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I would contact them and tell them to remove your images and that you will be notifying other artists whose stuff they are selling. Then search this forum for DCMA. Some folks have used this process to shut the rouge sites down.  8)

Also, break the links in your original post so they cannot track them back to our forum (add a space or remove a character).

They must be a scam because there are no artist credits. Even if they were part of a partner program there would probably be credits.

127
Newbie Discussion / Re: to late for start at microstocking?
« on: July 31, 2015, 10:02 »
It's never too late, my friend. You've got skills, ambition and life. Just keep your mind open to new ideas and techniques. You will experience more sales if you shoot more pix of people (especially so-called minorities and underrepresented types of people). Keep up your artistic education. Reinvest your money and upload consistently.

Peace

ive heard so often here now, how someones have just 400 online images and over 200 sales.

ive nearly got 1000 in one agency and have only 30.

i got in begin of the year 2014.

is it just gonna bad for late starter or depends this to strong in the images?
i make much nature images.

is it worth it ?

128
Alamy.com / Re: Alamy- Any success??
« on: July 30, 2015, 16:07 »
I say be patient. Keep waiting. I'm an illustrator and I only send them JPG files. Their EPS process is too much of a hassle. It's an easy submission process. Sales are steady, but slow. I have a little over 4.5K over there.

129
Shutterstock.com / Re: Forums
« on: July 22, 2015, 15:03 »
The forums I try to browse all hang up. Time out errors. I can't read anything on them anymore.

130
Alamy.com / Re: Selling vectors on alamy?
« on: July 22, 2015, 15:00 »
Anyone have any good results selling vectors on Alamy?

many Thanks.

No. Too Big a hassle. I just give them JPG versions.

131
Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Approval Frustrations
« on: July 22, 2015, 14:59 »
SS has a few reviewers that need to be retrained or fired (they can earn more money, by just rejecting photosand illustrationswith lame excuses than to take time to actually examine them). You, unfortunately, have been stuck with these reviewers. It seems if you report the problem, receive a case ID and resubmit with case ID, you don't get stuck with those reviewers. It might be a way SS uses to zero in on reviewers that are giving you a headache. Reject the thoughts that you are not skilled. It is the reviewer. Not you.  8)

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Epson is the best brand for what you're doing. You might find this video helpful:

https://youtu.be/hZSN6hcRNec

I have been looking to invest in a good enough scanner  for 35 mm slide and BW negs which I will further refine in Lightroom. Mostly it will be family archive but some images I could use as stock, especially retro images.

Would this do the job ? It seems highly rated

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Epson-Perfection-Scanner-ReadyScan-Technology/dp/B00ECBRW5E/ref=cm_srch_res_rtr_1

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can i submit same image to multiple agencies? I have 4 images on iStock and made 3 sales, 2 are partner program and 1 is image subscription, no idea where these are used as googles reverse look up hasn't found them. finally gotten around to being ready to upload a load more and start shooting specifically for stock but am a complete newbie when it comes to unsderstanding stock agencies, thank you for reading!

As long as you're not an exclusive contributor, you can submit to as many as you'd like. I submit to almost 20.

134
Newbie Discussion / Re: It maybe time for a cull :)
« on: July 11, 2015, 19:09 »
After investing many hours uploading, attaching releases and submitting work, I am not clear why you should delete your account and portfolio from a site. I would think you should leave it there and if they want to, they can delete it (like Stockfuel did to mine).

I'm not trying to be obstinate. I sincerely want to understand.   :D

135
Site Related / Re: Members leaving.
« on: July 10, 2015, 17:51 »
I'm not leaving. I learn alot here and my microstock illustration income is growing very quickly. It's not enough to pay weekly expenses...yet. But so far, for all the time I put into it, the revenue growth is consistently going up. I do work for one for a microstock photographer with a 15,000+ portfolio on SS and the other sites. His expenses are very high compared to mine, yet he is positive about the future.  :D

136
Newbie Discussion / Re: It maybe time for a cull :)
« on: July 09, 2015, 16:50 »
Speaking for myself, I am anonymous because I cannot afford to be retaliated against by the agencies. If microstock income was not as important to me as it is now, I would not be anonymous.  8)

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So annoying when anonymous people comment on non-anonymous people's portfolios.
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I appealed and resubmitted with case number etc and they have now been accepted.
:)

Yeah, I got some case numbers too now. I'll let you all know what happens...

Update: All accepted with case numbers. Definitely alot of poorly trained reviewers over there.

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Has anybody got any case numbers from SS recently? How long does it usually take?  I emailed them a week ago and still no reply.

2 days for me

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Are you sure, that SS is better?

http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_landing=1&gallery_id=1256674&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest
That has nothing to do with keyword spamming.


To give Doug Shutter credit, I think his keywords are quite accurate.
 8)

141
Photo Critique / Re: What would you say about my collection?
« on: July 01, 2015, 20:17 »
Collection of the sea. Tell me, good price delivered on these videos?

http://www.pond5.com/ru/video-sound-effects-music-after-effects-photos-illustrations-images-3d-models/1/clipbin:1032991.html


Very clean. Maybe some panning (with tripod). Also check your translations. In English it is seems a bit confusing. Not sure about pricing. Maybe a bit high.

