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« on: February 26, 2011, 19:01 »
I'm having a real problem, Mac, Firefox. It doesn't show any status bar when uploading, so I ignored that, and found I'd uploaded an image. Now I've uploaded 2 images, but can only see one, even though it says 2 in 'Overview' there's only one in 'gallery', in spite of deleting cookies and refreshing. This is going to make it very slooooow! Camino is even worse - I guess I'll have to try Safari or (aaargh!) Internet Explorer.
Nope, both Safari and Explorer tell me the same thing - 2 in overview, 1 in gallery 
OK, solved that! Click on your existing image and the other one magically appears! - it's beyond me  Weird
Im not sure whats happening there, never experienced that. I will send you an email when i get back to office on monday.
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« on: February 26, 2011, 19:00 »
I would like to have RM license option.
I will need to talk to my partner when i see him on monday, but as i remember we decided that RM would be too complex to add - we are trying to make a system that does RF and does it well, which makes it very easy to sell images as well as buy them. I will see if my partner has a more detailed explanation.
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« on: February 17, 2011, 19:03 »
I am very pleased with the response so far, glad to know all the effort we put into avidimages is appreciated.
And its only going to get better, thank you guys!
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« on: February 16, 2011, 09:02 »
Ive been trying out and playing around with the free site and it it looks good so far and very easy to navigate. Are we able to change the banner/header? i tried uploading my own banner (940 wide), but it doesn't seem to work.
You need to refresh the cache your browser has, press Ctrl+F5 when you are viewing your site on a PC and i think its Command + R on a Mac.
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« on: February 15, 2011, 13:00 »
Thanks again for the answers!
Looking foward to giving the free trial a shot for right now.
I like having my foot in the door in as many interesting outlets as possible.
Wishing you/us great sucess,
Nick
Thanks Nick!
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« on: February 15, 2011, 10:28 »
Yes, thats what i was thinking also. One lic aggrement or two, one rm and one rf, standard. this would keep the buyer confusion to a min.
Thanks or answering my questions above.
I belive you said that you will market it iwith the search engin of google? im not to clear on the responce.
one more question: if i bring a buyer to my site and they then search for "...cow smoking a cigar, will results be for just my images of for the entire site?
We will market the site to image buyers, once we get enough stock. The search engine reference was about our site (letting visitors search though images on avidimages) rather than any particular internet search engine. Any search on your site is through your images only, its very much your own store!
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« on: February 15, 2011, 10:08 »
Each store has its own licensing agreement, we provide the starting point which each store owner can change or replace. That is the agreement buyers accept as the transaction is between them and the store owner direct - we just provide the software to do so.
Unfortunately I expect that buyers will get really confused by this approach.
The idea behind your site is not bad, but having a common framework for licensing (either RF or RM) saves time to people. What if a buyer is looking only for RF images? this very basic search is not possible on your website.
And even if he finds a bunch of RF images, then he should read all terms&conditions on each store because each artist may have changed the agreement and restrict some usages.
For instance, I've seen an image of a laptop computer with the windows logo on it. There is no mention if it's RM or RF. The title on the page states "royalty free image", but this is really confusing since there is no info about release!
Sorry to say it, but I feel that if something is not clear and easy to understand, people will shop elsewhere.
It is an RF system, there is no use model or exclusivity given on purchase and our starting point for the license agreement is catered for such. We are yet to see anyone change the license agreement beyond adding their name in. Since this is a collection of user's own sites connected by a common search system - its not realistic to make everyone use prescribed license agreement to their buyers, at that point it would cease to be of value to people looking to do their own thing and therefore kill the revenue stream for us. Since we take no cut in the sales, that kind of business model would not work out.
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« on: February 15, 2011, 07:54 »
I like the idea, but with no vector upload I'm not signing up right away. Any plans to implement this in the future?
Yes actually, we are not far. Internally the system already has support for importing eps, ai and pdf files - but it will try and sell these out at 3 raster sizes at the moment rather than the original vector.
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« on: February 15, 2011, 07:25 »
...and I have to pay you to upload NO THANKS!...let me know when it changes the other way around... 
Its not a stock library like iStock, you get your own store, you set the prices and you get paid 100% of the sales. You pay us for storage, bandwidth, processing power and maintaining the software. Sign up for a day, have a play around, see how you like it and then cancel it - there is nothing to lose.
sorry, but what about licensing? I can't find any RF agreement, terms & conditions for buying images and permitted usage. Which agreement buyers are going to accept before downloading a picture?
