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Messages - nataq
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« on: November 30, 2008, 01:57 »
Interesting comment from Lobo about this whole issue, before he locked the thread on istock.
Yep, we are done here folks. Clearly there are differing opinions on what Exclusivity/Non-exclusivity means to a contributor bottom line. For all the perks we provide our Exclusives we appreciate that some would feel we are trying to push out non-exclusives. The reality is we are trying to provide more incentive to the people on the fence.
Ironically, this latest best match change does quite the opposite. Why in the world I would think of being exclusive to an agency that accounts for about 10% of my microstock income? On the other hand the better IS does for non-exclusives the more people would consider going exclusive.
Very well said! BTW: Istock has dropped to Nr. 3 in the stats to the right for the first time since I am here. Another month like that and they will be Nr.4. Im not at all happy about that and it might not be the most relevant statistic but perhaps they might want to have a look at it. Many people are not only contributors but also designers - like me. As a designer I have collegues I recommend sites to and if a site doesnt treat me well, I wont recommend it. Anyway - in the longrun customers AND contributors ("staff") of a company in the civilised world have to be satisfied otherwise it wont work in the longrun.
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« on: November 26, 2008, 14:52 »
and to give you an even better idea of whats happening: in April 2007 I didnt even have 100 images online. By now I have 1.133 images online!!!
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« on: November 26, 2008, 14:44 »
graph doesnt show - perhaps now: 
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« on: November 26, 2008, 14:39 »
Right now sales mostly depend on wherever you are exclusive to IS or not.
Your sales depend mostly on the fact your images have a use to a buyer and has nothing to do if your exclusive or not.
Right. And how do I sell those useful images if they are buried under exclusive images in the search? 
You keyword them correctly and perhaps ask another kind contributor to add them to a particular lightbox they manage.You can link a few images together..Then forget about it and go create some more magic...
Maaan am I glad to be able to talk to an expert! You sure can explain this graph - I started in feb 2007. 5 months ago I started preparing to get exclusive by dec 13th (the estimate of getting diamond back then) so in pretty much two weeks. Now Im thinking about an uploadstop. What made my images not useful to the buyer anymore? 
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« on: November 21, 2007, 16:06 »
cool, didnt know all that. Ill look into it - sounds pretty interesting.
Thanks!
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« on: November 21, 2007, 10:18 »
hatman, thanks a lot for this info. When you say "highlighted" do you mean shown, or really selected. I ask because I had a batch of 23 images uploaded and none of them had data attached. I might have had those images shown in the "content" window, but I am sure not all of them were selected.
Unfortunately I never had CS2 - I upgraded straight from CS to CS3 :-(.
Anyway, thanks for the input!
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« on: November 19, 2007, 10:39 »
Hi, that sounds pretty logical. Thanks, Ill give it a try.
But to be honest - I dont understand why a big company like adobe cant achieve what others like irfanview can.
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« on: November 19, 2007, 08:45 »
Hi Leaf,
thanks for the tip on reloading the page, I had that once.
But regarding the rest: I did check the files and the info was there and it wasnt the mentioned problem on SS.
In the meantime I realized that iStock shows the keywords and the title, but not the description - veeery strange!
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« on: November 19, 2007, 04:23 »
Hi all,
I have a short question. Finally I decided to upgrade to adobe cs3 and to use bridge to add my keywords rather than photoshop.
The keywords show up when I open the image in photoshop, but unfortunately they dont when I upload the images e.g. to shutterstock.
Anybody else keywording with adobe bridge cs3???
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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« on: November 12, 2007, 05:48 »
well, what shall I say - you two convinced me!
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« on: November 12, 2007, 01:18 »
Thanks for the input everyone. Every single other agency accepted the image. There doesnt seem to be a continuity.
Its just one thing I dont really understand.
If I were a company, I would be happy to have my products shown on pics. Well, actually they pay a lot of money for advertisments - just to show their produce. The more obvious, the better.
And I would sue, if they remove the logo from my t-shirt, because I have the right to have my logo on my t-shirt!!!
I wonder if these things will change sometime.
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« on: November 11, 2007, 05:57 »
Hi all! If you ask me - istock is overplaying that copyright thing by far. If you look at it that way, every single t-shirt (printed or not) is copyright, every jeans,... Rejection reason: "On socks. This file includes content that may be subject to copyright or trademark protection. Certain use of this file creates risk of infringement and we regret that it cannot be accepted, unless this content is removed from the file."The other side is even less problematic. What do you think?  here is a closeup 
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« on: November 05, 2007, 09:03 »
Thanks for the link, Ill take a look right away.
regarding the site:
Istock asks wether you are the principle copyright holder, but e.g.:
Bigstock: "Photo MUST be taken or artwork created by YOU personally!!"
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« on: November 05, 2007, 08:50 »
Hi all,
I have read this forum for quite some time now but I havent written a single post.
However there is something that concerns me for quite some time now, so I thought Ill ask you guys and girls about your opinion.
What will happen with my commissions on all the stocksites if something happens to me? The sites state that the pictures have to be your own, so if someone passes away, nobody can use them as theirs - no matter if you have a testament or not.
Any input on that one?
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