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Title: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 08, 2010, 12:12
Hi guys,
I am glad to invite you to try LightBurner Beta. This new free microstock content distribution and analytical service will submit your uploaded images to the following pre-integrated microstock photography agencies:

(http://static.lightburner.com/images/channels-logos.gif)

Also you can define unlimited Custom FTP Channels, delivering your images wherever you want to.

I plan to have at least 20-25 pre-integrated microstocks supported in December yet. Your suggestions for more destination are warmly welcome.

(http://static.lightburner.com/images/tour/overview-2.jpg)

The famous keywords suggestions + translations, first introduced in ProStockMaster in 2006 (wow, 4 years ago - who can believe it), is now a part of LightBurner too.
Other interesting features include built-in search in your portfolio, Similar Media area, cataloging by Lightboxes, Folders and Categories, notes on images and sales balance for each channel. Of course, LightBurner reads IPTC for any uploaded JPEG, so you get your files with all the metadata - searchable and cataloged, at your fingertips.

(http://static.lightburner.com/images/tour/sushi.jpg)

The service is still far from being completed, however I believe that existing functions work quite well and have a great value to any microstock contributor. More agencies and more features will come in the next weeks. Without getting into the details, you can expect nice surprises in your LightBurner account.

How to get started
 

Actually, that's it. The distribution is automatic, so you do not have to do a thing.

(http://static.lightburner.com/images/tour/sushi-stats.jpg)

Your files statuses are updated accordingly: red square (undistributed) is replaced by yellow (partially distributed) and then by green (fully distributed). You will have to hit Refresh from time to time to see these statuses changes.

A few notes:
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: fxegs on December 08, 2010, 12:38
Thank you, I will test it
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: johngriffin on December 08, 2010, 13:34
Hey David,

You spelled Cutcaster wrong in your nav panel on the left hand side. Thank you for including us.

John
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 08, 2010, 19:02
I'm trying it right now, there are still some minor bugs - which I am reporting through the contact form - but it's perfectly understandable being a beta version.

Great tool! I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. Thanks!
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: luissantos84 on December 08, 2010, 22:53
I'm trying it right now, there are still some minor bugs - which I am reporting through the contact form - but it's perfectly understandable being a beta version.

Great tool! I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. Thanks!

are you talking about FREE right?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Anyka on December 09, 2010, 01:03
I uploaded 10 images, but even after 10 hours they have not appeared in my "portfolio".  Think I'm doing something wrong, but what?  I'm seeing two folders on the remote site ("downloads" and "upload").  Since the root did not accept files, I put them in "upload".  Wrong?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: ouchie on December 09, 2010, 01:38
hello,
i uploaded 2 pics to your site  and sent one of them to Dt and one to FT. As a test run.

one photo was sent to DT
but
18 photos were sent to Photolia (the same pic)!!!

i deleted them all from FT but your site was still sending them to FT cause the icon for the photo was still yellow meaning it was still uploading.
So i just deleted it (both photos) from your site.

I hope this stops the uploading to FT. Or maybe u can check and see what is going on?

I REALY hope FT does not count this in my aceptance rate!?

I remember reading some site counted photos uploaded but then deleted before they went through to be the review proces against your aceptance percentage.

Anyone know if photolia does this???

Im one of those people who realy sweats his aceptance rate.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 09, 2010, 01:55
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Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 09, 2010, 02:00
are you talking about FREE right?
yes, of course FREE is they key: rpi is very low lately and I am not going to pay for upload, they are advised in case they decide to charge later
because - even after the iSyndica departure - there are at least other two sites doing the same "upload once-distribute everywhere" thing pretty well, but they are too dear in my opinion; plus, there's another free one but it requires multiple uploads, which is useless for me

I don't care about statistics or keywording (I already use IPTC in my workflow); automatic distribution is what matters to me, to save time and bandwidth

in this case the price is right  ;D

I might even reconsider uploading to some minor stock agencies which weren't worth before

I uploaded 10 images, but even after 10 hours they have not appeared in my "portfolio".  Think I'm doing something wrong, but what?  I'm seeing two folders on the remote site ("downloads" and "upload").  Since the root did not accept files, I put them in "upload".  Wrong?

Same here - I tried the "upload"folder but files are not showing in portfolio; I am using http upload now - which is working - but of course I am waiting for an FTP fix

18 photos were sent to Photolia (the same pic)!!!
...
I REALY hope FT does not count this in my aceptance rate!?

No problems with with FT for me, but the same thing happened with DP (same picture uploaded 27 times).
I am afraid FT does count this unfortunately.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 09, 2010, 02:26
Guys, it was a VERY strong start! Thanks for that!

100% disk full in a few hours :)
- this can explain some of the issues above.

Let me take care of that - allow an hour or so for the maintenance.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: MicrostockExp on December 09, 2010, 02:34
Nice to have new options  ;D. I updated my  blog post about distribution tools: http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-distribution-tools.html (http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-distribution-tools.html)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Dither on December 09, 2010, 02:43
What am I doing wrong?? I clicked the link http://lightburner.com/signup/ (http://lightburner.com/signup/) and received

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred,
and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


For the past 10 minutes no connection. All other websites work well,
so obviously no Internet problem. Is this campaign already over?

Oops, sorry, I was too anxious  :) ::)
Now I get:
The system is under planned maintenance
We probably add more disk space, add new features and upgrade the software now. We should be back soon.

Will test it when the maintenance is over. Sounds good though.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 09, 2010, 02:55
What am I doing wrong?? I clicked the link [url]http://lightburner.com/signup/[/url] ([url]http://lightburner.com/signup/[/url]) and received

Internal Server Error
...........
Oops, sorry, I was too anxious  :) ::)
Now I get:
The system is under planned maintenance
We probably add more disk space, add new features and upgrade the software now. We should be back soon.

Will test it when the maintenance is over. Sounds good though.


Nothing wrong, we just run out of the disk space due to a really strong start this night.

Let me take care of some more storage and the service will be back. Thanks Amazon it is fast and easy to add more space when you need it.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: MicrostockExp on December 09, 2010, 03:43
David, do you plan to implement distribution of footage ?
Beside Analytics will you add a promotion tool as well?

Thanks
L
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 09, 2010, 04:09
The service is back now with additional 100 GB of storage space. Let's see for how long it will last.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: luissantos84 on December 09, 2010, 06:33
I also like the FREE part but honestly for how long??..
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: MicrostockExp on December 09, 2010, 06:44
Files are stored for 3 days only so it can explain in part the FREE:)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: luissantos84 on December 09, 2010, 06:49
Files are stored for 3 days only so it can explain in part the FREE:)

if it keeps its more than enough :)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: luissantos84 on December 09, 2010, 07:15
OH BOY!.. I have sent ONE file to FT and have like 200 of the same now there.. NICE! :)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 09, 2010, 07:51
OH BOY!.. I have sent ONE file to FT and have like 200 of the same now there.. NICE! :)
This must be very annoying! Looks like the delivery works OK for your FT account, but the result is somehow not reported / missed, so the file is picked again on the next "delivery train".

Let me check it out right away.

Meanwhile I suggest to 'unassign' that file from Fotolia, so the system will not pick it up for the delivery again.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 09, 2010, 07:57
OH BOY!.. I have sent ONE file to FT and have like 200 of the same now there.. NICE! :)
This must be very annoying! Looks like the delivery works OK for your FT account, but the result is somehow not reported / missed, so the file is picked again on the next "delivery train".

Let me check it out right away.

Meanwhile I suggest to 'unassign' that file from Fotolia, so the system will not pick it up for the delivery again.

A similar issue is happening as well at FTP upload time: files which include "-" in the file name are renamed as "_" as soon as upload to your "upload" folder is completed, and my FTP client not finding the file thinks upload isn't finished and uploads it again and again

please don't rename files or wait a few seconds after upload or move them to another folder if you do
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 09, 2010, 08:00
I also like the FREE part but honestly for how long??..

Well, they could find other ways to support this project, such as referrals (already there I suppose if one signs up through their system), or asking sites to pay for inclusion in their list, or asking us to upload to their own microstock agency as well - if they have one

I would find these options perfecty acceptable in exchange for a free service
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: luissantos84 on December 09, 2010, 08:15
I also like the FREE part but honestly for how long??..

Well, they could find other ways to support this project, such as referrals (already there I suppose if one signs up through their system), or asking sites to pay for inclusion in their list, or asking us to upload to their own microstock agency as well - if they have one

I would find these options perfecty acceptable in exchange for a free service

I would love to have this always as a FREE service, don't even care why it is :P

BUT don't want to have 200 files instead of one :P (I am sure Pixamba will get there)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 09, 2010, 08:35
I also like the FREE part but honestly for how long??..

Well, they could find other ways to support this project, such as referrals (already there I suppose if one signs up through their system), or asking sites to pay for inclusion in their list, or asking us to upload to their own microstock agency as well - if they have one

I would find these options perfecty acceptable in exchange for a free service



I would love to have this always as a FREE service, don't even care why it is :P

BUT don't want to have 200 files instead of one :P (I am sure Pixamba will get there)

expecially to FT which takes into account the acceptance ratio!
but I am sure they will fix it soon if they pay for Amazon bandwidth
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: luissantos84 on December 09, 2010, 08:37
I also like the FREE part but honestly for how long??..

Well, they could find other ways to support this project, such as referrals (already there I suppose if one signs up through their system), or asking sites to pay for inclusion in their list, or asking us to upload to their own microstock agency as well - if they have one

I would find these options perfecty acceptable in exchange for a free service



I would love to have this always as a FREE service, don't even care why it is :P

BUT don't want to have 200 files instead of one :P (I am sure Pixamba will get there)

expecially to FT which takes into account the acceptance ratio!
but I am sure they will fix it soon if they pay for Amazon bandwidth

really?? must be where I have the lowest approval :P
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 09, 2010, 08:40
really?? must be where I have the lowest approval :P

so they say: that placement in search results is influenced by approval - don't know if it's true or just a urban legend
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: luissantos84 on December 09, 2010, 08:45
really?? must be where I have the lowest approval :P

so they say: that placement in search results is influenced by approval - don't know if it's true or just a urban legend

We will have the answer soon, I have sent a message to Mat Hayward who is always very helpful :)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 09, 2010, 10:53
it happened again: same picture uploaded 57 times to DP

as a temporary solution, what about setting a limit to the number of retries? let's say 2 or 3 times, it's enough  :)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 09, 2010, 11:06
it happened again: same picture uploaded 57 times to DP

as a temporary solution, what about setting a limit to the number of retries? let's say 2 or 3 times, it's enough  :)

Thanks for the report! It's important that it is not just FT - narrows the options.  I am on it now.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: ouchie on December 09, 2010, 11:36
Do we dare try uploading again?

