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Adobe Stock / Fotolia image search help?

« on: January 01, 2013, 09:35 »

Just seeing if anyone can help?

Usually when I search for an picture on fotolia, the list of thumbnails will come up and if i roll my cursor over an image a larger image will pop up with the fotolia watermark on, and amount of views, sales etc. recently this has not been happening.
I don't know whether this feature has been changed or if I've changed something by accident, but it's bugging me, as i found this feature very useful.

Any help would be very much appreciated

Many thanks

Jimages

Photo Critique / Re: iStock and Shutterstock application - advice requested

« on: December 08, 2012, 06:06 »

Thank you all, for your fast responses and advice,

I think it is probably best to keep working on fotolia and dreamstime for the time being, I'll try and get my portfolio over the 100 mark then have a re - think applying to iStock and Shutterstock.

When i do apply, do you think it is a good idea to submit a mix of illustrations and photography, or stick to one or the other?

Also about the over exposure in my photos, often i feel the pictures are a bit dull without pulling the curves quite high. I have discovered the technique of duplicating the image layer and adding soft light or an overlay, then playing with the shadows and highlights.
Does anyone have any other techniques for giving my images more vibrancy without clipping the colours and exposure?

All help is very much appreciated

Thank you

jimages

Photo Critique / iStock and Shutterstock application - advice requested

« on: December 06, 2012, 10:14 »

Hello everyone,

In April I placed a post, asking for help with my iStock application.

I put on 7 images that I selected from my portfolio, and was gently told that there was not much chance of getting accepted.

Since then I joined Fotolia and have been shooting and designing specifically for stock, I've got 57 images on Fotolia and have had 18 sales, (having any sales at all has been very exciting to me).
I am now in the process of uploading the Fotolia images to Dreamstime, but i would really like to get on to iStock and Shutterstock, so would love any advice on whether it's worth trying to apply now, or if I need to wait and keep working on Fotolia and Dreamstime.

Here's my Fotolia portfolio:

http://en.fotolia.com/p/203317997

Any advice on area's I could work on to have more chance of being accepted would be very much appreciated.

Thank you very much for your time and help

Jimages

Photo Critique / Re: Help with iStock application

« on: March 31, 2012, 04:16 »

Thank you all for your quick responses,
All the images i chose were pictures i had lying around that i thought would fit for my application.
Clearly i need to re think and shoot specifically for iStock, with clear sellable concepts.
Thank you Shadysue for the link. The article is very useful, actually the articles section on iStock's website had passed me by. I'd been on the forums up to now.

What would be very helpfull is if someone could post the 3 pictures that they got accepted with, most of the threads i have read have links to photos that were rejected, it would be nice to see the other side, if possible.
Many thanks.

I will post back soon, with hopefully some slightly more encouraging pictures, that might stand a chance of getting accepted.

Cheers

Jimages

Photo Critique / Help with iStock application

« on: March 29, 2012, 05:59 »

I am currently trying to piece together my application to iStock, I have been reading a lot of threads on a lot of different forums, trying to work out the do’s and don'ts when applying.
This forum has been a source of great information, the advice always seems to be very honest and very constructive. There for any advice on my application pictures would be much appreciated.

These are seven possible pictures I'm thinking about:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/65716796/whitedoll2.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/65716796/globe2.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/65716796/photo03.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/65716796/chairs.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/65716796/photo04.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/65716796/photo05.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/65716796/Photo01.jpg

I just signed up to the forum a few days ago, so i hope I've posted everything correctly

Thank you very much for your time and help

jimages

Newbie Discussion / Re: why can't I start a new thread?

« on: March 26, 2012, 05:04 »

Thank you leaf, this is very helpful!!

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