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Messages - skyfish
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« on: February 05, 2016, 10:56 »
For them "business", for designers s**t
177
« on: January 28, 2016, 03:32 »
I have only some occasional videos at ss. No way really to produce costly footage for them. I do video only for clients which pay.
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« on: January 28, 2016, 03:31 »
I saw their site . They tell that they take a persentage, and they will keep the files uploaded forever. The only difference is that 30 day exclusivity is mandatory and after it can be changed to non-exclusive license granted to them, but they will keep files forever. Searched for their %, but didn't find any digit. May be somebody else saw it? Decided to not join for now, only when see more clear conditions.
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« on: January 27, 2016, 03:57 »
Can they add a function called Pay-hero where they put an extra two zeros behind every payment?
Lol. Seems they introduced a bot which will do refunds on accounts which just reached payout to keep money longer
180
« on: January 24, 2016, 09:06 »
Actually i have move up with other agencies. This trend was all past year. Client, which wants to use his subscription, wants to be sure that if i told that the image is there, he will find it. Does not work with ss anymore. For others i can send an url and be sure that person will see the photo but not "oops" page or something like this.
181
« on: January 24, 2016, 05:59 »
i already have a mesage from an occasional client that my images were not findable yesterday
182
« on: January 24, 2016, 05:57 »
etudiante_rapide: great and exact quotes
183
« on: January 23, 2016, 03:44 »
Bugs bugs
Stop paranoia!
99,99999% of the times when there is an error it is an human (user) error
Human error unintentional - bug, Human error intentional - company policy and this does not cancel "be careful"
184
« on: January 20, 2016, 02:43 »
I have similar problem on DT with "exclusive". Seems everywhere we should be careful
185
« on: January 04, 2016, 03:18 »
Not worth to upload. I have a long history of their manipulations with keywords, they actually many times removed essential keywords, leaving mostly not important on. Here are threads about this. This was definitely manual work, for selection of images. They expose my images on Getty, but they are not available for downloads by buyers ("from street"?). They are time wasters. Support never answered my questions except i think 5 years ago they demanded additional proof for one image with metal chain segment. With all this i think they don't report all sales, otherwise it does not make sense to continue accept images.
186
« on: December 30, 2015, 05:55 »
Never heard about them before. About private info - really you understood correctly? Unbelieveable request
187
« on: December 28, 2015, 10:28 »
They need new photos. But... During years of participation in this business, i noticed that different agencies periodically start to reject exactly images which are already published on competitors sites (several times i suspected that such rejection happen in period when competitor accepted but not yet exposed them to public, from hours to 1-2 days, and rejected by competotor photos were accepted). Resubmit after several months usually worked.
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« on: December 13, 2015, 08:26 »
RM will stay, but less shares on the market. Bigger loss that even businesses with budgets for ads and photos take decisions following political situations and mode. Recent questions from potential clients: we want smartphone photos from our exposition(but we want to use it as a cover for our magazine), is your photographer young?, we need a young man to photograph our conference, we need graduate, benevole etc. After this you can expect an avalanche of publications how they help youngs to master their professions. And they want to pay only transportation. Stock will survive anyway, ss star will decline, others will come, i saw already hybrids of RM and RF. Will see.
189
« on: December 11, 2015, 08:45 »
Yes it is 24 hours. However, didn't find that lower standard is allowed. Probably only for some extrim situations photographed. File size for news is smaller - 5-25 MB uncompressed.
190
« on: December 11, 2015, 05:50 »
I didn't like the concept of Symbiostock, everyone hosting their own site but I gave it a shot anyway and I never really liked it. Having a single site that is majority owned by contributors would interest me.
Isn't it about shares at ss as an example? And the result?
191
« on: December 03, 2015, 04:30 »
Thank you for your reply, but in editorial section such type of images has much less value, and reupload to them is just a waste of time. Others accepted and it will stay with them.
192
« on: December 03, 2015, 02:51 »
Their criteria are changing. Now not only in title of the image should not be "foreign" text, they rejected image of a church with latin text on the external wall. Which language is not foreign for this reviewer? In the same time they send e-mail that they want a free image and requested personal data from photographer. Thanks, ss, your e-mail is in trash.
193
« on: December 02, 2015, 14:08 »
And viewed in browser == downloaded
194
« on: November 29, 2015, 06:39 »
This thread deserves reanimation. I am on Crated too , not a lot of attention, but anyway https://crated.com/skyfish
195
« on: November 25, 2015, 08:20 »
Checkbox with "sell rights" again is checked when i change license type. Just again i want to tell publicly - i don't want to sell the rights, Dreamstime! It is extrim to find there images in the port where this checkbox was checked. This checkbox is not checked always, it is something for sure not random, but not for all cases, what also is doing difficult to detect.
196
« on: November 23, 2015, 09:15 »
Demanded to delete my port from them some years ago. No regret.
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« on: November 22, 2015, 01:28 »
It was only because of easy upload. They declined heavily last months. Simple things in interface they cannot manage too - for example, even being logged in, i have to choose a language and close popup every day! Had an answer from them that it is not possible to change. Strange thing to hear from IT person. Bad sign - sales were stopped absolutely when i requested last payout.
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« on: November 10, 2015, 03:48 »
This sort of craziness is why I'm right on the edge of shutting down my remaining microstock accounts. I'm now making more money on print sales, and it looks like the microstocks are basically competing with me, with my own work.
We're drifting into a tacit agreement that someone with your image has the right to do anything with it that you, the creator, don't explicitly act to to prevent. There are now companies in the business of searching for usages of your work, allegedly to spot violations - for a fee of course. The next step for the micros will be to simply tell us to start using those companies if we want protection.
I'd call this 'rights creep' an it's only going to get worse.
We also need to stop calling microstock companies "agencies".
Something like this already happened with hostings. When hosting company had a disaster on their side, they proposed "help" and clients should pay to third party company with which they did an agreement. I insisted that they have to restore accounts for free. This time ok. Anyway they wanted clients to pay for their low qualification.
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« on: November 07, 2015, 15:59 »
I'm chiming in late, been busy lately and hadn't notice the big change in the preview size...OMG! Why did the have to change this, it was fine before. OK, maybe make it a little larger but not humongous...it's insanely large! The watermark for this size is useless.
WTH are they thinking! 
Here is a preview one of mine:
[urlhttp://www.shutterstock.com/pic-327930608/stock-photo-rustic-door-opening-into-a-room-decorated-for-christmas.html?src=kYzuUqqj9Zsdan9V1r57wQ-1-0][/url]
Sandralise, your image is downloadeable with size 1261x1600.
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« on: November 07, 2015, 02:40 »
For those who thinks that previews are now smaller: one click - yes you have a small preview. Then you can save it at size 1600x1164,
1500x1086, etc, drag/drop. Compression is not enough done, IMHO. Now it is no matter was this an intention of the management or it is a qualification of a programmer "hired because he is from my village". All is attached to the name "Shutterstock". SS gave a huge field to play for competitors. Other names will grow. This industry even oversaturated by supply has niches which are in the same demand as usual every day goods.
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