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Today, Cutcaster re-launched with several upgrades that address growing needs in the stock image marketplace for both image buyers and sellers.

We wanted to make changes that would translate to real improvement for all our users. Our image search engine now helps buyers find, filter and download relevant images more quickly, and we’ve made it easier for our contributors to sell their images and earn good money doing it.

We've now combined an easy-to-use search interface with a highly accurate contextual search engine that disambiguates word meanings. As the user types in keywords, the engine determines their meaning and the intention of the searcher to provide more accurate image results. As the searcher applies additional filters—for number of people, orientation or dominant color, for example— search results are updated immediately, making it easy to focus and expand results as necessary. If a keyword has multiple meanings, a user will be able to select their meaning by clicking on the keyword to choose the right meaning. We do all the rest.

The checkout process has been improved as well with simplified pricing, shown in credits and dollars, and the introduction of PayPal. Our goal was to make downloading images as seamless as possible for people. Users don’t even have to register to buy, and now they have even more secure payment options.

For its contributors, Cutcaster has increased its royalty payments to one of the highest rates in the industry. Our rate are going from 50% to 55%. We want to continue offering excellent images from great contributors, and our rates help us attract and choose the best. At a time when other sites are reducing their royalty percentages and payouts, we’re increasing them.

A greatly simplified user interface facilitates how contributors upload their images and view their image stats. We will have the FTP upload option enabled again after next week but you can upload images now via the upload area in your account. The whole site is optimized for our sellers now. There’s no guesswork, from signing up to providing the right tax forms, to getting paid.

We hope you enjoy all the improvements and we welcome your feedback.

This is good news, and just in time as my sales at CC have been growing. BME last month and reached another payout.

BTW I notice that an image of mine is one of the 3 in the rotation on you home page. Thanks!

Wow!  That's a breath of fresh air.  When will the flash upload option be available?

Good job, John.

Yes.  Great to hear about a royalty INCREASE these days.

Are the prices all fixed now?  I recall at the start that contributors had to check for bids from buyers.  Has that completely gone now?

This increase means I could now reach payout in just 225 years!

Kicked out?  Why was that?

Oh sorry Luis.  I don't think I saw that at the time.

Thanks for answering my question MP    Very helpful.

@cclapper My thoughts too!

I am happy to see that most users sales are improving. We still have a lot of hard work ahead of us but you guys can see that we are on your team and want to work with you. Thank you for your support and please keep the feedback coming. I really want to hear as much feedback as we can from all of you.

I would say "very few users"... I work with 12 agencies,  top and middle tier and low earners, and still awaiting first "most sale" at Cutcaster ( menos at least one image per year ).  "Strangely is where I have "most files".  

About new "system", my opinion is that should be us disambiguate keyword during upload. Why? We don't know used criteria by U and we will loose time with keywords that will not work as we expect.

EDIT: And when an option to "edit" aproved files ( change titles, keywords... ) ?

best search engine EVER