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« on: October 18, 2017, 03:16 »
Somethings never change. In twenty years people will still be asking can you make a living from full-time microstock. I did for 10 years but I regret it now. Friends of mine, spent their last ten years building real businesses and they making good money, as in millions. All I have to show for 10 years is a few dollars per day which pays for my adobe subscription. Build a real business that people around you want/need.
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« on: June 07, 2017, 19:49 »
I closed my IS account last year. I probably did myself out of 20K over the next few years but I just couldn't take the 75c anymore.
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« on: June 07, 2017, 19:37 »
I hope your book sells to the newbies. Good on you for giving it a go.
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« on: April 06, 2017, 00:45 »
Does anyone know of a stock agency where you set your own prices? Rebelartist let us do it back in the days before they shut themselves down and sent everyone to istockphoto.
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« on: April 06, 2017, 00:40 »
I've been getting some good 18 and 23 cents sales on Adobestock. Not long now and I'll have enough for a burger.
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« on: March 19, 2017, 00:14 »
I'm disappointed after 10 years of full-time micro stock. If I'd spent those ten years building a real business I wouldn't be cleaning up dry banana peels from garage floors while working as a maintenance man. Yep, that's right. Some guy who uses the gym thinks that because a banana is natural it's alright to throw the skins wherever. So i get to scoop the dry black crusty suckers into a bin.
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« on: February 09, 2017, 03:43 »
Here a place to discuss things that can't be said in the place you should be able to discuss it. Thread locked!
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« on: September 20, 2016, 11:54 »
Thanks for replying, so what do you guys suggest?
Try to find a time machine. It may be second-hand, as long as it works. Then go back to 2008 perhaps to 2007 or sooner and upload from there. You will have lots and lots of views, downloads, whatever. When you're done, you can rent the time machine to me, I will pay you great money.
Classic! So true.
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« on: August 04, 2016, 20:12 »
The last thread I started there was locked down by Lobo and he suggested I adopt the positive attitude of a contributor from India.
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« on: August 04, 2016, 19:56 »
I just became aware of this. Funny. I suspect the photographer will settle for a few mill or lose.
Isn't compensation for loss of income?
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« on: July 27, 2016, 07:00 »
I remember way back I said that microstock would be a home run for a spell then it would eventually cannibalize itself... only to be chastised for such negativity, and voila here we are at check... further to this, I actually see check mate just around the corner with the industry going into deeper despair in the next few years. The current model of selling stock is not sustainable... I think I have heard that before.
When did you say this? Your profile says you've only been a member here for one year. Did you have another member name before Rose Tinted Glasses?
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« on: July 19, 2016, 21:06 »
I'm go go going. It's go time.
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« on: July 19, 2016, 04:38 »
It's back to the future! istock will be selling your images for 10 cents. 
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« on: July 14, 2016, 18:51 »
I'm leaving or deleting 99% before the 20th. One is quicker but I want access to my stats for future reference.
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« on: June 08, 2016, 23:13 »
Goober, are you saying 'taking' because you are telling her it is okay to steal? Or what do you mean?
Stealing is stealing. It is not a matter of linguistics.
Though this is what is happening in the real world and this is why we earn less each day by day, month by month. There are websites that sell stolen images. Yes I have seen it too, small images are ok for blogs.
Istock should protect our images much better. It is really up to them. Thieves will steal if they have the opportunity anyway.
Where I'm from 'taking' can be used interchangeably with 'getting' or 'using' depending on the context. Maybe it's not the same worldwide.
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« on: June 07, 2016, 21:45 »
Yes, so there is still a watermark when you click on the image to see the larger preview and file details but when searching, the small thumbnails have no watermark whatsoever. My wife has been taking them direct from the search for her blog. istock must have done this for some reason because it is easy enough to put the watermark on the small preview images. Many of my images look fine at the small preview size, average 235 X 235 pixels.
Just think of all the 75 cents we're missing out on.
