MicrostockGroup

Hey All

I'm getting ready to launch picWorkflow for public use in a couple of days and would like to get a broader view of what else might need improving/fixing/changing before I take it live.

I'm inviting anyone from Microstock Group to register at picWorkflow.com using the invite-code "microstockgroup" for a free bonus 100 credits ($1), good for distribution of your files (at 1c per file) to any of the supported agencies, or your own custom FTP destinations.

I'm really after your feedback on what's missing and what could be improved, would be delighted to find out what you think
Cheers
Bob

Yep, vectors and footage are supported, although both require a jpeg preview file to accompany it for it to import to the workspace.

The site tries to determine whether the preview file should also be uploaded to the agency when distributed, but I probably haven't caught all the different requirements, if you get a preview file popping up on an agency where it shouldn't be, please let me know so I can update the specs

It'll quite happily store Raw files alongside jpegs too, but no mechanism for distributing those to the few agencies which accept them 'yet' (and again they might be distributed when they shouldn't be, I'm not sure I have every single file-type setup there).

Thanks Komar
Analytics is the most important tool to be added. It's a lot of work to be don, but I'll be building on the base of the picNiche toolbar, and have it import the data into the picWorkflow account so everything can be connected right

Yes, iStock will be on pretty soon. Their lack of FTP support and refusal to issue an API key to any service who also supports other agencies (actually was told by two of their staff that they havn't issued a single new api key in almost 2 years) means they'll need a bunch of custom handlers so they're sat at the bottom of the list for now, but they'll be on as soon as the ftp-based agencies are running smoothly

Official launch in these days... to celebrate picWorkflow, Bob kindly offers 2000 credits for a contest on MyStockPhoto, check it out!

http://www.mystockphoto.org/introducing-picworkflow-tools-for-stock-photographers-contest/

Cheers,
         Roberto
 

Thanks
Although it works with footage uploads, metadata is not (yet) transferred for video files. Mainly because most agencies do not read from .mov metadata (and it's a PITA to write too), however I added a metadata export tool to the process page so you can easily create a text-file (tsv/csv) of your metadata for those agencies who accept uploaded metadata in a separate file at submission time It's a little extra step for now, but as soon as I can figure out a reliable way to send video-metadata to agencies I will

Nice work, Bob, I'm starting to test your site tomorrow!
Hope you can add automatic picture resize for each microstock site, like in isyndica.

I had tried it, quite nice tool.

i had written some simple steps by steps of how to upload it..http://wp.me/pPDGb-39