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How to boost your earnings by 10 percent     posted on 21st of august, 2007

Did you know that if you have your own site and you display your images there, you can point them to your image details page on Dreamstime and earn 60% from the sales you make this way or even 70% if you are an exclusive??

How you can do that:

1. Build your own site (or go with a web2 platform)

2. Display watermarked thumbnails of your images

3. Point the ones that you have on Dreamstime using their referral link. You can also add a "Download" button under the image.

You can find the referral link under the watermaked image, on the image detail page:

e.g. Image details page

scroll down for "Referral Link".

The link should look like this:

http://www.dreamstime.com/ladybug-rimage2840606-resi6

were ...

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Well, for the view.... till now... :) That is also a kind of "content" and update to say what's new... I was doing that sometimes and now it is becomming quite regular. Well that was a good idea, with some good advantages.... - posted by Sophiesourit on April 22, 2008
Yes, the ones with the referral code contain the res parameter followed by your user ID (the same one you use for FTP). Glad to see it starts to show results for you. - posted by Achilles on April 22, 2008
Hi Serban, I'm doing this since a while. I've got the impression that is working, I mean that some sales appears... but that is just an impression I guess because I don't see referral income about... My blog is not a big traffic blog, I think that the few sales are from DT and in reality not from my 10 visitor's day blog, but just in case I'm doing wrong something : the refrerral id is contained in the referral link? it looks like : resi-XXXXX and if that code is embended then the referral link is working? Whatever since I'm doing that the view have slightly increase for sure and I already have a referral member through the badge that I historically putted on the blog before the images, so well...good suggestion and I feel happy doing it - posted by Sophiesourit on April 22, 2008

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3,000,000 submissions     posted on 28th of august, 2007

Each image should have its 15 seconds of blog fame (and its 10 years of stock value ;) ) so here it is, submission with number 3,000,000 on Dreamstime. Passed unnoticed and quietly. A great stock btw that should also give you more hints about the surprize ;)


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Comments (14)

Why would you want us to send on a whale hunt or to an aquarium? - posted by Dnf-style on September 06, 2007
...or the prize is actually the photograph itself. DT are not that cheap, though! - posted by Paulus on September 04, 2007
I'm actually not that good about knowing where whales swim. Maybe they will be in vacation in that area :) - posted by Achilles on August 31, 2007

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Mb versus MP - when size really matters     posted on 31st of august, 2007

The common standard of the traditional stock photography industry is the size in megabytes (MB). The value of an image in MB sounds more appealing to the customer. Nothing more tricky than that!

The common standard for (educated) designers is the size in pixels (MP) that leads to discussions about dpi, ppi etc. It is this size that tells them how large an image can be printed.

The traditional industry uses this parameter as a trick. Requiring photographers to upsample their work (enlarging image size with a software) without any concerns about the final image (which usually ends up fuzzy and blurry) is simply wrong. Because not all images can be upsampled properly and the designer can do that easily.

The size in Mb ends up very high taking huge amounts of storage ...

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Comments (5)

Yes, Douglas, completely agree, what matters is final quality. Subjective is the "key" word here, it's no longer a matter of quality when it becomes compulsory. And no, this doesn't happen only with the minimum size (which is denying your own entry rule anyway), it's a standard for all files. The upsize factor is a secondary thing in my article. It is the MB vs. MP discussion that really reveals the idea. Targetting MB for the sake of marketing hides the fact that any quality factor is completely ignored. - posted by Achilles on September 02, 2007
A tad naive, Fleyeing. Upsizing is compulsory to meet minimum size criteria on many traditional sites. What matters is the final subjective quality. - posted by Douglas_freer on September 02, 2007
Upsizing - even mildly - is unfair to the customer. Try to do an upsize and then a downsize back to the original. At the pixel-level, the result will always differ from the original, with any algorithm. The customer is entitled to native quality. If he wants to upsize and/or sharpen, it's his decision. You can't make eggs again out of an omelet. Whoever sells omelets on those two "other" sites is basically fooling the customer. - posted by Fleyeing on September 02, 2007

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Serban Enache (Achilles)
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Graduate of "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Town Planning with a specialization in Representation & Interior Design Studies.

Creative and Managing Director for Archiweb since 1997. Dreamstime's CEO since 2000.

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