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Hi everyone,
 
It's great to see so many of you using the new image tools on Alamy to upload and annotate new content as well as go back and apply those optional extra tweaks to the older images.
 
We appreciate there may be a period of time where you need to get used to the new system and the newer ways of doing things, so hopefully these links will help.
 
Blog posts
 
- Introducing the new Alamy Image Manager: http://www.alamy.com/blog/introducing-the-new-alamy-image-manager
- Tagging images on Alamy - best practice: http://www.alamy.com/blog/tagging-images-on-alamy
 
PDF instruction manual
 
- Downloadable instructions: http://www.alamy.com/myupload/help/AIM-InstructionManual.pdf  (also found via the "Help" tab within the tool)
 
Overview help video
 
- YouTube link for help video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DeGewd73uw (also found via the "Help" tab within the tool)
 
If you've got any specific questions that you can't find the answer for, please feel free to email our dedicated team at [email protected]. They'll be more than happy to help and we've got (probably) the best response time in the business.
 
Cheers
 
Alamy

Hi there,

We're really happy to have seen a big rise in the growth rate of new photographers registering with us over the last 12 months or so. It's great to see so many new people joining the 40,000 photographers already placing their work with Alamy.

Along with these new registrations, it's understandable that there are lots of questions about how Alamy works so we've recently updated all our contributor help pages. You can get to them by following this link:

http://www.alamy.com/contributor/

Also, we'd like to remind you of the following:

- We give 50% commission
- We're non-exclusive (so you can sell your images elsewhere)
- Our acceptance rate averages around 92%
- You can sell your work either as RM or RF

We're aware that our upload and keywording system is looking a bit tired and for many of you this is what stops you sending us more images. The good news is that we are in the process of updating this and within the next few months there's going to be a much better system in place for uploading and managing your files, we think you're going to love it. We appreciate your patience waiting for the release!

So if you're new to Alamy or haven't used us much, please check out our help pages and if you've got any questions, our Member Services team ([email protected]) will be more than happy to help. If you email us within UK office hours our average response time is less than an hour 

If you've got a large collection (5000+ images) you would like to submit in bulk, please send me a PM and I'll see what we can do to make the process as easy as possible before the new image tools are released.

Cheers

James Allsworth
Content Partnerships Manager
Alamy

Hopefully you're all regular readers already, but if not, here's a link to the Alamy Blog: http://www.alamy.com/Blog/

and more specifically, the posts marked "for contributors": http://www.alamy.com/blog/category/for-contributors

At least 2 posts a week get added and we're open to suggestions for future topic posts. If there's anything you'd like us to explore, explain, interpret or investigate for a future blog post, let us know. We'll read all replies and suggestions in this thread and where possible will put together the relevant blog posts for you in the near future.

Cheers

Alamy

PS - you can also tweet suggestions to @alamycontent or using the hashtag #alamyblogideas

We're starting to work on something we've wanted to do for a while now: improving the upload and keywording process.
 
Although our turnaround times for image processing are one of the quickest in the business, it's clear that our upload tool and keyword management areas of the site could be far more user friendly.
 
We're looking at vastly streamlining the whole process to make keywording and uploading more elegant and efficient which should make submitting images to us a far more enjoyable experience.
 
So what would you want to see changed / bought in? We're already sold on the idea of removing the flash element of manage images, and we have plenty of other exciting ideas up our sleeves for how we think things could be made better, but we're looking for your top 3 things you'd like to see improved.
 
Every idea will be read and considered.
 
Cheers
 
Alamy

If so, details here:

http://www.alamy.com/Blog/contributor/archive/2013/06/10/5353.aspx



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