding -

I did a quick check - looks like that particular image has the term "bottle" in the title, not in the keywords.
Titles are not included in search. Try searching on "calicium pills"or "calcium pill" and you should see your shot.

Let us know if you see any other bugs or search issues.

- Brian

Ok thanks Brian. Did you check out the other concern I had about the 324 search results but it only showed 4 pages with 96 images? The rest aren't on disk are they? Also is there anyway to go back and edit the keywords?

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Veer / Re: Introducing the new Veer
« on: July 12, 2010, 10:45 »
I have an isolated generic bottle of calcium in my port. I just did a search on a "bottle of calcium" in the low price range. It pulled up 324 photo's, but out of those not one of mine was in there. 90% of the search results were a bottle or glass of milk. I'm not real comfortable with their search engine since it didn't even pull it up. I noticed also that there are only 24 per page and it only showed 4 pages which is only 97 images, not 324. Anyone else noticed this or am I doing something wrong?

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