Besides, I signed up out of curiosity and I had to fill just a few fields....no address, country, no ID card, basically you will never know who I am!! Now, does this apply to buyers as well? There are frauds going on everyday on big agencies that I would be very concerned to sell my photos through a website that collects no data from people. Since you are not acting as a traditional agency, I wonder what happens in case a buyer misuse our images??
Each store has its own licensing agreement, we provide the starting point which each store owner can change or replace. That is the agreement buyers accept as the transaction is between them and the store owner direct - we just provide the software to do so. We dont really need to know your details, we are not planing on sending you mail or calling you. All we need is a way to contact you (your email) if we wish to discuss anything. The buyers have a choice of giving you their contact details with the purchase, in any case you do get their email address (paypal address) and all the transaction details you need will be in your paypal control panel. Seeing as buyers are subject to license agreement of the seller, you have the same legal framework to enforce the use of images bought as you would in any other case.
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« on: February 15, 2011, 07:12 »
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A nice option! But only offering paypal is a nogo for me ...
With time we are planing to add more payment options, what would you like to see as a payment gateway? The closest other payment system in terms of providing the service we require is Google Checkout, trouble is they do not support subscriptions.
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« on: February 15, 2011, 07:05 »
is this like the clustershot model?
We bring in the buyers?
or
do you guys market it and bring in the buyers?
Its a hybrid of something like KTools and Clustershot. If you imaging having your own library site (like KTools store for example) where you set the prices, customise its appearance etc. and get paid direct for any sales. Now imaging if this store integrated with an overarching search engine (ala Clustershot), so customres could search all the stores from one place. Having found an image they want - they would go to your site and purchase it direct from you. So we would bring people through the search engine bit and you can bring people in direct to your store (we provide tools for this). As per my previous post, we are trying to get bigger and more varied amount of stock on the site - so that any people we do bring to the search engine have a good chance of finding what they want. And this will shift to bringing in image buyers when we get there.
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« on: February 14, 2011, 08:09 »
Well we have been working hard lately, many upgrades to the system:
Firstly we moved to avidimages.com (.net still works)
Rebuilt our upload system, if your images are IPTC or XMP tagged - it will import these for you, much easier to keyword stuff in Bridge for example than on the web!
Many technical improvements, such as caching for rapid loading of pages and SEO urls, thumbnail navigation on image pages, widgets you can paste on blogs and many, many more.
Completely rebuilt search system, best available technology, needless to say it is fast and accurate
We also let people search all our client's websites from the main avidimages.com site -
our vision is that with time people will turn up and be able to search avidimages like they do iStock (or any other traditional stock library)
but instead of then buying the images from iStock they will be able to buy images direct from the actual clients! In short a co-operative stock library.
Its a chicken and egg situation as to attract traffic to the coop we need people to add images for visitors to browse and buy.
So with that in mind we have added a free tier to our pricing, you can host a small library of 100 images for free, forever.
Once we have a good user base our plan is to change the main site (avidimages.com) to be more of a search destination for image buyers rather than for image sellers.
I would love to hear people's thoughts on the idea or any feedback they might have,
as always i am available here to answer any questions you might have.
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« on: February 14, 2011, 07:44 »
We have given up on these 2 in the end and with out original idea, nether was really cutting the mustard.
Thanks to everyone for the feedback!
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« on: January 18, 2011, 06:22 »
jfmphoto
Feature suggestion - search. Users add keywords for each image. Also field for 5 priority keywords. Keywords also picked up from metadata. Then users can opt in to being part of the search.
Then you create a landing page with its own url and identity which is the search engine for all images in all the opted-in portfolios you host. Users encouraged to promote the search via social media etc. Results of search from all the different portfolios.
All of the portfolios together are more useful and more likely to be found by buyers then any of the portfolios alone.
We provide a global search on our system, if you go to http://avidimages.com and use the search - it searches all the client sites. We also offer a free plan up to 100 images  Interestingly we started with a ktools store about 6 years ago but quickly found it to be a massive pain to set up the way we wanted, so we wrote our own (we produce quite abit of photography in our design agency). Soon after alot of buddying photographers wanted one but each time they were turned off by the cost attached to building and hosting such a system. A few of these sites down the line we decided to build a low cost system which requires no technical knowledge to run (photogs usually like doing photography, not html) and avidimages.com is the result.
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« on: January 04, 2011, 07:23 »
They're both not good. Developing a company identity takes more than a couple of drinks and a website name generator. For instance, what is 'a new stock image venture'?
