Quote from: Zeus on September 18, 2014, 16:23
An image can be up-resed a fair amount before it starts to fall apart. As for "saving" money? You got to be kidding. Images are one of cheapest, highest value items they can buy.

Hmmm, now any size is 1 or 3 credits, who cares. God bless me for the right decision 2 years ago.

I don't know man. Personally, I have no issues with them, everything works including review process, which is fair - I mean I have to agree with rejections.
Is it personal for you?

Hi Pixel,
Colour space matters. 's' in sRGB can mean 'standard' - colours, which can be represented on standard RGB screen.
AdobeRGB can contain more colours - check the word 'gamut' in google - it covers bigger area of CMYK gamut, gives better colour reproduction in PRINT, when colours form sRGB are a bit flatter and sometimes not really accurate.

Just to clarify - RAW files are not real images, this is a direct reading from a camera sensor, does not contain white balance info, etc. so in a conversion/translation process RAW->TIFF you have to apply profile, white balance, tone correction, etc.

Oh, my small pack of 260 images deactivated. What a shame.

I would invest in PC Hackintosh.
My working configuraton: (2 years old) - Intel i7 3770K/4 cores, 32GB, GF450 1GB, 4xSSD is about £700 now (UK) + now Maverics is free. Solutions, hints and guides here: www.tonymacx86.com

Vinne, please read Sean's posts again. This will help you more than clicking and repeating the first question. Believe me, the answer is there.

Compact version, for lazier people is here:
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"High Quality 3d renders" are easily duplicated by people around the world, who sell non-exclusive, so you will be competing against the same content at cheaper prices.
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Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on September 05, 2013, 19:26
Does that mean that the indebtedness went from 6x earnings to 7x earnings in six months? Was that the result of additional debt being taken on, or a result of the earnings declining so that the ratio between earnings and debt changed? If it is the latter, then the ratio will continue to increase until (or unless) they can start to grow their income.

And if you have borrowed 7x your earnings and you are paying, say 4% interest, then wouldn't more than 20% of what you earn will be going into interest repayments?

It does mean that they took money from a bank to pay dividend (simply words - to cash % the acquisition of GI business). This is very simple operation, in East Europe - companies like GI hire a person from bank industry with good connections to bypass this shameful valuation; more often the person responsible for granting a 'sum' lands in the company as a new financial director or similar position. Who cares, 7x, 12x? It's nothing more than money.

Let's wait... "Smart girl' Rebbecca & Lobo are looking for jobs?

I don't get it, to be honest. I would need an explanation to one question: why You, and not directly Alamy? Also, can't find the commissions structure (I understand that your company is going to make a profit on my shots?).

Quote from: stockastic on February 26, 2013, 16:45
On Feb 2 I deactivated all but 1 image (in my admittedly tiny portfolio).  Today, I tried to reactivate one just to see what would happen.  I got this:

Oh, yesterday I requested to close my account with 1 image left - just to see what would happen. Surprise - no response ;-)

Quote from: shotupdave on February 18, 2013, 21:02

Quote from: a1bercik on February 17, 2013, 21:03

Quote from: shotupdave on February 16, 2013, 05:25
Has anyone used a giga pan head?

I use it - great tool. Can't use Hugin on my Mac, it hangs the box... and Photoshop exports need really attention - sometimes I had  ghosts, sometimes exposure problems - it takes too much time to fix for me. Don't know other software.

I am thinking purchases one, can you show some examples?

Here we go:

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=121562329
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=124953440

Quote from: shotupdave on February 16, 2013, 05:25
Has anyone used a giga pan head?

I use it - great tool. Can't use Hugin on my Mac, it hangs the box... and Photoshop exports need really attention - sometimes I had  ghosts, sometimes exposure problems - it takes too much time to fix for me. Don't know other software.

So, hours to close my account :-)

Quote from: fotoVoyager on February 13, 2013, 16:33
Nobody makes any money with panoramas, don't bother, far too much work. You'd never catch me wasting my time with them.

I do. But the subject is cityscapes. I recommend Autopano software.

Quote from: mtkang on February 13, 2013, 05:29
Do you guys have an idea what to do? I would like to know is there a solution?

If you use it on Mac - try to clean your disk space, it takes ages to import anything when free space is lower than 10-15% of max. Use software like free Onyx to clean caches and fix disk (permissions, etc.). It helps a lot.
In PC - clean temps, caches, delete or copy somewhere old, unused LR backups, then defrag and restart LR

Quote from: bolsher on February 02, 2013, 17:22
I think you are wrong. Everithing is good, its a protest. And a sign. If you delete the account, why istock would concern?

They don't care. This is not a sale platform now (was 3-4 years ago) with full respect for photographers. This is a part of global business, managed and directed from different place.
It reminds me a situation in a big German shop chain n Eastern Europe - who cares about suppliers there - paying them with 6-12 months delay, adding fictional costs to all invoices, etc. - they can get rid of 10% of them and still be in good position.
BTW, it looks like all deactivated files are still counted as 'in the collection'. Only -5000 files change in 8 hours.

The stats page disappeared (istockphoto.com/stats). Any chance to check the current situation?
@11:49 GMT - it was 12701130 / 62513.

It was operational, I did not click buy...

Edit: It looks that they are working on this API right now...

Or - if you don't believe in cloud solutions - you can buy unlimited hosting in a company (in my case Dreamhost), build your own interface and enjoy. I pay $100 a year, which is - in my opinion - cheap option, considering the fact that all my files are not on Google/Amazon/Other servers. This includes hosting, unlimited space, unlimited traffic, unlimited internal addresses, etc.
You can find plenty of similar options in US.

Quote from: Anyka on January 27, 2013, 12:29

Quote from: a1bercik on January 27, 2013, 11:32
I removed my portfolio from IS about 2 weeks ago, the same day I contacted helpdesk to remove all those files from all partners. The nice girl Claudette replied almost immediately and pointed only 1 image she found.
Nice - progress, last year it took them about a week to reply. They removed the picture, but today I found another 2, mine - of course.
Claudette asked me to SEND THEM LINKS to my images, because that's the only way to locate them!
Mess, mess, mess.

Did she mean links to the Thinkstock images (or to the Istock photos) ?

She asked me to POINT my images in the partner's collection.

I removed my portfolio from IS about 2 weeks ago, the same day I contacted helpdesk to remove all those files from all partners. The nice girl Claudette replied almost immediately and pointed only 1 image she found.
Nice - progress, last year it took them about a week to reply. They removed the picture, but today I found another 2, mine - of course.
Claudette asked me to SEND THEM LINKS to my images, because that's the only way to locate them!
Mess, mess, mess.

Quote from: ShadySue on January 25, 2013, 16:15

Quote from: toots on January 25, 2013, 16:09
Just seen this from Lobo:

QuoteI honestly hope more people take this attitude. It could get difficult for the folks ramping up to deactivate files to take a stand only to change their minds and request reactivations. We've already seen contacts from people who have deactivated a chunk of their portfolio who want reactivations. We've closed an account too. One whole account.

Odd, as more people have reported that they have closed their account.

There is no point to close an account now. November gave me more in PP sales than the regular sale. I'm waiting to the next month to do that. One account doesn't mean too much if people are waiting for full payments for their work. Lobo tries to sabotage the idea, that's what is he paid for.

Add my 127 images deleted.

No address, whois directs to their host provider, 041... phone? Anonymous about...

Is there _anything_ in major/any press/news/tablo about 'the deal'? I try to prepare and send compact message to my friends but can't find anything...