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Ever since I upgraded to CS6, I have had trouble getting SS to properly recognize any files saved as EPS 8.

If I upload as EPS 10 it seems to work just fine.

Most of my files are saved as EPS 10 and I don't do anything to label them differently.


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I like that idea!

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Thanks Leo for the help with Feature Images. I do have two qeustions though:

Where can I change the thumbnail size and also, how do I make the thumbs into more than one column? I've been lookin all through the files but I'm not having much luck. Anyone?

I would love to be to show the "latest images" in two columns in my side bar, instead of the single column that it is now. There is currently a lot of unused space.

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Symbiostock - Hosting / Re: Several SymbioStock Sites Blocked
« on: April 12, 2013, 13:14 »
Hi Dave, I think you've hit on something quiet important, never realised some hosts maybe on a blocked list.

My site is on Just Host - www.travelwitness.net - can you check if this is blocked?

Be good to build a reputable hosting list so Symbistock has a chance to breathe.


Matt, your beautiful site loads just fine.  8)

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Symbiostock - Hosting / Re: Several SymbioStock Sites Blocked
« on: April 12, 2013, 12:59 »
A little more poking around... I found the Bluehost forum and found a couple sites running wordpress that I was able to access.

Not sure if that is helpful or not.

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Symbiostock - Hosting / Re: Several SymbioStock Sites Blocked
« on: April 12, 2013, 10:40 »
I'm with Bluehost - can you please check BackyardStockPhotos.com? Link in my signature below

Steve

Blocked.

Must be an issue with Bluehost and the settings on the firewall here.

Not sure if this is something that can be worked out between BlueHost and Websense, or if someone here blocked the Bluehost IP.


I am not on bluehost so your company must be blocking some other way, if they are blocking. I suspect that your firewall has been configed to block adsense ads, but i am only guessing. I am not up on how that works.


Edit: i did a couple searchs too and i think it might be a company blocking thing.

Not sure why Google AdWords would have anything to do with this.

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Symbiostock - Hosting / Re: Several SymbioStock Sites Blocked
« on: April 12, 2013, 10:39 »
Just a thought, are these all new domains or established ones.  If mine is blocked try kerioak.com to see if that comes up or not?

Your site loads, both kerioak.com and your symbio sub domain.

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Symbiostock - Hosting / Re: Several SymbioStock Sites Blocked
« on: April 12, 2013, 10:18 »
I've emailed Websense to see if I can find out why they are blocked.

Not a great start to our new adventure!

steve

This could be specific to my location, but it also could be a much bigger issue. A Google search for "bluehost blocked by websense" does bring up several results. I just don't have the time to dig into it much right now.

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Symbiostock - Hosting / Re: Several SymbioStock Sites Blocked
« on: April 12, 2013, 09:59 »
I'm with Bluehost - can you please check BackyardStockPhotos.com? Link in my signature below

Steve

Blocked.

Must be an issue with Bluehost and the settings on the firewall here.

Not sure if this is something that can be worked out between BlueHost and Websense, or if someone here blocked the Bluehost IP.

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Symbiostock - Hosting / Re: Several SymbioStock Sites Blocked
« on: April 12, 2013, 09:43 »
not sure about your workplace but at my place if I get caught looking at my side business my side business would be a full time job!  ;D


I'm just shopping for stock images.  ;)

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Symbiostock - Hosting / Re: Several SymbioStock Sites Blocked
« on: April 12, 2013, 09:38 »
I'm with Bluehost too and my site wasn't on your list.  Did you check karensarragaphotography.com ?


Blocked.

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Symbiostock - Hosting / Re: Several SymbioStock Sites Blocked
« on: April 12, 2013, 09:34 »
So wouldnt it be a problem with your place of employments firewall? I just checked here at my work and nothing is blocked. I dont see how we are going to be able to control everyones firewalls. I am with ix webhosting.

Several sites, including my own, are not blocked.

I do think it is safe to assume that that my place of employment is not the only one with these restrictions/firewall settings.

Franky242's site is also blocked and he is with BlueHost.


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Symbiostock - Hosting / Several SymbioStock Sites Blocked
« on: April 12, 2013, 08:34 »
I have come across several sites that are blocked by the firewall at my place of employment. They are blocked by WebSense.

