What's super potential? If I had to guess what my best 5 sellers would be before I uploaded them I would be dead wrong. I'd put my very best seller (29/mo on IS) way down on my list. Best advice, put 'em all on as many decent sites as you can and let the dollars vote.

You could always post the image here and have us judge what's super. That would also be a crap shoot. We'd all be wrong too.

It�s not that i know it will be a super seller, it that i know the work it took me to do it, and i like the result, so probably more a personal thing that anything, but i was tempted to give it a "unique" treatment, but as time goes by i am less convinced.
I know this kind of post arouses curiosity, so once the image is on air i will post it here.
cheers

Ok, don't take me for an arrogant.
I don't know if i have a super sales photo or not, but i recently did an image that took me more work than usual, and i that i think is going to sell pretty well. This makes me think of what could i do to try make the most out of it, and the macro possibility came to my mind. I'm contributing to several micros and Alamy with the same port as RF.
Do you think it's good to bet for some special images that maybe took more work or we feel are special in some way or the most we can expect is that become good sellers in micros?
Being allready in Alamy, could i upload just one image (at the moment) as RM? Should i do this by another alias maybe?
Maybe i should try to sell this as print or something like that, can we do this with an image allready selling in micro? where can we do this?
I would like to know your thought on this matter, and if you sell both in micros and macros would appreciate experiences.
The thing i like most when i think of RM is the more control i could have on the particular image, knowing the use and everything about it.

Cheers

BME for me too with huge increase. Fotolia was my biggest earner again.

It is

I have see you are asking this kind of questions from some time now. What software to use, what machine, etc.
I wonder, if you don�t have any 3d background experience, what makes you think you can just start earning money from this field? Of course you could learn and prectise, but the kind of questions you do makes me feel you think this is like an automatic thing, some magic push the buton and ... voil�!!! image done.
Like any field needs practice and knowledge to master and to let you freely express what you are imaginating.

Nothing to see here. forgot the link?

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So, what was the point of all these efforts

Of course, it�s always nice to be present on one of the big ones in the microstock market and reassuring about photo quality but who is really going to make money with this kind of company ?
At the end of the day, the goal is to sell pictures, not to be proud to have images lingering on shutterstock�s website.

After careful consideration, it seems to me that all these processes and picky procedures to get accepted by shutter are just part of a big bulshit game.

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So I would recommend not to rush to this kind of sites, but rather try the less known ones that are building their collections and offer much more visibility and prospect of growth than over bloated, paranoid process-mongers like shutterstock.

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Sounds like too many conclusions for someone that doesn�t have the experience of actually selling there. If this is your way of feeling good about the decline answer, then i say, you are right, not woth it believe me, you are going to do better in this bussines staying away from the big players, instead go to those new agencys out there.
Of course this is not true in any case, but hey i can�t care less.
About your statment of being the most picky on the review and also being the only one with a period of waiting for your next try, then i guess you didn�t even try IS.

if the images are truly going to be highlighted and actually shown on the main page then that is indeed a good promotion tool.  Is that what you are saying?

That was what i understood when first read the rules, however i see now the 20 images are allready choosen and the vote link is not through an image lightbox but trough the stockys page.
Finally none of my images where selected, and the voting is not very user friendly so it�s not what i was expecting as promotion, however today i have sold an image i propose for the emotionally evocative that didn�t have any sale before in mora than a year, but of course it may be just a coincidence.
Anyway i don�t see this contest thing as a bad thing.

Well, the 100% day is over and wasn�t one of the best selling days for me, but still was nice. In total i had 7 sales yesterday, but the first one didn�t count (don�t know why).

I found this on wikipedia:

"The functional design and elements of it that were patented by Mies in Germany, Spain and the United States in the 1930s have since expired.[citation needed] The Barcelona chair was manufactured in the US and Europe in limited production from the 1930s to the 1950s. In 1953 van der Rohe ceded his rights and his name on the design to Knoll, knowing that his design patents were expired. This collaboration then renewed popularity in the design.

Knoll claims to be the current licensed manufacturer and holder of all trademark rights to the design.[citation needed] In 1965, Knoll purchased the trademark rights to the Barcelona word from Drexel. In 2004, Knoll received trade dress rights to the design from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Despite these trademarks, a large replica market continues. Gordon International New York has continued to manufacture the designs since the 1970s, even after a court battle against Knoll in 2005.[citation needed] In 2008, another court battle erupted between Knoll and Alphaville Design California; the outcome is pending Summary Judgment in Federal District court.[citation needed]"

Linkhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_chair

What do you think.

yes the times there are too long since the dash for cash thing. I also have images in the que for 5 weeks now, ant many are christmas shots, hopefully they will be reviewed fot 2011 chrstmas season  

Have you people known of this project.
I have just known of it trough SS forums in the famoous page 292.000 stolen images.
I have signed in and hope everybody does.

http://monsterprojeckt.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/stock-artist-union-information/

For me was BME, but the distribution of percentages has changed, for instance some months ago IS was my best earner, now FT has overpass IS witch is on par with SS. This was my first month on Alamy and i�m loving it, just two sales but enought to let BS and 123rf behind. This pages never were good earners to me. Veer on the other side had a surpresive great day (several EL) in the month that has fixed what otherwise would have been a very bad month.
To summ it up, BME with an estimate increase of 15%.