Author Topic: Download your own images for free (Read 10807 times)

60D · « **on:** April 26, 2014, 07:09 »

I'm not sure whether it's possible to download your own images for free in SS like in 123RF. If not, I think SS should give that opportunity to their contributors.

Me · « **Reply #1 on:** April 26, 2014, 08:22 »

marthamarks · « **Reply #2 on:** April 26, 2014, 09:29 »

That approach didn't work for me!

I somehow lost a few images that I valued a lot. Dreamstime will send you back your original hi-res images if you ask, but Shutterstock will not. In this case, only SS had the images I'd lost, so I contacted them. I had to pay $49 for the privilege of "buying" five of my own images. However, that did work, and I felt it was worth the $$ to have them in my own files again.

luissantos84 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 26, 2014, 09:30 »

Quote from: marthamarks on April 26, 2014, 09:29

That approach didn't work for me!

I somehow lost a few images that I valued a lot. Dreamstime will send you back your original hi-res images if you ask, but Shutterstock will not. In this case, only SS had the images I'd lost, so I contacted them. I had to pay $49 for the privilege of "buying" five of my own images. However, that did work, and I felt it was worth the $$ to have them in my own files again.

upload to mostphotos and you won't have a problem!

marthamarks · « **Reply #4 on:** April 26, 2014, 09:50 »

Quote from: luissantos84 on April 26, 2014, 09:30

Quote from: marthamarks on April 26, 2014, 09:29
That approach didn't work for me!

I somehow lost a few images that I valued a lot. Dreamstime will send you back your original hi-res images if you ask, but Shutterstock will not. In this case, only SS had the images I'd lost, so I contacted them. I had to pay $49 for the privilege of "buying" five of my own images. However, that did work, and I felt it was worth the $$ to have them in my own files again.

upload to mostphotos and you won't have a problem!

Well, as I said, I wouldn't have had a problem with Dreamstime either, since I have retrieved a few lost files from them at no charge. But those images hadn't made it to DT yet, just to SS, so I had to buy 'em back. For me, it was worth doing.

I don't know anything about mostphotos. Is that a decent agency?

Maximilian · « **Reply #5 on:** April 26, 2014, 10:05 »

lol i had to learn this too. made over 4000 images at 2010 for fotolia exclusiv. Now 4 years after i started again to create images. For many agencys. 4000 images now only at fotolia visible. Fotolia doesnt sent me one.

60D · « **Reply #6 on:** April 26, 2014, 12:17 »

Quote from: Me on April 26, 2014, 08:22

Why?

Because I lost some of my photos, and only SS has them at the moment. This can happen to anyone...

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #7 on:** April 26, 2014, 12:34 »

Quote from: 60D on April 26, 2014, 12:17

Quote from: Me on April 26, 2014, 08:22
Why?

Because I lost some of my photos, and only SS has them at the moment. This can happen to anyone...

This should be an indicator that you need a solid plan for backup and archive - and it can't be to go to the agencies (who can't give you back your RAW files or edited PSDs, if you're a photographer; illustrators would do better in many cases, but even an EPS 10 is not the same as the original AI file).

It sounds harsh, but if you're going to make money from your images you need to have them backed up. There are a number of threads on MSG about the various approaches people use.

It'd be nice if the agencies would do special cases once in a blue moon if someone suffered a catastrophic loss, but I think they'd just become the lazy person's backup strategy if they allowed downloads of your own files as a matter of course.

For $50 a year (just about what Martha had to pay Shutterstock for a few files) Backblaze will back up an unlimited amount of your data (from one computer). It's not an archive solution, but it's not all that expensive and is completely automatic once set up.

60D · « **Reply #8 on:** April 26, 2014, 13:13 »

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on April 26, 2014, 12:34

Quote from: 60D on April 26, 2014, 12:17
Quote from: Me on April 26, 2014, 08:22
Why?

Because I lost some of my photos, and only SS has them at the moment. This can happen to anyone...

This should be an indicator that you need a solid plan for backup and archive - and it can't be to go to the agencies (who can't give you back your RAW files or edited PSDs, if you're a photographer; illustrators would do better in many cases, but even an EPS 10 is not the same as the original AI file).

It sounds harsh, but if you're going to make money from your images you need to have them backed up. There are a number of threads on MSG about the various approaches people use.

It'd be nice if the agencies would do special cases once in a blue moon if someone suffered a catastrophic loss, but I think they'd just become the lazy person's backup strategy if they allowed downloads of your own files as a matter of course.

For $50 a year (just about what Martha had to pay Shutterstock for a few files) Backblaze will back up an unlimited amount of your data (from one computer). It's not an archive solution, but it's not all that expensive and is completely automatic once set up.

But what's wrong if Shutterstock let their contributors to download their own images for free like in 123rf?

MichaelJayFoto · « **Reply #9 on:** April 27, 2014, 02:36 »

Quote from: 60D on April 26, 2014, 13:13

But what's wrong if Shutterstock let their contributors to download their own images for free like in 123rf?

There is nothing wrong with an agency deciding that they want to offer that. However, putting this on a list of expectations as a contributor means that you didn't understand the purpose of an agency. It's not meant to be a backup service.

I would want my agency to focus their technology department on making the site easy to use for customers and as easy as possible to upload new content. Building "gadgets" that might help a few contributors is not efficient and takes time and money out of a budget that could be spent otherwise.

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