Quote from: cclapper on April 07, 2013, 10:04

I am finding that my watermark barely shows on some images, and others, it is way too prominent. I thought about changing it yesterday, but didn't want to break anything so didn't. I will wait for Leo's fix. It will be awesome to be able to control that on the fly.

Hi Carol, try using a drop shadow or stroke within your watermark, that might help.  Have a look at this file to see if it might help you
http://kerioak.com/TP/symbiostock-watermark-LEO.psd

That's a good suggestion. But I think I am stuck with my watermark for now. I thought I read that if I change it now that I have already started adding images, it will break something. Is that true or can I change the watermark image and re-upload any time?

I have also joined and I'm impressed by what Leo has done!
My site is 
http://stockabily.com
I have now about 300 pictures there and target to have 7000 within the next 6/8 weeks.
I'm fighting to get things as I want them to be and I have got valuable info from this forum!
I do not know yet if I have to network with similar or with complementary....I'm thinking about it;

I have many practical questions, but try to figure out with the info given. There are points for which I have not been able to find answers:
1) How can we change the size of the text for the "image categories"? I like to have a smaller text for the categories as it will fill more than one sreen with the actual size
2) Is there a way to edit picture by category or by filtering with keywords. Otherwise once we will have many pictures there it will be a problem to edit them.
3) is there a way to make bulk change in categories once published or shall it done one by one.
Thanks in advance!
Jean

One solution is to nest the categories.  On the categories screen you can set parent categories and on the menu screen you can nest the child categories by dragging them slightly to the right underneath the parent.  If you had Animals as a parent, and nested Farm Animals and Sea Animals under it you'd get a pop-out side menu for more options when you hover over Animals.

Quote from: jeancliclac on April 07, 2013, 07:32

I have also joined and I'm impressed by what Leo has done!
My site is 
http://stockabily.com
I have now about 300 pictures there and target to have 7000 within the next 6/8 weeks.
I'm fighting to get things as I want them to be and I have got valuable info from this forum!
I do not know yet if I have to network with similar or with complementary....I'm thinking about it;

I have many practical questions, but try to figure out with the info given. There are points for which I have not been able to find answers:
1) How can we change the size of the text for the "image categories"? I like to have a smaller text for the categories as it will fill more than one sreen with the actual size
2) Is there a way to edit picture by category or by filtering with keywords. Otherwise once we will have many pictures there it will be a problem to edit them.
3) is there a way to make bulk change in categories once published or shall it done one by one.
Thanks in advance!
Jean

Nice work Jean

1.  Yes there is, I asked this the other day and it was suggested I look in the CSS after I had already said I could not find it, however if you put this in your child theme css it might work - no guarantees, I work by trial and error
**********

a {
    color:
a {
    color: #7C05A3;
    text-decoration: none;
}
.hero-unit {
    color: inherit;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-weight: 200;
    line-height: 16px;
}
    text-decoration: none;
}
.hero-unit {
    color: inherit;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-weight: 200;
    line-height: 16px;
}
 ***********

2.  I use the "drafts" option in all images but am doing them one by one as none of mine have descriptions and I am doing the SEO as I go as well and reworking any keywords, spelling mistakes I find

3.  Yes you can bulk change prices and sizes in the Symbiostock area

Thanks a lot  you Tinny; I'll try what you suggest very soon and will report back
jean

Getting the site up an running was a little bit intimidating but with all the great tips, hints and sharing here I finally have enough up and running and ready to share. Next steps are to set up Paypal and my EULA and get some of the other pages populated. My sincere thanks go out to everyone here, especially Leo, for all the generous help.

Here's the link to my site: http://www.karensarragaphotography.com/

I have a small portfolio so I'll only have about 275 photos live once I upload my current stuff but it will be slowly growing throughout the year.  Anyone that would like to link to me is welcome to do so.  I've set up my test network with the following sites:

CathysLife Stock Photos
Stockabily
PhotominingStock.com/Food
Asean Photo Stock
HookStock Images

You have some fabulous pictures. I'm very jealous!

ok done:)

I saw one link which was not working : http://thpstockphotos.com/image/brick-wall/

You know that some of your pictures do not have titles: http://thpstockphotos.com/image/grunge-background-2/

Cheers
L

Sorry, not sure why I had the name Carol in my head

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

I have decided to join this adventure

MSG name: Lbarn
website:  LBarnStockImages
url: lbarnstockimages.com
your photo topics: cityscapes, food, nature, some illustrations, architecture, no people
what  you're looking for: ?

Hi

I came across some errors on the site. For example, look at Brands and Properties under Editorial and then go to page 2.

Or, go to Sights and Landmarks under Categories.

Thanks for including me in your partner network. I've now got 150 images online after my recent trip to the Washington DC cherry blossom festival!

Steve

What we need is a site  ( symbiostock.com    ) where we can list our sites and have our listings be searchable by Category ( food, travel,.... ).  This way we can do our own updates and changes instead of asking and relying on others.

Glenn

Actually I had a similar thing in mind - but not a typical search.

Everyone (if they wish) will have a little apartment on Symbiostock.com - a sort of remote operations hub where they can manage their symbiostock main site presence, a nice write-up page, etc.

At this time I have in mind that everyone will submit up to 100 of their favorite images. The customer's first search result will give random related results. When user clicks on image, it becomes focus of next search initiated - with focus image large preview above -, and the new search is in cascading order of common tags shown below. Although first search is random, it should be easy to drill down to your desired image very quickly. Its not conventional search. Your image, with all of its data, acts as a giant contextual search tag.

Then customer gets to your symbiostock port page, which allows remote searching of your site. they can go there as soon as they wish, or back up to previous results.

Thats the nutshell version. And never expect testing will be free of bugs And don't expect it soon as long as I'm just one man.

Leo

How will you pay for the bandwidth and server space? 

Long term this might be cool, but short term, to get things going, a simple db might be the best answer.

Mid term, a cool feature would be a way for our sites to query this data base and download changes to our own site... that way we always have the latest list.

at  the level of 20-100 users db usage would be negligible -- and it would allow any owner to keep their info up to date - could even let each owner select which suites they would like to network with -- this way everyone could see who's linking with whom

the search itself would just ask for 5 sites compatible with the current site - so just ne search and a table of urls returned, then the search performed as now