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New Sites - General / Re: Vectornexus.com
« on: April 14, 2009, 12:04 »
yesterday I got an e-mail from them through my website asking me to join.  I figured it was a form letter (which, it most definitely was/is).

But I joined.  And their system is way too hard to get into.  They want you to upload your eps files separate from your jpg previews.  Your jpgs have to be 400x400.  And once you have them both uploaded, you then have to link them to each other.  Not once, but twice.  And it's not a one screen process...a window pops up which you have to highlight the folder you want to link to, you have to then click on browse, then it opens the folder where the eps files are, then you have to click on the eps file and click select, then click save.  And then repeat...you have to do that TWICE on each image.  It's bad enough that you have to reformat your jpgs to be 400x400 (like vectorstock, they make you change it to a wacky size just to make the process take longer).

The only good thing about uploading is that even though you have to upload your eps files separately, you can zip all of your jpgs together and upload them all at once.  But you still have to attach them (twice) to your eps files.

I uploaded about 5 images and will wait to see if it's worth uploading anything else...I think they only have, like, 300 or 400 images total anyway...so far...

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Illustration - General / Re: Anyone using Vectorstock.com?
« on: March 11, 2009, 17:56 »
another thing about vectorstock - you have to upload each and every vector individually.  Where's the shutterstock styled http upload form?  Where's the FTP?  coming into this, I have over a hundred things to upload...and I have to upload them one at a time?  Horrible...

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Illustration - General / Re: Anyone using Vectorstock.com?
« on: March 10, 2009, 13:43 »
I uploaded about 8 images - and it IS such a pain having to resize all the artwork to 380x400.  But you don't have to fill the entire space.  You just have to fit the image within those dimensions.  I just shrink my illustration until it's within those parameters and leave all the white space.

And I tried finding another thread about vectorstock...there is a review about how they're an up and comer (which is why I signed up in the first place)...but I'd sure like to hear from someone that actually uses them.

They also don't have a forum in their site...

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if that's exclusive - only on one site and you're not uploading to any other site - then that's not a good deal at all.  If anything - you want to be on, at least, shutterstock and istock...the rest seem pretty cold to my stuff...but exclusive seems to only limit you, and seems to be only good for the company you're working with...

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Illustration - General / Anyone using Vectorstock.com?
« on: March 10, 2009, 12:17 »
I just signed up with Vectorstock...but now that I'm on there, I'm a little worried.  I got my confirmation e-mail from them and the headline was "VectorStock - Artist Request Responce" - now mind you that's a form letter for acceptance...but they spelled response wrong.  Very strange.  Then I opened the e-mail and when I found out I was accepted I clicked on the vectorstock link to go to their site and start uploading work...

But the link didn't work - it sent me to http://http://vectorstock.com - they had TWO http's at the beginning!  This makes a newby real suspicious...especially when I'm just starting out with them...anyone else have experience with this company?  I want to believe they're legit - but I've already come across these two unprofessional errors in mere seconds of signing up!

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What does exclusivity mean?  Like - what if I had the same image on two different sites - but I changed the color for each site?  Like - I had a blue version on Shutterstock and a red version on Istockphoto.  Would that count as an exclusive?  If so - why not change the color a tad - especially if you're using Illustrator - it's as easy as edit - edit colors - recolor artwork...

Or does that not work that way?

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