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Says nothing on illustrated images.  ???

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Off Topic / Re: The Prisoner
« on: December 28, 2017, 00:51 »
The government controlling the reality of prisoners.
. . . a brave new world.

Isn't that part of the point of prisons?

I get what he's saying. This can get out of hand and not just be used in prisons but on other populations of people as well. If you don't like a group of people and or their view points, just use these brain washing techniques. Yes, this stuff can be abused. See how the charter of rights in your country can change due to terrorism. Look at how our freedoms have eroded. Its scary what can happen in the near future.  :(

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Off Topic / Re: The Prisoner
« on: December 27, 2017, 23:33 »
I wonder if they get an electric shock as a negative reinforcement?  ;)

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Happy Christmas!
« on: December 25, 2017, 00:23 »
🎁🎄🌲Merry Christmas to you all and to all a good night.  :)

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Net Neutrality
« on: December 18, 2017, 18:08 »
What happened in the US with this net neutrality is eventually going to happen in Canada despite what our government says.  And we have terrible monopolies happening over here as well.  ::)
Yup a slow boil brought to you by the so called elite of the world.
"Its a rich man's world"

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Targeted microstock fishing emails
« on: December 11, 2017, 16:36 »
Don't forget to send a copy for the DT people to investigate.

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Off Topic / Re: curious about Teeporium
« on: December 11, 2017, 16:33 »
Chinese copyright law is very different from what it is in most other countries.

And legal or not, they can copy absolutely anything anyone is selling online (and offline). Anywhere. And it happens a lot.

Still, there is business going on in the rest of the world. Just another thing to consider when setting your prices, that's all.

If you have a unique design, you need to take care of your branding and make people not want to buy ripoffs.

Thought so. That was my experience with Cafe Press. Tried it quite a while ago. Zip in sales. Probably too much competition and stuff gets buried fast with only a basic account. But still some artist/designers seem to still manage make some kind of a living. Saw a really fancy airbrushed shower curtain for sale there with a mermaid theme on it. Can't imagine that guy not making a sale. But then he does have a premium account. So.......

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Off Topic / curious about Teeporium
« on: December 11, 2017, 00:12 »
I'm a little curious about this tee shirt place called Teeporium.

Basically you provide your graphic and if your Canadian you get excepted, they sell your work and supposedly you get some cash.

Has any one tried this place or has any one tried these other tee shirt places for your designs?
Are they any good in terms of payment, do they treat you right?
Is it worth it?  :)

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Class action lawsuit?

Class action DOS. If every contributor affected by these dirtbags (hundreds of thousands?) accessed the site say two or three times a day...a perfectly legal way to hack the hackers. I highly doubt their hosting plan allows for that kind of bandwidth. Just don't click on any ad links though.
Or better yet block those ads.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: freepik: another low player?
« on: November 10, 2017, 16:04 »
I think the name says it all.  ;)

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General - Top Sites / Re: Same images across different sites?
« on: November 03, 2017, 22:45 »
Yes to uploading to other sites. I would avoid IS just because they seem to cheat lots of people by giving you a share of practically nothing. I only signed up but decided not to upload there.
As for uploading to other sites not every site will except all images and not every person/buyer checks out every site, so it works out in the end.  :)

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Software / Re: No perpetual license for Lightroom 7
« on: October 25, 2017, 22:44 »
I wish there was a really great alternative to Illustrator.  :( And don't point me to Inkscape. The last time I tried it, some of the features did not play well with Illustrator.  :(
What about Affinity Designer?
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/

I'll check it out. Thanks a bunch.  :)

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Software / Re: No perpetual license for Lightroom 7
« on: October 24, 2017, 22:24 »
I wish there was a really great alternative to Illustrator.  :( And don't point me to Inkscape. The last time I tried it, some of the features did not play well with Illustrator.  :(

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In my parents language Nimia actually means "don't have". That is if you change the "I" to e, remove the other "I" and then you have Nema as in don't have.  :P

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No I would not. I already have my own on line personal port.
Besides I wish ss would fix their real problem. With people stealing images without the water marks. ::)

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Senior VP Enterprise Sales leaves SS
« on: October 13, 2017, 22:27 »
Smells like Sears. 🤢

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Shutterstock.com / Re: What is happening to SS?
« on: October 13, 2017, 17:09 »
Acceptance of every image, no matter how redundant, so the site is flooded with similar crud. Pushing newer contributors up in the search and burying established contributors to maximize profits. And competition from free sites. I see more and more businesses using photos from free photo sites for their social media every day. That's killing our sub sales.

Not to mention loads of online cheat programs that steal your images.
I wish SS and others affected by this would get off their buns and fix this nonsense.  ::)
In the mean time, no uploads for them.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Help needed - name the fish!
« on: October 13, 2017, 17:05 »
number five could be a red snapper

Your probably right! too bad you can't see the mouth.  :)

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Off Topic / In your face contract design
« on: October 05, 2017, 22:38 »
http://designtaxi.com/news/393907/This-Design-Firm-s-Bold-Honest-Jargon-Free-Contract-Is-Simply-Brilliant/

Though I share this pretty interesting way a designer made a custom bold contract design and business card.
I wonder how many of you would be brave enough to design like this. But I guess a well established person would be unafraid to do this.
What do you think?  :D

Over all its pretty boring looking but the boldness of the words might make up for it.

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Off Topic / Re: Safer
« on: October 03, 2017, 22:21 »
If the more weapons we have makes us safer why don't we give nukes to N. Korea and Iran?

Because its like giving a running moron scissors. Or giving a 5 year old matches.
Really no leader of today should have access to these things cause well all they care about its power and greed.
Wish they would care about their fellow human beings and the pursuit of knowledge.  ::)

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS Security Issues with images
« on: September 27, 2017, 22:35 »
This stealing site is alive and well at xdownder dot com

I reported this to SS but I'm done, I will not upload to SS. People not uploading may be the only thing SS will understand. Stop uploading, upload to other sites only, and let SS know why.

WE contributors are what makes the stock sites "good". SS is not a "good site" without our content, so lets show them!

I'm with you. Taking a break from them until they can truly clean up this trouble and not drag their feet.
I have nothing to loose.  :-\

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Perhaps Shutterstock contributors could learn from this: you can make $1k a day on Etsy, so why bother with Shutterstock?

Easy for that person to sell on Etsy cause those images are not theirs. So no responsibility there. No worries of someone else stealing and making a buck.

Kind of like, its easy to trash a public place but when someone does it to your home, watch out.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Custom is born
« on: September 25, 2017, 22:32 »
Are there rates and so on buried in there somewhere or are we expected to do custom work for .38 or 33%?


I didn't see any rates posted, but here's an earlier thread that included some info on what a Flashstock contributor got paid (not much but not 38 cents :) )

http://www.microstockgroup.com/new-sites-general/'on-demand'-site-flashstock-com-anyone-tried-this


Sounds like you would make more at a place called Fiverr. Hummmm 😐

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Graphicstock is now Storyblocks
« on: September 19, 2017, 22:54 »
Not the cleverest of name changes. I googled it and 1st entry is a content provider / charity called..... wait for it...... Storyblocks

http://www.storyblocks.org

That should have been the first thing they checked. I can see this causing confusion for both companies.


Reminds me of the onsite company I use to work for.
It had several names and one more maybe added the last time I was in touch.  ::)

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Crestock finally gives up the ghost?
« on: September 19, 2017, 22:51 »
I am getting nothing from the web address, have they finally shut the doors after several years of minimal downloads?

LOL Wishful thinking.  ;D

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