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General Stock Discussion / Re: while balance - how and how important?

« on: July 30, 2015, 11:11 »

Thanks so far for the replys. its really helping me already

and Digital66 ?
im pretty sure, that you didnt started into microstock with everything of the know what you can have.
i got this answer now so often on my different questions.
like a "oh my god how cant you know that, you´re so dumb".
its like i get a answer from god.
you arent god.

and im sure too, that u dont know everything too.

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General Stock Discussion / Photoscape - saving filesize reduces hard

« on: July 30, 2015, 07:51 »

i just played a bit with the White Balance.
in photoscape, just to try out something and i realized, when i safe the photo from photoscape the filesize is gonna reduced hard.

from 14,4 MB they left to 8,8MB.
safed quality at 100% and same image size.

any reasons known for that ?

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General Stock Discussion / while balance - how and how important?

« on: July 30, 2015, 04:22 »

How important is the correct white balance?

i never did anything with the white balance while the editing because i never thought it could be relevant.

Would it and how would it change - the chances to get it accepted to the agencies and sell it at least?

i ask this because i got often the comment, after my postings in the forum "wrong white balance"
- if you want - check any port out from me and tell me something to it.

Thank you guys already.

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123RF / 123rf - reviewed status for 12 days now ?

« on: July 30, 2015, 04:01 »

Hellow my stockfriends.

got anyone a problem with 123rf else the last time ?
is it normal that they take, now nearly 2 weeks, for the review?

ive uploaded the images on the 18th this month and im still waiting for decides for my photos.

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Portfolio Themes maximum? ordering ?

« on: July 29, 2015, 04:39 »

aand, what you think about topicality?
- deleting old images, that got no views,no sales, no nothing they are already in over 1,5 years`?

got it any benefit when i delete old images that is nobody interesting for ?

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Newbie Discussion / Portfolio Themes maximum? ordering ?

« on: July 29, 2015, 04:15 »

What you think how many themes should a portfolio haves as maximum?
maybe "themes" is the wrong word.. i mean "genre" or a similar word.
u know : nature,architecture,portrait,etc.
(im bad in english and dont know the right words for my question yet, hope you understand this one anyway xD)

Should i go for many themes? or better less or just one.
ive got many differences in my port, if you checked you can see.

does it make a change if i would reduce my port to 1,2 or 3 genres?
maybe to nature,isolated object and landscape as an example ?
or is it better to have much themes in it.

aaaand : is it possible to order the images like on shutterstock with the catalog manager?
i just think that this is really helpful and could the port look more organisated.

okay, i dont know if its understandable what i wrote here.. im happy about every answer from you guys

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Newbie Discussion / to late for start at microstocking?

« on: July 27, 2015, 07:52 »

i´ve heard so often here now, how someones have just 400 online images and over 200 sales.

ive nearly got 1000 in one agency and have only 30.

i got in begin of the year 2014.

is it just gonna bad for late starter or depends this to strong in the images?
i make much nature images.

is it worth it ?

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Shutterstock.com / most popular keywords are gone ?

« on: July 24, 2015, 07:49 »

wasnt there a site at shutterstock that showed top 50 or top 100 keywords and top images?
is this page deleted now or where can i find it.

and if its really gone, do you have ideas how i can find out the actually most popular tags/keywords ?
would be really usefull.

and why are they deleted?
maybe because of the abuse ?

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123RF / Re: 123rf payout

« on: July 20, 2015, 07:45 »

ok then i have one other question.

where can i enter the paypal adress? or should it be the same as that one i used for register there

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123RF / 123rf payout

« on: July 20, 2015, 07:25 »

maybe its a dumb question but i really cant find it. :

whats the minimum payout at 123rf ?
and where can i get the payout?
i cant find any links which would help me there.

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General Stock Discussion / graffiti copyright ?

« on: June 27, 2015, 12:59 »

i just take a photo from a graffiti wall in a city in germany.
can i upload this picture now to a microstock agency and offer that or does this have a kind of "copyright".

- no its not MY graffiti, just found this interesting

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iStockPhoto.com / Most Popular keywords on istock search ?

« on: June 23, 2015, 06:39 »

Is it possible to see anywhere the actual popular keywords - the most searched words from customers?

maybe monthly would be good.
daily would be the best but monthly should be enough.

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General Stock Discussion / how long you need for a stockpicture

« on: September 26, 2014, 12:36 »

how long do you need for a single picture ?
or.. : how much time do you spend in one picture ?

just shoot and upload ?
or do you edit,retouch, etc it for longer time ?

you think its really worth to spend a day in one picture for "only" microstock ?

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: How does the NEW iStock stack up against Shutterstock?

« on: September 26, 2014, 10:52 »

not a single sale for already a month now.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: First Week of New iStock - How are you doing?

« on: September 26, 2014, 10:52 »

since a month no sales.
but nowhere.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Istock's back

« on: September 13, 2014, 11:46 »

ive got just one question. maybe two.

Essential and Signature.
Essentials are normal non exclusive and signature are exclusives (or they are in GI too) ?

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Moving iStock Forward - September 2, 2014. contributor newsletter

« on: September 13, 2014, 10:00 »

one credit costs 12,50€
so we become everytime 1,88€(at 15%) minimum comission, am i right there ?

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Shutterstock.com / Shutterstock acceptance rate

« on: September 03, 2014, 04:30 »

shutterstock sometimes is curious to me.
mostly i get 9/10 rejected . most times with the poor lighting reason.
one day in a week i get 9/10 accepted.
every week. really every week in one day is there a golden day for me.

is there a "perfect time" for uploading ?
anyone else with that experience ?