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Your
Account: Finding
Photos: Purchasing
and Downloading Content: Why Register With StockMedia.net?
Go
to "Log In" and fill out all the required fields, your user
name is always your e-mail and the password is the word you
create. Watermarked
1024 pixel on the long side 72dpi Images is free for comp
use Rights protected pricing is calculated based on viewer
ship. Royalty free has almost unlimited restrictions Before
purchasing, you must read and agree to the terms of the End
User Licensing Agreement(s) that are presented during the
checkout process. If you would like to view the licensing
agreement please click here Content
is pictures, sound, fonts, audio, video, just about
everything a new media designer needs to compliment his or
her creation. A
StockMedia.net comp is a watermarked full size content
you can use for layout purposes. It is a non licensed piece
of content free for FPO. You can click and drag the content
to your hard drive and use it in your editing or layout
applications. To use this content you have to agree to an
licensing agreement and pay a usage fee.
Enhance
your clients Web pages with pictures, backgrounds
footage, sounds, animated banners and GIF and many more
components . All of StockMedia.nets content is
specially designed for electronic use in: Web sites Film
Kiosks TV etc. Your Account: Stock
Media.net has two levels of registration. Level One
Simple searching requires no registration To view enlarged
images or to save content it to the editing area you only
have to enter your Emmail address and a password of your
choice. The Password can be between 4 to 8 numbers and/or
letters in length. Letters are not case sensitive. Register
Now. Level Two To purchase a content you have to fill
out the next level of information which includes the usual
detailed information that is needed for security and rights
tracking. Registered
users you can purchase content , change the Personal
Profile, apply for In House Charge accounts. You
will need to remember your password to purchase content or
change your profile. So store it in a secure place. Your
password is linked to your billing information, so please
don't share it with anyone. To
change your password you need your e-mail address and your
old password. In the field New Password just enter the new
one and re-type it again. You will get a window with a
change confirmation. If
you've forgotten your password, click "here" Clicking this
link will take you to a screen where you can enter your user
name and security questions, which you entered during
registration. Upon submission of the form, you'll receive an
e-mail containing your password. that will be send to the
e-mail address on record. StockMedia.net
automatically archives all your content licensed and copies
of your previous content invoices / sales orders. In usage
history you can view and download previously licensed
content or view and print past invoices / sales orders. To
download content from Usage History click on the button
account and go to License and Refund. A list of licensed
Media will be shown to you. If you need you can sort all
information by year and month. Yes
your browser should be set up to accept cookies, to track
your account online and to avoid reentering all the
information every time you need to search for new media
A
cookie is a small text file that a Web site transfers to
your computer's hard drive , allowing the Web site to keep
customized information , that you submitted to identify you
upon reentry. Cookies are safe to accept and cannot see any
other information on your hard drive except that which
pertains to the particular Web site that sends the cookie.
Cookies cannot infect your system with a virus.
Stockmedia.net, will place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser directory of your computer's hard drive. This cookie contains a unique identification number within your web browser to be later retrieve. The cookie can not be read by any web site other than the one that set up the cookie. Cookies enables StockMedia.net to recognize the information you have already given to this web site, such as the edit area you have created, and helps us to determine what portions of this web site are most appropriate for your professional needs. As a result, cookies will allow you to retrieve previous content search results, access editing areas with ease, and view your previous invoices. We DO NOT use cookies to examine your surfing behavior outside the StockMedia.net network. If at any time you would like your information to be removed from the system, please contact us at support@Stockmedia.net Finding Photos: You
can Keyword search from any page you are at! There are two
search criteria fields separated by a pull down menu with
"AND" "OR" "NOT". You may enter several words to search in
either fields on both sides of the pull down menu. It's
important to note that the search is not case sensitive. You
may use the words "and," "or," " not" as separators or
symbols like "+" or "-". For example, if you want to search
for a mother with an infant, you can begin your search with
"infant and mother not father" or "infant + mother -
father". Select "Go" to view the found results of the search
request Click on a thumbnail image to view it full size.
However, you must be signed-in before viewing content full
size. If
you have already completed a search on our Web site and have
saved the Image ID Numbers, you may enter these specific
content ID numbers to search also. Then click "GO" You
must first sign-in to have access privileges to the
collaborative editing area. After a search query is
completed, several images will be displayed at a time.
