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03/19/2006 04:30:08 AM · #1 |
Hello everybody
Can you please give me a rank with all the stock photos website.Which one is the best stock website?
Did you have problems with fotolia?
Thanks everyone!
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03/19/2006 04:46:56 AM · #2 |
There so many. I've made little more then $5.00 with less then 25 images. I've been at Fotolia less then a month.
Pretty much my signature is top earning stocks on down.
Message edited by author 2006-03-19 04:48:12.
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03/19/2006 04:49:18 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by faidoi:
There so many. I've made little more then $5.00 with less then 25 images. I've been at Fotolia less then a month.
Pretty much my signature is top earning stocks on down. |
which one do you think it's better?
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03/19/2006 06:44:26 AM · #4 |
Hi
first you could check out my microstock forum here
Microstock group
As for stock agnecies, here are the ones I think are worth submitting to
Shutterstock
By far the best in my opinion. They have a high acceptance ratio, and have good sales. They are always thinking of way to make the sales better. They upload process is very simple, so it takes very little time to get a lot of images on the site
Istock
This the biggest microstock company, soon to be beaten by shutterstock (hopefully anyhow :) ) They have upload limits, are tough on rejections, have reviewers with strongly different opinions. I sort of seem them as the king with their nose in the air. My earnings/image is about the same as shutterstock, so they have good sales, but I haven't managed to get as many images uploaded here, because of their daily upload limit and tough reviews.
Dreamstime
Their reviews are almost as tough as istock (sometimes tougher), I find their layout nice, and uploaded is fairly painless. Sales are pretty good as well
Fotolia
I think they are next big company coming up. They are new, but still have pretty good sales. Are not to strict on reviews, and have no daily upload limit. Their submission system is a little painful, but not too bad.
Bigstock
Sales here a pretty slow, but uploaded goes quite easily so I have all my images uploaded here.
Hope that helps.
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03/19/2006 09:08:47 AM · #5 |
I apologize for hijacking this post for a slightly different (but relevant) question. If you submit the same photo requiring a release to multiple agencies, do you have the model sign multiple releases (since each agemcy has their own release)? Or, is there a standard release that all (or most) of the agencies will accept?
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03/19/2006 09:15:54 AM · #6 |
Actually, I just found this on Microstock
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03/19/2006 09:42:03 AM · #7 |
For me... I Stock is the best for sales.
Shutter Stock turned me down :-(
Big Stock is nexy when it comes to sales, but they aprove almost everything.
Dreamstime...
Fotolia, all of their promotions earlier this year helped me out.
123 Royalty Free... |
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03/19/2006 11:42:50 AM · #8 |
Istock
This the biggest microstock company, soon to be beaten by shutterstock (hopefully anyhow :) ) They have upload limits, are tough on rejections, have reviewers with strongly different opinions. I sort of seem them as the king with their nose in the air. My earnings/image is about the same as shutterstock, so they have good sales, but I haven't managed to get as many images uploaded here, because of their daily upload limit and tough reviews.>>>>>
LOL! I'm so glad somebody besides me thinks that. Though, it has happened twice now that I submitted a bunch of pictures to both Istock and Bigstock. Every picture Istock accepted Bigstock rejected and vice versa. It was weird.
Shutterstock turned me down too. How long do you have to wait to try again?
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03/19/2006 04:05:21 PM · #9 |
I don't know... I'm a bit upset beacuse I waited and submitted images that were accepted by iStock and the others... I heard 3 months.
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03/19/2006 04:12:50 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by youngnova:
I don't know... I'm a bit upset beacuse I waited and submitted images that were accepted by iStock and the others... I heard 3 months. |
Same here. I've been successfully uploading and selling on istock for a couple months. I submitted some of the same pictures to Shuterstock, and they wouldn't take them (they accepted 6 out of 10--it takes 7 out of 10 to be accepted on their site). With istock, if they reject any of your initial 3, they will allow you to try again right away. Shutterstock's biggest downfall is their 3-month wait BS. And the biggest problem with all of these sites is their lack of consistancy in what they accept. Having said that, though, even after a couple months on istock I have learned a HUGE amount about what it takes to make good stock photos, and about photography in general. It's quite addicting. I got 2 DLs last night (typically a dead time for stock sites) and I was thrilled this morning when I logged on. Watching your numbers grow is like clicking the update button here when you're in a contest. Fun stuff! |
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03/19/2006 04:41:33 PM · #11 |
I'm pretty sure Shutterstock's waiting-period policy was driven by a large influx of less-than acceptable images.
I've heard a rumor that if you can address whatever issues they had with your images, you can contact them via email and ask for an earlier re-submission date. |
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03/19/2006 05:42:20 PM · #12 |
| So, do they just unlock your upload option at 3 months? I'm about due again. |
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03/19/2006 09:23:08 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by ragamuffingirl:
So, do they just unlock your upload option at 3 months? I'm about due again. |
I would email them. If you ask, they will probably turn uploading back on if it's close to 3 months. |
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03/20/2006 06:22:29 AM · #14 |
| My account with them has disappeared. I've got all my original registration information still in my e-mail, so it's not a case of I forgot my password. I even sent them my e-mail like I did forget my password, and they said it wasn't in their database. So, I guess I re-register and try again? |
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03/20/2006 09:57:36 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by ragamuffingirl:
So, do they just unlock your upload option at 3 months? I'm about due again. |
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I was rejected the first time with ShutterStock - too much noise in my pictures that I had to figure out how to clean-up. After waiting 3 months, my account was still locked. I emaled them and they unlocked it, so i would definitely go the email route after 3 months. Also, I am with the other sites mentioned in this thread, and I will say that ShutterStock is by far the best seller for me. It is so worth getting in with them, so make sure you give it another try. One more thing, I am pretty new to stock photography, so I have a lot to learn. Some commented that pictures accepted by iStock seemed to be rejected by ShutterStock. It kind of worked the opposite for me. After being rejected by ShutterStock, I continued to post on iStock. When the time came that I could retry to get into ShutterStock, I used the pictures accepted by iStock to get approved. Not all of them were, but enough to get me in.
