Boil in water for about 3 minutes and its best to remove the meat when its still a bit warm, comes out much easier. Toss in a pan with a little garlic butter and finish with a squeeze of lemon

^ Maybe this is istocks why of saying business is now done, please shoot something else.


I have never really understood why people say the search is fine because in my portfolio the new files are at the front, or behind top sellers or the new and old are mixed nicely, when that's not how buyers purchase. If I take some business images and they are in the top 20 of my portfolio but no where near the top in a business search what does it matter? They wont be seen and they wont be purchased.


I know a lot of people say the cream will rise to the top. I would recommend these people never go panning for gold.

This upload process is a bit stupid the same model release with every file? One model release is enough if you don't compose it you don't upload it. Then upload a model release for anyone else same way as they do on everything else on istock.


The key words are photographic not audio.


One billion mobile audio customers and it doesn't even know what a ringback is? Or ringtone for that matter?

I can sometimes get an anamorphic widescreen SD clip past the reviewers. Other times, it gets rejected.

While I'm not 100% for auto-downsizing (to the very small sizes), I'd be for iStock downsizing an HD clip to SD. I find it odd that SD clips need to be uploaded seperately.

(Edited on 2009-07-04 05:29:21 by OrlowskiDesigns)

Franky, it appears that this may be something associated with it being in the dock. Not sure, but launching from the dock has been non-responsive. Also, Now I cannot launch from the app itself. I re-installed and it launched. I tried to check an see if the app was running behind the scenes somehow, but found nothing.

Thanks Susan, I will try contacting support.


Re the lighting on the Old Man of Hoy shot. Firstly, because the sunset is obviously way brighter than the foreground, I use a Neutral Density Hard Grad filter over the sky to darken it down a bit. In most cases of lighter sky this would be enough and I always prefer trying to balance the sky and land in camera if I can. I also bracket almost every shot I take 3-5 times and delete the ones I don't need later. However, in this case, the sunset is sufficiently bright that the filter wasn't going to be enough to balance and the foreground was still completely black. So, I had to do some work in photoshop - create 2 layers one exposed for the sunset and one for the foreground and select areas/merge them etc.


Hope that helps - I absolutely recommend a Neutral Density Hard Grad filter for anyone planning to do a bit of landscape photography - mine's a Lee one and I use it loads.

(Edited on 2009-07-04 05:00:51 by northlightimages)

Happy 4th!! I'm up far too early and have to go to a family reunion not by choice but to be a good wife...

I'm flexible to a point -- I'll keep watching here for updates.

It's difficult to say without having a sample chapter from the actual manuscript you'd be quoting. That way you could see how simple or complicated the typesetting would actually be. In some instances there might not be anything you'd need to do on a page once the global codes were set so the 20 min/pg count could be high. At 20 min/pg, you'd only be able to manage 3 pages in 60 min/1hr. That could make for a high hour count. Go ahead and do up a practice quote to see what you come up with. It might be better to just say $2.50/$3.00 per pg, which for a 100 pg manuscript would be approximately $300.

Also, if you think they are going to be micro-managers, just typeset a few pages the way you think it will work and let them preview it--it's much easier to deal with changes early and on a small scale before you do the whole project.

Don't know if this is helpful, but just go for it. After you've done one, you can see if your process is working and adjust accordingly on the next one.

Congrats - nice find. Here the pickpockets keep the cards, but if you dont have too much cash in your in your wallet, they give you an extra 20-30 $. When you then check your wallet to see if you have to go to an ATM or if you have enough cash - it gives them some extra hours with your credit card, when you see that you have some cash left, and you dont find out that your card is missing.

Back to that fridge Jean... Thanks for checking out our little battle.

(Edited on 2009-07-04 05:31:53 by crazychristina)

wish you guys the best, and Loredo, there is a Russian saying: If you won't risk, you won't drink Champagne! I am sure there's one in English. So let's see what the judges will say to that! :) Cheers

This my upload now. not finish yet. some of them waiting for approve.


thank you.


Taking from Emerald Buddha Temple (Wat Phra Kaeo) : Grand Palace , Bangkok , Thailand.










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When I first joined, I remember having to log in daily, even though I never logged out. I got used to this. It seemed to go away for a while. But now I frequently get logged off while composing sitemails and forum messages. It's really annoying. If a logout must occur for whatever reason, can it be made to only occur while browsing? Or if it is going to occur while I'm composing a message, can the site save the damn message and redirect me back to it after I log in again?!


I'm glad I wasn't mid transaction.

(past gar nicht hierher weil jammerrjammer: aber das war der schlechteste freitag seit langem)

Hello,


There are problems about artifacts. Sharpening artifacts, halos and black line artifacts. Did you remove some noise already (upper storey looks like too much noise reduction), but there is still some chroma noise in darker areas of first storey of building. Tilted horizon? Visible cloning?. Mild CA on some edges. Some isolated areas of clipped shadows don't look good.


Why not give some more information? Was it rejected? What's the rejection notice? What did you do to it?

I hope that's not true (and it's not, in my experience). If it is, we need an explanation!

You are so lucky Slobo,


Me and other 3 friends in my city has experienced the mirror released from the slot because of the glue problem.


I were so worried that time.

^^ I like it!

:-) It's been out for a while: many, many threads about this here in the forums. But glad to see it's got you excited :-D

The method you're using now is really the most correct way to do it, but if all you want to change is the wall color it's easy to do it with the colour replacement tool in your editing software, just roughly mask the wall, and then change the hue of every red pixel to blue, for example. This assumes that you already have a wall of the desired saturation and lightness (hue doesn't matter)

Let me see if I can cook you up an example, back in two seconds.

ETA: Ok, let's use this file as a case study. Nicely saturated red wall, a bit of red spill in a few places... let's change the colour:

Head straight to "image > adjustments > replace color" click the "+" tool and then click all the spots in the image where the colour you want to replace is, and notice the grayscale sample preview change in the color replace dialog box. Once it looks like you've got the right area of the image selected for modification, drag the hue slider around to see things change in real time.

I made you a youtube video showing off the technoque on this file, that's here. (Note that with this low frame rate it looks like I hit "color match". I don't. It's "color replace"

This file with its white couches makes the whole thing look suspiciously simple: frankly you could probably change the wall color in this file just with the "hue" slider, since there is no color anywhere else in the image. But the process is the same for more complex images, just mask out other red things in the frame that you don't want to change.

(Edited on 2009-07-03 22:55:44 by EricFerguson)

The only thing to look forward to is less memory usage when the machine is idle.. oh and a complete rip off of the OS X dock. (Windows Vista/ Ubuntu user here btw)

Thanks for this great thread! Here's No1.