How would you submit realistic 3D renders (not the interiors that need to be submitted in a specific way but, for instance, say a cup of coffee on a table)?
My logic being, if submitted as photo it would get a wider exposure since a particular buyer might be looking for photos and assume illustrations might be more of a vector designs and similar.
Or would you call that cheating, in a way?
How do you submit realistic 3D renders?

When I search "office" it's a mix of "Eighth Wonder" and "Gorodenkoff" and to my eyes they look like absolutely the same.

Quote from: qunamax on November 23, 2018, 15:03

Not to hijack but I had really big sale 15. Oct. and this thread got me thinking, where it said "Date purchased / refunded" two dates should be included right?

No, but I'm not sure what you meant.
Are you saying the file was purchased, then refunded? If so, that is recorded in two different rows.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4gj94aghzf317la/bought%20-%20refunded.jpg?dl=0

Not on that page but that cleared it up anyway, thanks, no refund, so far.

...I wonder if it is only me who is facing currently "falls" in sells at AS after the announcement that FT will be closed, while sells in SS are going up in this period... Do you think it is seasonal or, simply, new buyers have started to choose SS more often as a long-term partner after this news biased by uncertainty towards AS?

Not at all, you can see the recent threads about SS being almost completely dead for a week or so while AS was growing good and many of us got 100$ sales at AS right about that time. I'd say it's seasonal after all.

My logic tells me both, the owner probably doesn't own the rights to home design (unless actually transferred by designer, which we know 99% didn't happen), yet you need a signed permission from the owner for that particular home. If I'd want it to be 100% transparent and I know it will sell like hotdogs, I'd get both.
But my logic also tells me that designer/team of designers/manufacturer, unless high profile and really proud of their unique designs, will never see or care or know that the photos are on sale without their permission, so I'd just get the owner signed and don't bother much more.

Low sales this week and a mix of old never sold stuff and new just uploaded.

Quote from: qunamax on November 07, 2018, 06:13

@Brasilnut can you comment on this?

Quote from: qunamax on November 05, 2018, 09:59

Good reading. I was just wondering is it 2018/2019 related or written years before? If it's current it really sparks hope, which is good.
I was wondering what would happen if one sets to upload 100 images a day (back catalog and new shootings, all of excellent quality and decent commercial value)?
If persistent, it would take 3 months to reach about 9000 images online. How would that compare to 6000 in three years in your opinion?

I wrote it last week. Yes, I believe it is contemporary...leaning more towards a realistic to cautious outlook, based on a strong commercial port (model-released) with few similar images. The projection also has editorials in the mix which, on average, earn less than model-released lifestyle type commercial work. 

If one sets out to upload 100 images/day at "excellent quality and decent commercial value" over 90 days, my prediction would be that after an initial boost as "fresh content", it would then take at least a further 3-5 months until the algos do their thing and those images reach their peak in keyword rankings to earn their peak amounts, before slowly depreciating at about 3% a month until reaching a floor (they'll never become worthless).

Back catalogs related to fashion, technology, even skylines generally don't age well, save for vintage value (Manhattan pre- 9/11 for example). If those images are contemporary they may hold their own for years to rank highly for certain keywords. Best to be shooting with future trends in mind, in any case,...Virtual Reality / Augmented reality, tablets, digital displays, etc.

This is all really academic so best to post a few examples to have a better idea of your archives.

I recall reading somewhere that uploading slowly and consistently is better than all at once in terms of earnings, plus you wouldn't be want to do keywording for 5 hours a day for the next 3 months as you'll probably drive yourself crazy. Plus you may get a nasty reviewer who will just reject a whole batch. In the end they would probably earn about the same in their lifetime but always keep in mind that some images are more time-sensitive than others!

Hope that helps!

Thank you for the extensive answer! It's not really a personal question, but while reading the article I got really curious how would a really aggressive strategy work out instead of long term, really modest weekly uploads you suggested. 

No doubt to what you all say.
But you have to admit, if you are living with a partner with 300�, or have a dayjob, or place with extreme cheap living costs,
this subsidizes the possibility to produce images in a way.

And -if all your dayjob money is going to cover the mentioned things-
-> you dont have many time left to produce enough high quality stuff

MY POINT: A fair royalty should finance production costs not a dayjob or partner etc

Anyway i doubt its possible to live and produce images in portugal with 430�/month

It really depends on the niche, sure I can't possibly shoot high quality business stuff or exotic travel photos, but there are other things to cover if you are creative, not to mention going for CGI stuff both video and still, vectors... Adobe subscriptions are not high, Blender is free etc.
My point, once you reach $500 you can quit dayjob, as you are earning more than you used on your dayjob and you'll have a lot of time to devote to stock.
Also the people mentality is a bit different and if you are fairly young and social you'll have beautiful people standing in line for free photoshoots as long as they get nice photos for social media. I imagine being a bit older in western metropolis is a bit more difficult with models ($$$). But this is if you live in a small city, living in Belgrade is a bit different, cost are higher and you are constantly living low on time and fuel.
So with stable $500 it's a nice living, with double that you are pretty close to doctors, small company owners etc regarding living quality.

Good reading. I was just wondering is it 2018/2019 related or written years before? If it's current it really sparks hope, which is good.
I was wondering what would happen if one sets to upload 100 images a day (back catalog and new shootings, all of excellent quality and decent commercial value)?
If persistent, it would take 3 months to reach about 9000 images online. How would that compare to 6000 in three years in your opinion? 

Works for me now, hopefully unrelated to this "hacking" issue.

Quote from: qunamax on October 28, 2018, 21:02

Well I use Xpiks and Deepmeta for IS. I can't praise Xpiks enough, it really suits my workflow perfectly, I watched it mature over time and support is really quick and helpful, really great for a free piece of software.

It doesn't Submit though, does it ??   StockSubmitter does, though u have to pay above 33  subs/month 

No it doesn't but it's free and for my quantities it really doesn't take much time at all to submit to FT and SS, thou 33 limit on StockSubmitter is realistically more of a daily quota than monthly, so it's not really free at all.

Whn you sell 0 images from 200 uploaded to SS, in 3 days.

Ha I did three shooting days with models (not paid thou), burned some fuel, food and sodas, did lots of compositing the ideas I had, not just standard pp work, uploaded some 100 photos and I got 1 sub out of them in a week and it's not one of the composites.