Can someone try it and let me know if its ok now ;-)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 09, 2010, 12:43
I stopped the distribution until this issue is fixed, to avoid any trouble. Will let you know when it is back.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: luissantos84 on December 09, 2010, 15:15
I have removed the picture hours ago and AGAIN more 200.. what the heck!! :P

please DELETE my account!

UPDATED: everything is fine :)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: ouchie on December 09, 2010, 17:10
Oh no!

i just deleted the pics and it stopped.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: fotorob on December 09, 2010, 17:17
@zenpix: I know for sure that when you delete files manually from your Fotolia account BEFORE they enter the review process (turning yellow), it does NOT affect your acceptance ratio...
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: ouchie on December 09, 2010, 17:24
Thanks for the info...thats good to know!
Im realy not trying to be a problem.
but im just concerned.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Dither on December 09, 2010, 18:23
@zenpix: I know for sure that when you delete files manually from your Fotolia account BEFORE they enter the review process (turning yellow), it does NOT affect your acceptance ratio...

So I guess I'm screwed  :o mine was yellow and pushed in the queue already (7 times) and I deleted them, but at least it was not 100 times ;)
Same happened with DP 14 times the same upload, I'm sure we can read about this tomorrow in Wikileaks :)

Hope not too much damage is done and will wait for things to get better

Shalom for now.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: ouchie on December 09, 2010, 18:56
Wikileaks~~HA, thats funny ;D

How is that possible, we r talking about photolia~they wont move through to review until you finalize the file, keyword order, catagories....
Did u do that already?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 10, 2010, 02:37
First, let me apologize for the trouble. I am still investigating it. Production environment is much stronger and faster than the lab, so the things work differently. I already have found one issue, but I am still not sure it solves the problem everywhere and I'll take some more time to check other sites & more cases.

As for the files - Once a file is deleted from the account it is deleted from the storage and from the DB, no traces left. I do not think such a file can be delivered again, it would be too weird - the distribution process just does not have it, physically.

Fotolia: Files delivered to Fotolia go directly to the approval queue, as long as they have all the metadata in place. The same is correct for iStock and many others. So @zenpix' original question is the right one - does Fotolia count that?

@zenpix: Personally, I do not believe that FT takes in account the uploaded/accepted ratio. Playing with my account I got 247/9 uploaded/selected ratio at the moment, because I mostly delete the uploads when they arrive. Yes, the total number of uploads is displayed (why, Fotolia, why is that? Just yet another confusing unhelpful number, quite unique among other microstocks!) - but it would be illogical for any agency to consider such a ratio.

Should contributors be "punished" for their uploads if they decide to remove pictures before they are landed on the inspectors' desks? Since the upload/removal does not waste the inspectors' time the logical answer would be "No, that's fine for us, we do not mind". In opposite, being an agency I would endorse that - if you are not sure about your uploads please go and remove them now, before they are reviewed - it's great for us, it saves our time and money!
- just my opinion, anyway
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: diego_cervo on December 10, 2010, 03:20
Fotolia: Files delivered to Fotolia go directly to the approval queue, as long as they have all the metadata in place. The same is correct for iStock and many others. So @zenpix' original question is the right one - does Fotolia count that?

Hi David,
the problem with pushing files straight to the FT approval queue is that we cannot add model releases at that stage. Good for still life, but not for images showing people  ;)
Keep on the good work!
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 10, 2010, 15:43
the problem with pushing files straight to the FT approval queue is that we cannot add model releases at that stage. Good for still life, but not for images showing people  ;)
Keep on the good work!

Thank you Diego.
You are right, it's an issue I have to address - will take care of that.

As a side note, Fotolia is probably the only microstock which allows only one option to manage an image in the approval queue - to delete it, that's it.
So much choice indeed. Others micros allow editing of images directly in the approval queue or taking them out of the queue for editing and resubmission.


Just finished working on the over-delivery issue, with particular attention to Fotolia and DepositPhotos submissions reported above.
Hope we are good to go now.

The files distribution is switched on.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 10, 2010, 15:50
Thanks, David
I am trying to upload a few files and will post results here soon.

------

Update - I finished uploading 5 pictures. The duplicated upload problem seems solved, but there are still some issues. Here is the report:

Phase 1 - FTPing to your "upload" folder using crossFTP (free version 1.65)

3 files uploaded correctly at first try

1 file uploaded twice

1 file uploaded after many retries (error: "[R3] Failed to get attributes of /upload/glasgow-cathedral_p9169344.jpg")

Phase 2 - Assigning to channels

4 pictures assigned correctly

1 picture gave this error: "Error: some media cannot be assigned to channels / Please fix the following issues / Minimal image resolution is 4 MP, got 3.77 MP"
which is not true, since this picture is 1942 x 2210 pixels: about 4.3 MP considering 1K=1000, or still > 4 MP considering 1K=1024

Phase 3 - Distribution to channels

CRE,DT,FT,SS,YAY,123,CC: upload ok, and pictures automatically submitted to the queue

SS*,BIG,CAN,DT, upload ok  but waiting to be submitted (*as expected since you said files are uploaded through FTP)

DP: 2 pictures uploaded; 3 lost somewhere, marked as uploaded on LightBurner stats but not showing on site

PM: pictures marked as uploaded but not showing

All custom FTP channels ok except VEER (must have something to do with SFTP)

IS and Alamy not tried yet (because I don't have free slots / upsized files at present)

Hope this helps.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 11, 2010, 04:48
Thank you for the great report!

- Phase 2: minimal resolution bug - fixed.

- Phase 1: I'll get into checking crossFTP and other clients later on. There are many S/FTP clients and they definitely can behave differently. It's quite a pian to check each one on the server side with all the possible clients' bugs, mis-interpretation of SFTP protocol and their handling of the possible connection interrupts.

Meanwhile I would suggest simply to use the most tested SFTP client FileZilla, available for all platforms. Never had issues with mass-upload with this one.
If we got any issue with FileZilla will try to fix it ASAP.

- Phase 3: - Let me put the things in some order...

SS and DT uploads are over FTP because this way their upload systems work. So I can not do too much but just leave the images in 'waiting for submission / unfinished' zone on both sites.

BigStock - I think I actually can push images directly into the approval queue, will check it out.

DepositPhotos and PantherMedia - will check what are the problems there.

Veer - will be added to the list of supported sites at the next week, so you can just wait a few days.
As for FTP, they say "FTP over explicit TLS/SSL"...  This mode is not supported at the moment for Custom Channels. I can add it if there is a strong demand for FTP-over-SSL (this is not the same protocol like SFTP)

Thanks!
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 11, 2010, 05:36
Thanks! I really appreciate your project so I will do all I can to help testing.

I will try Filezilla. I was using crossFTP because the same client is available for all OS we use (besides Windows, Linux eeebuntu on a netbook for nightly uploads - Filezilla doesn't work there).

The only site I am aware that is using FTP-over-SSL is Veer, so since you will add it to standard channels it's not a priority for me.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Smithore on December 11, 2010, 06:56
I haven't tried this tool, i'm planning to test next days.
So, if understand, files are submitted to approval queue also, like microstocksubmitter?
That's a good idea, but for people like me, who are on other platform than US on Fotolia, it could be a problem, because we have to select the keywording language before submit! Can you please include this option before uploading?
Another request: can you also add the capacity of reduce pictures size for some sites, like in Insyndica, that's really important!
Thanks
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Fotonaut on December 11, 2010, 07:57
Another request: can you also add the capacity of reduce pictures size for some sites, like in Insyndica, that's really important!

Extremely important feature. Better yet, the ability to choose picture size for every submission.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 11, 2010, 10:08
So, if understand, files are submitted to approval queue also, like microstocksubmitter?

Hmm... Let's say like ProStockMaster? Sounds better to me :)
ProStockMaster does it for a couple of sites at the moment, LightBurner does it for much more agencies.
Also note Diego's comment above - it is not always that good. I'll take care of both scenarios soon.

Another request: can you also add the capacity of reduce pictures size for some sites, like in Insyndica, that's really important!

Extremely important feature. Better yet, the ability to choose picture size for every submission.

Thanks for the suggestion!

The good news is that scaling down an image at the server side is a piece of cake.

The bad news is that I am not sure I completely understand this use case.

Why to scale down images? What agencies would prefer to get a smaller picture instead of the bigger one and why? They all "sell pixels" at the moment, so the bigger image you give them the more they earn and the bigger are your commissions, at least theoretically. Where I am wrong?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: spike on December 11, 2010, 10:42
Why to scale down images? What agencies would prefer to get a smaller picture instead of the bigger one and why? They all "sell pixels" at the moment, so the bigger image you give them the more the earn and the more you can get in your commissions, at least theoretically. Where I am wrong?
We might not want to sell out fullsize images for a subscription price (for instance, shutterstock).
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: WarrenPrice on December 11, 2010, 10:56
Why to scale down images? What agencies would prefer to get a smaller picture instead of the bigger one and why? They all "sell pixels" at the moment, so the bigger image you give them the more the earn and the more you can get in your commissions, at least theoretically. Where I am wrong?
We might not want to sell out fullsize images for a subscription price (for instance, shutterstock).

I think most of us downsize images, David, especially to any subscription sites.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Fotonaut on December 11, 2010, 12:17
I think most of us downsize images, David, especially to any subscription sites.

Yup, exactly. I only send 4.5 mpix to sites with subscription. Also, though my camera deliver 18 mpix, sometimes I feel safer scaling down somewhat with regards to quality, and some sites are stricter than others.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Smithore on December 11, 2010, 14:02
Yes davidm, to downsize pictures for subscription sites like shutterstock is important, we can't sell the same image for the same size at so much different price between for example shutetrstock and istock.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 12, 2010, 10:06
Right, got it guys. Will do
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 12, 2010, 17:52
DepositPhotos and PantherMedia - will check what are the problems there.

Update: I tried again today, and both DP and PM are working now

Almost everything is working fine in Lightburner, except editing multiple images at a time: nothing happens clicking the "Catalog" link (Windows XP/IE 8 )
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 13, 2010, 03:44
Thanks for the finding!

It was the easy one, fixed.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Anyka on December 13, 2010, 11:33
I have used LightBurner now for most sites, but not on Fotolia yet.  It is possible to send to Fotolia without sending the photos straight into the inspection queue?  If not, I'll keep on sending them with FTP separately. 
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 13, 2010, 12:37
I have used LightBurner now for most sites, but not on Fotolia yet.  It is possible to send to Fotolia without sending the photos straight into the inspection queue?  If not, I'll keep on sending them with FTP separately. 

