I am confused with this sites layout. I opened an account their this week and uploaded some photos to see what would happen, I can't find any website navigation that shows you your portfolio or accepted or rejected images. Anyone know where to look for that.

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Where do you think Pond5 ranks without video, if it was only photos? I'm thinking about adding my portfolio there but don't want to if they are not going to rank above Canstock. Also I see that their recommendation for your original file is $5 bucks. That seems really low and yet reading in the forum someone said they did it at $25 and Pond5 kept telling them they should lower their price.

So person who does not understand marketing is spamming the site with his essay service, hope microstockgroup files a suit against him with the spam act.

I was trying to import an image into photoshop tonight that had a portion of a hundred dollar bill in it and Photoshop said it could not open the image due to Currency issues and then wanted to direct me to some currency website.

Has anyone else had this problem of Photoshop recognizing money in the image and rejecting them?

It was flat on but it was only a third of the money. Anyone have a work around for this problem.

I ended up using Gimp instead but its not the same as using photoshop and was a pain to get the results I needed.

Does FotoSearch accept contributors? Is anyone here on there? I could not find anything on their site for accepting contributors.

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Just wondering what is the best way to get pure white when isolating an object in studio? Currently I take my photos into Photoshop and use the pen tool to create a path and take the background to pure white with a grey scale shadow.

However days of editing each photo is taking its toll on my mouse hand. I have tried blowing out the background with a strobe but the light reflects back onto the object and creates all sorts of problems.

So I assume that I need to increase the distance from my backdrop to the object to cut down the reflective light from blowing out the backdrop, My question is not only will that work but in general about how far does the object need to be from the backdrop so that the reflective light won't be a problem?

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Just wondering what everyone does for a studio? I want to start photographing people in studio and out, outside the studio is a whole other question but for in studio once you start setting up a scene to photograph you need a pretty big space so just wondering if people are renting a space or working out of their garage or using a facility at a college or something? If you rent any tips on where to find large spaces for cheap?

My plan at the moment is to convert the garage but then I am not sure if that would come across as professional if you hire models or if it would be large enough?

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So I have been trying to wrap my brain around SS pricing and payout. For the longest time I thought Single & Other Downloads was an Enhanced License but it's not. When you look at their plans they offer Customers, Single & Other Downloads isn't really part of those plans but instead more of a personal case by case plan for big companies I assume?

So for instance if I get a $90 Single & Other Downloads sale I have received 30% based on my lifetime earnings. That means that the actual sale was $300 total, So what kind of sale is that, I can only assume its similar to the Enhanced License, the largest screen size at 300 dpi Tiff but with some special Licensing agreement?

And if so what kind of agreement would that be that does not already fall under the already all encompassing Enhanced License Agreement?

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I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing a drop in sales everyday for the last week? Are there mass uploads to ShutterStock? I am not understanding the sudden drop off in sales, I'm a full time stock photographer so the kind of drop I am seeing matters quite a bit.

Who are the 123rf partner sites and whats your take on allowing your images on the partner sites, good or bad and why?

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I have a few questions about selling direct. I know many don't think you should bother, but if I do bother maybe you can help me understand how this works.

Licensing for example, how would you go about that, simply copy what a big site is doing?

How do you police that license agreement or do you just hope they are honest?

When you do sell a photo, are you allowing them to download a jpg file at a set resolution or is there some other file type etc?

I've noticed that when I have a large format sell of a photo it could bring in upwards of $120 for my cut so that would mean about almost $400 for the the overall sale before the agency takes out their cut yet I have seen contributors on here say they would only charge $59 or something like that, that seems pretty low for pricing don't you think?

Which brings me to this question, if these various top four micro sites are selling millions of photos every day how do they enforce the licensing agreements that are being made? I don't even thing the US Gov could keep up with that!

Is it too late to Opt out of the Dreamstime Google deal?

Thanks!