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Messages - Dennis Holmes
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« on: June 14, 2009, 00:44 »
Thank you.
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« on: June 14, 2009, 00:41 »
I'm looking at promoting the site to buyers not artists.
Any Ideas??? How can we promote this site?
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« on: June 14, 2009, 00:28 »
Any Ideas??? How can we promote this site?
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« on: June 13, 2009, 23:19 »
As you may know I am a contributor to Clipartof.com as are other members on this forum.
This site is pro-artist (The others that offer 25 a download are just a ripoff in my opinion) so I wish to assist them.
I need to help promote them. They are a low budget. hence the Google ads on the site. (I'd rather them have those than take a higher percentage of my sales)
They don't have an affiliation program...yet and they don't promote with Google ads. (Again these options would cut into artists percentages.)
Any Ideas??? How can we promote this site?
Cheers Dennis
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« on: June 13, 2009, 20:18 »
I was sent an email by a forum member who said I should look at macro for my toons, but I don't know any.
I'm still looking for true midstock as well.
Any help would be welcome.
If you really want to make $1500+ each month every month Shutterstock can most (maybe) likely do that for you. Just pace your uploading to 15-30 each weekday (75-150 each week) and you'll do very well. However each artist makes different amounts.
Goodluck! 
They are not macro are they? Are they easy to work with?
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« on: June 13, 2009, 20:16 »
YEP it's a pro-artist site.
I personally think it best to put different styles on each site, if you are capable.
Not true!!  The best is to be a soild artist and to be known for doing great work with a powerful unique style/look if you have a couple styles you should upload all everywhere. with over 70,000+ dls on SS alone I can say that you should upload everything you can to whatever site you want. (time permitting). I think some of my buddies in the stock world would agree with me
I stand corrected, I'm only on 2 sites Clipartof and iclipart (i'm leaving iclipart) they sell mostly work for education.
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« on: June 13, 2009, 09:01 »
What system specs do you have for 3d work?
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« on: June 13, 2009, 08:13 »
If you where doing cartoon characters?
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« on: June 13, 2009, 06:10 »
Can anyone tell me how to find what sells best on microsites?
Yep __ try doing a few searches. The pictures with the biggest numbers where it says 'Downloads' are the best selling ones.
Huh?
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« on: June 13, 2009, 05:35 »
Flowers,cats,dogs and holiday snaps, all sell like crazy.
Only joking.
If we knew what was going to be the top seller in the next month we could all be rich.
3d art sells well for me.
What progrome do you use for 3d?
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« on: June 13, 2009, 02:31 »
I was sent an email by a forum member who said I should look at macro for my toons, but I don't know any.
I'm still looking for true midstock as well.
Any help would be welcome.
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« on: June 13, 2009, 02:24 »
Can anyone tell me how to find what sells best on microsites?
Or dose it vary allot from site to site?
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« on: June 13, 2009, 02:11 »
whereabouts are you Dennis?
I just googled you see 07 area code, are you in Brisbane? if so there seems to be about 6-8 camera shops within about 3 streets, head into there and have a play, which one is easy partly on you (pentax sometimes criticised for poor layout, yet I always found it reasonably clear and logical).
Gold Coast. Where are you? Finding the right sales person is the problem.
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« on: June 12, 2009, 20:36 »
Do most of you use Mac computers. I know it's a little of subject but somethings just don't go together. And I'm my mind it relates to what I buy as well. I'll try and explain...stick with me. I use an Imac, it's 4 years old now. I've only had to have it fixed once and I don't need to worry about viruses. The problem that I've outgrown it and appart from a little extra ram and a bigger hard drive that is the best I can do for it. I forgot what my point was.  Oh yeah, I think it was reliability, ease to use but also being able to upgrade components. I guess you also need to pay more for brand and quality. Are there any compatibility issues with cameras and Macs?
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« on: June 12, 2009, 10:00 »
I was looking at this - Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1- I think it would suit a noob like myself?
I know it's limited in allot of ways, but for special reasons I need simplicity.
Probably ok for a starter, yeah?
I've seen prices around $1600 which is far above a entry-level camera. And the accessories might be a bit limited yet but certainly will become bigger if the FourThirds standards gains some more market share. Though you probably will be limited to the format which is even smaller than the usual APS-C sized sensors. Smaller sensor means denser pixels and is likely to produce more noise in less-than-perfect conditions.
If you settle for this camera, I would avoid to make any further investments even if you feel limited later on. It's pretty common that you start with a camera and kit lense and will find reasons to buy more glass, flash, remote trigger whatever after 6 - 12 months. You can certainly do so with the Lumix but you will always be bound to FourThirds while Canon, Nikon, Sony at least offer that you can invest in full frame lenses from the beginning even when you only have an APS-C sensor in your camera. That's why I would recommend to stick with one of those three brands.
Also - if you are willing to spend $1600, you will be better off by buying a cheaper entry-level camera and one or two excellent lenses.The lenses are more important to the image quality than the camera. And they will last much longer than the body.
The price on that site was Australian dollars.
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« on: June 12, 2009, 09:45 »
I really need it to be easy to use.
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« on: June 12, 2009, 09:36 »
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« on: June 12, 2009, 08:16 »
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« on: June 12, 2009, 08:13 »
Here is a link. Looks like you can get attachment lenses
-http://www.cnet.com.au/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-339295275.htm
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« on: June 12, 2009, 07:05 »
The OP is simply trying to get some referal earnings. That's not to say that anything he says is untrue, but I'm (very) sure Clipartof get more than enough new images through word of mouth. They already have a very substantial backlog of excellent images waiting to be keyworded and put up on the site and I'm sure this que would have only increased with or without the OPs help.
I thought that Jamie always did the keywording, which is really as it should be, avoiding spamming from the outset and giving all the artists a chance to compete on a level playing field.
The images on CAO seem to rank really well on Google image searches too, so this may also be something to do with the way Jamie does the keywording and SEO's the images appropriately.
You're 100% sure you are not a contributor? It's mid stock not micro.
Note the date.....still sure. And you where aware I was not the first to mention Clipartof on this forum. For someone who is not contributor you seem know allot and complain allot
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« on: June 12, 2009, 06:02 »
thanks for correcting me. I had completely misread your motives. You are not doing this for the referals, so your happy for people reading this thread to sign up without letting Jamie know who told them about the site? That's fine then.
If you read my post you would know the answer to that. Do I seriously need to continually go over what I've already stated with you? Are you sure you are not a contributer? You didn't know anything about Clipartof before this thread?
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« on: June 12, 2009, 05:54 »
20,000 quality illustrations by the end of this year?
Yes. Think it's 630 a week. Look at the resent uploads at clipartof.
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« on: June 12, 2009, 05:31 »
I was looking at this - Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1- I think it would suit a noob like myself?
I know it's limited in allot of ways, but for special reasons I need simplicity.
Probably ok for a starter, yeah?
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« on: June 12, 2009, 05:24 »
Hi Dennis,
May I ask how many images you have in your portfolio there? What kinds of images are they?
Just an update, I expect to have over 20,000 images there by the end of the year.
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