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« on: May 30, 2008, 10:01 »
Few sales on this month with +100 food and drink related images. So better sales than in Featurepics, mostphotos and others with over 1000 images online. My default price there is 25$ and no subs sales are allowed on newer images.
br, MJP
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« on: May 30, 2008, 02:40 »
It is little bit weird that there is no news on fotolia web site (no news, no forum posts). I just got that email. There is that subcsription opt-out for exclusive images on the profile page at fotolia web page.
Fotolia sales have been increased quite nicely in this year and now its even with the SS on my monthly income on place 3-4. I think the fotolia have to follow other companies and offer the subs to compete with Istock and SS.
br, MjP
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« on: May 30, 2008, 02:11 »
Just got email from fotolia:
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Everyday we are asked if Fotolia offers a subscription service, when we say no we often lose potential clients. However we are now excited to announce that we will soon have our own subscription service. The Fotolia Subscription is a true revolution for all of us. Together we'll be able to, find new customers and increase our sales volumes.
The remuneration conditions for sales from subscriptions will be different from the traditional system. Each download will generate an income from 0.23 to 0.30 credits according to your rank. Once again, the increased sales volume will increase your income.
By default, all images will be available as part of the Subscription service but it will be possible to switch off this option for exclusive images in the "My Profile" section of your account. According to our analysis, contributors who participate in the Subscription service will see an increase in only a few months so don?t hesitate to try selling images via Subscriptions.
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Very low royalty for photographers...
br, MjP
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« on: May 29, 2008, 11:25 »
Do you have 32 bit versio of Vista? The 32bit version can not see the full 4 giga bytes of ram due the 32bit limitations (The maximum amount is something like 3,2 gigas if I remember correctly). Only the 64-bit version can see 4+ gigs. I hope this helps.
br, MjP
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« on: May 08, 2008, 01:23 »
I have 25$ almost all images ( few on 10$). I have got few 25$ and few sub sales (now I have opted out subs). Have only food photograhs there (around120 images).
br, MJP
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« on: May 06, 2008, 00:58 »
I do not know if this picture is bad, but when I edited it I was 100% sure that reviewers will reject it due the limited commercial value. http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=2404333Now its one of my best selling images in istock, most downloaded in SS, and lots of downloads on other sites as well  . So it is very hard to say which sells. br, MJP
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« on: May 04, 2008, 04:12 »
My total % are here:
IS (BME) 26%
SS 16%
FT 9%
StockXpert 10% (bme)
DT 12% (bme)
Local midstock: 22%
Rest goes to low earners.
Local midstock have almost 3000 images, IS +700 images and the rest about 1250 images.
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« on: April 30, 2008, 01:25 »
My food/photo/still life photography blog can be found from: http://www.mjp-photographs.fi/blog/. No microstock related stuff at the moment, but maybe in the future. br, MjP
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« on: April 16, 2008, 02:51 »
Too bad I have only 6$ at the moment in piggy bank (not likely to pass 25$ barrier before 15th of may). So no more paychecks for me and I can not delete my portfolio there either, that is too bad. I also have almost 500 tokens but can not use them. I will gladly buy images for real uses, but buying is disapled as mentioned earlier. I was saving the tokens for side sales, but newer reached that point.
Site was nice but I did see this coming in last few weeks (no blog post in a month, no twitter messages, very slow review times lately etc).
br, MJP
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« on: April 10, 2008, 01:09 »
Is there way a write DMCA take down notice to his/her domain host company?
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« on: April 09, 2008, 01:52 »
Sales are stalled. Last sale was in 12th march...(portfolio over 1300 images) and I continously upload. Only little bit over 6000 views though.. Thinking to stop uploading there until the sales volume picking up. But hey, quite its a new site... (
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« on: April 05, 2008, 02:43 »
I think best way to get most speed of photoshop is use much ram you can get and get most powerful processor you can afford. But there is a little problem. Photoshop is 32bit application and so is the Win XP (there is a special 64-bit version of it also) and Vista 32-bit version. That means the photoshop can not see anything more than 3255megabytes of ram. With windows xp or vista 32-bit version the limit is lower because the operating system can not handle memory more than that 3 gigabytes limit (due the 32-bit architecture and on some computers this limit much lower (e.g. 2gigabytes)). But there is a work around which helps a little bit. Use vista 64-bit on your operating system and upgrade memory to 6 or 8 gigabytes. Yes the Photoshop will not see anything more than 3,25gigabytes, but the operating system can see lots of free memory. So the system will not swap so much and photoshop cache/swap can utilitize this extra memory to speed things up and so can other process too (like standalone plugins which are launched from photoshop if they run on different process). Second thing is to speed up the system with dedicated photoshop swap file drive as mentioned on previous posts. You should go for sata 2 drive or special high speed drives like Western Digital Raptor (they are expensive 80gb / 200euros) and need something to silent them up. But they fastest drive in the market with sata interface. If you want real good speed put two of them on RAID0 . But one is enough, it is cheaper to buy more ram. My current computer which was upgraded on last december because the old one was not capable of handling Canon 5D files: -Intel Quad core (current clock speed 3,1ghz, helps silence the machine) -4 gigabytes of high speed ram -WD Raptor drive on silence block for swaps -Normal sata2 drives for windows vista 64bit and storage/backup (few terabytes) (local,usb and nas drives) -Nvidia 8800gts graphics card (enough power to handle few 24" lcds which will be upgraded into system in near future (still using CRT monitor). Photoshop cs3 starts less than 1,5 seconds with few external plugins. Photoshop runs nice but could be faster . Next I will upgrade more ram, because it's seems that photoshop swap file is used quite often and that will help speed things up. Also considering use faster drives for "work directories" (faster bridge usage, saving and loading). My setup may sound overkill but it should be "future proof" for next two years and next photoshop upgrade (cs4 or something) and new monitors and stuff. br, MJP
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« on: March 31, 2008, 12:00 »
March sales rock!!NOT. 2 sales so far with portfolio over 1300 images (or it is just my images which sucks). Featurepics, mostphotos, snapvillage (with 40 images) and several other low earners out sells LO big time . 29 more images to go for side sales (or what was it called). I hope it helps a bit. br, MJP
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« on: March 18, 2008, 08:34 »
IOFoto: To help optimize your wp install use: All in One SEO Pack which can be found from : http://wp.uberdose.com/ . The plugin is very well made and help your optimize you site without modifying any of the php files etc:). The Google XML Sitemaps plugin found from: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/ helps your site notify google when something changes on your site. I have been using these plugins on my site ( http://www.mjp-photographs.fi ) which helps to get some keywords top of the list (e.g. put "artificial ice cubes" to google and my page is showed on fourth place (at the moment)). Only thing I did is use that seo plugin. br; MJP
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« on: March 17, 2008, 03:26 »
Overall site navigation is slow to me too (living in Finland), but the main page loads fast so it is not about the connection speed I think (I have 8mbs connection).
