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Messages - john_woodcock
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« on: June 14, 2011, 08:21 »
Or is this, yet again, an "iStock re-definition" of something? As you seem to spend a great deal of time here constantly being rude about IS I'm amazed you're still giving them your valuable business.
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« on: June 05, 2011, 07:39 »
my wife created a calendar last night It looks good but $23? That's pretty expensive.
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« on: April 06, 2011, 14:42 »
when most of them are one-person graphic designer shops with very limited budgets Is that the case? Can you provide a link to where that info and stats are published? The only people I've directly come across in my professional life who use istock don't fit that demographic so I'm curious to know how you come to that conclusion. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'd just like to see the evidence.
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« on: February 16, 2011, 09:57 »
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« on: February 16, 2011, 05:16 »
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« on: February 15, 2011, 14:19 »
The majority of top sellers are not exclusive. I've just looked at the IS contributors chart, I'd say ( although more have hidden their identities now and I agree not all members are on there) the majority are exclusive, the large majority I've always understood too.
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« on: February 15, 2011, 14:05 »
OK, I was just curious on what your figures are based. I'd say the majority of top sellers are exclusive because the benefits are strong and most are happy with their income and, judging by the experience of those who've given up exclusivity, feel dropping exclusivity would not be a good move at the moment.
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« on: February 15, 2011, 13:10 »
You cannot be an exclusive on iStock and sell images on other sites ( unless they're part of the Getty family, who own IS)
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« on: February 15, 2011, 13:08 »
and you just don't make more money as exclusive but thats another discussion Well let's add it to the discussion here, as you've made such a definitive statement. How do you know that? What figures do you use in your 'spread sheets'?
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« on: January 29, 2011, 08:55 »
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« on: January 24, 2011, 16:30 »
Me, 98% vector and some photo's.
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« on: November 12, 2010, 03:58 »
Basically, you're ignoring my point, (and the original subject of the topic), and you're bullying me. Hang on, I reject that accusation completely. You are being paranoid. I was not being sarcastic, I was commenting on the fact that you did seem to face a lot of difficulties considering the number of vector images you have on IS, which, you must admit, is not a lot. You have completely misunderstood the meaning of my post and it was not suggesting 'you were rejected by iStock', and I don't even understand what you mean by that, as I can see you are an IS vector contributor. You consider the IS upload system worst of all, I accept your opinion and have nothing to add as it's the only one I have used. I'm quite happy to take your word on that. What I was commenting on was the fact that, considering you have a small vector portfolio, that you have had a reletively large number of problems uploading and had been unlucky in your experience. A blank page with a red img placeholder is all I get.
And then there aer the categories, the scrolling windows, horizontal, vertical, back and forth, the errors and the bugs and the failed uploads.
Not easy. Now I've had a few of those too, and the site is annoyingly buggy at times, but to have as high an acceptance rate as you have ( higher than mine) AND to have a small portfolio means proportionately you have been pretty unlucky IMHO in experiencing so many bugs. I might experience problems maybe 1 in 50 or 100 uploads, I thought you had been unlucky, that was what I meant. To launch some paranoid attack on me is unjustified, and to accuse me of bullying is completely unwarranted. I think you need to remove the large chip on your shoulder. You've got 22 vectors and you've been on IS for 17 months or so. You do seem to have met an inordinate number of obstacles considering the size of your portfolio.
With practise it becomes pretty easy, and although I do accept it may be easier elsewhere it's never been a major complaint with me or some of the other vector contributors I know. Just to remind you, here is my 'bullying' post. If you can point out the bullying part of it I'd be happy to apologise. And I said 'inordinate', not 'insurmountable'. but I wouldn't say it's so hard at IS as to present an insurmountable difficulty, I said 'insurmountable' here, but not relating to you, just as a general point.
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« on: November 11, 2010, 04:25 »
The other exclusive vector contributors you know? Mainly yes, but the technical and buggy problems mentioned earlier would affect anyone. I would say there is the odd upload bug there but 99.9% of the time I have no problems technically. As I've never uploaded at other sites I can't compare ease of uploading, but I accept what others say, that it's easier elsewhere, but I wouldn't say it's so hard at IS as to present an insurmountable difficulty, you just get used to it, know what to keyword, get to know which category to use without thinking etc etc
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« on: November 11, 2010, 04:21 »
Can I clarify Thomas, are you talking about istock? I couldn't see a link to your portfolio there and as Eireann put you in the 'very successful' class I was interested to see your IS portfolio. For non-exclusives 14 days does seem to be within the parameters of normal at IS, I'm exclusive and have had images recently inspected in 2 hours but have also had to wait a few days for some too.
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« on: November 11, 2010, 02:32 »
A blank page with a red img placeholder is all I get.
And then there aer the categories, the scrolling windows, horizontal, vertical, back and forth, the errors and the bugs and the failed uploads.
Not easy. You've got 22 vectors and you've been on IS for 17 months or so. You do seem to have met an inordinate number of obstacles considering the size of your portfolio. With practise it becomes pretty easy, and although I do accept it may be easier elsewhere it's never been a major complaint with me or some of the other vector contributors I know.
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« on: November 10, 2010, 17:37 »
On top of that, uploading a vector file to IStock is a seriously irritating process. I have never found it to be so. In what way?
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« on: November 02, 2010, 04:30 »
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« on: October 31, 2010, 10:58 »
as we see best match is populated almost exclusively by Vetta and Agency these days? I'm not quite sure what you mean by this? I haven't got hours to test this but 2 random searches, set to best match and photos only, produce the first half of the first page with Vetta and Agency, then onwards ordinary files with a scattering of Vetta and Agancy stuff. To say that there's nothing but V and A files is just disingenuous.
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« on: October 31, 2010, 05:01 »
Google Translatesters I think there may be a hint here
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