I agree this could be a useful option as sometimes it's better not to upload too many pictures at a time to some sites (for a series of reasons: better acceptance; better placement in search results)

Meanwhile, you can add a custom FTP channel in LightBurner instead of using the default Fotolia channel.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 13, 2010, 17:19
Thanks for the finding!

It was the easy one, fixed.

But now multiple edit deletes all keywords. Is that expected? I think it would be useful to add a category to multiple images at once without deleting keywords.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: diego_cervo on December 14, 2010, 02:48
Hello David,

Thanks for addressing some bugs.
I still experience duplicates with crestock and canstock. Pictures do not always show up at Alamy.
That being said, this tool works much better now!

I just wanted to ask you if it's possible to keep the thumbnails of the pictures uploaded on LB after automatic removal. Otherwise I can't see how analytics will work since contents will be deleted.

Best,
Diego
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 14, 2010, 06:37
I still experience duplicates with crestock and canstock. Pictures do not always show up at Alamy.

Duplicates on fotolia too (again).
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 14, 2010, 07:09
But now multiple edit deletes all keywords. Is that expected? I think it would be useful to add a category to multiple images at once without deleting keywords.

Yes, it is by design. My logic is as follow:
- for a 'single' edit it is expected that everything will be replaced by the new set of params, not 'added' to the existing params (e.g. new Title should replace the old one)
- the same is correct for 'multiple' edit.
It is good when you want quickly to add the same set of keywords/description/title/categories to a group of new images

The good news are that "Assign" does exactly what you want - it only adds new things, does not remove anything. You can apply "Assign" to multiple images as well.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Stu49 on December 14, 2010, 07:58
Yes davidm, to downsize pictures for subscription sites like shutterstock is important, we can't sell the same image for the same size at so much different price between for example shutetrstock and istock.

What's to stop people up-sizing them after purchase ??  I would think the quality would be very good, as they were down-sized in the first place !?

Also what size do you submit to top 6 ??  (DT,FT,IS,SS,BS,123)

 :)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 14, 2010, 08:25
But now multiple edit deletes all keywords. Is that expected? I think it would be useful to add a category to multiple images at once without deleting keywords.

Yes, it is by design. My logic is as follow:
- for a 'single' edit it is expected that everything will be replaced by the new set of params, not 'added' to the existing params (e.g. new Title should replace the old one)
- the same is correct for 'multiple' edit.
It is good when you want quickly to add the same set of keywords/description/title/categories to a group of new images

The good news are that "Assign" does exactly what you want - it only adds new things, does not remove anything. You can apply "Assign" to multiple images as well.

Thanks, I didn't know that Assign did that.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: spike on December 14, 2010, 15:10
Yes davidm, to downsize pictures for subscription sites like shutterstock is important, we can't sell the same image for the same size at so much different price between for example shutetrstock and istock.

What's to stop people up-sizing them after purchase ??  I would think the quality would be very good, as they were down-sized in the first place !?

Also what size do you submit to top 6 ??  (DT,FT,IS,SS,BS,123)

 :)
Downsample your avatar to 10x10 pixels and then enlarge it to the size you have now.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Stu49 on December 14, 2010, 16:05
Yes davidm, to downsize pictures for subscription sites like shutterstock is important, we can't sell the same image for the same size at so much different price between for example shutetrstock and istock.

What's to stop people up-sizing them after purchase ??  I would think the quality would be very good, as they were down-sized in the first place !?

Also what size do you submit to top 6 ??  (DT,FT,IS,SS,BS,123)

 :)
Downsample your avatar to 10x10 pixels and then enlarge it to the size you have now.

lol   Not a very realistic comparison !?

I'm talking 10MB down to 5MB, then back to 6 or 7MB !!

to compare with 10x10 pixels is rather silly really !  isn't it ??  ;)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 14, 2010, 17:30
I just wanted to ask you if it's possible to keep the thumbnails of the pictures uploaded on LB after automatic removal. Otherwise I can't see how analytics will work since contents will be deleted.

Hi Diego,
Are not they kept? I was sure they are, as well as the 400px previews. At least it was designed for that... Do we have an issue here?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: spike on December 14, 2010, 19:04
Yes davidm, to downsize pictures for subscription sites like shutterstock is important, we can't sell the same image for the same size at so much different price between for example shutetrstock and istock.

What's to stop people up-sizing them after purchase ??  I would think the quality would be very good, as they were down-sized in the first place !?

Also what size do you submit to top 6 ??  (DT,FT,IS,SS,BS,123)

 :)
Downsample your avatar to 10x10 pixels and then enlarge it to the size you have now.

lol   Not a very realistic comparison !?

I'm talking 10MB down to 5MB, then back to 6 or 7MB !!

to compare with 10x10 pixels is rather silly really !  isn't it ??  ;)
The comparison is to illustrate a point.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: diego_cervo on December 15, 2010, 01:31
I just wanted to ask you if it's possible to keep the thumbnails of the pictures uploaded on LB after automatic removal. Otherwise I can't see how analytics will work since contents will be deleted.

Hi Diego,
Are not they kept? I was sure they are, as well as the 400px previews. At least it was designed for that... Do we have an issue here?

David,
the test picture I uploaded last week has been automatically removed. I got an email about automatic removal with one day notice.
Am I doing something wrong with settings? I checked my account out but I can't find any option to store previews on the site.
Thanks!
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 15, 2010, 10:29
Phase 1 - FTPing to your "upload" folder using crossFTP (free version 1.65)
3 files uploaded correctly at first try
1 file uploaded twice
1 file uploaded after many retries (error: "[R3] Failed to get attributes of /upload/glasgow-cathedral_p9169344.jpg")

I updated SFTP procedures, so it hopefully works better now. I did a quick test with crossFTP - it still says something about "failed to get attributes", but now in the next line it adds "Succeeded to get attributes", so for my files it looks this way -

[R1] PUT to /upload/_MG_5598.jpg, MODE:BINARY
[R1] Failed to get attributes of /upload/_MG_5598.jpg
[R1] Succeeded to get attributes of /upload/_MG_5598.jpg
[R1] CHMOD 755 /upload/_MG_5598.jpg
[R1] Succeeded

Uploaded about 200 files for the test, looks good at the moment.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: fatalsweets on December 16, 2010, 07:36
Is lightburner website down? I can't open it. It keep says Safari can’t connect to the server.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 16, 2010, 08:04
@davidm: I tried again with crossFTP yesterday: I get the double message too but it's working fine, thanks

@fatalsweets: site is down for me as well - using IE or Firefox
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: fatalsweets on December 16, 2010, 08:13
@davidm: I tried again with crossFTP yesterday: I get the double message too but it's working fine, thanks

@fatalsweets: site is down for me as well - using IE or Firefox

Firefox is down too  :(
hope tomorrow it will work again.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on December 16, 2010, 08:22
@davidm: I tried again with crossFTP yesterday: I get the double message too but it's working fine, thanks

@fatalsweets: site is down for me as well - using IE or Firefox

Firefox is down too  :(
hope tomorrow it will work again.

yes, I meant it's down as well using IE and Firefox, so it's not Safari related.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 16, 2010, 09:10
Sorry for the trouble guys - upgrading again, we need some more RAM and even more storage.
LightBurner started small, but due to the strong demand we do the 3-rd upgrade in the last 8 days.

The site is back now, we are good to go.

Diego,
You are right - indeed ALL media info was deleted after 3 days. It definitely was not the designed behavior.
I fixed it, and now only the high res is deleted, while the rest of data is kept in your account for your reference & analysis.
Also added a line to the removal notification email explaining this.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Fotonaut on December 16, 2010, 12:03
David, is there any chance LightBurner will offer storage, as iSyndica did?
As I have not my agencies set in stone, I would pay for the ability to upload my portfolio (or single images) to another agency at a later stage. For me, this was another key element of iSyndica.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 16, 2010, 13:30
David, is there any chance LightBurner will offer storage, as iSyndica did?
As I have not my agencies set in stone, I would pay for the ability to upload my portfolio (or single images) to another agency at a later stage. For me, this was another key element of iSyndica.

Thanks for a very good question! Though it is not a simple one.
I am absolutely with you since I also ask the same question every single day.

Indeed, agencies come and go, and sometimes newcomers are great, or they simply pay for uploads, so we go with them. Yes, the need is definitely here.
Technically LightBurner is fully prepared for that. Just stop media removals for people who want to keep their portfolios with us, that's it.

However, if we do that we will have to introduce payed subscriptions to cover our storage expenses.
Are people ready to pay for that? And, if, like you say, they are - then why iSyndica failed?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 20, 2010, 03:44
Added Veer. Fixed Alamy uploads.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Sadstock on January 13, 2011, 00:06
Davidm,

Just giving your software a try and I like the interface and the idea behind it. 

One feature that would be really helpful is a title character count.  I'm recently freed from Istock exclusivity and all my images are titled to comply with Istock's title restriction which is no more than 10 words.  FT on the other hand will accept no more than 64 characters, so I have to edit each image individually to make it fit.  If I have more than 65 characters, FT will truncate the title.  A real time count of how many characters I've used would be fantastic.

Same is true with keywords.  Going from Istock CV to anything else is huge pain as the whole philosophy of keywording is different.  I've spent a lot of time prepping my keywords through bulk editing to eliminate Istock CV terms that make no sense outside of Istock such as "young women only" converting this to "young" and "woman" or "women" as appropriate and dropping "only" entirely.  These types of edits typically results in me having way more than 50 keywords in an image, so I have to cut down my list to get to 50.  I need a counter to tell me how many keywords I have so I can figure out what else needs to be cut.  Presently its easier to manage both of these on the FT site, since it gives me immediate feedback if there are too many keywords or the title is too long.

I have a couple thousand files to upload to a number of sites, but I'm not in a position to upload them to many sites all at once, for example different weekly upload limits across the sites.  I need to upload the library to some sites and not others, then come back maybe months later and upload to the rest of the sites.  Given that I would have to upload and edit the images a second time is a big disincentive to using lightburner.  On the other hand if I could store the images with edited metadata for later use, the time saved would be worth quite a bit of money to me. 

I think there are going to be lots more istock exclusives in my situation, needing to upload large portfolios to many sites.  The timing for some type of subscription might be a whole lot more favorable than it was for iSyndica. 
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 25, 2011, 10:20
@sadstock
Thank you for the great feedback, and taking time to write it all down!
I value it very much, and the things you mentioned will be added.