If you are on your profile page and want to go your images page the response time is somewhat 25 seconds... Page responses should be under 500milliseconds to get good usability. And if you go back from images to your profile it takes about ~23seconds. Search function works faster (around 2-5 seconds) which is ok, because the images start appearing to result page quite fast.
The site has its speed problems, but it is very well done. I hope the back-end design works well on heavy load too.
br, MJP
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« on: March 12, 2008, 02:13 »
Just got first sale last week (12,5e). I hope there is more to come in this month.
br, MJP
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« on: March 12, 2008, 02:12 »
Do you select all three? I only select 1-2 because its hard to pick all three for some images (like food, simple objects etc).
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« on: February 26, 2008, 10:37 »
Hi,
Does anybody have some information which price point sell's bests. I have set my images between 10-100 and only 10credits sales up to date... Its too little and I have asked admins to change el price each of my images to 75 credits, but I'm wondering is it too much for sites like fotolia?
br, MJP
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« on: February 17, 2008, 04:32 »
Can you tell us something about your sales volume per month? And is your marketing targeted only for Finnish customers and how your customers base and quality standards differs from plugi.fi ( www.plugi.fi is another finnish RF stock, which pays 40% per image licensed)? Do you accept images with finnish keywords too? FlemishDreams: The alexa rankings is not quite correct when you try to get details about Finnish site, because nobody uses its toolbar in Finland or the search engines where te alexa gets it data. But ofcourse if the alaxe ranking is good then the site gets lots of traffic. br; MJP
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« on: February 14, 2008, 15:16 »
5D is great except the dust problem. I hope Canon will introduce successor to 5D with dust removal system soon . I found out that dry brushes do not work well with the 5D. Now I use Eclipse liquid sensor swap system which works just great. But it is a great camera. If I have enough money in the future I will go to 1ds series, but meanwhile I stick with the 5d series... I hope this help. br, MJP
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« on: February 13, 2008, 12:40 »
I have uploaded two batches of files (one from Jan 15) and they are not showing up in the submit section. When I log back in via FTP I can see them all sitting there. I have already emailed support and am waiting to hear back.
I seem to recall someone else having the same problem and they did something (reset password?!?) to help push them through. I have never had a problem uploading before.
Ideas anyone?
I had similar problem with my two of three latest upload batches. After a few days the files started appearing into submit section. I did not know if the login to ftp account and logout help, but some systems have "ftp-logout" triggers which tell the system to move files and sometimes these systems failes to run... I do not know how the system is done in LO, so this just a quess as always:). br, MJP
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« on: February 11, 2008, 12:44 »
Interesting idea, I have some frequent flyer miles left to spend.. I will prefer scotland's whiskey areas lot of good things to drink:) and nice highland scenery too (any single malt crasies out there?). Maybe some south europe locations as well (cheap, sunny) or east europe as well. Of course you can all come to Finland and see the country with many thousand lakes . br, MJP
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« on: February 07, 2008, 02:33 »
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« on: January 31, 2008, 15:33 »
Before subs I got around 80 sales / month at StockXpert. When they introduced subs I noticed that next few months the combined sales volume was same (around 80-90 images), but my income dropped to 2/3. I opted out early in this month and my sales level is same as last three months but the income went back to same level before subs...My portfolio is small (around 1000 images) and mainly focused on food and still life images so no huge sales there anyway.
Can anybody confirm similar behaviour? I'm afraid that stokfoto's concerns are quite correct. I do not get why they give money away by allowing XL size subs, because it seems that users buy images even if they are not awailable in subs sales.
I will continue to opt out crusade to get more data about it:).
br, MJP
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« on: January 31, 2008, 04:21 »
Same thing here as with sharpshot. First two weeks of this year were horrible and the december was very bad, but now things are going same level as in septemper last year .
br, MJP
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