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It is that long since I uploaded there I cannot remember the process. I have submissions from 24th December still waiting to be approved, so don't hold your breath after you figure it out.
My plan was to see what they like, then to upload suitable pictures from my port. With over 1000 pictures to upload, and a wait of over two months for approval, I think I will be giving them a miss in the future.

Last time I sa w a site this quick was whe n the www began bcak in the 80's. what a total waste of time zym is

Very fast review times for me! About a week. Also good acceptance ratio
19 out of 20. So far so good lets wait on sales now.

Actually this is getting better two images uploaded 9:54 pm yesterday have been reviewed and accepted today at 2:30 pm!!!!

If I may:

Review time is based on keywords. Images with keywords get reviewed much faster than those without.

We have had bad experiences with some members who uploaded images without keywords. We spend valuable time adding appropriate keywords just for them to turn around and ask us to delete their account. The worse part is when they then come to this forum and say we suck.

Regardless. If you want a fast review time, help us help you. Put great keywords to your great images and it will be much faster.

We have added editors to help us handle our increasing amount of submissions and are continuously working on streamlining our editing tools.

We also explain thoroughly why we refuse images in the hope of making all our members better photographers. We also add comments to some of the accepted images.

Overall, we are not a chew and spit machine that just processes images by the pound. We are human beings editing images done by other human beings. We never forget that.


Finally, we review everything all the time. We do not feel you should be penalized because someone just drop 10,000 files before you and it will be a while until we get to yours. We make sure files from everyone have the chance to be reviewed, even if it is only one.

Hope that helps and keep those great images coming. Sales are climbing and you should profit from them !!!

Clivia> 5 images of yours have been accepted. we have no more in our queue from you.

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No worries, get the photos uploaded, FTP'd, mailed, delivered by messenger pigeon, and we will, get the good ones online with all the data contained in them, in addition to our own editorial services creative keywording service.

Similarly, get a model release to us by upload (the new way is via the submissions page), email, private message, paper airplane (SSL 128 bit only please), etc. and we will have both our legal behinds covered for the rare situation of a model legality dispute.

After doing quite a bit of looking around on the site, and then clicking 'edit tags' on my one image, I realized you could only have 20 keywords.  I have a substantial amount in waiting at the moment, but I just submitted a batch with 20 or under keywords.  Can you delete those in waiting???  I know there are filters and stuff, but if I can delete what I got, I'd love to reupload with edited keys under the 20 limit.

My frustration is that when uploading, you can't even edit those images in waiting, or as Flemish pointed out, see if they uploaded with all data intact.  I love the site.  It's just gonna take me some getting used to.

Clivia> 5 images of yours have been accepted. we have no more in our queue from you.




ZymmMan,
In that case there is something wrong. When I log in I can see 14 images all with the little clock symbol for images pending, and showing the upload date as 24th December. The 5 approved images were uploaded much earlier.
I have asked repeatedly both by email and on this site, and been assured that my images were in the queue and would be dealt with. In one email I offered to re upload, and was assured this was not necessary. Obviously something is not working properly with your site.

OK, so do we have to separate our files into graphics and photos when uploading by FTP? The files go straight into my submissions queue, how do I put them into the correct queue?
I upload to 12 sites with no problems, and have been uploading for three years, this must be the most trying!

Thanks, guys.  My initial 10 were approved today so it appears that everything arrived fine.  One of them isn't in my profile, but it's there in the search which is more important.  Interesting to see the various prices attached to different photos.  (I sure wouldn't mind getting some of those $49 sales!)

No problem.. having these types of discussions in a public forum has it's pluses and minuses - it's pretty disconnected as a support channel, but on the plus side, you are correct that we can answer more than one persons questions in this way.       Until things settle down a bit on Zymm and we can get our Wiki properly edited, i'm sure these types of questions are on peoples minds.

We are continuing to work on the efficiency of the FTP > Approval workflow.  I will personally sort out your FTP dir and hopefully can find a way to create additional sub-folders in peoples root FTP folder - I think just having 4 sub-folders as mentioned, as in /photos, /graphics, /fonts, /video will be the ideal way to let people put the files into the right 'inbox'.

Get well soon with the ankle.. I recommend Horsetail Extract pills, and easy excerise after swelling starts to go down. Been there done that a million times..

We have added the following folders to each members private FTP folder:

/PHOTOS
/GRAPHICS
/FONTS
/VIDEOS

So, in the future, please upload the different media types into their appropriate folder.     

(Now I need to get some coffee going and sort out the current mess )