[EzeepicsParticipant]

I have a total mess on my website. Before I was uploading via FTP, can you help me import all my images and categories in the new Symbiostock and uninstall the old one? I don’t understand even if the theme (Symbiostock Child old) is the right one or not because in the new demo I see a completely different layout.

[EzeepicsParticipant]

I think I have to migrate from old to new with all the images, but I don’t know how….

[EzeepicsParticipant]

Also, the old images uploaded to the site are not appearing in my Symbiostock Media tab. Are all in Stock Images tab outside Symbiostock

[EzeepicsParticipant]

Ok, solved this problem, now I have both installed, old and new. But my layout is not changed.  Imagen I have still the old SYSXTRA installed

 

[EzeepicsParticipant]

I get this message Graphics system
No Imagick extension loaded?  Try to add to php.ini: extension=imagick.so

Imagick class doesn’t exists

Trying to call command-line ImageMagick…

Version: ImageMagick 6.7.9-10 2012-10-05 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2012 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP

[EzeepicsParticipant]

I am online with them but they tell me Imagick is installed

Now they make further checks.

[EzeepicsParticipant]

Tells me: Symbiostock requires the Imagick PHP extension to run. Please install or enable Imagick.

From where do I install it?

[EzeepicsParticipant]

The problem is I never had WooCommerce installed…. How do I install it? I have the oldest version of Symbiostock

[EzeepicsParticipant]

Thank you, let me read the guide and see if I will understand something. I didn’t deactivate the old Symbiostock but I don’t understand why nothing in my site changed when I have installed the plugin….The layout should change no?

[EzeepicsParticipant]

Thank you Robin, I’m not using the old one since an year, even if I updated it, but I like the new one demo and I’d be happy to install it and give a new life to my sites. Please let me know. Thank you,

[EzeepicsParticipant]

The problem here is the clients hardly come to buy directly from artist. I think it doesn’t matter the price, big or small, it’s all about the quality of the photos. If a client comes to buy direct it’s only because he doesn’t find that picture in an agency and the picture is so good and fits very well his needs.
If a picture is sold with ten agencies the client will go and buy from one of them at 80% from the cases. Yes, maybe there are clients who will come to buy on the artist’s site but only if he finds that picture at the same price or a lower price. If the price it will be bigger than that one offered by the agencies for sure the artist site will be avoided. Other clients (generally big clients who buy large quantity of photos monthly) will never come to buy on a site which has max. 3000-4000 photos, they want to have enough choice and they will choose a subscription plan. The market is already destroyed by the agencies and will not come back in the golden times of macro. This is very sad but is true. It all depends by our income second my oppinion. If we want a solid constantly income we have to accept the market like it is. If we don’t live from photography or if we are a photographer with external contracts and clients than we can do what we want, sell wverything with Rights Managed licence and be happy with oly 100 dollars a month. But with 100$ a month is impossible to live and do this. Photography is a very expensive business.

[EzeepicsParticipant]

@ariene wrote:

I asked the same in that thread but never get answer…

So how it is? You pay for gear, for photo sessions, products, tickets (travel), model release (people), pay for program (like PS or LR), electric power during work, pay for knowledge, set up your Sys site (not for free), it’s all cost. Taking photos takes time, set up web site takes days, weeks, months (with SEO, etc). You have unique images and maybe exclusive on your site…

After all, do you think you work is worth only 1-2$ ?? 🙄 In royalty free licese?!

With full respect, but how can you, people, say you are professionals if giving your work for so low pricing (it is almost giving away for free)? It’s not another microstock with milions identical “tomato isolated”. You have valuable work for sale.

Wondering why our market is broken? Guess why…
If YOU don’t respect your work, why do you demand others (clients) to respect it?

Just thinking… only asking.

Tell me I’m wrong…

I completely agree with Ariene from all points of view. I sell my original format at 25 euros and I’m forced to start from 1 euro because my RF images I sell with many agencies and I want to keep my prices aligned in order to not go against my interests. But on my base site http://www.ezeepics.com I have many other photos I sell with Rights Managed licence, the rare photos or the photos where I worked hard….This is a very delicate problem because who get into this through stock agencies maybe doing other job and than started to do only photography is practically stucked. If doesn’t have other clients must go ahead with the agencies because his earnings are coming from the agencies. I’m not speaking about the photographer who has other clients. Is very hard to live only from photography and is very hard to discard the agencies when you start with them. I think that who is in this situation must have always the photos for agencies (low cost) and photos sold with Rights Managed Licence. In this way can be created a solid base of income monthly and, what is coming above from Rights Managed is just a plus. Because there are not other alternatives for a photographer who sells on web, at least that photographer doesn’t have other external clients.

[EzeepicsParticipant]

I started to study this, seems that’s correct, but I’m not sure at 100%

[EzeepicsParticipant]

@leo wrote:

Great job and thanks a lot!

You’re all welcome!

[EzeepicsParticipant]

Maybe if we find enough bakers for this idea , disposed to buy a lifetime membership for 10 euros we could build such a thing. 😀

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