Not all Symbio sites are blocked, which leads me to assume it has something to do with the host.

The following sites are not accessible to me:

www.aseanphotostock.com
www.stereoshutter.com
www.cathyslifestockphotos.com
www.imagoborealis.com
www.hookstockimages.com
www.Stockabily.com

If one of the above sites is yours, please post who is hosting your site. It would not be good if people in a corporate environment can't access your site. See the warning on the image below.


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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Passing the vector illustration test.
« on: April 11, 2013, 15:57 »
This is an ancient thread but I'll play along.

I tried to get accepted at iStock many years ago and had one of my three files accepted. After a few more attempts I gave up and decided that this "stock" thing wasn't for me. For some reason I never thought at the time that there would be other places to submit my work.

A couple years later after becoming aware that there were places other than iStock I started submitting my work and making some cash.

After just over a year and a half I'm closing in on 30,000 downloads at Shutterstock alone. That one file that was accepted at iStock? It was one of my first ten at Shutterstock and has been one of my least popular images with a whopping 8 downloads.  Those files that weren't good enough for iStock have been downloaded hundreds of times.

To put it simply... F#$% iStock.


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Shutterstock.com / Re: Single Image (vector) Sale: $0.95?
« on: April 11, 2013, 09:29 »
Maybe those low sales are actually ELs? http://www.shutterstock.com/buzz/individual-image-licenses-update

Here is an explanation of two of those extended license options, one with and one without a sensitive use option.

A license without a sensitive use option.
For individual images downloaded under these licenses, the contributor will typically receive a royalty of $2 to $15 or more, based on the cost of the license and the contributors earnings tier (20 to 30%).


Assuming that the commission for a single image download is still 30%, a image would have to be sold at just over $3 to bring in a $.95 rate. A normal license single download is priced at $19.

There must be some sort of special offer that was offered by Shutterstock somewhere, it would just be nice to know the details.

I had another $.95 single sale yesterday.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: The best WHAT?
« on: April 11, 2013, 09:21 »
what did you put in the search ?  :o

LOL

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Naw just a hack. BTW because your unable to give a huge visual preview maybe in the description you can link to the category that holds those images?

Already done.  ;)

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Symbiostock - SEO & Marketing / Re: Sitemaps
« on: April 10, 2013, 15:53 »
Thanks Leo, I'll go Yoast.

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I put one set together and plan on doing more. Here's an example: http://stompstock.com/image/the-50-states-project-all-50-usa-states-vintage-vector-stamps/


That was really darn smart.



Not really, some guy named Leo made all this possible, he's the really darn smart one.

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I appreciate that you are on these forums addressing these issues Anthony. Seriously, two thumbs up to you.

It is still up to the individual reviewer to decide what does or does not need a reference image, and that inconsistency added to the long review times of late is very frustrating. If you want to upload an image specific to a certain time of year or a holiday you could certainly miss out if you have to resubmit and wait another 2+ weeks for another review.

 I have had a handful of images rejected in the past because I did not include a reference image. The problem for me is that there isn't one to submit. Most of my images are created on my computer, no originals exist.

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I didn't see on the poll options to sell images in sets, I think you had this working on your original site and that's one of the main things I want to be able to offer on my own.  This is probably a more programming intense change so I know it might be a while.  It would also be great if you made it as a plugin that we could buy if that is possible.


I set up a category for collections and list zipped  sets there -- each set will have smaller pix of the images included - and you can just use the zip option in pricing


I put one set together and plan on doing more. Here's an example: http://stompstock.com/image/the-50-states-project-all-50-usa-states-vintage-vector-stamps/

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Symbiostock - SEO & Marketing / Sitemaps
« on: April 10, 2013, 14:28 »
I just found what appears to be a nice sitemap generator plugin for Wordpress.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

Make sure you have the following box checked in the settings: Include custom post type Symbiostock Images


Anyone have different/better sitemap solutions?

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MSG name: daveh900
website: StompStock
url: http://www.stompstock.com
your photo topics: Vector Images (Vintage, Food, Travel, Sports, and more)
what  you're looking for: Complimentary Sites

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