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Quote from: kayann on May 19, 2019, 17:50

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But personally I don't sell so much vectors on Shutterstock, I sell a lot of more on VectorStock and Adobe.
If I have to choose, and they are pushing me (us) to choose, I will just stop to upload my vectors to Shutterstock.

I just tried to upload to Adobe and it said they require 15mb now. Maybe they are trying to get rid of silhouette and logo like illustrations? These types of vectors are my biggest seller though. More advanced illustrations don't sell near as well.

Adobe has always required a 15+ mp jpeg.

This is the first time I have gotten this message and I have a 1,000 vectors on Adobe. Something is different.

Most people already made their jpegs around that size, so it would be easy not to notice. It's roughly 3000px x 5000px or 4000px x 4000px square. It's easy to get rejections there though if you have an image that is very narrow like 1000px x 5000px. The SS thing is different because they don't want jpegs to accompany the eps anymore.

yeah I finally figured this out for my files. All I did different was change the DPI to 300 from 7(which was default) without resampling. That worked.

Quote from: cthoman on May 19, 2019, 17:48

Quote from: kayann on May 19, 2019, 17:38

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But personally I don't sell so much vectors on Shutterstock, I sell a lot of more on VectorStock and Adobe.
If I have to choose, and they are pushing me (us) to choose, I will just stop to upload my vectors to Shutterstock.

I just tried to upload to Adobe and it said they require 15mb now. Maybe they are trying to get rid of silhouette and logo like illustrations? These types of vectors are my biggest seller though. More advanced illustrations don't sell near as well.

Adobe has always required a 15+ mp jpeg.

I had a vector accepted at Adobe Friday that is EPS - 307kb and JPEG - 1.9 mb

Quote from: cthoman on May 19, 2019, 17:48

Quote from: kayann on May 19, 2019, 17:38

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But personally I don't sell so much vectors on Shutterstock, I sell a lot of more on VectorStock and Adobe.
If I have to choose, and they are pushing me (us) to choose, I will just stop to upload my vectors to Shutterstock.

I just tried to upload to Adobe and it said they require 15mb now. Maybe they are trying to get rid of silhouette and logo like illustrations? These types of vectors are my biggest seller though. More advanced illustrations don't sell near as well.

Adobe has always required a 15+ mp jpeg.

So is shutterstock actually talking about the JPEG file size also?

Quote from: cthoman on May 19, 2019, 17:48

Quote from: kayann on May 19, 2019, 17:38

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But personally I don't sell so much vectors on Shutterstock, I sell a lot of more on VectorStock and Adobe.
If I have to choose, and they are pushing me (us) to choose, I will just stop to upload my vectors to Shutterstock.

I just tried to upload to Adobe and it said they require 15mb now. Maybe they are trying to get rid of silhouette and logo like illustrations? These types of vectors are my biggest seller though. More advanced illustrations don't sell near as well.

Adobe has always required a 15+ mp jpeg.

This is the first time I have gotten this message and I have a 1,000 vectors on Adobe. Something is different.

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In Illustrator, when you make a new document, you can choose Pixels for Units and specify a Width x Height that results in 4MP , for example, 2450x1650 (which equals 4042500 pixels).

Just making a document in illustrator with these dimensions results in a vector document of 147kb. Exporting a JPEG with a simple box in the middle of the artboard at 300dpi and supersampling results in a JPEG size of 215kb. So I am not sure what you are trying to say here. It appears that vector file size is determined by how complicate that drawing is.

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But personally I don't sell so much vectors on Shutterstock, I sell a lot of more on VectorStock and Adobe.
If I have to choose, and they are pushing me (us) to choose, I will just stop to upload my vectors to Shutterstock.

I just tried to upload to Adobe and it said they require 15mb now. Maybe they are trying to get rid of silhouette and logo like illustrations? These types of vectors are my biggest seller though. More advanced illustrations don't sell near as well.

The LPGA took one of my illustrations and adapted it for their IWIT tournament. Is this legal?

Here is the side-by-side:
https://kayann-legg.squarespace.com/trinkets

Has anyone heard of everypixel.com. I am finding my illustrations there. Are they a legit partner site or just stealing? I looked at the list of partner sites from one of our message threads and don't see them listed.

How can you get your istockphoto portfolio to show up on Getty images?

Does anyone know what changes Getty is making to the ASA or where a thread is on the forums talking about it?

