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Syates:
Hello Josh, welcome from me also! I am always in favor that site admins/ owners/ managers/ creative directors etc join the forums and be active in them. It helps everybody to see "both of the sides of a coin" so to speak. I would also encourage you not only to write in this board but also be active in the other ones. We are all in the same business and the broader the group is that discusses this business the more information and understanding will everybody gain from it. Which, in the end will be beneficial to all, so again, welcome and let Lev or me know when we can help you with something! SY
khz:
Hi Josh,
welcome to the board,
i tried to ul when crestock first come out, i had big hopes when i started, then i was discouraged with the previous ul system and very low acceptance ratio. that's whey i get out from there, but since i do this micro stock business as my main job, it really annoys me to quit a stock site forever.
so if the things are going better for both photographers and crestock, may be i should give it a second try?
regards
bora
Forgiss:
Hi Josh ;D
Like I have mentioned before, business is business, and if a site is working, I will sell there. When I quite Crestock, I honestly did not have the bandwidth to waste on arbitrary rejections (I believe one of the forum posts said " ...we don't want images that sell elsewhere, we want exceptional images... "
All good and well, but if you can't supply the basics, why would visitors come? wouldn't they just go to the place that can supply them everything they need in one go? (well, that's my logic) Also, nobody on your team could give me any indication of what "exceptional" images are. The last point that drove me away was simply that everytime I asked a question, my comments were deleted from the forum...
So... if any of this has changed, then sure... I will upload there again...
Forgiss:
Hi Josh...
Tried to upload a file, got this:
* couple211007-01.jpg: Out of memory.
System.OutOfMemoryException: Out of memory. at System.Drawing.Graphics.CheckErrorStatus(Int32 status) at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage(Image image, Rectangle destRect, Rectangle srcRect, GraphicsUnit srcUnit) at CustomToolsV2.ImageResizer.ConstrainProportions(Image imgPhoto, Int32 Size, Dimensions Dimension) at standard.LagreThumbnails(Int32 id, String path, Int32 typeid) at standard.ImportImages() Delete
josh_crestock:
Thanks for the comments guys,
Its nice to be getting some constructive feedback, its unbelievably helpful.
First off, Forgiss, I agree with everything you said. Its already been proven to us over time that the more established microstock photographers can supply to basis to our collection and can in themselves attract a lot of customers. These photographers upload to a lot of different sites and have a good knowledge of the industry, so we don't want to waste too much of their time with arbitrary rejections or long pending times. I see it as being in our best interests to get those images up as quickly as possible, and to really promote the good ones.
Accepting only 'exceptional images', whilst, to me, is obviously unsustainable for a stock site starting off, it is typical of that we need to be offering a slightly different service to the rest of the industry. Since i've started, we've had relatively high approval rates, which I think we can afford to do while we continue to build our libraries up. Sales are increasing constantly and if we continue this way we might achieve sales comparative to a site like Dreamstime. To do better than this, though, somewhere along the line, we'll have to do something differently. We've got a few ideas though nothing set in concrete yet. Other sites just seem to make it more and more difficult to achieve approvals and to get exposure on queue results, I'm not convinced this is a real solution. Certainly not a good one for photographers.
Best Regards,
Josh
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