I'd also like to see an option to sell exclusive rights to an image.

The image would be no longer be available after purchase.

I have several old logo concepts that I'd love to make some money with.

I have a customer that needs their collection (they had spent good money for it) so I have to make this right away by necessity. I'm going to keep it simple:

You relate a category to an image, and that becomes a collection. Then you can set the price however you want. Upon purchase the files are added to the customer.

Editorial -

I would like to have any image which is part of an "Editorial" category have a short bit of text  associated with it explaining that the image cannot be used to sell a product, etc. I can do this manually in the description but that is a clunky workaround.

I have a customer that needs their collection (they had spent good money for it) so I have to make this right away by necessity. I'm going to keep it simple:

You relate a category to an image, and that becomes a collection. Then you can set the price however you want. Upon purchase the files are added to the customer.

would each collection become a category?  how would this display in the category listing?

what about making collection a distinct data type?  instead of 'image', a collection would consist of a list of images that can be purchased as a set.  A  flag in the image record would also show that it's part of a collection and display that on the image page)   I have a collections category now, but this would save the hassle of creating separate zips for collections, and more importantly, save space since only one instance of the image is stored.

this could become an important feature of symbio - something lacking in microstock agencies. before ebay banned digital delivery, I had success with selling small collections of images to individuals while individual images didn't do as well

 

I don't understand collections - when it shows the box on Leo's site there is no indication of how many images you get for your download or that are in the collection ?

there may be some confusion of terms -- leo's using collection in one place as a category containing indiv images & also as a group -- you're right the 'boxed' collection doesn't show # of images, but the price is also unchanged from indiv, so this may just be  a work in progress

i'd see collections as a grouping of indiv images with a discounted price -- user pays one price and gets to download all the images in the collection -- nice feature here is you can set up the collection once, then users can choose which size images they want, so collections can offer different sizes (at different prices) without having to store all those variations online

My site is whacked right now Collections don't work. I have to take down the images like I have to do 1000 other things.

Collections - simple.

1. Make category of images.
2. Go to your "box" image and assign it to be a collection, attributing it to category.
3. When collection sells, all images in that category are added to download area.

is collection a choice like jpg or zip?  does the individual image show which collection(s) it's part of?  would be good for selling up - someone sees they can get the collection for not a lot more than a few individual images

is collection a choice like jpg or zip? 

Sorry - forgot to answer this -

A collection relates a group of images together under one purchase. I sold collections  in discount. So when a customer makes a purchase, they have all the images added to their download area.

Quote from: cascoly on June 23, 2013, 18:43

is collection a choice like jpg or zip? 

Sorry - forgot to answer this -

A collection relates a group of images together under one purchase. I sold collections  in discount. So when a customer makes a purchase, they have all the images added to their download area.

ok,  how do we make that link between a collection and multiple images? can we do it now, or is something in the next version? 

also, how does the collection know which size image to use?    some buyers might be satisfioed with blog size, other want large

I'd love to have a plugin that is basically the same as the current "featured images" plugin only I'd like to be able to choose the category. That way I could show a line of images from the category symbiostock featured images and also a selection from another specific category that I've created.

By cooincidence I've just gotten a similar request to feature exclusive images in the same way. Would you like me to make a widget-plugin that does both? I could get it done in a day. Usual $15.

BTW - All of these plugins will be added to the premium pack

Sold!  I'll take it

Quote from: Redneck on June 24, 2013, 14:16

RM and Editorial
Mobile Site
Stock Video
Exclusive/Buy-Out Pricing Feature

I have to quote myself to update my wish list.

1. I was able to solve the mobile site problem. Not needed anymore.
2. I actually don't really need the RM specifics since I can modify my license text that way that I don't need to have different licenses.

Remaining wishes are:

1. Very important: a check box in the Edit Image area to mark an image as "Editorial Only" which should prominently be shown on the frontend image page (just like the Exclusive sign)

Also, the release statuses should be shown on the frontend image page.


2. and 3. from my quote above are nice to have in the future and but have certainly not high priority.

Would you share you mobile fix maybe? I really want to fix my site for mobile.

Thanks.

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http://picturebreeze.com

Is it just me or is there something wrong with your site? I get a white screen using above link...

That's very strange and right now I have no idea how it happened but somehow an empty "default.html" appeared in my root directory. Deleted it and now we're back to normal.