Thank you,
Kayann

Several weeks ago someone from Dreamstime named Catalina Zaharescu-Tiensuu wrote that a customer had complained that I violated their copyright with an illustration. I sent her the link where it shows I uploaded the design to istockphoto in April of 2008. She emailed back they withdrew the complaint.

Yesterday I get an email asking if I want them to send a DMCA notice. What is that?

Quote from: Shelma1 on September 11, 2015, 12:27

Quote from: kayann on September 10, 2015, 23:54
I had this happen with one of my illustrations. The designer won a creative image award and all he did was slap the word "softball" on the illustration.

This is crazy. In awards books everyone involved in the project is credited. You should let the organization know it's your illustration. Congratulations...you won a design award! Put it on your résumé.

Thanks! I emailed them but never heard.

I had this happen with one of my illustrations. The designer won a creative image award and all he did was slap the word "softball" on the illustration.

Thank you Sean. I notice there is no link for illustration. Do they just take illustration through istock?

Okay, I apologize if I should know all this but I don't and I have spent several hours this morning trying to find out. Since this forum seems to be the most open and knowledgeable I thought I would just ask. I have several illustrations on Getty Images however none of my recent work is there. I use to be exclusive to istock and went non-exclusive last summer. Are the pieces of work I am seeing on Getty from my exclusive days? Is there a way to upload to Getty directly as an istock non-exclusive? Thank you for any enlightenment?

I create vector illustrations for microstock. Most of the vectors I create are sports images. I am having a terrible time getting some agency to allow me to put up light skinned as well as darker skinned people. They reject them as to similar. I have always wondered why you do not see more darker skinned people in clip art. This is why. Of course the lighter skin sells better but it would be nice to have diversity for customers.

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Quote from: sweetgirll on May 21, 2015, 19:23
so...you know what that means..right?

That someone is probably stealing my artwork.

They are definitely stealing artwork. A lot of the pieces come up with microstock agency watermarks. Maybe this is naive but I don't understand how a site like this comes up so high on google. It seems impossible for independents to get up in search results and this site comes up fourth when you search for sports and clipart.

I apologize if this topic has been covered. I did a search in the forums for clipartpanda and found nothing. Does anyone know what the deal is with clipartpanda.com? Are they someones partner site? How can we get our art off of it?

Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on April 06, 2015, 14:52

Thanks for the update. I'm barely hanging on to being exclusive. Are you saying that after a year your income is now the same as it was when you were exclusive? Do you have the same amount of images on other sites as you had when IS exclusive? Was any of your stuff part of the E+, Vetta, Getty higher priced collections?

Yes, my overall earning now are more than when I was exclusive to istockphoto. I have less illustrations on the other sites than I have on istockphoto. Some of the illustrations I just thought were not quality enough or have not been good earners, etc. so I did not upload them to the other sites.

Yes I did have vetta illustrations but they only sold once in a great while.

I said I would report back on the results of my going non-exclusive. It has been a year. My only regret is that I ever went exclusive. In earnings now where I left off on istockphoto. The main thing I love is you are not at the whim of one sites acceptance policy. What sites decide to accept and not accept seems so random sometimes.

My wife has an illustration that was reject by istockphoto as not quality enough for microstock that is her current top earner.

I upload to Shutterstock (by far the best earner and contributor relations), istockphoto (next best earner, contributor relations is improving a little), canstockphoto (horrible pending times), dreamstime (might discontinue this one). The problem with dreamstime is they want you to gang all sports illustrations on one page. So if I make a shield type design for all sports they want me to put all of them on one page. This is not acceptable to me when they are paying so low and from the buyers perspective, if I am working on softball, I don't need the other sports.

Does anyone know why canstockphoto is so slow? Is that a problem or just the way they are?

Quote from: Noedelhap on November 19, 2014, 02:18
Besides the fact that it's rather poor that they can't even handle 10.000 vectors a day, let alone detect invalid files automatically, I was kind of shocked to read that

QuoteOne issue we have had more and more of is people uploading vector files that just contain a single JPG image in a layer.

Are some contributors really that clueless...?

They must have a lot of newbies uploading suddenly.

I have vectors that have not been processed since 10/10.

I've thought for a few years now that getty is trying to get people to leave so they can go back to their "in-house" contributors.

Canstockphoto barred him Kim

Bunhill - How do you request reimbursment?

Also on Canstockphoto have you ever noticed when their works come up in google search it says the piece is copyrighted to canstockphoto? I include a screen print to show what I mean.

LOL but true