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Posted blog post on using Tone Curve in Lightroom to get pure white backgrounds and linked back to the example image on Symzio. Tweeted about it, mentioning Symzio.
http://www.backyardsilver.com/2016/01/create-pure-white-background-in-lightroom-for-isolation/
Put it on my business Facebook page
As a for instance, with my Shard example. This picture from Shutterstock is not marked editorial:
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-127672760/stock-photo-a-view-from-the-london-skyline-from-the-milleneum-bridge.htmlBut if you cropped it to the right and published it in an advert for Viagra, say, and said, “our product can make you feel like this” – then I think you could certainly expect a take-down notice. So in this case, there was no editorial use only warning, but the use of that image could have caused problems for the publisher.
Steve
Edit: This is also why Alamy never say that an image is Editorial only. They very clearly state whether the image has model and/or property releases, but then it is up to the user to make appropriate use. This is all making me think that we should be more explicit about whether model and property releases are available on Symzio. We say when they are, but are silent when they are not. On many of my images (not all unfortunately), I used to add this little warning about releases not being available:http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/image/martin-luther-king-monument-dc-3/
Steve
Absolutely. The responsibility for getting appropriate rights for an image rests solely with the “publisher”. It has been ruled (in the US at least) that putting an image up for sale on an agency is not publishing – that term applies to the final use of the image when it is put on a web site or magazine etc. The publisher is the one that needs to make sure that their particular use of the image is appropriate. The photographer and agency tells the user if the image has model releases and/or property releases and the publisher relies on that information being correct.
Telling someone that an image is for “editorial” use only is actually, in my view, advice that we are giving. We are saying that we don’t have model and/or property releases and so the publisher needs to take that into account when deciding how to use the image, but it is their decision and their risk.
Steve
What is your website so we can see what you are finding?
Hi Robin
I think it is worth putting something very clear in your buyers’s FAQ and license that the buyer is responsible for making sure that they are using the image in accordance with any restrictions. All Symzio is doing is providing guidance on that as we do not know the final usage of the image. As we know, the need for releases of buildings in particular is very vague and depends on the extent to which a protected building is the focus on the image rather than just being in the cityscape. Even then, an image of the Shard in London could be fine in a broad view of the London skyline, but not if the buyer specifically said in the text that their product was somehow supported by the Shard design, for instance. We have no control over that text.
I put this at the top of my license:
“You will find the contractual license below but I know you are unlikely to read it all. Here is a quick primer:
You are responsible for the use of the image and whether your specific use requires the permission of any person or company.
You must not use the image in a pornographic or defamatory way.
Standard licenses allow you to use the image in one design but they do not give you permission to resell the image.
Extended licenses expands on the standard license to allow you to use the image in much larger projects and to offer the image for resale on a calendar, product, clothing, wall print etc.
The detail is in the full Agreement below, but I hope that gives you enough information to choose either the lower priced standard licenses that give you a choice of file size, or the extended license that only is offered with a full size download.”Hi Ana
I don’t know if you are using the Symbiostock Express theme, but I added all my categories into the rotating slider on the home page, which you find in the Home Layout using a Custom Carousel. The set-up instructions explain how to do that. I did look at creating a drop down category menu but saw the same issue as you did – the categories that the base wordpress uses aren’t the same as the ones in Symbiostock. I am sure other contributors have added category menus and will explain how it is done.
Steve
Thanks – I tidied up my categories a bit and added them all to the carousel with a nice image illustrating the category. That should do it!
Steve
I noticed a response to the >40MB file question that this same error is related to an issue fixed in the latest release. I noticed that the errors haven’t occurred today, so forget this post!
Anyone know if you can just delete that error_log file from my server and the system will create a new one?
Steve
Running out of time in December, but I published a “how to” blog post about digital art today and linked back to my photos on both my Symbio and Symzio sites:
http://www.backyardsilver.com/2015/12/how-does-a-photo-develop-from-original-raw-to-finished-print/
Steve
Sorry to open this again. I was going to link to a photo on Symzio, but can’t find it again! I have checked my site, the image was marked as being sold on Symzio, but every keyword I try comes up blank. Try “mountainous”. This is the image:
http://www.backyardstockphotos.com/image/sunset-along-na-pali-coast-from-kee-beach/Steve
OK – understood!
I’m sure mine is showing the titles rather than descriptions, but I can’t recall how I did that! I’ll try to remember!
SteveBlogged and tweeted about the plugin and also Symzio on Backyard Silver:
http://www.backyardsilver.com/2015/12/update-on-symbiostock-personal-agency-and-symzio/
Steve
Hi Robin
One more thought on the RF license for the full size extended license. As Redneck and I explained, we will have to remove images that are only for sale as RM on some other sites. I was just starting to do that, when I realized that I only need to remove them from the full size extended RF license – they could still be sold as the one-use license for websites.
Is that feasible – to add a check box that permits their sale on Symzio as small web single use images, but withdraws them from the RF license? I ask because I have almost 2000 images that are being removed as I go through my editorial shots.
Steve
So do I! I’ll shut up now….
