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« on: February 26, 2017, 04:41 »
Cannot find how to submit editorial with DM3. Can anyone help? Thanks
When you create a new batch choose editorial image in batch type rather than image.
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« on: February 24, 2017, 02:48 »
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« on: February 18, 2017, 05:40 »
It's not the 20th and there they are. All my contracts and earnings for months.
Where are you seeing that?
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« on: February 04, 2017, 15:30 »
I couldn't get on to esp. I even tried resetting the password and that didnt help. Also can't log into their forum anymore so no help there.
I am in the same boat, I can not login to esp neither to contributors forum. I hope Getty people are reading the posts in this forum since its the only way I can comunicate with them now. Bad.
There are some iStock groups on Facebook that are sometimes responded to, you might try there if you can't get help elsewhere. Search for 'iStock Exclusive' and 'iStock only'. I'm not that familiar with Facebook so I don't know how to link directly, sorry.
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« on: February 04, 2017, 14:59 »
Keyword counting and automatic removal of duplicate keywords would be my first request.
Some explanation of why the CV in the refine section is suddenly much smaller than it was before and less logical for sub-choices.
Both these things make uploading a lot more painful and time consuming than before.
That said, I do appreciate the work you do Franky - keep it up!
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« on: January 25, 2017, 11:54 »
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« on: January 04, 2017, 16:37 »
This topic is too hot a potato, but I have my say anyway.
I hate poverty and misery photography.
I hate it when photographers think it is cool and artsy to go to miserable places or undeveloped countries and shoot people who look ill, ugly, poor, old and miserable.
This stupid trend his so OLD and dated. Move on and shoot something NEW and MODERN!
It's because it's easier to shoot down than it is to shoot up. There's less friction in the image making transaction when the power lies with the photographer, through wealth, skin colour, privilege. I'm guilty of this myself, so I try to shoot sideways at least some of the time. These pictures do serve an important purpose once they're in public though - many people simply do not realise what life is like for the majority of people. In the long term lives are improved by the sharing of these images because people will demand change.
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« on: December 22, 2016, 13:35 »
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« on: December 14, 2016, 15:46 »
If you have 197000 images of people and you're only earning $300 per day, something has gone very wrong. Perhaps you need to look at your keywording?
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« on: December 11, 2016, 07:38 »
I reckon 1 in 10 of my sales on iStock are editorial, with an average royalty of $8ish.
Really? Even averaging over subs sales?
My editorial sales on iS are around 45%, but with so few credit sales nowadays, my average is much, much lower than that.
That's just iStock credit sales. I have no way of easily measuring the percentage of sub sales. My analysis scripts show that half my iStock credit downloads are S+ and are less than 2 years old, both of which I've worked hard to supply, so that may account for my improvement in sales.
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« on: December 11, 2016, 05:05 »
I reckon 1 in 10 of my sales on iStock are editorial, with an average royalty of $8ish. I had high hopes for editorial images on Getty but they only transferred 400 of my 2000 editorial images with no feed back about what the problem is or when or if it'll be resolved.
I like the look of the Alamy site, and I definitely like the idea of 50% royalties, even if, as I suspect, a lot sales come through partners and you end up with 30%.
My previous RM agent has decided they don't want to do RM any more now that Getty have effectively hamstrung those sales so Alamy looks like a good place to go.
I'll give iStock till Xmas to sort my problem out, then I'll put the hundreds of editorial images from my last trip to Kathmandu and the Himalayas on Alamy and see how they go there over the next six months.
It's a shame because iStock has improved significantly for me over the past few months. I was hoping we'd turned a corner there, but if they won't sort my problems out I'll have to come up with alternatives.
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« on: November 17, 2016, 02:19 »
In Lightroom you can export the image to an arbitrary megapixel size.
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« on: September 11, 2016, 06:49 »
Being rude about other people's work is a slippery slope. Glass houses and all that...
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« on: August 13, 2016, 09:53 »
It says against those who opt in, so it seems to be other users who agree. This is one of the reasons I don't use SP, I don't want to pay out a huge fee and then also have my data farmed.
There are much better and easier to use options out there.
Such as?
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« on: August 01, 2016, 07:46 »
Would they really try and cut commissions again? It has worked out so badly and now it would probably kill them. Most of us don't need istock now and I doubt people that are willing to upload for less than 15% are going to give them high quality images.
Perhaps they are doing this to stop exclusives deleting images when they scrap exclusivity?
My money's on them slightly increasing the independent percentages and greatly reducing exclusive royalties to a flat universal rate whilst still insisting on artist exclusivity. They can then sell it as a massive win for the thousands of small suppliers whilst quietly shafting the few remaining 40%ers.
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« on: July 12, 2016, 04:15 »
It means your images are waiting to be added to the library as it's updated. Usually takes a few hours.
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« on: June 25, 2016, 03:35 »
interesting view of democracy
when majority of people decide something and someone don't like it, it's isnt democracy anymore, it's racism, old age and stupidity
can anything be more racist than that statement
Ah, I see you think a majority of voters can't be old, stupid or racist.
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« on: June 24, 2016, 11:10 »
The old, the stupid and the racist have just condemned the UK to a generation in the global wilderness. I'm English and I'm ashamed and embarrassed by our actions.
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« on: June 03, 2016, 12:30 »
I'm down 50% from 2013 too.
I can't imagine what the plan is for Exclusivity, other than the current one of slowly suffocating it until it becomes meaningless. I'm betting they'll put the knife in come September, making it attractive only to a very few token insiders and occasional contributors who know no better.
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« on: May 26, 2016, 03:57 »
Hi,
I can't see my account report on Istock for this month. On may 20. my account balance started to update for APRIL! It last for 4 days, for the whole month, so now I have balance for the april, but nothing for the may. Does anyone has this problem also?
That probably means you have had no credit sales in May, but are now seeing the other sub, pp and getty programmes reporting sales for April. Those sales are reported a month in arrears and paid out a month after that.
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« on: May 16, 2016, 11:59 »
That's very interesting, thanks!
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« on: May 06, 2016, 10:44 »
Join in 2004.
But seriously, PayPal is fine if it works in your country. Getty pays the fees so you get all the money due. PayPal makes money by having a crummy exchange rate from US$ to your local currency.
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« on: February 11, 2016, 18:24 »
Yes, I got a long list of them too.
No notification about image pack sub royalty adjustment though, nor a response to the support ticket I put in about the missing email.
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