Meanwhile, I have added words and characters counters for the metadata fields:

(http://lightburner.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/sushi.png)

More stuff follow.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Anyka on January 25, 2011, 12:53
David, I'm having problems with my BigStockphoto account at Lightburner.  I typed and retyped the correct login name and password, but Lightburner does not accept it : "please verify your user credentials and try again".  I checked the login/password on the BigStock website and they worked, so what's wrong?  It cannot be a capital letter problem, as I copy/paste my passwords, and there are no characters like @ or $ in the password.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Stu49 on January 25, 2011, 13:04
having similar problem with Cutcaster and PantherMedia !!  also get 'You are not the owner of this channel. You can not edit or delete it.' when I try to Update it ???
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 25, 2011, 13:52
David, I'm having problems with my BigStockphoto account at Lightburner.  I typed and retyped the correct login name and password, but Lightburner does not accept it : "please verify your user credentials and try again".  I checked the login/password on the BigStock website and they worked, so what's wrong?  It cannot be a capital letter problem, as I copy/paste my passwords, and there are no characters like @ or $ in the password.
I'll look into it soon. BS does not use our API yet and, unfortunately, we depend on changes they make on their web. Each time their developers play with a few pages we have to issue a fix.
The only thing I can suggest - send a message to BS and ask them to work with us via API.

having similar problem with Cutcaster and PantherMedia !!  also get 'You are not the owner of this channel. You can not edit or delete it.' when I try to Update it ???

The same is correct for CutCaster. John informed me that they are going to change their web site, and well - now they did. However, since CutCaster does not use our API we have to fix the integration each time they change their web pages.

Panthermedia uses our API, but they currently have a temporary problem with their server. Until they replace that hardware I suggest sending them images over a custom FTP channel.

"Update" and "Delete" buttons work for the custom channels you define, allowing you to change FTP server or port for the selected channel. Naturally, you can not do that for pre-integrated channels e.g. iStock. For iStock & Co, simply select a channel, enter your user credentials at right and press "Save" button.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Sadstock on January 25, 2011, 21:46
@sadstock
Thank you for the great feedback, and taking time to write it all down!
I value it very much, and the things you mentioned will be added.

Meanwhile, I have added words and characters counters for the metadata fields:

More stuff follow.

----------------------------------
Wow!  Looks great and is exactly what I need.  Thanks!

Following up on the issue of needed to upload to different sites weeks apart, I understand that if I upload a file to lightburner and submit it to several sites through lightburner, after a little bit of time passes, Lightburner will delete the high res image but will retain the metadata and a low res image.  My question is if I come back 2 months later and upload the image again because I want to distribute it to a bunch more sites, will lightburner recognize it as something uploaded before and match the new high res image with the old metadata?  It would be great if it did, as that would really address the storage problem for me.  

Thanks again  
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: OxfordSquare on January 27, 2011, 15:53
hä? I uploaded one picture to LightBurner incl. all data and pressed save, but nothing happend?
In this case I only selected iStockPhoto but my picture is not there?

How it works?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 27, 2011, 17:22
hä? I uploaded one picture to LightBurner incl. all data and pressed save, but nothing happend?
In this case I only selected iStockPhoto but my picture is not there?

How it works?
You have to assign your picture(s) to the channel(s). You can also decide to auto-assign / auto-distribute any uploaded image to the channels of your choice.

Simply put, go to Portfolio, open 'Channels' at left, than drag and drop your image(s) to iStock channel. Other assignment options are also available.
Your assigned images will be automatically picked up for the distribution and sometime later you will see them in your iStockphoto account.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: OxfordSquare on January 27, 2011, 17:52
I tried that (drag & drop) but nothing happens?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 27, 2011, 18:24
Once you dropped an image to a channel you are done. The distribution is automated, so no further action required.
The image thumbnail shows simple red/yellow/green distribution status (page refresh required to track statuses changes)
red = not assigned
yellow = assigned, not uploaded yet or uploaded for some channels only
green = uploaded OK to all selected channels

You also can check the upload status of your image by clicking the thumbnail and going to "Stats" pane. If the image is already distributed you will see the upload date/time there.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on January 28, 2011, 13:42
since yesterday pictures assigned to channels - either automatically or manually - are not being distributed as well
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Stu49 on January 28, 2011, 15:12
Not much happening here either !  Having failed with Cutcaster and PantherMedia, I tried CanStock, but nothing happening there either !?

This is my first try of this prog, not overly impressed so far  :-\
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Phil on January 29, 2011, 01:06
seems very impressive to me.

I uploaded 10 images yesterday and told it to do a full submit to all sites (expect bigstock and cutcaster where it wont connect).

taken a while to get my head around it all but my thoughts and observations,

after about 24 hours, it is still processing (I think? - they are all still yellow) so some of this may be fixed by itself soon,

some sites like 123rf and deposit are all in the reviewing queue, done and happy,
DT and Canstock got all 10 in the unfinished but it hasnt pushed them through (as yet)?,
FT - 2 doubles - 8 are awaiting review (no category so see how that goes), 4 are uploaded and waiting to be submitted (dont know if it comes back and does this?)
Veer scored an one photo twice - 7 pending, 4 in the waiting
SS has only got 1 image as has Alamy which has an error (but it may be size or anything not sure yet).
IS (which I wasn't going to submit to, but I had created the channel and it got done :)) got 5 out of 10

yesterday it showed my outstanding balances at each site, but today doesnt seem to? (I'm probably doing something wrong :))

model releases I see as a problem, personally it would be nice to have a button that toggles all channels between unfinished area and full submit, that way for people shots can go to unfinished to have a model release added and simple click back for non people shots.

the other problem I see is the speed, it's all just happening a bit to slow at this stage.

I think it may have been asked already but what will happen when another site is added? it would be nice to have a system like it storing the filename and just point to a folder and it mass reuploads for submitting to the site?? (or some good method :))

do you have / can you let us know an idea of costing for the service? Working faster and the quirks sorted (I accept it is beta) I think it will be brilliant but I have concerns about the cost, Isyndica seemed good, just to expensive.

Rgds
Phil
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on January 29, 2011, 08:43
since yesterday pictures assigned to channels - either automatically or manually - are not being distributed as well

edit: pictures were eventually distributed, but it took more than 48 hours to happen, there must be some issues since it used to take just a few minutes until a few days ago.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Stu49 on January 29, 2011, 11:21
Not much happening here either !  Having failed with Cutcaster and PantherMedia, I tried CanStock, but nothing happening there either !?

This is my first try of this prog, not overly impressed so far  :-\

Looks like it finally got there !  but took a long time !!   ???
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 29, 2011, 11:45
Yes guys, I can see the issues with the distribution process. It is not consistent yet. Working on that
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 29, 2011, 12:37
BigStock uploads fixed, should be OK now
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 29, 2011, 13:59
BTW, I applaud to Fotolia since obviously they do listen to what is going on here on MSG.

A few weeks ago I wrote a post saying that they should have "Delete" button in their upload queue, so people can delete their uploads even if they are already submitted for review. It reduces the amount of work for their reviewers, and works for both the contributors and the agency.
Now I see that the new  "Delete" link is added to the images in the approval queue.
Well done, guys!

I wish Tim / BigStock will follow. At the moment we can not delete images from BigStock approval queue.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Phil on January 29, 2011, 16:10
BTW, I applaud to Fotolia since obviously they do listen to what is going on here on MSG.

A few weeks ago I wrote a post saying that they should have "Delete" button in their upload queue, so people can delete their uploads even if they are already submitted for review. It reduces the amount of work for their reviewers, and works for both the contributors and the agency.
Now I see that the new  "Delete" link is added to the images in the approval queue.
Well done, guys!

I wish Tim / BigStock will follow. At the moment we can not delete images from BigStock approval queue.

Veer dont seem to have it either
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: nixite on January 30, 2011, 02:08
Is it plans to make a release attachment? Unfortunately I found it's useless until it implemented.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 30, 2011, 02:33
Is it plans to make a release attachment? Unfortunately I found it's useless until it implemented.
Yes, it is planned.
Meanwhile, you can select "send to unfinished zone" to each channel (My Account -> Channels -> Preferences) and add the releases manually when the files are there.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on January 30, 2011, 02:52
Feature request: set prices and extended licence to maximum allowed value in FT.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: visceralimage on January 30, 2011, 03:56
David;  I have not had a chance to give this a try; one question.  When you select to do a upload to multiple sites; do we just upload to your site and you to the transfers or must our computer internet be connected for the entire time the images are sent to each individual site?  i am in Far East Russia so internet is not so reliable and a bit expensive to remain online for long periods.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 30, 2011, 04:18
David;  I have not had a chance to give this a try; one question.  When you select to do a upload to multiple sites; do we just upload to your site and you to the transfers or must our computer internet be connected for the entire time the images are sent to each individual site?  i am in Far East Russia so internet is not so reliable and a bit expensive to remain online for long periods.
You upload just once, to LightBurner. You do not have to wait while the images are distributed to the agencies, that's the whole idea of having a centralized distribution service.
LightBurner will distribute your portfolio wherever you select to, doing that in the background, so you do not have to wait for that or pay for that.
Once you assigned your images to the channels the distribution starts automatically.
Note, that the high-res images  will be removed after 4 days, so you have 4 days to select which image goes where.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: visceralimage on January 30, 2011, 06:46
David;  I have not had a chance to give this a try; one question.  When you select to do a upload to multiple sites; do we just upload to your site and you to the transfers or must our computer internet be connected for the entire time the images are sent to each individual site?  i am in Far East Russia so internet is not so reliable and a bit expensive to remain online for long periods.
You upload just once, to LightBurner. You do not have to wait while the images are distributed to the agencies, that's the whole idea of having a centralized distribution service.
LightBurner will distribute your portfolio wherever you select to, doing that in the background, so you do not have to wait for that or pay for that.
Once you assigned your images to the channels the distribution starts automatically.
Note, that the high-res images  will be removed after 4 days, so you have 4 days to select which image goes where.

Wow, i like it (the concept).  Will give it a try
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on February 03, 2011, 10:34
Following the MSG members requests I have added an upload folder for the FTP Custom Channels.
(http://lightburner.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/folder.gif)

So now you can direct your FTP uploads to the right place on the FTP site.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Artmyth on February 03, 2011, 11:03
oh my this custom ftp feature is an awesome idea, hope to try it out tonight
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: fatalsweets on February 07, 2011, 09:39
Hi,
I upload few images to light burner, it went to all the stock sites but bigstock. I wait for few days, but still nothing at the pending folder. How long took it to be on the site?
Also one more thing, when I upload the image it only select dreamstime, I have to select other site one by one. Is there a way to make it auto select all the site?

Thank you
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on February 07, 2011, 13:13
You can configure every channel for auto-submission using "Channels -> Preferences" dialog. Thus, everything you upload will be automatically assigned and delivered to that channel.

As for BigStock I thought we've solved that problem last week. Do you still have this issue if you upload an image today?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: fatalsweets on February 08, 2011, 04:18
You can configure every channel for auto-submission using "Channels -> Preferences" dialog. Thus, everything you upload will be automatically assigned and delivered to that channel.