142
Dreamstime.com / Re: New keyword limit??
« on: June 30, 2015, 12:38 »
Looks like they have fixed it already! It was supposed to have been set to 50, and not 30  :)

It's back at 80 keywords now. Apparently there was never supposed to be any change at all.

"We are sorry about this. Due to a small bug (which is now fixed) the limit was set to 30 keywords. Everything is back on track now. Thank you for understanding."



Yeah, I saw they had edited their first post. They first said that due to a small bug, they couldn't set the limit to 50. Makes me wonder what they actually intended/tried to do....if anything  :)

Yeah. Weird. A test to see how we would respond maybe... :o

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Shutterstock.com / Re: New Contributor TOS at Shutterstock
« on: June 30, 2015, 12:06 »
As I see the site, the full terms of service are still the Sept 17 2013 version (and I cleared Chrome's browser data to be sure). So the "see the full terms of service" from the blog doesn't really mean much yet.

I don't see anything bad there with two possible exceptions.

1. If the lowered payout is indicating that some big change in earnings (i.e. the BigStock royalty schedule) is coming soon. I think that's unlikely and that it's more likely that new contributors are discouraged and walk away and they're clearly looking to boost their contributor base. I suspect that's an insurance policy for them if they p*ss off existing contributors.

2. Using editorial as commercial with no additional liability to the photographer. If they promise to defend any lawsuit filed against us, then it's good, but saying we're not incurring any new liability doesn't stop someone from suing us and then we have to defend ourselves if SS doesn't step in (the way an insurer would). I would look at the details of the Terms of Service except that they haven't posted them.

Thank you for the reasonable  interpretation.    This legal mumbo jumbo is such a pain to sort thru.

Yeah, we can always count on Jo Ann to do a reliable smell check for us. I vote her for president of the Microstock Artist Union.  8)

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Dreamstime.com / Re: New keyword limit??
« on: June 30, 2015, 06:20 »
Looks like they have fixed it already! It was supposed to have been set to 50, and not 30  :)

It's back at 80 keywords now. Apparently there was never supposed to be any change at all.

"We are sorry about this. Due to a small bug (which is now fixed) the limit was set to 30 keywords. Everything is back on track now. Thank you for understanding."

Why do they never have "bugs" which increase my earnings balance?  ???

Ah, but then they would need to pull an iStuck and deduct your earnings over the next 6 years or months or whatever.  ;D

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Dreamstime.com / Re: New keyword limit??
« on: June 30, 2015, 06:14 »
Looks like they have fixed it already! It was supposed to have been set to 50, and not 30  :)


Yep! Confirmed! DT says it was a "bug"  :-X

http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_41443

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Dreamstime.com / Re: New keyword limit??
« on: June 29, 2015, 18:00 »
30 keywords to describe subject in photo is plenty. Others are probably even not relevant.

Depends on the pic. Sometimes it's hard to get ten, sometimes 50 is 'tight'.


Yes. And if you only have pictures of individual wild animals, it's easy to get 10. But we all don't create the same kind of images.

DumC: Look at this picture by Creatista and tell me if you can properly sell it with only 30 KWs (include conceptual and objective):



biker, nerd, laptop, geek, dork, plaid, white, hat, bar, european, tavern, adult, cap, male, bandanna, sweater, gang, digital, people, intelligent, caucasian, female, expert, technology, smiling, computer, showing off, expectation, grinning, cool, middle aged, beer, troubleshooting, shoulder, woman, group, motorcycle gang, smart, ironic, mature, fedora, clever, proud, eyeglasses, man, confident, watching, happy

By the way, the SS suggests we do keywording at their latest webinar (http://www.shutterstock.com/blog/learn-effective-keywording-in-our-shuttertalk-live-presentation), it is impossible to under 30 KWs for most pictures.

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Dreamstime.com / Re: New keyword limit??
« on: June 29, 2015, 13:38 »
30 keywords to describe subject in photo is plenty. Others are probably even not relevant.

The only other site with such rigid requirements is Crestock. How good are sales over there?  :o

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Dreamstime.com / Re: New keyword limit??
« on: June 29, 2015, 11:06 »
:o Holy cow. I went to submit uploads and I'm getting errors that they have KW limit of 30 now. I average 35-40. Their process is already too long. Now this?  >:(

I submitted some images yesterday and it was all good. So that's very new change.

Same here. It happened overnight. What a pain. They should;ve sent us notices so we could prepare ahead of time.

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Dreamstime.com / New keyword limit??
« on: June 29, 2015, 10:48 »
 :o Holy cow. I went to submit uploads and I'm getting errors that they have KW limit of 30 now. I average 35-40. Their process is already too long. Now this?  >:(

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I appealed and resubmitted with case number etc and they have now been accepted.
:)

Yeah, I got some case numbers too now. I'll let you all know what happens...

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