It looks like Fotolia, too, has gotten into the dedicated smartphone image sales business...

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/07/stock-photos-site-fotolia-launches-fotolia-instant-an-app-for-selling-your-smartphone-photos/

Opinions? I have one or two good sellers that were actually taken on a smartphone (and then stripped of their metadata to hide the fact), so that was never an absolute impediment to acceptance. What I don't like is the stunted pricing choices for this new "Instant" collection.

Interesting from the link is that 'curated' now seems to have replaced 'reviewed'!

'Curated' is the new sexy word that has replaced 'inspected', 'reviewed' or basically 'choose'

I'm just off to curate what I'm having for lunch.

Quote from: OM on October 08, 2013, 04:46

Interesting from the link is that 'curated' now seems to have replaced 'reviewed'!

'Curated' is the new sexy word that has replaced 'inspected', 'reviewed' or basically 'choose'

I'm just off to curate what I'm having for lunch.

I suggest a moody, introspective burger with smoked bacon and a fried egg on top.

I tried the app yesterday.

It is very crashy at this point, which especially sucks considering how much of a pain it is to keyword an image. Apart from that it seems pretty well thought-out and while being similar to the existing "sell your smartphone images" apps that I know (Foap and 123RF), I think from a user experience point of view it is the best.

I also think that Fotolia has a much higher chance of actually selling the images, as opposed to Foap (zero chance IMHO) and 123RF. Combine that with how notoriously hard it can be to get good image with slight technical imperfections accepted into Fotolia, this may be an interesting way around their anal reviewers.

I must also say that I like their concept of having a different "collection" for mobile uploads. From my few attempts they really do enforce the "look" that they are going for, refusing technically perfect images that don't suit and accepting more spontaneous-looking albeit imperfect work. This is far better than what 123RF is doing (just putting smartphone images into the main collection and branding them with a "this photo  was taken on a smartphone" label).

All in all more interesting than I would have initially thought.

I installed it, tried my existing username/pw, didn't work, tried to create an account with 2 names, didn't work. *yawn* tired, off to bed.

That's strange -- it worked with my existing login for me.

smartphone pictures? I can see a ton that aren't

DT has a mobile phone category. They even accept images that are taken with a camera and have a mobile phone type filter applied. That category is not easily found, but categories there have always been odd and I'm not sure if buyers use categories in their search. In this case though, it is not really a category but a genre. I think that they are missing the boat (whether you agree that these types of photos are desireable or not, they are selling).

I tried, uploaded then i saw a new image in the same queue as normal stock images. Will it appear in the same collection? For now i deleted this test image. The quality level is too much different for normally processed images and mobile snaps. I would't mix them in the same collection even with a special category - this not always will be noticed by a client, but they will notice the difference of full size images. Not speaking about small copies for web use.