As for BigStock I thought we've solved that problem last week. Do you still have this issue if you upload an image today?

Thank you, that will help me a lot time. ^^
I upload one today. Hope it will go though this time.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: diego_cervo on February 09, 2011, 01:23
Hi David,
I think lightburner is still not uploading on bigstock. I tried it yesterday but it didn't work.
thanks
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: visceralimage on February 09, 2011, 01:39
Hi David,
I think lightburner is still not uploading on bigstock. I tried it yesterday but it didn't work.
thanks

i can not get it to register my account with BigStock, check the loggin details but still would not confirm the channel for BigStock
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: visceralimage on February 09, 2011, 04:00
David;

I am getting about 30% of my Shutterstock files rejected because they are not over 4 mpix.  Is there a way to set the size at 4.2 or 4.3; I have set at 4 but unable to set a decimal percentage?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: fatalsweets on February 10, 2011, 06:26
Hi David,

The latest image I upload from Light Burner still not uploading to bigstock. :-[
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on February 10, 2011, 10:19
Hi David,

The latest image I upload from Light Burner still not uploading to bigstock. :-[

Same problem here.

As a temporary solution, setting a custom channel from LightBurner instead of using the default one worked for me.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on February 19, 2011, 13:08
With the kind help of BigStock team the issue is fixed now.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: t3mujin on February 21, 2011, 11:03
I think there should be some kind of protection (like a warning message) when a photo is going to resubmited to an agency. Although sometimes that's useful, to resubmit images, others that happens because the user messes things up. It's the second time I have to clean up duplicates from 15 stock agencies for something I did wrong but also something lightburner could warned me about, and honestly I don't like feel of being afraid to using a piece of software because I'll end up having a LOT of work cleaning things if I do it wrong.   

Now back to cleaning duplicate photos from stock agencies, and in some agencies that means removing them individually.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: visceralimage on February 22, 2011, 00:15
David;

A couple request:

Is is possible to make an option to stay signed in; I hate having to sign in multiple times a day; yes, I do have cookies enabled but still need to sign in about every third or fourth time?

Is it possible to cancel a file transfer; I hate looking at the yellow squares and thinking none of my transfers were completed.  I know we can check the stats to see what went through but once the yellow square shows up, it is there forever.

Is it possible to get the stats (dollars made) for SS in the tickler on the top of the screen?

Is there any plans to offer storage; sometimes three days is not enough time and my upload speeds are super slow in Far East Russia?

Even if answer is four no's for the above, love the program.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Sadstock on February 22, 2011, 21:38
I gave LB a real tryout for the first time yesterday and was generally pleased.  Thanks so much for making this possible.

 I did have the same problem as t3mujin however of LB distributing some images twice to some of the sites, though not as far reaching has his/hers.

I actually was surprised that they were distributed at all since for all my channels I had selected I had not checked the "Automatically submit all new uploads" check box.  My thinking was this would result in requiring me to take some affirmative action like clicking a "distribute now" button in order for distribution to begin.  After I associated the channels with the images I'd finished prepping I wanted to take one last look before starting the process, only to find it was already underway, despite not checking the auto distribution box. 

Can you let me know what actually triggers distribution?  Is it just associating the channel?  Given the  "Automatically submit all new uploads" check box, this seems counter-intuitive.  I'd really like an option of a "distribute now" button to take the ambiguity out of the system. 
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on February 23, 2011, 01:58
Can you let me know what actually triggers distribution?  Is it just associating the channel?  Given the  "Automatically submit all new uploads" check box, this seems counter-intuitive.  I'd really like an option of a "distribute now" button to take the ambiguity out of the system. 

I noticed that ambiguity as well: sometimes channels not marked as "automatically submit" are being submitted, and some market as "automatically submit" are not. There must be some kind of issue.

The "distribute now" button is a great suggestion. Actually, a "distribute to all channels" button + buttons for each channel.

Also, consider this case: I have all channels set for automatic submission, which is great for everyday uploads of new pictures. But I decide to upload my entire portfolio to 3 new sites. I do not want to reupload all pictures to all sites, just to the 3 new channels. Currently, I need to uncheck automatic submission from all sites. A "submit button" will solve this problem as well.

I would also suggest automatically creating a separate folder for each FTP session (or even better allowing us to submit folders) This would simplify submitting all pictures in a folder without assigning each picture. It's difficult to find out which pictures were already submitted.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Anyka on February 23, 2011, 12:15

I would also suggest automatically creating a separate folder for each FTP session (or even better allowing us to submit folders) This would simplify submitting all pictures in a folder without assigning each picture. It's difficult to find out which pictures were already submitted.

Absolutely.  This is the one thing I miss most : keeping track of what has been submitted (and to which channel), which was really easy at Isyndica.  Now I just delete everything that's been submitted before uploading more.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Anyka on March 04, 2011, 11:52
Hi, has any one ever tried deleting a channel? 
I tried deleting Bigstock, because I have two channels for this site, and I get a pop-up refusal telling me "that I'm not the owner of this channel".
 ???
If I'm not the owner of my own channels, who is ?
And if I cannot delete my channels, why is there a "delete" button?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: visceralimage on March 04, 2011, 18:03
Hi, has any one ever tried deleting a channel? 
I tried deleting Bigstock, because I have two channels for this site, and I get a pop-up refusal telling me "that I'm not the owner of this channel".
 ???
If I'm not the owner of my own channels, who is ?
And if I cannot delete my channels, why is there a "delete" button?

You are only allowed to delete the channels you create; not the ones that were coded by management.  Hope they change this; I had to insert new channels for BigStock, Cutcaster and Panther.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Anyka on March 05, 2011, 01:24
Thanks, now I understand why I cannot delete them, but how do I remove my login and password from these channels then?  I just want to exclude the standard Bigstock channel from my personal channels list - to avoid that I click both (by accident) when I assign a batch. 
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: visceralimage on March 05, 2011, 02:31
Thanks, now I understand why I cannot delete them, but how do I remove my login and password from these channels then?  I just want to exclude the standard Bigstock channel from my personal channels list - to avoid that I click both (by accident) when I assign a batch. 

At the top right, choose "Channels"
A pop-up with the channels will come up.
Highlight the channel you wish to disable.
Under the box that says FTP Password are two boxes, labeled "deactivate" and "save"
hit deactivate
it will no longer come up on your selections when you are sending out your images

Best of luck.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on March 05, 2011, 06:05

I would also suggest automatically creating a separate folder for each FTP session (or even better allowing us to submit folders) This would simplify submitting all pictures in a folder without assigning each picture. It's difficult to find out which pictures were already submitted.

Absolutely.  This is the one thing I miss most : keeping track of what has been submitted (and to which channel), which was really easy at Isyndica.  Now I just delete everything that's been submitted before uploading more.

I wonder how it was organized with iSyndica? Was that a page showing thumbnails list with their upload status in each agency?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Anyka on March 05, 2011, 12:03
I remember that Isyndica used to have thumbnails in the left column, followed by empty buttons for each channel.  These buttons turned yellow when they were ticked (assigned), and green when the image was successfully submitted to a channel. 
If the user wanted to submit an image, he/she just ticked all the necessary buttons, followed by a big "submit" button. (as far as I remember, you could also "submit all" images of a batch to all channels, or submit all images of a batch to one particular channel).

Right now, I have a batch of 20, assigned to all channels.  My upload limit of istock was on 18, so 2 images were not submitted  (I had to wait 17 hours before Istock allowed me to submit again). 
I have the impression Lightburner does not do a second trial, so I have to check and find out at Istock which 2 images are missing (I cannot see this in Lightburner) and re-assign them.

I realise this would mean a rather big lay-out change, but if we could see which image went to which channel, that would be great! 
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: diego_cervo on March 07, 2011, 14:19
David,
Apparently there are new problems with bigstock. Images upload successfully but keywords, description etc do not appear on BS.
What's wrong with them??
Thanks
Diego
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on March 28, 2011, 09:52
David

Can you explain the latest with uploads to Fotolia. I thought it was not working and so I uploaded the images directly to Fotolia, but at least a week later, the images suddenly appeared (as duplicates) with Fotolia. Images I uploaded to Lightburner yesterday appear to be in the same situation.

Could you add a table on your support page summarizing any issues you are having with the various sites and letting us know if we should upload directly to the sites?

BTW - it is a great site and a great timesaver!

Steve
http://www.backyardsilver.com (http://www.backyardsilver.com)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: spike on April 05, 2011, 08:42
Hi,

there seems to be a problem with changing my password. I use Opera11 and although my password meets the needs (one lowcase character, digit, over 8 chars...), it is always rejected so I am stuck with the default password. This makes me feel uncomfortable from a security standpoint and I would like to know is there going to be a fix for this problem.

Thank you in advance
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on April 05, 2011, 09:04
Opera is not supported, sorry.
Try FF, Safari or IE8
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on April 05, 2011, 09:11
David

Can you explain the latest with uploads to Fotolia.
[...]

Steve,
Actually I can not. As far as I can see there are no operational issues with the system in the last few weeks.
About a month ago we solved a major problem with distribution, which caused content distribution to hang up from time to time.
Since then the things look quite reliable - it plain works, at least at my side.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on April 05, 2011, 10:34
David

Fotolia has been OK since I wrote this post - it does seem to be a day or so behind the others, but it gets there. I don't see uploads happening to Panthermedia or Cutcaster - do you see those working for other people (it may be a configuration issue on my part!)

My suggestion to add a small table on the Support page would make it easier for contributors to know if you had an issue with a site that had changed its upload process, or if we should just wait and the files would get there in the end.

Either way - it is a great service, and I included it in the blog I published last week about the workflow I follow for managing stock photos. Hope this gets you some more customers.

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on April 05, 2011, 11:01

Steve,
Thanks for your kindly words.

Here is the current status with CutCaster & Panthermedia: they DO NOT WORK as pre-defined channels, here is why -

- PantherMedia uses our API, but they have some IT problems with that on their side, for a long time now. So the uploads 'went out of order' in December 2010, and it is still there. FTP-ing there is the way to get the files with them. Not so good, since there is no sales stats with FTP

- CutCaster - initially I implemented their protocol, but they came with a completely redesigned web site a month later. John has our API and hopefully one day they will implement it. Till than - FTP there.

Definitely the more people will contact PantherMedia and CC asking for LightBurner / ProStockMaster support (it's the same API for both tools) the faster you will be able to work with them.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: spike on April 05, 2011, 22:16
Opera is not supported, sorry.
Try FF, Safari or IE8
Will it be supported in the future (since I do not plan on changing browsers just for the sake of one site) or should I just drop it?
Thanks
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on April 05, 2011, 23:49
Opera is not supported, sorry.
Try FF, Safari or IE8
Will it be supported in the future (since I do not plan on changing browsers just for the sake of one site) or should I just drop it?
Thanks
Drop it.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: t3mujin on April 06, 2011, 18:54
Is something wrong with the sales reports? I can see it anywhere in the site
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Redneck on May 04, 2011, 14:13
First off, thanks for this service.

