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Off Topic / Re: Connect problems DT & Bigstock

« on: March 17, 2008, 09:24 »

As said: you could use a web proxy (for example http://www.myinternetproxy.com/ or many, many more: just type in the addres in the box), but it's too dangerous to route your traffic via a proxy. Dreamstime and BigStock are accessible that way, but someone could snatch your user/pass. I'd highly avoid such action.

p.s.: I sure hope they will get this thing solved. It's getting on my nerves, especially since my internet provider support is keeping silence and acting like jerks.

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Off Topic / Re: Connect problems DT & Bigstock

« on: March 17, 2008, 08:48 »

I am able to check the pages through the mobile phone internet network, but I obviously can't upload that way and neither am I to use anonymous proxy servers (it's just too dangerous).

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Off Topic / Re: Connect problems DT & Bigstock

« on: March 17, 2008, 08:45 »

Ason, I have the same problems. I think it's connected with a peering contract fight between Cogent and TeliaSonera.

p.s.: I'm from Slovenia, my service provider is SiOL and somehow the culprit is the shutting off of some routing traffic from Europe to USA via Cogent networks. Check this out: http://gigaom.com/2008/03/14/the-telia-cogent-spat-could-ruin-web-for-many/.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia Vectors?

« on: March 13, 2008, 22:03 »

And I disagree that Leo's a bad illustrator. Come on, your works are awesome;)

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StockXpert.com / Re: StockXpert site in firefox with bugs?

« on: March 13, 2008, 22:00 »

Everything works as it should now, Steve.

p.s.: But to be honest I don't like the dropdown menu. It was better before with direct links, imho.

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StockXpert.com / Re: StockXpert site in firefox with bugs?

« on: March 13, 2008, 18:00 »

Same here. In Opera the layout is completely messed up, Firefox on the other hand returns with a password error. They're probably doing something, I wouldn't worry.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia Vectors?

« on: March 13, 2008, 05:20 »

Speaking of vectors, StockXpert is my second best. Than comes Dreamstime. The first is of course SS (and iStock is offlimits, haven't been accepted (yet)). And the fourth 123RF.

I qualify Fotolia, Bigstockphoto, Crestock...

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia Vectors?

« on: March 13, 2008, 04:32 »

jsnover, inspection speed on StockXpert for vectors is astonishing. Never above 24 hours, never.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Passing the vector illustration test.

« on: March 12, 2008, 19:32 »

I have to wait 60 days for my next attempt, but fortunately the last time I tried two of three got accepted. Here they are (if it helps deciding):

This got rejected:

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia Vectors?

« on: March 12, 2008, 19:18 »

True, saving to SVG works with a simple export plugin (via "save as") with a couple of options that can be left unchanged (except maybe the embedding ones), but as said earlier, gradient meshes are not supported. Haven't noticed any other "defiances" yet, though.

p.s.: If the vectors are of a low path/point count, the files get ridiculously low in size (really, I'm talking dozens of KB here). Usually the filesize/pointcount ratio is better than with AI EPS8 format, but the 1MB limit is a pita. Hope they introduce EPS compatibility too...

Btw, jsnover, tried Stockxpert with vectors? I think they have complexity differentations. I noticed vectors for 5 and 10 credits (and these are a good earner with 5$ per sold file). But you have to exclude the subscribers out (or they will get them supercheap)

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia Vectors?

« on: March 12, 2008, 19:01 »

I haven't beed that successful on Fotolia with vectors. Been having a lot of trouble with SVG format limitations (doubled by the 1MB size limit as mentioned by nicemonkey). SVG is an enemy to Adobe gradient meshes, that's my biggest complain. The second applies only to those that sometimes make vectors with +100K v-points, which makes it impossible to squeeze it under 1 megabyte. I'm one of them;)

p.s.: Besides: no "real" sales on F with vectors anyways. Things could change, hope so, but the site (at least to me) seems dead vector-wise pretty much like BigStock.