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Messages - Striker77s
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« on: April 13, 2006, 18:17 »
Well I would say I was in the wrong place last week. I haven't been posting lately because while installing a laminate floor in my home about 10 days ago I cut about 1.5 cm off my middle finger with a table saw. Ouch.  So typing has become quite difficult, but I am glad I could help. Mark
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« on: April 13, 2006, 15:35 »
Yes leaf you can use a regular ftp program. Instead of giving everyone a unique ftp account they give everyone a unique folder. Just right click on the "Click here to open a FTP window" and copy the shortcut. That will give you your FTP folder. I have used WS FTP Pro from the beginning without any problems. Hope that helps.
Mark
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« on: April 06, 2006, 09:46 »
leaf did you finally give in an decide to submit to featurepics?
Mark
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« on: April 04, 2006, 14:40 »
I don't remember how long it took, but they sent me an e-mail stating my account has been activated.
Mark
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« on: April 04, 2006, 14:37 »
I've tried both Scanstockphoto and StockPhotoMedia. I haven't got a single download in a month with Scanstockphot and their website isn't all that great. I got 1 download with StockPhotoMedia in a month. I submitted about 200 images to both places. I'm probably going to abandon both of them
Mark
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« on: March 31, 2006, 19:49 »
If you read the past week or so. Everyone is complaining about iStockPhoto's approval process. It is getting slower and slower and they reject a lot of images. Most of the images I had rejected are not suffereing from the problems they claim, like noise and artifacts lack of focus and on and on. My guess is unless you are one of their prime photographers they aren't going to treat you very well. Oh well,  It could be new policies coming down from Getty Mark
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« on: March 31, 2006, 11:13 »
Someone suggested StockXpert to me because they require zero effort to submit to. They have an ftp service and don't require categorization. So if you have already keyworded your images all you have to is ftp it. Thats it, unless your image requires a release. But he said he hadn't sold a thing and not to expect much. So I've been uploading not expecting much. Well I checked it today and found I had several downloads in the past week and they are doing better than bigstockphoto for me. It is still low but for the effort I can't complain. Anybody else using StockXpert
Mark
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« on: March 29, 2006, 10:35 »
Dreamstime does much better than Fotolia for me, in fact it is doing slightly better than iStockPhoto. I don't know how many photos you have but upload a 100 or so and see how it will work for you. If you like it upload the rest.
Mark
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« on: March 29, 2006, 08:44 »
I have about 150 images there. I've gotten a total of 5 downloads over the past month or so. Which isn't horrible except for the fact that they only give 22 cents. So at this rate it will take me about 4 years to get a pay out. I might stop contributing there, but like the previous person said uploading there is extremely easy.
Mark
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« on: March 27, 2006, 14:40 »
Leaf
I know you were interested in changing all of your images to include a Extended RF license at Fotolia. I e-mailed customer service and asked them if they would change all of my images for me and told them to make them all 15 points. They responded with
03/27/2006 ok we will do this for you. It might take a few days.
Best regards,
Fotolia.com team
You have a lot more images than I do. Best of luck,
Mark
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« on: March 26, 2006, 19:14 »
No, but it looks interesting. Submitting just a low res images and you make the final sale.
Mark
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« on: March 26, 2006, 14:54 »
They don't have a referal system at the moment. They are considering it and may implement one soon.
Mark
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« on: March 26, 2006, 14:52 »
Featurepics is one of my top producing sites. I signed up at the end of Feburary and during the course of March I uploaded about 170 images. They have accepted most of them and I've earned $13.30 during that time with 6 downloads. I've gotten many more downloads from other sites but I priced my images at $4.00 so I get $2.80 from every download. That adds up much faster than $.20 or even $.50. Their customer service is the best around and are very helpful. If you don't want to bother categorizing your images they will do it for you at the moment. They just released their ftp uploading so adding images is quite easy. I'm very happy with them so far.
Mark
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« on: March 26, 2006, 01:31 »
For me out of about 170 images
Bigstock Photo 90% approved
Istock Photo 60% approved
Dreamstime 72% approved
Featurepics >95% approved
Stockphotomedia >95% aprroved
123RF 75% approved
Fotolia 75% approved
Personally I think iStockPhoto review is unrealistic. I don't mind it if they reject my images because they think they are horrible or what ever else. But often they reject them for noise issues or focusing issues, and they always noise free and have a dead on focus. But I've already ranted about that so I won't start here again.
Mark
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« on: March 24, 2006, 10:45 »
OK maybe they did ban my IP address.  I'm at work now and it seems to be working fine from here. Either they just had a quick outage or my computer has freaked on me. I was able to access all of the other microsites just fine. Weird. Oh well it is up now. Mark
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« on: March 24, 2006, 09:28 »
IStockPhoto is down. I can't even ping the site. How about everyone else?
Mark
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« on: March 24, 2006, 09:26 »
I'm not a fan of iStockPhoto and there submission rules, especially the limit. I wouldn't mind if it was a weekly limit, but the daily limit bites. But their java multi uploader is quite nice. It allows you to quickly find categories and it will check for double key words and whether you have more than 50 keywords. That way you are never rejected for silly things. I probably wouldn't bother with iStockPhoto if it wasn't for their java uploader.
Mark
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« on: March 23, 2006, 09:37 »
Try e-mailing CS about it. They might do it for you.
Mark
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« on: March 22, 2006, 09:08 »
Dido, I tried to find a way to do it also. Couldn't find anything that would allow you to change the licensing on all of your images.
Mark
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« on: March 21, 2006, 17:15 »
Well, I was very surprised today. I got 3 sales within a couple of hours. One was a picture of a kids drawing with crayons and the other two were food shots.
Mark
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« on: March 19, 2006, 09:43 »
I think any image that doesn't have anything in it to suggest a date will most likely always sell. Such as food, landscape, objects and etc. An image would have to be hugely popular before it would loose it market value from over use. Fashion of course changes constantly and you will need to update you images. Thus I think that is part of the reason there is and probably always will be a strong demand for people pictures. You can't pull out your library of images over the last 20 years and upload them. They have to be somewhat recent.
Mark
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« on: March 17, 2006, 08:44 »
The site was shut down in the early afternoon. I went there and for about an hour a message came up saying they are performaining maintanance please come back later. So obviously they had some hardware failure and was trying to recover.
Mark
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« on: March 16, 2006, 20:41 »
I uploaded 30 images early this morning by ftp and it will still let me connect so I assume I'm still good.
Mark
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« on: March 16, 2006, 19:29 »
Greg
Well if you go to the interviews he has his fotolia portfolio linked. He has over 1500 images and gets 1-5 sales a day. I have 100 images which is means I should get about 2 -10 sales a month. I'm not even getting that but I'll continue uploading and see what happens.
Tyler
We would like to know what type of images sale best for you on fotolia.
Mark
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« on: March 16, 2006, 15:01 »
Sorry I didn't respond to your questions in the other thread. IStockPhoto is getting really slow; over two weeks. My personal feelings is that they have a tiered system and depending on your tier that decides how quickly they will review your work. They want their best photogs to get the most attention. They really don't need new photags as much as they used to and they are now trying to keep their best photogs happy and producing top stuff. I could be wrong but that is my speculation.
I don't have an account with Shutterstock, I got denied because only 6 out of 10 passed. So I will wait a few months and try again.
But in general I'm coming from Alamy where it would take about 6 weeks to get a CD out the door and approved. It also required more prep time. So under two weeks sounds great to me. I don't think IStockPhoto is going to improve any time soon. They simply don't need to. All of the other sites are still competing so they will fight to keep the review time down.
Mark
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