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screenfx


Joined: 30 Mar 2005
Posts: 171
Location: Colorado
Post Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:26 am     Reply with quote

The most popular vector editing software is of course the most expensive. They are Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, and Corel Draw
RosaMystica7


Joined: 17 Mar 2005
Posts: 267
Location: New York
Post Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:27 pm     Reply with quote

Why do all the vectors seem to have multiple images in the same vector? Wouldn't it make sense to have each image seperate, so you get paid for each one downloaded?
screenfx


Joined: 30 Mar 2005
Posts: 171
Location: Colorado
Post Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 6:10 pm     Reply with quote

If subscribers are limited to 25 downloads a day they're more likely to download a sheet of images rather than just one.
StuartE


Joined: 28 Nov 2004
Posts: 1606
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Post Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:37 pm     Reply with quote

RosaMystica7 wrote:
Why do all the vectors seem to have multiple images in the same vector? Wouldn't it make sense to have each image seperate, so you get paid for each one downloaded?


That's the law of marketing - if your street sign sells well, then someone who's offering two vectorised images of street signs for the same money will probably sell better... then 4, then 10, then a dozen... because vectors can be rescaled up and down at will, there isn't any real reason to take an individual sign when you can get a page full... value for money for the buyer, sure... slug to the hip pocket of the poster? I'd assume so - after all, if you have 12 signs, and sell them all in one image 10 times, you've just made $2.30 - if they were in say groups of 4, and people like them, you'd make $6.90... but it looks like that's the way of vectors... micro, micro stock... :-)

Cheers,
Stuart
zastavkin


Joined: 02 Jan 2005
Posts: 359
Location: Stock Photographers Club
Post Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 4:01 am     Reply with quote

Maybe it needs an informal agreement between the artists to place no more than 5 objects on the sheet?
Heidi Hart


Joined: 02 Mar 2005
Posts: 145
Location: Fayetteville, NC
Post Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 4:38 am     Reply with quote

StuartE wrote:
Yeah yeah, now just wait for the "I'm losing sales to those vector people..." posts next... :-)


Stuart you were reading my mind. Gosh darn it, I'm loosing sales to those vector people!! :)

Now to go play with some vectors and figure all this out. If only the whole saving them would stop giving me a headache though.
screenfx


Joined: 30 Mar 2005
Posts: 171
Location: Colorado
Post Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:35 am     Reply with quote

I'm going to try for quality rather than quantity, and see if it makes a difference. If it doesn't then I'm just not interested. It would bore me to tears to draw a bunch of icons.
JaZilla


Joined: 10 Mar 2005
Posts: 99
Location: Appalachia
Post Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:10 pm     Reply with quote

I just had my first vector approved, and in less than 24 hours it was downloaded. It's a single image:
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=269071

I may do related multiples, but probably not more than 3 or 4 per page.
concretedonkey


Joined: 06 Mar 2005
Posts: 28
Location: canada
Post Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:18 pm     Reply with quote

well i am one of those guys that have lots of images in my 1 vector. And i went from a 6 download a day average to a 20 a day average with only 60 images in my portfolio. So i will continue to offer images with a large value for the money. Godda give the people what they want.

My gallery http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery.mhtml?id=4700
rodehi


Joined: 11 Jan 2005
Posts: 1914
Location: British Columbia Canada
Post Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:22 pm     Reply with quote

I will be experimenting with vectors as soon as I get a bigger hard drive....since I dont make much of a photographer judging by my rejection rate...lol..soon,very soon......Ron
GeneralE


Joined: 22 Oct 2004
Posts: 374
Location: Oakland, California
Post Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:08 pm     Reply with quote

rodehi wrote:
I will be experimenting with vectors as soon as I get a bigger hard drive....

For vectors you can probably get away with a smaller hard drive ... : )
StuartE


Joined: 28 Nov 2004
Posts: 1606
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Post Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:15 pm     Reply with quote

concretedonkey wrote:
well i am one of those guys that have lots of images in my 1 vector. And i went from a 6 download a day average to a 20 a day average with only 60 images in my portfolio. So i will continue to offer images with a large value for the money. Godda give the people what they want.

My gallery http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery.mhtml?id=4700


Wow - that much of an increase... maybe the vectors really are sapping the sales... I'm only two off my monthly average, but I'm not seeing the big 20-30 dl days that make up for any low days, either... perhaps that's why some photo only photographers are seeing better sales elsewhere now, sales are still growing all around, but the cut for photos here IS dropping??

Cheers,
Stuart
Yali


Joined: 07 Mar 2005
Posts: 94
Location: Taiwan
Post Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:07 pm     Reply with quote

Have any of the linux fellow travellers here tried autotrace, which automatically traces a bitmap and converts it to a vector. I tried it on some simple b/w outline type photos and it seems to work quite well. You can get a GUI frontend for it called Frontline. Here is a simple sample

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-277397.html

I've really never done anything with vectors before, so I don't even know if stuff like that would sell.

Cheers,

Yali
bluliq


Joined: 12 Apr 2005
Posts: 337
Post Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 2:26 am     Reply with quote

yali: i work with vectors for the 3,5 years
that is a good trace result but you have to corect the result in lower part of the foot
looking kind of strage.
also look kind of strage form of the head.
try to keep the initial shapes of objects
Yali


Joined: 07 Mar 2005
Posts: 94
Location: Taiwan
Post Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:39 am     Reply with quote

bluliq wrote:
yali: i work with vectors for the 3,5 years
that is a good trace result but you have to corect the result in lower part of the foot
looking kind of strage.
also look kind of strage form of the head.
try to keep the initial shapes of objects


thank you for your encouragement, any credit goes to autotrace, I have no idea about vectors, just loaded my image and pushed the trace button.

Cheers,

Yali
 
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