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Adobe Stock / Guess I'll reupload to Fotolia
« on: October 08, 2014, 14:32 »
Been reading around the forums and it seems like they've been doing fairly well and are still above dreamstime. Since the boycott, microstock has been so boring ... at least those little sub sales kept me checking ;) Seems like every site has their own dumb little subscription model going ... might as well just accept the fact that we're just going to live on nickels and dimes.

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Shutterstock.com / I can never submit!
« on: September 24, 2014, 03:18 »
Or submit properly ... I use the browser upload and something goes wrong ... so I ftp and upload and ... work around the missing files crap ... but, my last set of rejections were for not being vector files :/ Totally puzzled on how I'm supposed to do this, and I've gotten to the point where I just try and if not I give up for a few weeks, or months ...

I'm not a big contributor ... I maybe create a couple files per month, and I don't care if I'm rejected because my illustration sucks or whatever but, I really don't know how to get past these naive rejections for files that I've probably tried to upload a dozen times before you even see them! UGH!

(using filezilla and chrome, if anyone has any suggestions it'd be grand)

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My portfolio isn't very big, somewhere around 100 vectors but, their upload process seems like it'd be more work than it might be worth ... Anyone having a fair amount of luck with them?

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Symbiostock - Development Area / New and featured images front page
« on: September 18, 2013, 17:43 »
How are you guys doing the new and featured images on the front page? I'm not terribly new to wordpress but I can't for the life of me figure it out.

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Symbiostock - Technical Support / Broken links?
« on: September 15, 2013, 17:44 »
I'm trying to do some testing, for some reason when I try to view a file it's appending ?r=http://drpgraphicdesign.com/stock onto the end of the url http://drpgraphicdesign.com/stock/?image=web-concepts-background?r=http://drpgraphicdesign.com/stock which obviously results in a broken link

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Symbiostock - Development Area / Child theme
« on: September 14, 2013, 16:36 »
Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Locally the file works with
Code: [Select]
/*
 Theme Name:     Symbiostock Child
 Theme URI:      http://drpgraphicdesign.com
 Description:    Symbiostock Child
 Author:         Dallas Price
 Author URI:     http://drpgraphicdesign.com
 Template:       Symbiostock
 Version:        1.0.0
*/

/* =Imports styles from the parent theme
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
@import url("../symbiostock/style.css");


/* =Theme customization starts here
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

But, online I'm getting "The parent theme is missing" :/

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General Stock Discussion / Keep up the good work
« on: September 10, 2013, 10:52 »
A few weeks ago at the newspaper where we work we did a small special section showcasing some of the local businesses that wanted to advertise there. One of the businesses sent us http://us.fotolia.com/id/16591249, incredibly without watermark and at high res. During my searching around the same time I saw the same photo on fotolia.

Which, to me anyway, basically means that despite the declining royalties and demand, microstock is alive and well. The more people that realize how affordable the images are, the better imo. (Now if we can just keep a decent share of the profits ;) )

Keep up the great work people :)

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Illustration - General / Picworkflow?
« on: August 25, 2013, 13:26 »
So, through a discussion here I learned of picworkflow.com and today I purchased some credits to see how well the keywording works. How many others use picworkflow, do you use their keywords? What other of their services are handy? I'm pretty new and only contribute to a handful of sites so I'm not sure if having them upload files will save me a ton of time.

Just interested to see, I was hoping they had a smaller package than the $10 ... But, maybe I'll try their upload thing. :/

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Illustration - General / General Noob Questions
« on: August 10, 2013, 16:38 »
How do you guys find idea's that sell? Is there a way to find commonly searched keywords? How much time do you find you can devote to one single file with the continually declining royalties?

I'm getting a bit better, and find myself caught in an internal battle of how long I WANT to spend on a file to sell for so cheaply. I know I can illustrate better than even my last file. But, I spent hours on that even. I suppose I'm not all that concerned with the money, as microstock illustrating is more of a hobby currently. But, a couple bucks a week or so wouldn't be too bad ;)

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General Stock Discussion / Fotolia search blows!!
« on: August 07, 2013, 10:51 »
As an ammature illustrator trying to make a couple bucks on the side. I find it quite discouraging to spend a few hours on a file to find it behind over 300 mostly irrelevant, and in some cases much worse files. I understand that I'm not that great and my "ranking" is poor. But, to me the search itself seems pretty broken.

Should I be searching for better niches or something?

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Illustration - General / 123rf keywords?
« on: April 12, 2013, 20:52 »
2 of my new files got rejected for invalid description/keywords. All 4 in the batch had similar keywording but, 2 were accepted. Not sure what I did wrong.

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