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This has been discussed in the past – along with a common license.
http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-suggestions/centralized-registration-and-eula/
I believe there are some technical issues which would have to be addressed.
Also, where would the central user registration live and who would be responsible for helping out users who had problems registering? Right now we’re all responsible for maintaining our own sites and supporting our own customers.
There is nothing to stop a user from creating the same name/password for each symbiostock site (now that we let users pick their own passwords) so I think this is less of a hassle than it once was
I saw that blurb at in the support section but all the sign up stuff says one month free and $10 a month.
At any rate I thought I’d try and sign up to see what happened. No request for PayPal info and I completed the signup. This is the e-mail I received:
“Jo Ann Snover,
Thank you for registering with PicturEngine.com. An account has been created for jo.snover@digitalbristles.com
We will contact you regarding your subscription payment after we have evaluated your images, and your sales & delivery platform.
Best regards,Photographer Relations
PicturEngine, Inc.
photographer_relations@picturengine.com“What does that mean? Evaluated how? I did select Symbiostock as the platform.
If they’re suggesting that if my images aren’t good enough they won’t take my $120 a year, I honestly don’t know where their head is, but perhaps they just have a lousy copywriter.
I figured at least I’ll know more about what I’m walking away from if that’s the route I end up taking and possibly this is a better option than it at first appears to be 🙂
I had two licenses created before the upgrade. They had the same names as the two licenses I created this evening using the new licensing post options.
If I look in the batch editor I see 3 licenses available. Standard License and Extended License (twice)
What I used to see before this evening was two licenses (Standard and Extended). I had applied those to a few images where I could use a category or keywords to identify images that had no model or property releases.
So the old style licenses (now called quick licenses) are attached to some number of my images (although I couldn’t tell you how many and I don’t think I could find that out, could I?)
I should see 4 licenses instead of 3 in the batch editor if I was seeing both old and new (even if they were two pairs – I want the names to be Standard License and Extended License).
And I can’t use the batch editor because it will overwrite all the model and property release settings I’ve made as I’ve uploaded my images (and for those who have custom pricing or any other modifications that aren’t universal)
So under the list of choices is the following line:
/* Per above comments, replace “United” with your above sub-theme choice */
@import url(“bootstrap-themes/Journal/bootstrap.min.css”);After you cut and paste Journal in place of United, just click Update File and you should see the changes
You’re most welcome
If you’re using a Text widget, they support any valid HTML content. Where are you entering the text that’s showing up like this?
I use Dragonfly and the HOME: Top Widget/Content Widget-> 3CTAs page template. I have a feeling you’re using something else to make your page.
In the code for your page I don’t see any around your HTML. I know it sounds like a daft question, but did you enter it that way thinking something would add the angle brackets?
@patrimonio wrote:
And one more thing, how do you change the color of the menu bar ( right now it’s orange which was the default”)?
You need to make a choice of which color scheme as part of Dragonfly. To make that change, from your WP admin panel, go to Appearance -> Editor (not Edit CSS) and you’ll see the styles.css for Dragonfly with some instructions on where to enter your choice of look. Remember to click the Update button after you make your edits
You can see samples here
@leo wrote:
…I think its good to give it a try since its initially free …
It’s only free for a month. Why sign up now and have the free month be used when there is no apparent activity on the site? It would be a waste of time as far as I can see.
They don’t have any text anywhere on their end that I found that says there’s a longer free period.
I also think they should consider something less than a year for a trial – they’re asking for a year’s fee up front and it isn’t like FAA, where I paid a year’s fee to open my shop and made that back with the first sale the following month. PE is asking for more than I’m willing to risk on an organization with no track record of any kind.
If they offered something like no charges until they launch and a 3 month up front option I’d be much more likely to give them a chance.
I’ve upgraded to 2.9.7 and 1.2.6 and (after doing some diffs) reapplied my custom edits. Everything seems to be working as expected.
I don’t really understand what to do with the licenses, and perhaps the feature I need isn’t there yet.
I created two new licenses using the text from my existing pages – Standard License and Extended License.
I was able to add those to my menus in place of the pages I previously had
But how do I apply those licenses to my images?
The batch editor seems unchanged and is thus unusable for applying licenses (I’ll wipe out all my model/property release settings if I do that)
Plus, the batch editor is now showing me three licenses – one Standard License (SL) and two Extended License (EL). I have two of the old kinds of licenses (what you’re now calling quick licenses) and two of the new kind. Why three licenses not four??
Also, the link with a lock icon under the price table on the image page still links to the old EULA page – good thing I didn’t delete that yet.
Bottom line. I’m no worse off than I was before, but I don’t think this gets me any closer to having license options for my images.
Is this still not finished or have I missed some step somewhere?
Thanks.
Welcome! You have a great collection. This one in particular caught my eye as I browsed – love it 🙂
OK. Here’s an image of mine to edit. We’ll make Friday the deadline – Nov 22nd 8pm PST (GMT – 8). Same rules as in the OP.
Thank you!
I just sat down at my computer for the first time today – sorry for the delay, but give me a few minutes and I’ll get an image up for next week’s contest.
Upgrading symbiostock shouldn’t mean you can’t run ImageMagick any more.
I’m on BlueHost, running 2.9.4 and running ImageMagick just fine. If you see that ImageMagick is currently not being used but you used to use it on your host, why not go back to the cPanel and try turning it on again.
For BlueHost, you can from the cPanel go to the PhP Configuration tool and there’s a check box down below the place where you pick your PhP version to turn on use of ImageMagick – saves editing the PhP file
Welcome to Symbiostock. I love your food pictures.
I was a little puzzled at the description you have of yourselves on the image pages “Husband and wife team is working on stock photography with Canon guns :)” – guns? It may just be my ignorance, but it’s best to be as universal and easily understood as possible on a web site, I think.
