We've just made some updates to the features we offer our customers when it comes to Stock Photos / Images on The3dStudio.com.

 

We now offer a 400 pixel image size that we are calling X-Small, it sells as low as $2.00 USD, and does NOT require any credits to purchase. Just add to your cart, purchase with a credit card or PayPal payments, and download. This new size is perfect for bloggers and others who don't need large images.

 

We also now offer an Extended License (EL) on most of the images we sell as well. This new EL removes many of the restrictions that a standard license carries and allows images to be used and printed an unlimited number of times as well as allows them to be used on re-sale products (shirts, cards, website templates, etc).

 

The full press release can be seen here.

 

Another new feature that was just released today is the ability to sort / filter stock image search results by image type (photograph or render / drawing). This new filter will allow customers to quickly and easily find the exact image they need without having to manually sort through pages of products that didn't fit the "type" of image they wanted.

 

A quick side note here: we are still updating some of the images with a "type" which will take another day or two so until that time some images may show up in the wrong type select until they get tagged in our system.

 

These three new features are the three most commonly requested items by customers at The3dStudio.com and we think they will be a huge hit.

 

I don't watch a whole lot of TV, but there are a couple of shows I really enjoy. One of those is Destination Truth...which happens to be on Wednesday nights after Ghost Hunters  (another favorite) on SyFy Channel.

 

The idea of DT is that the host of the show and his team investigate various oddities and monster type sightings around the globe....think vampires, yeti, chupacabra, werewolves, paranormal stuff, and so on. It's unlikely the show will ever find any real "monsters" but that's not the point, it's serious yet hilarious (mainly due to the host).

 

I was watching it tonight (mediocre episode) and noticed that their commercial for the next episode was listed as a mid-season finale. On their site it's called a season finale but on the commercial it was very clearly a mid-season finale. I remember Ghost Hunters doing this several months back as well.

 

I've already noticed that TV "seasons" seem to get shorter every couple of years and my completely ignorant guess to that is so that the networks save money. Order 1 less episode and you save hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions (depending on the show), right? Well, whatever the reason the new trend seems to be to toss in these breaks in the middle of the season.

 

What's up with that? I mean, DT just started it's 3rd season on September 9 and already it needs a break after only 9 episodes? You'd think the networks were run by bankers or high school teachers with all of the breaks they have. Well, they could at least tell us when this break will end and the new episodes will resume but instead SyFy.com chose to let the moronic public post rude and nasty comments on their site instead. Bravo SyFy, you really run a tight ship! Maybe next time it's best you don't blow your cash on dumb name changes from SciFi to SyFy.

This is just a quick blog post on an update we did today to the "Last 100 Searches" report in the Seller Reports section. In the past this report could be somewhat inaccurate since it wouldn't tell you what type of search a customer was doing so you had no way of knowing if they were looking for 3D Models, Stock Photos, etc.

 

We've since updated this report to show this information as well as let you sort by the category you are most interested in. We also show how many results the search turned up and have a link to view that exact search yourself. This report is a great way to see the current activity on the site so you can get a better understanding of exactly what customers are looking for and finding.

 

I know there are sometimes requests to show more than the last 100 searches but we limit the information to the last 100 simply because we get so many searches each day (50,000 to 100,000 searches daily). Just check back every few minutes if you want more data because it's (literally) changing by the second.

 

More report updates are coming soon