I have two question/recommendation thoug.
1. It would be great if you could get some kind of feedback if a submission of images has been successful or not. When you select a couple of channels to submit to, it won't tell you if one of the channels accepted your submission. Or did I oversee this feature?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Redneck on May 07, 2011, 19:51
Does anybody still use lightburner.com?
They seem to be totally down for several hours and I noticed error messages yesterday all day long.

"Error establishing a database connection"


I tried picworkflow.com but I hate that they don't include Alamy as an upload option.

Any ideas or alternatives?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on May 07, 2011, 22:38
Yes, down for me as well, although their FTP is working fine. Hopefully they will fix it for the morning

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Redneck on May 08, 2011, 07:02
Yes, down for me as well, although their FTP is working fine. Hopefully they will fix it for the morning

Steve

Does that happen a lot?
I mean I'm not complaining since it's a free service, but I still rather pay for something that works reliable than not knowing when I will get the submission done and where my image files went to.

Still down ...
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on May 08, 2011, 07:28
Fist time it has happened to me. I like the service as it saves a lot of time and effort, and so I think I will wait for a little while before changing to something else. If necessary, you can go back to FTP to each site, although the danger is that if Lightburner comes back, they will process the files they have on their own FTP server and you will have double uploads, which is a pain. I just uploaded 50 images, and so I think waiting is the best option.

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on May 08, 2011, 15:02
The Lightburner system is back on line, and the images I uploaded to the FTP are now visible. Nothing seems to have been distributed, but maybe that is the next step!

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Redneck on May 08, 2011, 15:10
Thanks for the update.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on May 09, 2011, 15:55
We had a short outage for the service yesterday. Thanks for Angelika for letting me now. It's the first failure in 7 months. I guess it's still much better than many other online systems do.

Technical details:
It looks like the DB received to many connections yesterday, probably we had too many web service processes trying to work in parallel with the DB - still need to be investigated.

The system is fully back now and all the images uploaded to LB should be distributed soon (probably they already are).
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Photo_grapher on May 17, 2011, 10:25
Thank you for this excellent service.

Unfortunately I am facing the following problems:

1. Crestock and Cutcaster do not work. It can not save the login info though i can log in to both the sites individually.

2. As I upload to the /upload directory in remote site, I can not see the photos in "my portfolio" section immediately. How long does it take to process the photos and appear?

3. This is very important: I tried 5 test upload to Alamy. In the information of the respective photographs, I see that the photos are mentioned as of 72dpi whereas originally these are 300dpi images. Does LB automatically downsizes the dpi? And if yes, how can I prevent it from doing so? Please note that I do not have the resize option enabled under channel preference.

4. Using FileZilla (OS XP) I uploaded 5 photos, but I can see only 3 under "Assets". The other two are listed in the remote directory but not appearing under "Assets" in my LB portfolio. I waited for about 20 minutes. :(

5. In FileZilla I am getting a warning related to "Unknown Host Key". What is it? Should I worry about it?

Please help me out

Thanks again
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on May 22, 2011, 18:02
Thank you for this excellent service.

Unfortunately I am facing the following problems:

1. Crestock and Cutcaster do not work. It can not save the login info though i can log in to both the sites individually.
If a site does not work for you over HTTP you can always create a custom FTP channel.

2. As I upload to the /upload directory in remote site, I can not see the photos in "my portfolio" section immediately. How long does it take to process the photos and appear?
It is not an immediate process, but it should not take more than 10 min for your photos to appear.

3. This is very important: I tried 5 test upload to Alamy. In the information of the respective photographs, I see that the photos are mentioned as of 72dpi whereas originally these are 300dpi images. Does LB automatically downsizes the dpi? And if yes, how can I prevent it from doing so? Please note that I do not have the resize option enabled under channel preference.

No upsize / downsize if you did not selected that. Excuse my French, but DPI settings are a complete crap for a digital image. Look at the width and the height of the image in pixels. Did the image size change?

4. Using FileZilla (OS XP) I uploaded 5 photos, but I can see only 3 under "Assets". The other two are listed in the remote directory but not appearing under "Assets" in my LB portfolio. I waited for about 20 minutes. :(
It could be a problem in the images causing your images failed to upload. The most typical problem is a 'strange' file name (international, non a-z0-9 symbols etc)
Give me your username at LB, I'll look into it.

5. In FileZilla I am getting a warning related to "Unknown Host Key". What is it? Should I worry about it?
You should not.

Please help me out

Thanks again
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on June 24, 2011, 08:31
since yesterday Lightburner is not distributing my pictures anymore - I've been waiting for many hours, but still nothing
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: MikLav on June 24, 2011, 09:38
1) when do you plan to add the support for model releases?
2) login to crestock doesn't work at lightburner (I double checked logging in and out manually, but lightburner says verification doesn't work)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on June 24, 2011, 14:22
Mike,

1) when do you plan to add the support for model releases?
Do not know yet

2) login to crestock doesn't work at lightburner (I double checked logging in and out manually, but lightburner says verification doesn't work)

Tell Crestock to stop changing their web - or switch to our API


Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: onetoremember on July 03, 2011, 01:41
Hi

I just started using Lightburner. Looks good although I am having a few problems logging into some of the sites. I only have a few images as I am starting off and only been uploading on and off for a year. I use Lightroom which I love. i tried doing things on the cheap first by using some free software such as Gimp and DigiKam but Lightroom is probably the best software I have ever used for anything.

So I wonder if you can help me. What method do you use top go from Lightroom to Lightburner? Do you export and then use an FTP program. I couldn't find a pluggin for Lightroom and Lightburner - I guess there isn't one. I did find a pluggin for lightroom to upload to PicWorkFlow  which seems to work well. I will now keyword in Lightroom.

Before this I was using prostockmaster which works well but I like think Lightburner looks better?

regards to you all
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Anyka on July 03, 2011, 01:46
Yes, I export after keywording, and then use an FTP program (mine is Filezilla).
Which sites give login problems?  I can use it for SS, IS, FT, DS, CAN, 123RF, but not for GLO and CC.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on July 05, 2011, 15:22
David

Is Lightburner uploading to Fotolia using a direct web connection, or should I be setting it up as an FTP channel. I have just noticed that I haven't sent any new images to them since mid June, and the latest set are not showing any success in connecting to Fotolia.

I know you depend on the ability to electronically read their web pages and that breaks from time to time, but it would be really helpful if you kept an up to date summary of status on the Support page. It would immediately let us know if we should take some other action - such as upload direct.

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on July 05, 2011, 22:29
Steve,
Fotolia indeed looks broken, will look into it.

I told Pierre they have to update their API with an upload option, but it is still not there, so everything goes through the web pages.
Any change their webmasters do can affect the delivery, and this is what happened.

Hello Fotolia, are you interested to get more content or what? Do something guys, I am getting really tired of fixing the things that should never break.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Stu49 on July 13, 2011, 10:16
Is there some way of seeing which sites my image made it up to, without having to click all the way down the channels list ?

I have an amber for partial upload, but no idea which failed ??  :(
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on July 22, 2011, 00:52
Any change their webmasters do can affect the delivery

Is there some way of seeing which sites my image made it up to, without having to click all the way down the channels list ?

LightBurner is great when things work, but now and then some channels are broken for reasons beyond control such as changes on sites.

Suggestions to David:
1. Why not setting a custom FTP channel automatically for every default channel, and switching to custom mode automatically if direct delivery fails?
2. Why not sending an email if something goes wrong?

Thanks
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on July 29, 2011, 09:18
And here is the reason why you can not deliver images to Fotolia with Lightburner over HTTP:

[root@domU-12-31-39-09-B8-81 ~]# wget http://www.fotolia.com (http://www.fotolia.com)
--2011-07-29 10:10:44--  http://www.fotolia.com/ (http://www.fotolia.com/)
Resolving www.fotolia.com (http://www.fotolia.com)... 193.164.220.226, 193.164.220.225
Connecting to www.fotolia.com (http://www.fotolia.com)|193.164.220.226|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2011-07-29 10:10:44 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Stu49 on August 04, 2011, 10:54
"Update" and "Delete" buttons work for the custom channels you define, allowing you to change FTP server or port for the selected channel. Naturally, you can not do that for pre-integrated channels e.g. iStock. For iStock & Co, simply select a channel, enter your user credentials at right and press "Save" button.

But how do remove them from your list of channels if you can't  'Save, Delete or Update' your sign-in information ??

I don't want them to show in my list !?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on August 04, 2011, 12:36
also, I'd like to deactivate channels temporarily without deleting data; a tick box will do

e.g., sometimes I need to deactivate Fotolia if I am uploading editorial pictures that they don't accept
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Stu49 on August 04, 2011, 12:53
there is a Deactivate box !  but it's greyed out until you have set up the channel, which we can't do !?

Also David can we NOT have to sign back in every few minutes ?   1 day would be fine !?  ;)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: niserin on August 18, 2011, 07:57
Hey,
does Light Burner work for you ?
I can't connect to the ftp.

M.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Morphart on August 18, 2011, 10:26
Is this only for JPG image or do you accept also EPS submission?

Thanks!! Looks a pretty cool endeavor ;)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on August 18, 2011, 14:49
Is this only for JPG image or do you accept also EPS submission?

Thanks!! Looks a pretty cool endeavor ;)

Sorry, no EPS or video at the moment.
Working on it.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: SvetlanaSF on November 16, 2011, 02:05
David, I'm trying out the tool for the first time. It looks very promising! Thanks for putting it together. I do have an issue however. I can't seem to set up the channels for Fotolia and Cutcaster. The tool is telling me that my credentials are incorrect, but they aren't! Is there a workaround? Thanks in advance
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on November 16, 2011, 14:51
Cutcaster went out of the order with  a new release of their web site shortly after the current version of Lightburner was released :)
Either I will put it back manually one day, or - much better for all of us - John Griffin' people will finally implement the API I sent them about a year ago.
We'll see who is first on that, John :)

Fotolia is a different story.
Some junior brave Fotolia security officer understood after 6 month of serious brainstorming that Ligtburner stores Fotlia credentials in the Lightburner' database.
So that officer decided that such a bad app is an evil and it must be blocked at the IP level.
As the result, at the moment Lightburner.com can not work with Fotloia simply because some stupid Fotolia sysadmin decided to add IP-level blocking firewall rules for all HTTP requests sent from Lightburner.
Thank you my dear Fotolia for the business we generate you free of charge.