Does your wife, with your approval and boasting, also steal plants from gardens which don't have 3m high walls topped with razor wire?
My experience in working with small business people is that they don't understand property rights regarding images. They also don't understand image resolution. These small preview images would be perfect for internet use, powerpoint presentations and blogs. They'd also be useful for packaging as a mega free giveaway zip file. So istock has narrowed their customer base down to business people who know about the legalities of image use and graphic artists who understand resolution.
I never see blogs with images that tiny, but I'm sure you can point me to many (don't bother!)
But your wife doesn't have the excuse of ignorance - unless you have chosen not to enlighten her; she's an out and out thief.
Out in the real world, who pays for stuff, except those who are not thieves?
I'm glad in her case that 'as thick as thieves' has another meaning. Most of the ignorant, and deliberate thieves, use / steal full size images.
Obviously my wife is not stealing them. I said "taking", and this is how I became aware of the watermark issue. She is within her rights to use them and was doing it that way because she doesn't have to bother me to fetch and resize them for her. In her blog the small images work fine. I was reading in a Shoppify forum a few months ago that Google image search now treats images with watermarks in a negative way and I wondered if this is why istock's small previews have no watermarks.
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« on: June 02, 2016, 19:25 »
My experience in working with small business people is that they don't understand property rights regarding images. They also don't understand image resolution. These small preview images would be perfect for internet use, powerpoint presentations and blogs. They'd also be useful for packaging as a mega free giveaway zip file. So istock has narrowed their customer base down to business people who know about the legalities of image use and graphic artists who understand resolution.
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« on: June 02, 2016, 19:04 »
Yes, so there is still a watermark when you click on the image to see the larger preview and file details but when searching, the small thumbnails have no watermark whatsoever. My wife has been taking them direct from the search for her blog. istock must have done this for some reason because it is easy enough to put the watermark on the small preview images. Many of my images look fine at the small preview size, average 235 X 235 pixels.
Just think of all the 75 cents we're missing out on.
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« on: May 30, 2016, 22:22 »
You may have discussed this topic elsewhere. istock has no watermarks on small search previews. Did they do this to get around google image search restrictions? Does anyone know when they started generally showing previews with no watermarks?
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« on: April 27, 2016, 04:32 »
During good times people turn a blind eye to infringements but when the bad times set in they look for someone to blame.
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« on: March 30, 2016, 21:00 »
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I agree that the State and Religion should be separate entities or you end up with situations like Sharia Law or the Holy Roman Empire, both of which were terrible to live under.
you really do need to read a bit more history -- the Holy Roman Empire didn't cause half the problems that your protestant revolution did -- climaxing in the 30 years war that wiped out large chunks of Europe
and meanwhile average life in the Ottoman empire bettered that of most of Europe - certainly wrt religious tolerance - eg, when Spain threw out the Jews, they found new homes and prospered in the Ottoman Empire
It was Roman Catholics that kicked out the Jews and they didn't all go to the Ottoman Empire. Many went to the Netherlands and north Africa. The thirty years war was started by the Catholic Ferdinnand II oppressing the protestants of the North when his predecessor had been comparably tolerant.
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« on: March 30, 2016, 20:00 »
In this tax on INCOME scenario, the 10% who inherited wealth would be better off sitting on their wealth rather than risking it in the economy, trying to be productive, which means less taxes.
depends what their wealth is - if they make 10% a year on $10 million they would pay a LOT more than they do now on that $1 income from 'rents'
if passive income were taxed the same as productive uses, there'd be incentives to invest; if there were additional incentives for real job creation there'd be even more
that's how 'socialism' can work in a capitalist market
Passive income is being taxed. Negative interests rates. Property taxes. Stamp duties. Capital Gains Tax. If you buy some farmland or gold and you do nothing with it but own it and the government sanctions money printing causing inflation you lose a percentage when you realise those gains by selling the land or gold. The government sticks their big tax hand out and says we'll have up to 40% depending on the gain or time you held it. Inflation education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyVmWgdIAmY
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« on: March 30, 2016, 19:11 »
Trump wants to make America great again. What made America great? Protestant Christianity, Calvinism in particular, gave rise to these ideas which were put into practice:
Private ownership of land and property rather than serfdom or slavery was preferable.