Well it will be a website that sells images as per usual stock definition, with a unique selling point of course but for now i cant disclose that. Trouble with names is that all the meaningful ones are no longer available as a domain (a short and memorable one at that) which is extremely important for a website business.
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« on: January 04, 2011, 06:56 »
Me and my business partner have been brainstorming for company name ideas as we are about to start a new stock image venture. I have come up with ripepic.com and he got picmojo.com , a long discussion followed but we still cant decide between the two so we decided to have a showdown! Please vote for your favourite and feel free to post your opinions, Thanks
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« on: October 29, 2010, 16:38 »
...and I have to pay you to upload NO THANKS!...let me know when it changes the other way around...
Its not a stock library like iStock, you get your own store, you set the prices and you get paid 100% of the sales. You pay us for storage, bandwidth, processing power and maintaining the software. Sign up for a day, have a play around, see how you like it and then cancel it - there is nothing to lose.
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« on: October 29, 2010, 09:08 »
Hello again, We have been hard at work polishing and adding features to this system, i thought i would post it here as the discussion from this forum is great. You now have a choice of plans starting from $15/month (please see website for prices). Choice of hosting region: US, Asia, Europe - so your customres get the fastest possible load times. And most importantly you can try it out FREE for 7 days and if you are not happy, just cancel it before the trial runs out - you wont spend any money. Check http://www.avidimages.net/ for more details, If you have any questions I would be more than happy to answer. Val
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« on: July 21, 2010, 10:50 »
Hi ppdd,
Yes you can run an agency although its not tailored for that specific use, there are no limits on traffic or anything else beyond image storage.
The system only has one user - the owner, but it would be very easy to extend this to accommodate other authors with an upload facility and even automate the monthly payments to your authors.
If there is enough interest in having this kind of system im sure we can accommodate.
Thank you for your interest!
I see potential with this as an option - being able to truly "white label" it would be a differentiator, and perhaps would be a motivator to let you introduce a slightly higher pricing tier. I think Photoshelter's version of this concept is $250/month, which puts it out of most ranges. But for boutique agency, etc, more like $50/monthly is easier to swing (vs. hosting yourself).
I would say you need SOME bandwidth limit, just because (as I've found out), there's always a limit. "Unlimited" means "until you crash our servers and we kick you off"
This is a very interesting option, i have been discussing it with my business partner today - i will let you know when there is more development on this front There is no strict bandwidth limit, it is in our interest that you sell more images - it will promote us as well as keep you a very happy customer. We have set up our system to accommodate for this, so you dont have to worry
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« on: July 21, 2010, 05:15 »
It seems that you could run a botique agency out of this setup - would you say you are competing against the agency-in-a-box scripts?
Hosting of the script in a setup that gets significant traffic will cost $30 + a ton of headaches.
Are there traffic limits to this setup? Is it restricted to a "person" and not an "agency"?
Are there allowances to let other people, beyond the main user, upload?
Thanks...
Hi ppdd, Yes you can run an agency although its not tailored for that specific use, there are no limits on traffic or anything else beyond image storage. The system only has one user - the owner, but it would be very easy to extend this to accommodate other authors with an upload facility and even automate the monthly payments to your authors. If there is enough interest in having this kind of system im sure we can accommodate. Thank you for your interest!
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« on: July 20, 2010, 10:00 »
Please check out a demo of an actual library site, we have worked very hard to make it the cleanest, leanest stock selling system known to man! http://jerryspictures.avidimages.net/
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« on: July 20, 2010, 09:58 »
The site design looks nice. The "info" page was a little light on details. Image formats available (tiffs, vectors, etc.), using your own url, IPTC friendly, and is there a size limit for those 5000 images were just a few questions I had.
Hi cthoman, Thank you for your interest Yes the info page is fresh off the press, it will be expanded and clarified more with time. There are only raster formats currently supported in the most popular formats (jpeg, png, tiff and so on, everyone so far just uses jpegs), they are all converted to JPEGs on upload. Yes you can use your own URL. Yes our batch upload process fully supports IPTC meta-data Biggest image you can upload is 4000x4000 pixels as per the popular SLR output, anything bigger is scaled to fit. Any other questions please feel free to ask!
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« on: July 20, 2010, 08:44 »
"for just $30 a month, your own stock library has never made so much sense"
No thanks. It's not a stock selling site at all. It's a paid hoster, like Photoshelter. Misleading post...
You are right, i have updated the original post - hopefully makes more sense now Thanks!
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« on: July 19, 2010, 09:32 »
Thanks for your feedback guys, we had a little update after that - check it out see what you think www.avidimages.net
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