The bottom line:
both sites will work if you define private custom FTP channels for them.
(which is even more stupid my dear Fotolia security warriers)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: SvetlanaSF on November 19, 2011, 18:07
Thanks David, I'll try the FTP channels!
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: StockCube on November 26, 2011, 18:22
Hi David,  Can you tell me if you plan to add channels for StockFresh and Photodune?

Also, can anyone talk me through adding a custom channel to allow uploading to Fotolia? ie what to put in the boxes etc (a very basic guide please!)

Many thanks
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on November 27, 2011, 11:45
I've created one for Fotolia FTP, but it does not seem to get through to Fotolia. I thought I saw an earlier response that said that Fotolia was blocking files from Lightburner?

Anyway, this is how you do it. Go to Channels in top right corner. Then in the pop up, select "New" and you will see another popup. Enter a name for the channel - ie Fotolia FTP, enter the FTP site location, leave the port as it is, and generally leave the folder blank. There are some sites that require a particular folder for your images. Click on "Add." That is half of the work completed!

Now find your new channel in the list and click on its name. Now you can enter your user name and password for the FTP site. Often this is the same one as you use to log into the stock site, but not always. You would have been provided with this when the FTP account was set up with Fotolia. You have access to preferences here to resize an image before sending. Once you are finished, click "save" and it should change color in the list to green.

That's all there is to it - I'd be interested to see if it works for you.

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: StockCube on November 27, 2011, 14:17
Many thanks for that Steve.  I haven't been given a FTP login by Fotolia though as I have just been using their HTTP uploader.  I am fairly small-time at the moment.  I am an ex iS exclusive so used their antiquated system for a few years.  Since going indie I have been slowly adding keywords to metadata so have been just using HTTP to upload a few at a time.  Won't it be the same address for everyone but with a different user name and password?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on November 27, 2011, 14:33
Yes - it is submit.fotolia.com. The user name and password is obviously unique per user, but I am pretty sure it is different to the one you log onto the site with as well.

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on November 27, 2011, 15:24
Yes - it is submit.fotolia.com. The user name and password is obviously unique per user, but I am pretty sure it is different to the one you log onto the site with as well.

Steve

FTP user is your "member id" (a number, not your "username")
FTP pwd is a string made of your "username" and your "password" attached
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: FD on November 27, 2011, 15:28
Hi David,  Can you tell me if you plan to add channels for StockFresh and Photodune?
Het can't do that yet for PD since you have to feed them different batches composed out of images of the same model(s), then send the release to a different FTP folder. He'll have to wait till PD has a release library and you can attach releases online as part of the submit process.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: StockCube on November 27, 2011, 15:28
Ah, ok, thanks for that Steve and Micro.  I will have a dig around on Fotolia to see what I can come up with.   Also thanks Attilla - I am a strange one as I don't have any people shots in my port, so don't need releases.....

Incidentally, I tried to upload 5 images to a bunch of agencies last night as a trial, but so far only CanStockPhoto and BS have gone through.  It is now nearly 24 hours since I started the process, does this mean that something has gone wrong with the others?  The ones I am waiting for images to arrive at are Veer, DT, 123RF, Deposit, Yay and Crestock.  The icons are still showing amber on my Lightburner page.

Cheers
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on November 27, 2011, 15:53
Hi all,
I invite you to try the new PSM 2.0 Beta for Windows, which works exclusively with your Lightburner account.
Please make sure you read release notes at http://prostockmaster.com/microstock/prostockmaster2-for-windows-beta/ (http://prostockmaster.com/microstock/prostockmaster2-for-windows-beta/) and do not forget to make a copy of your JPGs before applying any metadata change to them. Though if you work in RAW in Adobe LR/PS and can generate JPGs anytime you should not worry.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: StockCube on November 28, 2011, 12:33
Thanks all, I have managed to get it set up to distribute to Fotolia and Photodune  :)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: M4RiO on December 21, 2011, 15:15
I think lightburner is not working currently. Btw. keyword suggestion tool in lightburner does'nt work :(, Also in ProStockMaster 2.0.1. there is a problem when i want to use suggest keyword and enter more than one keyword, always error. Why is that? in older versions i have used key phrases with no problem. Now in 2.0.1. version it seem this is not possible. It is strange that he cant suggest kewords for example "celsus library".
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on December 23, 2011, 03:57
I think lightburner is not working currently. Btw. keyword suggestion tool in lightburner does'nt work :(, Also in ProStockMaster 2.0.1. there is a problem when i want to use suggest keyword and enter more than one keyword, always error. Why is that? in older versions i have used key phrases with no problem. Now in 2.0.1. version it seem this is not possible. It is strange that he cant suggest kewords for example "celsus library".
Lightburner is back now after a short outage due to a disk issue.
Keyphrases - will look into that
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on January 08, 2012, 05:53
Since 3 days Lightburner is only distributing to default channels. Custom FTP channels are not working.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Redneck on January 09, 2012, 08:32
Since 3 days Lightburner is only distributing to default channels. Custom FTP channels are not working.

Same here, no transfer to custom channels.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: StockCube on January 09, 2012, 10:41
Yep - I have the same problem.  Channels that previously distributed without any problem are now no longer working.  On  my channels (StockCube) these are 'New Fotolia', Deposit photos, Stockfresh and Photodune.  They haven't worked since the start of the year.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: StockCube on January 09, 2012, 16:09
Actually, the only channels I now have working are SS, DT, Canstock and Bigstock.  I saved up a bunch of submissions over Christmas which I would really like to get uploaded now so if you could fix this I would be very grateful!
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Redneck on January 11, 2012, 08:50
A little note would be nice if Lightburner cut custom channel distribution intensionally or if somebody is going to fix this problem.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 11, 2012, 13:48
It's a technical problem which I am looking to resolve.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Redneck on January 11, 2012, 14:08
Thank you. Any ETA?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: StockCube on January 11, 2012, 15:08
Thanks David, I hope you can fix it, it has been a real lifesaver for me.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 11, 2012, 15:24
Suddenly the FTP service stopped to work given some unreasonable error message. Investigating...
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on January 11, 2012, 17:09
Thanks for investigating.

Someone (StockCube) noticed it isn't working "since the start of the year". May have something to do with date? Just guessing
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: borg on January 12, 2012, 16:57
I can't verify my custom FTP channel for Fotolia...
Can someone help me how to create it?
Probably I have mistake, but i don't know where during creating a new channel...

This doesn't work...

URL    ftp://submit.fotolia.com
ID (login) *    2005985948
Password**    Your login followed by your password (ie: if your login is "login" and your password is "password", your ftp password will be "loginpassword")
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on January 13, 2012, 02:15
I can't verify my custom FTP channel for Fotolia...
Can someone help me how to create it?
Probably I have mistake, but i don't know where during creating a new channel...

This doesn't work...

URL    [url]ftp://submit.fotolia.com[/url] ([url]http://ftp://submit.fotolia.com[/url])
ID (login) *    200646450
Password**    Your login followed by your password (ie: if your login is "login" and your password is "password", your ftp password will be "loginpassword")



May this help?
"Keep in mind that for FTP uploads, your login name and password should be lower case (no caps)"
from here: http://en.fotolia.com/Info/Faq/Contributors#c14 (http://en.fotolia.com/Info/Faq/Contributors#c14)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 13, 2012, 02:24
I can't verify my custom FTP channel for Fotolia...
Can someone help me how to create it?
Probably I have mistake, but i don't know where during creating a new channel...

This doesn't work...

URL    ftp://submit.fotolia.com
ID (login) *    200646450
Password**    Your login followed by your password (ie: if your login is "login" and your password is "password", your ftp password will be "loginpassword")


Try
submit.fotolia.com
in the 'Host' field
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: borg on January 13, 2012, 04:12
Yep! submit.fotolia.com is solution without ftp://

Thank you David and guys!

P.S.

When Lightburner FTP service will work again?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: StockCube on January 17, 2012, 09:14
Hi David, just to let you know that I can still only get four channels to distribute: SS, DT, CS and BS,
Cheers,
Bridget
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: marphotography on January 17, 2012, 10:21
Hi David,

I can not live without Lightburner....I look forward to solving this problem.

Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: marphotography on January 20, 2012, 10:00
Hi David,

Is there a projected date for solving the FTP problem?

Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on January 24, 2012, 10:39
Any update about the FTP issue status, please?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Fyletto on January 24, 2012, 15:12
Yup, I would love to hear some updates as well - support does not respond via mail  :-\
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 24, 2012, 16:25
I think I found it today...
It looks like Amazon Web Service admins added a (set of) firewall(s) requiring passive FTP connections to the remote hosts.
They did it very silently without informing their customers.
So suddenly all LB FTP 'put' calls started to fail with a very strange error message - without changing a line of code from our side.
Took me some time to find out what is the root of this problem, sorry for the delay.
Switching to passive FTP connection mode solves the issue in my tests.
LB code is now updated, good to try.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Fyletto on January 25, 2012, 10:41
Well, it still does not work for me  :( I uploaded 40 files which were distributed just to Dreamstime and Canstockphoto (the only normal channels, the others are set to custom). Is there anything I have to set?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Fyletto on January 25, 2012, 10:49
Btw. I allways upload via passive mode...
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on January 25, 2012, 12:16
Thanks but all custom channels are still not working

I uploaded a test file about 24 hours ago and it has only been distributed to standard channels
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: StockCube on January 25, 2012, 13:20
Nope - same here.  Sorry David, but I still can only get it to distribute to SS, DT, CS and BS.  Please keep trying though!
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on January 28, 2012, 03:21
Hi there,
Following images were uploaded to your LightBurner account at least 3 days ago:

...

If you did not distribute these media items yet please do it within the next 24 hours.
After that the high resolution files for listed media will be permanently removed from our system with no further notice.
Time is short, Act Now!


Is it a joke? I wish I could act now, if only it worked
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Stu49 on January 28, 2012, 06:37
Hi there,
Following images were uploaded to your LightBurner account at least 3 days ago:

...

If you did not distribute these media items yet please do it within the next 24 hours.
After that the high resolution files for listed media will be permanently removed from our system with no further notice.
Time is short, Act Now!


Is it a joke? I wish I could act now, if only it worked

Let's not forget !  This is a free service !!  ;)

Keep up the good work David :)

Stu :)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 28, 2012, 10:29
Next try
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: StockCube on January 28, 2012, 15:47
Hi David, thanks for persevering with this, but unfortunately it now doesn't work for me at all!  :(
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Anyka on January 29, 2012, 01:42
Just for your information :
Work fine for me :  Shutterstock, Istockphoto and Dreamstime.
Do not work :
- Fotolia (custom)
- Canstock (worked until last week, don't understand why it doesn't work now)
- 123rf (I expected that, this won't work until they change their login system)
- Graphicleftovers :  temporarily no uploading this week, they're working on their backlog

Still, I'm happy as long as Istockphoto keeps on working!
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: borg on January 30, 2012, 15:34
How can I know or where I can see if my images are on the queue for upload?
I am waiting since yesterday to see my images on agencies...
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: StockCube on January 30, 2012, 15:51
Borg, I think that means it is not working for you either.  When it was working my images showed up in a few minutes, never more than an hour.

