Quote from: Randomway on August 15, 2013, 15:36

Alright, I'm actually set up now!

Added your site to http://symbiostock.info already, but your author page is missing.

I'll have to work on getting that back. I may have deleted it early in my setup process.

Quote from: Anita Potter on August 15, 2013, 15:54

Are you just looking for food illustrators only or just other illustrators?

I'd go with other illustrators too. With my site's keywords, food and vector images are the most likely to show up, on the image pages. Mostly, I'm looking for anyone where our sites would complement.

http://cascoly.com/symbio/list.asp?list=65  shows other illustrators, though there are 25 asites lacking any focus or specialty info

Quote from: Randomway on August 15, 2013, 15:36

Alright, I'm actually set up now!

MSG name: Randomway
Website:  http://foodvectors.com
Topics: Vectors:  food, desserts, drinks, food-related characters
Portfolio size: 199, another 641 images to add
Would like to link with: other illustrators (2d/3d) and food-related photography

I love your illustrations. They make me smile! 

I especially like the banner on your home page.  It just makes you feel happy looking at it.

MSG name: dfikar
Website: tdfimages.com
Topics: Landscape, nature, macro, travel
Portfolio size: Still uploading, should have around 600 images up in another week or two
Would like to link with:  Other landscape/nature photographers

Welcome, Dean! I'm glad to see you here and happy to have you already in my network. Thanks for adding me to yours as well. 

Your images are beautiful, and your portfolio will be a fine addition to SYS.

Quote from: dfikar on August 18, 2013, 10:16

MSG name: dfikar
Website: tdfimages.com
Topics: Landscape, nature, macro, travel
Portfolio size: Still uploading, should have around 600 images up in another week or two
Would like to link with:  Other landscape/nature photographers

Great images! Excellent portrait of the gorilla. And love the macro of the dandelion. Nice work and welcome to Symbiostock!

I also like your watermark...you have solved the problem of it showing up on both light and dark photos. I have been having that problem and am going to change mine to accomplish what you have.

Wow, thank you all for the warm welcome.  I feel a bit intimidated looking at the quality of your portfolios but I am really looking forward to sharing the Symbiostock network with all of you.  I am pretty much a one-trick-pony in that I love to do landscapes/nature but I have no clue about how to do decent portraits, isolations, and other stock techniques.    I am more than ready to learn, however.  I already have been helped immensely by Martha who pointed me to this thread.

As for the watermark, the first one I made was white and I noticed immediately a problem with invisibility against light backgrounds so I just duplicated it, changed it to black, offset it slightly from the white logo, and finally combined the two layers.  Very easy to do in Photoshop, even if you are like me and know next to nothing about graphics, vectors, etc.

Cheers,
Dean

You have Nextgen plugin installed and it disables public image info, so your images won't be indexed in external search engines, like symbiostock.info or symbiostock-search.com. Maybe this problem will be solved in next Symbio versions, but now you have alternative: Nextgen or global search

Thanks, I had no idea.  I was just playing around with Nextgen but wasn't really using it so I have disabled it.  Is that all I need to do to get back on the global search?

Quote from: dfikar on August 18, 2013, 10:16

MSG name: dfikar
Website: tdfimages.com
Topics: Landscape, nature, macro, travel
Portfolio size: Still uploading, should have around 600 images up in another week or two
Would like to link with:  Other landscape/nature photographers

I've added you to the global search at http://symbiostock-search.com 

but you need to re-run the images update since the /symbiostock_image_info.xml file isempty

Thank you very much for adding me.  In order to re-run the images do I just run 'reprocess' using the bulk image settings or do I hit the 'update' button at the bottom of the Symbiostock tab with 'Update public image info' checked?

do I hit the 'update' button at the bottom of the Symbiostock tab with 'Update public image info' checked?

This option, and it is ok now
http://symbiostock.info/index.php?search=http://tdfimages.com

the child is growing, yesssss

looks good -- 91 sites now & over 91,000 images

Quote from: dfikar on August 18, 2013, 15:19

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Thank you very much for adding me.  In order to re-run the images do I just run 'reprocess' using the bulk image settings or do I hit the 'update' button at the bottom of the Symbiostock tab with 'Update public image info' checked?

looks good -- 91 sites now & over 91,000 images

Wonderful.  So do I just periodically do the 'Update public image info' routine for subsequent image file uploads to make sure that my images show up in the search?

Site does it once  a day, you should get emails with "Site has updated image and network" message, but of course you can do it manually too.

MSG name: Sandor Gora
website: www.sangostock.com
url: http://www.sangostock.com
your photo topics: mixed, mostly people & nature
what  you're looking for: nice photographers to link to in the network

my symbioshop is online for sometime now;
after doing it over and over a few times, but that gave me a big learning in the program.
still have some problems now: how to get away the "blog" option in the searchbar (followed the symbio-instructions but not good yet; the watermark used to refresh automaticly after changing it, but not now anymore; and of course: how to network; that is why I post this reply.

kind regards, S�ndor G�ra from The Netherlands