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123RF / Took a Payout from them and then...got charged Paypal fees
« on: November 24, 2013, 23:25 »
One, had to contact them because the payout wasn't on time. Got that rectified and then discovered I was charged $5 in Paypal fees. I get all my royalties from agencies via Paypal and have *never* been charged a fee until now. The initial response from support sounded a lot like "Too bad, *bleep off*" so I'm wondering if I'm alone on this?


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Questions first: Is there a way to offer separate classes of licenses? I have some images that if someone wants to license for POD/whatever I have no issues. Other images, I prefer to keep the POD sales for myself. Is there a standard license file to start from?

I'm planning on converting one of my old photo domains to my stock site since I have it and have zero dollars to put forward on any projects right now. It includes my name and photo, so it should be workable. Selling stock from my own site has been on my list of things to figure out how to do, but I was afraid I was going to have to futz with a mass of programming and tweaking to figure it out. I'm excited to see there is an easier option.

As far as tips, if there is something you wish someone had told you when you started your symbiostock site, I'd love to hear it. :-)


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Video Equipment / Sofware / Technique / IPTC editor
« on: May 05, 2008, 12:58 »
Does anyone know of a decent IPTC editor?  I have a batch of photos that I did for a model a few months ago, I did not keyword at the time I created the jpgs because I didn't have a commercial release from the session.  I do now and would like to quickly keyword the files for upload.  Would be awesome if it had a bulk edit feature which would allow me to add all the common keywords at once and then go back and get more image specific. 

I looked at ProStockMaster, but I don't feel like paying $50 for it.  :)

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iStockPhoto.com / Isolations for iStock
« on: April 20, 2008, 22:07 »
I have a hit & miss relationship with isolations at iStock.  Most of the time, the same files will be accepted at Shutterstock, Fotolia or <<insert other agency here>>.   I haven't been bothering with resubmitting because the inspectors have not been including clips to indicate where the issue is. 

I would greatly appreciate it if someone who has a lot of accepted isolations for iStock could maybe help me figure out specifically what my issue is.  Sometimes they accept one that I'm sure is going to be rejected, so the rejections are not clear cut to me.

My port is half the size at istock compared to elsewhere and I have a stunning 41.86% acceptance rate. 

Regards,

Diana

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Adobe Stock / Fotolia Search... Am I doing something wrong?
« on: April 17, 2008, 13:10 »
I get occasional sales at Fotolia which I chalk up to very, very low views on my images.  The average is somewhere between 0 and 20, even on images that have been there 6 months or more. The highest views is 93 on an image that has been there over a year. 

When I try to search using keywords I know i have in the top 3 of my images, they don't turn up.  Obviously some of them eventually turn up, in someone's search but it's starting to really make me wonder.

For instance I have a photo of Arctic Lupine on Fotolia.  I'm actually surprised they accepted it, since they seem to hate that type of content. 
http://www.fotolia.com/id/3665083  it has one view, which I'm sure is me. It's been there a year.  A search for arctic lupine (first keyword, also in title) is "no results found".... what? 

A newer photo "Yellow Hard Hat" http://www.fotolia.com/id/7143517 has been there a few days but has 1 view and does not turn up in a search for "Yellow Hard Hat" or "hardhat" or "hard hat".  Granted, I don't expect this image to be a top seller, but why on earth isn't it showing in searches? 

I have others that are in similar situations and I cannot for the life of me figure it out.  They get views & sales everywhere else, the Fotolia key wording mechanism seems to be so vastly different I can't figure it out. Could someone, kindly let me know what I might be doing wrong?   

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Bigstock.com / BigStock Down?
« on: April 16, 2008, 20:11 »
Can anyone access big stock? I'm getting a page not found.

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