Still broken for me too.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: borg on January 30, 2012, 16:59
O thanks!

Usually it works for some agencies...  But last time, none!
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on January 30, 2012, 20:37
I confirm the problem, still investigating
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: borg on February 01, 2012, 03:45
When can we expect...?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on February 01, 2012, 15:44
Hopefully will find this solution before Sunday.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: borg on February 03, 2012, 05:37
Thanks David! I'll wait... ;)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on February 04, 2012, 11:42
Hi David

Hope the trouble shooting is going well! Can you let us all know when you think this will be fixed. I have a large stack of images that I am holding back until it is clear which sites they will be distributed to.

Lightburner is one of the few services in microstock that I would definitely pay for. I upload to about 22 sites and having the ability to just send my files to one location and see them all distributed to all sites is a great service. If you could extend that to some video sites, it would be awesome. Have you thought about starting to charge for anything above the main 4 sites, perhaps and building up the support team? I, for one, would pay monthly for this service.

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Anyka on February 04, 2012, 15:03
Sorry I have to joint the Bad News Club :  just noticed that none of my channels is working right now.

The good news is :  we've got snow here in Belgium today, and I LOVE snow!
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Anyka on February 04, 2012, 15:35
More good news!  I spoke too soon :  Istock just received all my uploads, so may-be the others will follow.
That 'll teach me to be impatient.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Anyka on February 04, 2012, 15:51
OK, I'm back again with more news :   
Worked perfectly :   Fotolia (custom), Istockphoto, Shutterstock, Dreamstime and Canstockphoto.
I did not try 123rf.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on February 04, 2012, 21:57
I tried an experiment tonight with one image - it got uploaded to 12 sites (not 123RF, nor Fotolia, Veer and a host of other sites). I have asked this of support in the past - is there a limit to the number of channels you can upload to?

As I said before, I would really pay for this service, but we need to know what its limits are.

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on February 05, 2012, 11:20
Maybe I wrote too early! After my successful experiment with one image, I uploaded the next 180, but they are not being distributed, at least so far. No worries just yet, but it has been about 10 hours since they arrived.

I'll update when I see some more progress.

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on February 05, 2012, 15:35
Maybe I wrote too early! After my successful experiment with one image, I uploaded the next 180, but they are not being distributed, at least so far. No worries just yet, but it has been about 10 hours since they arrived.

I'll update when I see some more progress.

Steve

I was testing the system this weekend, was switching off the automatic distribution.
So some of your images could be uploaded when I ran my manually tests.
Now I put the auto-distribution back, looks like all images for all customers are being distributed.
Will take a few hours to empty the queue.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on February 06, 2012, 09:01
David

Could you check the main sites. I have had my files distributed to 8 small sites, but none to SS, DT, BS CanStockPhoto

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on February 07, 2012, 15:38
David

Could you check the main sites. I have had my files distributed to 8 small sites, but none to SS, DT, BS CanStockPhoto

Steve

Fixed a few things related to distribution.
As far as I can see the queue is gone, how it looks now?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on February 07, 2012, 18:08
Yes, it looks fine - the main four sites have been distributed now.

Is there an upper limit on the number of channels I can have? I still have a range of sites (including Veer, Deposit Photos, StockFresh) that have never distributed even though they are apparently properly registered with those sites for FTP.

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on February 10, 2012, 02:50
Tried it tonight. All channels - both default and custom - worked perfectly (except ClipDealer, but it's probably a problem on their side since I can't even FTP directly). Thanks.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Anyka on February 10, 2012, 02:56
Thanks David.  In fact it should also be Istockphoto who needs to be thanking you, as I would not be uploading anything to Istock if LightBurner did not exist.  Doing it manually is just too much work.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on February 10, 2012, 03:18
Great, happy the issue is sorted out.

Steve,
No, there is no upper limit on number of channels you can have.
If you still have problems let me know what channels do not work for you.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Fyletto on February 10, 2012, 16:27
David, everything seems ok, but Veer. I am not even able to enter my credentials (error message) - it used to work well. I even tried to set a custom channel but it did not work either. Thanks for help
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on February 10, 2012, 17:06
David

The working ones are:

SS, DT, BS, Canstock, Yay, Panther, Cutcaster, iSign, Zoonar, Most, Photodune

The ones that don't work are:

Crestock, Veer, Clipdealer, Fotolia, Scanstock, Deposit, 123, Stockfresh

Some of these I set up as FTP, but appear to be connecting fine in the Channels section, except for 123 that never seems to connect at all.

Graphic Leftovers didn't work but I think their FTP is down.

Steve

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: davidm on February 11, 2012, 06:35
David

The working ones are:

SS, DT, BS, Canstock, Yay, Panther, Cutcaster, iSign, Zoonar, Most, Photodune

The ones that don't work are:

Crestock, Veer, Clipdealer, Fotolia, Scanstock, Deposit, 123, Stockfresh

Some of these I set up as FTP, but appear to be connecting fine in the Channels section, except for 123 that never seems to connect at all.

Graphic Leftovers didn't work but I think their FTP is down.

Steve

Steve


Thanks Steve.
Since HTTP (web) access did not work for some channels I switched them recently to FTP. Here is the list (http://lightburner.com/microstock/more-sales-channels/)
From your above list it includes Crestock, Veer, Fotolia, Deposit, 123.
So if you previously used one of these you can delete it and set it up again using your FTP credentials.

Scanstock and Stockfresh - I checked your definitions and FTP works fine there. However, I could not see any media assigned to these channels - could you please verify?

Clipdealer' FTP is down:

--
Hi David,

Due to some maintenance work on our server the FTP is currently down. I'm not sure how long this will take – so please try it again next week.

Kind regards,

Markus Hein
-------------------------------------------------------
ClipDealer GmbH
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on February 11, 2012, 09:51
Thanks David

I've changed my channels for the sites you now use FTP for, and I noticed that I didn't have the "automatically submit on upload" button checked for Scanstock and Stockfresh - my mistake!

I'll test again now that I have hopefully fixed the issues.

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: steheap on February 11, 2012, 10:42
Hi David

I did my test with one image. It appears that almost all issues are fixed. Graphic Leftovers failed because their FTP is down, same with Clipdealer.

The only one that appears to be set up correctly, but didn't distribute is Veer.

Steve
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on February 11, 2012, 12:50
The only one that appears to be set up correctly, but didn't distribute is Veer.

May have something to do with Veer being the only one using FTPS/TLS instead of plain FTP?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Fyletto on February 12, 2012, 14:43
Right, Veer remains to be repaired... Thanks
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: Stu49 on February 23, 2012, 12:15
David

The working ones are:

SS, DT, BS, Canstock, Yay, Panther, Cutcaster, iSign, Zoonar, Most, Photodune

The ones that don't work are:

Crestock, Veer, Clipdealer, Fotolia, Scanstock, Deposit, 123, Stockfresh

Some of these I set up as FTP, but appear to be connecting fine in the Channels section, except for 123 that never seems to connect at all.

Graphic Leftovers didn't work but I think their FTP is down.

Steve

Steve


Thanks Steve.
Since HTTP (web) access did not work for some channels I switched them recently to FTP. Here is the list ([url]http://lightburner.com/microstock/more-sales-channels/[/url])
From your above list it includes Crestock, Veer, Fotolia, Deposit, 123.
So if you previously used one of these you can delete it and set it up again using your FTP credentials.

Scanstock and Stockfresh - I checked your definitions and FTP works fine there. However, I could not see any media assigned to these channels - could you please verify?

Clipdealer' FTP is down:

--
Hi David,

Due to some maintenance work on our server the FTP is currently down. I'm not sure how long this will take – so please try it again next week.

Kind regards,

Markus Hein
-------------------------------------------------------
ClipDealer GmbH



David, DepositPhotos still asks for WEB sign in info, in the channel list !!  Not FTP as u said above !?  so still using my own ftp channel !  ???

Stu :)
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: StockCube on August 29, 2012, 14:54
Hi - I have not been able to access lightburner for a couple of days now - the login page is badly formatted in a '1997' sort of way and although the 'login' button changes colour when I press it, nothing happens ie the info isn't sent and the next page doesn't load.
When I could access it I found that some of the channels that used to work don't anymore - the ones that don't work for me are Veer, Deposit, Fotolia.
Cheers
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: borg on August 29, 2012, 14:57
LB to me only works for Photodune, 123RF and DepositPhotos
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: StockCube on August 31, 2012, 16:18
The login page is working again now and appears normally, so thanks David if you fixed it.  Still not distributing to all my channels though but thanks for getting the others to work again.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on October 14, 2012, 14:14
Lightburner is not working since yesterday:

- pictures not being distributed (to any channel);

- link to "Channels" (http://lightburner.com/app/myaccount.html?channels (http://lightburner.com/app/myaccount.html?channels)) broken

Is it just me, or is there a problem?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: t3mujin on October 15, 2012, 08:46
Lightburner is not working since yesterday:

- pictures not being distributed (to any channel);

- link to "Channels" ([url]http://lightburner.com/app/myaccount.html?channels[/url] ([url]http://lightburner.com/app/myaccount.html?channels[/url])) broken

Is it just me, or is there a problem?


I haven't tried to upload, but the My Account section returns an 310 HTTP error.
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on November 20, 2012, 10:14
Anyone still using LightBurner?

I uploaded some pictures yesterday and they are still stuck in the FTP folder, non even on LightBurner site
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: UncleGene on November 20, 2012, 11:58
"All sensitive areas in your account, like Login, SignUp, My Account and other personal pages are accessed only by HTTPS  with 256-bit SSL encryption."

All channel data (names and passwords) submission is going over HTTP. not HTTPS. Can we trust any other "security" statements?
Title: Re: LightBurner.com by ProStockMaster/Pixamba - new FREE online submission service
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on November 20, 2012, 12:17
"All sensitive areas in your account, like Login, SignUp, My Account and other personal pages are accessed only by HTTPS  with 256-bit SSL encryption."

All channel data (names and passwords) submission is going over HTTP. not HTTPS. Can we trust any other "security" statements?

I didn't notice that. Not good.

Although I am afraid login and password are being transmitted as plain text with FTP as well (except for Veer which uses encryption), so LightBurner is not less secure in that sense.

That's why all sites should have two different passwords for FTP and for editing account and asking payments. Some do, but are in a minority.