One last tip that helped me. ShutterStock is way sensitive to noise in pictures. The pictures originally rejected all had some noise in them. I got Noise Ninja, removed the noise, resubmitted, and ShutterStock accepts most of the pictures.
Hope this helps.
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03/20/2006 12:31:57 PM · #16 |
| Noise Ninja? Is that like Neat Image? |
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03/20/2006 01:28:35 PM · #17 |
Here are my best in order:
Istockphoto
Shutterstock
Dreamstime
Fotolia
123 Royalty Free
Bigstockphoto
Stockxpert
Canstockphoto
No I do pretty good with Fotolia, I did not have any problem at all.
Melissa
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03/21/2006 02:47:32 AM · #18 |
I'm in the process of signing up for iStokphoto.com and it ask if I have a member code, what is that for?
Also is there anything I need to be aware of with this site?
Thanks in advance.
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03/21/2006 03:07:56 AM · #19 |
| thanks guys! I'm trying with fotolia too. Dreamstime process of selecting the photos it's quite long. |
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03/21/2006 06:23:10 AM · #20 |
Originally posted by ragamuffingirl:
Noise Ninja? Is that like Neat Image? |
noise ninja is just like neat image. Don't think about submitting ot shutterstock without it. Even ISO 100 images (at least if they are of a blue sky) will be rejected if they aren't ran through a noise reduction software.
I purcahsed noise ninja for photoshop as a plug in, it works very quickly and easily. I read a lengthy review that came out with noise ninja as the winner... so i chose them over neat image.
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03/21/2006 07:02:36 AM · #21 |
Originally posted by leaf:
noise ninja is just like neat image. Don't think about submitting ot shutterstock without it. Even ISO 100 images (at least if they are of a blue sky) will be rejected if they aren't ran through a noise reduction software. |
I don't think they're quite that strict; I use Neat Image when an image needs it, but not on every image.
Ironically, I got one image rejected (from iStock, if memory serves) for not having ENOUGH noise in it... (?!). The quality of image reviewers can sometimes leave a little to be desired :-) |
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03/21/2006 08:40:29 AM · #22 |
Originally posted by ganders:
Ironically, I got one image rejected (from iStock, if memory serves) for not having ENOUGH noise in it... (?!). The quality of image reviewers can sometimes leave a little to be desired :-) |
As with sharpening, they prefer to leave the decision of how much noise to remove up to the designer/end-user. |
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03/21/2006 09:08:49 AM · #23 |
In general I'd agree - although microstock sites in general wouldn't - but it wasn't one of those nasty-looking plastic-ised NI type images; it was a fairly normal-looking shot (which was happily accepted everywhere else). Considering how 'aggressive' microstock can usually be on noise levels it just amused me to get something rejected for not having enough.
Meh... when I first started submitting to these sites I used to get annoyed by the (at times) utterly arbitary approval process, but I've got over that now :-) |
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03/21/2006 09:52:08 AM · #24 |
Originally posted by leaf:
Originally posted by ragamuffingirl:
Noise Ninja? Is that like Neat Image? |
noise ninja is just like neat image. Don't think about submitting ot shutterstock without it. Even ISO 100 images (at least if they are of a blue sky) will be rejected if they aren't ran through a noise reduction software.
I purcahsed noise ninja for photoshop as a plug in, it works very quickly and easily. I read a lengthy review that came out with noise ninja as the winner... so i chose them over neat image. |
I agree with this so much. I was rejected by ShutterStock the first time I applied. The second time, I used different pictures and was accepted. Since then, I have run all of the orginal images I submitted, which were rejected, through Noise Ninja and most, if not all, of them have been accepted. Maybe it is something with my camera, but even shooting at low ISOs, if I have a shot with sky in it, I almost always use Noise Ninja.
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03/21/2006 10:06:36 AM · #25 |
I agree with this so much. I was rejected by ShutterStock the first time I applied. The second time, I used different pictures and was accepted. Since then, I have run all of the orginal images I submitted, which were rejected, through Noise Ninja and most, if not all, of them have been accepted. Maybe it is something with my camera, but even shooting at low ISOs, if I have a shot with sky in it, I almost always use Noise Ninja.
Boy, isn't that the truth! 9 times out of 10, if there's blue sky in the picture, I'll be running the shot through NI at the end of the processing phase. And that's even when using a circular polarizer.
I'll have to check out Noise Ninja, though. I have the free version of NI, and I'm thinking of buying it for the plug-in capability. NI does a good job, but the problem with the free version is that you have to run the WHOLE picture through it. I'd love to be able to make a layer to isolate the noisy part of an image, and just hit that with processing. Keep in mind, I'm not complaining about the freebie! It's just that it's worth the money IMHO to pay extra for the integration into PS.
Good thread guys and gals... |
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