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Alamy doesn't send an email when an image is sold.  You just have to check your sales. Once you reach the minimum payout (I forget how much.. $300 or something) they will send you a cheque or do a direct deposit in your bank account.  I have only gotten one payout.

I think alamy is going to be in for a MASSIVE increase in uploads when they first accept ftp uploads.  I know I have a pile of photos waiting to be sent it, and I am sort of putting it off until they get ftp. I think i have heard of quite a few more people who are doing the same.

By the sounds of it I am a wise fellow investing 32p on a first class stamp and 20p on a piece of plastic to get my photos to them before the mad rush.

http://www.alamy.com/contributors/source/070806/news.asp#onlineuploads



Yes folks no FTP obviously afraid of an avalanche of images, it will also be a gradual process

I have noticed it takes a month between posting and "review" I keyworded Wednesday morning so I think its another 48 hours before the photos actually appear online.

They are hiring reviewers or Digital Image Quality Controllers as they call them so maybe anticipating an increase

Does anyone contribute to any other macro sites?

from that page on Alamy you can resize to 3433 x 5150 or equivalent then save as a JPEG setting 12 so you can fit more images on your CD/DVD also you can keep the originals easier to check for errors on the discs a 50 meg tiff can take a while to load.

This will be my last disc of TIFFS I can't be bothered to go back and resave them all as JPEGS