Quote from: Supermax on June 07, 2018, 23:29

Thanks for you response. impressive truth.
I am totally agree with every word you said.
I tell you one think.
this site could be what you say and as everybody know are stealing and making money for themselves not correct way etc. but there is one thing, my friend has an account on mostly all stock sites and freepik also, and making about twice bigger on freepik than all other sites together. So, yes its stealing, but make good profit for contributors.
Would you accept that your hard work have just been rewarded?
seriously,
you work and make money - we all work for money.
Maybe, for those who do not care about stealing their works it is no problem unless they making money from it?
what do you think?

what other people think?

please share thoughts.

thanks

I think you literally just said you were working with Freepik in another thread. what are you talking about. Your "friend" LOL.

yes i work with it.
and not only me, also couple of friends of mine.

I can sometimes make $800-$1000 a (week)day with 10,000+ clips, but $200-$400 per day is more likely for me.

February, 2018 was my BME, averaging $5,000 per week during that month.

So, it can be achievable with hard work.

Who you are? Quentin Tarantino? Robert Rodriges? or one of The Wachowskis ?

Guys, I submitted only a few vectors so far, and my last one was rejected for embedded image. I can see the embedded images in the links panel, and I was wondering is there a way to convert such images into a vector? All the images is basically just a single color fill. Is there a quick way to replace these images with a fill and get rid of them completely? I could probably do it one by one, but that would be tedious.

Basically, what I have is a bunch of shapes, but their color comes from embedded images underneath them, and I have to get rid of those embedded images and replace the color from the images with the real fill. All embedded images have just a single spot color.

Thanks in advance.

I've faced many time with these reasons for rejecting:

• File is autotraced

• File has limited commercial value

I have just to rework it sometimes and re-submit.
or the confirmed working process is rename-resubmit

No they shouldn't. Freepik shouldn't be given any oxygen.

Setting up a section gives the impression they are a legitimate site. They aren't, they are shady AF.

They set up scraping vector content from warez sites giving away our stolen goods, e.g. allfreedownloads, they were very open about it too. If I remember correctly they even had the gall to demand attribution to freepik if you didn't have a subscription. This is for content which by that time had been stolen twice over.

When it bit them on the a** they took all the cash they made from that to employ people to create very similar copies of our best sellers on the stock sites.

If anyone uploads work to them my guess is that they will see what gets the downloads and just get one of their in house employees to create a copy. With complete access to the stats it's even easier than going through searches on legit sites to find out what sells.

Thanks for you response. impressive truth.
I am totally agree with every word you said.
I tell you one think.
this site could be what you say and as everybody know are stealing and making money for themselves not correct way etc. but there is one thing, my friend has an account on mostly all stock sites and freepik also, and making about twice bigger on freepik than all other sites together. So, yes its stealing, but make good profit for contributors.
Would you accept that your hard work have just been rewarded?
seriously,
you work and make money - we all work for money.
Maybe, for those who do not care about stealing their works it is no problem unless they making money from it?
what do you think?

what other people think?

please share thoughts.

thanks

Всех приветствую!

Quote from: Supermax on June 06, 2018, 06:48

Is it as they are afraid or somehow trying to avoid plagiarism from their works?
What are your thoughts on this?


Regards

To avoid plagiarism but mostly to avoid other people following your steps and ideas which isn't technically plagiarism.

I am thinking the same.
They trying to avoid it as they do not want any other one be on the same level with them, as the competition could be high and you can overcome their top position.

Are you talking about here?  Have you noticed the little links in most people�s signatures?

Yes, I have noticed them.
But as you mentioned in most people, not in all.

and also not only here this is common on other forums

I wonder if promoting your sites, is Prohibited by the Terms of Use? I've read the agreement and did not found anything about it.

My wondering is regarding the some kind of advertising for contributors.

Can you add your sites under your signature - so people will found your works on different sites easily?

and from other hand
Some users avoid to share their stock or any footage sites. As I've understood, only high level (top) sellers avoid to do that. Maybe not all, but when i am talk to anybody who making good profit on stock agencies they are very rarely gives the links to their pages.

Is it as they are afraid or somehow trying to avoid plagiarism from their works?
What are your thoughts on this?
How you promote yourself?
Do you do so even?

Regards

I collaborate with no agencies, its a one way street.
I send them my images, they set the rules.

I have portfolios on 10 agencies however I'm only currently sending new work to 6 of these as sales at the bottom 4 don't justify.

How you choose right one to work with?
By amount of sales? Or based on feedback?

As I've understood you first log in - then upload your N-amount of images, then wait for couple month or so, and if no sales, just forget it (bad one), right? go for next one.

Regards

Trouble uploading anything���

I've faced with the same problem. But this happened not to all submitted files, just to some of them.
Tried renaming the filed and resubmit again. Works and site take them. But i do not know will they pass the check and be available online or not. Will see afterwards.

Seems like these type issue are common in this time.
hope they will fix it.

Regards

Hello,

I am currently working with:

SS
Dreamstime
Vectorstock
Graphicriver
Adobe
Alamy
Crestock
Pond5
123rf
DepositPhotos
Freepik

That would give me about $850K a year.

Hello,

How?
Just have them all being uploaded to different stock sites for sale?
or there is other ideas in your mind?
please advise.
thanks