Editing Areas are created at the time when you select a
media for the editing area by clicking on the plus sign in
the search result. At this time a default editing area will
be created for you or you need to choose an existing area.
StockMedia will keep your editing area 30 days online and
you are able to recall it as often as you need, you can
e-mail it to a client or a coworker. Collaborative work can
be done in the editing area life, by using the same password
(create a new password, if you use the collaborative editing
feature, to keep all other information private). If you
created several editing areas you can choose one or more at
the same time to work on two accounts. In the notes area you
can leave messages for other people to read. You may browse
through pages by licking the Next or Back buttons or the
right or left arrow or select a page number.(although you
can use your Internet Browser's own Forward and Back buttons
to navigate without loosing marked content.
Saving
content to the Editing Area can be done by clicking on the
"Plus" button You
can show a done Editing Area to another or others by
e-mailing it to them. They'll receive an e-mail containing a
URL link to the Editing Area They won't be able to add or
remove content or access any of your other Editing Area but
the content can be enlarged. The
most powerful feature of StockMedia.net is the ability
for multiple co-workers to simultaneously collaborate on
editing within multiple editing areas. To do so, each editor
must sign in using the same , e-mail and password. Each one
can add and subtract content from this area, which will make
a collaborative editing much easier. Try it with even three
and four people. Each editor can do his or her own search
and add to the Editing Area of the others and all this in
real time. Keep in mind, by giving out your password will
gives all participants access to all information in the
personal profile of that account. Though credit card numbers
are not stored there, other sensitive data may be. As such
we suggest establishing a unique account for collaborative
editing. Click on the image in the search or editing area. An enlarged watermarked pop-up window will appear. From here you can add to the shopping cart or delete or add to the editing area. All the information about the picture will also be displayed Purchasing and Downloading Content:
You
have found the content you are interested in, added it to
the shopping cart by clicking on the small shopping cart
icon. This will take you to the shopping cart area where you
will find an icon for the usage calculator. In the pull down
menus you will find the different usage possibilities and
usage length. Fill all these categories in and a license fee
will be instantly calculated. You are not yet committed to
the price or the purchase, change the parameters, remove one
or more media or just leave the shopping cart area. simply
click on the shopping cart icon again to remove it After
calculating the price for the media click the continue
button it will take you to the page where you create/verify
or update your profile, after you have done that click the
continue button to get to the secure credit card site if you
pay by credit card. At
Stockmedia.net we are prepared to accept your orders
from anywhere in the world if a Credit Cards is used. All
orders are in U.S. Dollars At
this page please fill all the fields with the requested data
to continue to the download page StockMedia.net
uses Secure server technology The moment you begin our
on-line "checkout" process, we immediately switch you to our
secure server technology and apply state-of-the-art secure
transaction practices. And credit card numbers and charge
account numbers are not stored in your personal profile. The
minimal inconvenience of reentering your number for each
purchase assures you that no one can charge without your
authorization or steal your account number. If you have signed up for an In house charge account you will be taken to the page where you create/verify or update your profile, after you have done that click the continue button to get to the page where you enter your password and your unique account number. To apply for a Corporate Charge Account click here. Currently, accounts must have an U.S. billing address. Payments
All house accounts invoices are payable within 30 days. A
finance charge of 1.5% will be added after to any balance
not paid after 30 days. No usage rights shall be granted
until payment has been made in full to StockMedia.net
When
entering your credit card number, be sure that you use only
numerals. Do not enter the credit card number using spaces,
dashes or other non- numeric characters. The credit card
number should be a continuous string of numbers. As well, be
sure that you enter both the month and year values for the
credit card expiration date into the appropriate fields on
the form. And finally you must enter the exact ZIP code of
the billing address of your credit card
The
cookie automatically establishes your account. To change
accounts, click on the Log In icon next to the
StockMedia.net icon in the navigation bar to enter
your personal profile. Choose and enter User ID, e-mail and
password of the new account After
verification of credit card number or In house charge
account you will be taken to the Content Download page. By
clicking on the download icon the bought media will be
directly downloaded to your hard drive. The URL of the page
has also been e-mailed to you and will be available for the
next seven days. If
your download fails for some reason, please do not
REPURCHASE that content. All purchased contents are freely
available to you for downloading at any time in the future
by accessing your usage history, available from you personal
profile. For help with failed downloads, please contact
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