Doing right by your neighbour as you would have them do to you allows businesses to flourish.
Unjust scales and weights were an abomination. No fractional reserve money printing.
Charity was voluntary and nobody gives more than protestant Christians.
Husbands loving wives and wives respecting husbands, working together, statistically eliminates poverty.
Protestant work ethic produces prosperity.
Families and Churches take care of elders, widows and orphans - everyone else works.
Limited government and taxation needed due to people taking care of themselves and those around them.
Less sins like murder and theft means less destruction and cost to the community.
Not bearing false witness allows innocent people to live peacefully without fear of retribution.
These are fairy tales. Pixelbytes is right.
What made America great was a long period of true economical freedom (long gone now).
A period when private initiatives, entrepreneurship, new ideas could flourish unincombered by taxation, regulations and other bureaucratic government interventions.
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There are secular historians who acknowledge the influence of Calvanism, the puritans and the great awakenings on America even if they don't believe in the tenets of protestant Christianity.
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« on: March 30, 2016, 02:40 »
Trump wants to make America great again. What made America great? Protestant Christianity, Calvinism in particular, gave rise to these ideas which were put into practice:
Private ownership of land and property rather than serfdom or slavery was preferable.
Doing right by your neighbour as you would have them do to you allows businesses to flourish.
Unjust scales and weights were an abomination. No fractional reserve money printing.
Charity was voluntary and nobody gives more than protestant Christians.
Husbands loving wives and wives respecting husbands, working together, statistically eliminates poverty.
Protestant work ethic produces prosperity.
Families and Churches take care of elders, widows and orphans - everyone else works.
Limited government and taxation needed due to people taking care of themselves and those around them.
Less sins like murder and theft means less destruction and cost to the community.
Not bearing false witness allows innocent people to live peacefully without fear of retribution.
You and I read different history books. The founders fled Europe because of religious persecution. That's why they included the clause in the Constitution prohibiting the establishment of a State religion, commonly referred to as separation of church and state. The pledge of allegiance did not include the words Under God until the 1950s. A protestant theocracy was the LAST thing US founders wanted.
Not to mention that most of the values you list and attribute to protestantism date back as far as Hammurabi's Code, The Ten Commandments, and Catholicism, all of which predated Martin Luther's Theses and the start of Protestantism by thousands of years.
If you want to live under a theocracy, may I suggest Iran?
I don't want a theocracy. I want people to be salted by the influence and ideas of protestant Christianity. So instead of 'beggar thy neighbour' which is what we have now, we can have some of the values mentioned above. I agree that the State and Religion should be separate entities or you end up with situations like Sharia Law or the Holy Roman Empire, both of which were terrible to live under. I happened to listen to this today. It's not on the topic of the founders but it addresses foundations for culture. http://rzim.org/let-my-people-think-broadcasts/if-the-foundations-be-destroyed-part-2-of-2
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« on: March 29, 2016, 21:54 »
Trump wants to make America great again. What made America great? Protestant Christianity, Calvinism in particular, gave rise to these ideas which were put into practice:
Private ownership of land and property rather than serfdom or slavery was preferable.
Doing right by your neighbour as you would have them do to you allows businesses to flourish.
Unjust scales and weights were an abomination. No fractional reserve money printing.
Charity was voluntary and nobody gives more than protestant Christians.
Husbands loving wives and wives respecting husbands, working together, statistically eliminates poverty.
Protestant work ethic produces prosperity.
Families and Churches take care of elders, widows and orphans - everyone else works.
Limited government and taxation needed due to people taking care of themselves and those around them.
Less sins like murder and theft means less destruction and cost to the community.
Not bearing false witness allows innocent people to live peacefully without fear of retribution.
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