This is great. I know exacly what to do because my own website front page is created exacly the same way. I have a gallery just for girls holding signs, one just  holding shopping bags, one just for business people ect..

little bit time consuming, but made a start on it anyway - http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-580903/artist-picks

Not being one to get into social networking, I'm not sure how useful this will prove to be. But still, I am so glad to see SS implementing new features, making old ones better - and all the while not breaking their site to do so!

I like this a lot and started with a few galleries as well but I don't see how I can get to them. Where do you find them on your homepage?

I like it, so I'm taking full advantage of it.  I hope it turns out to be productive.  I work with several models, so I've created a gallery for each one, in case a potential buyer comes across one in a search and wants to see more of a particular model.  I've created other galleries as appropriate.

http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-130012/artist-picks?page=1

Can one change the gallery main image? Could not find a way but to deleting the first one I did not like and put it back again, so the second one in the gallery became the gallery image.

Further, the images are not shrinked to fit the image size of the gallery main image, so some of my silhouetted image galleries is displayed as only a filled black or a white image (not very appealing).   

Quote from: CD123 on November 13, 2012, 14:27
Can one change the gallery main image? Could not find a way but to deleting the first one I did not like and put it back again, so the second one in the gallery became the gallery image.

In the catalog manager, select a gallery, the main image will be shown in the headline. Click on it. Then click (in the list of gallery images below) on the one you want to use as main image.

What is the point?
How does it work? is it just us, who are doing some promotion or what?

Thanks JoAnn and Warren for the tips on how to get started with this.  Guess I will devote an afternoon or two to it.  Beats actual work

Quote from: dirkr on November 13, 2012, 20:24
In the catalog manager, select a gallery, the main image will be shown in the headline. Click on it. Then click (in the list of gallery images below) on the one you want to use as main image.

Clever man! Thanks Dirk (help yourself to a heart for that)

Another heart on the line:
How do you change the order of your galleries? Note that they are not displayed in the order from top to bottom when you edit them. Can not see what ordering is used.

Go to Public Information from the menu under your name (top right of the contributor page). On that page you can reorder the galleries, then click Save Profile

Okay, all done setting up the profile.  It only shows 70% complete because I haven't linked to any social media.  Which I am not going to do since I am not on facebook, linkedin, etc.  Saved profile and all.  How do I view my public profile? 

You're here. I have bookmarked mine because I can find it via a Google search or clicking on my name if I'm on an image's page (what the customer sees). What I don't see is a link from the contributor home page, which I think they should have. If you click your gallery from the contributor home page you go to the page without the galleries.

Quote from: jsnover on November 13, 2012, 21:46
Go to Public Information from the menu under your name (top right of the contributor page). On that page you can reorder the galleries, then click Save Profile

I am so privileged to know so many clever people. My heart to you my dear 

Thanks JoAnn.  I did manage to find that page, but since the sets I created and made public weren't there, I didn't know it was the right place.  Do you have to make ten sets in order for them to be visible? 

Oh, nevermind.  I see they are on a separate tab. 

Good stuff!

It does say minimum 10, but I can see six sets in your Galleries tab. It may just be that you need to reload the page?

I have a "page" of facebook, but when I paste the link into the facebook link "template" URL they have, it tells me that it may only consist of letters and numbers and it does (except for the front slash required after the word "page" in the URL)?

the wall.

I was just thinking: we sit here and spresd links all over hte net.
Thats mighty powerfull promotion.

BUT, what about the pictures that were too far down, so we didnt bother to click on them and put them into sets.
Are they now, not being found because all this fancy promotion overrules the keywords.
And if not, what is the use then, are we just digging another competitive grave. Is the agency doing this for our sake?

How does the link to a page wall look without a front slash?

PS Whatever can increase our sales will surely be good for both?

Hi, this is a good idea, here I leave my profile:  http://shutterstock.com/gallery-945871.html

Quote from: estionx on November 13, 2012, 23:32
Hi, this is a good idea, here I leave my profile:  http://shutterstock.com/gallery-945871.html

It's a nice way to browse people's work. I took a look at yours and think it might be better to split landscape into Architecture (the buildings) and Landscape (the other outdoor shots). I'd remove the fireworks shots from Landscapes as they have their own group. It makes it easier to see quickly assess each group if you have it tightly focussed.

Quote from: lisafx on November 13, 2012, 22:09
Thanks JoAnn.  I did manage to find that page, but since the sets I created and made public weren't there, I didn't know it was the right place.  Do you have to make ten sets in order for them to be visible? 

Oh, nevermind.  I see they are on a separate tab. 

Good stuff!

You need to click the SHARE button, even if you do nothing but close it again. That sets them as active. The little icon to the left appears. ((())) kind of thing.

Is there any way to change the order of the images within the sets? I'd rather showcase some - at least for the first few lines. An interesting feature, but I don't know if it will actually increase sales.

Still, they didn't seem to break everything else when they implemented it.

I have no idea whether it will help bring in sales, but I have used the "See more ..." features on IS for a long time on the assumption that it probably can't hurt and might help.

I don't think you can currently change the order. I'd like to at least be able to control which four got picked for the set next to the gallery thumbnail when you hover over them. I'd rather have a choice of sort orders (as maintenance might get too hard for a custom sort order; BigStock had tried that ages ago and in addition to a truly dreadful UI for setting it up, you then have the chore of adding new things to the organized list or theyr'e dumped at the end). Popular, New and Downloads would be my sort order choices with a default to Popular.

Unless I am missing something (again)  it appears that the image download page does not show which, if any, sets it is in.  That would seem an important feature.  All I see is still the same "more like this" with totally unrelated images from other authors. 

Like JoAnn, I have organized my Istock portfolio so that each download page has a link to "more from this series" and I believe it leads to sales of multiple images in a series. 

It is an interesting new feature, but the URLs seem a bit flaky. I can use my personalized URL: http://www.shutterstock.com/g/steveheap, but that always leads to the popular images in my portfolio. As soon as you move away to that to look at the galleries, the URL changes to a numeric version: http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-138433/artist-picks

Now - how best to use this??

Steve