(Oops!  This should have a Fotolia subject line and not Dreamstime.  I'm not sure how to change that now that it's posted---sorry.)

Share your opinions of FT's upgrade to V2.  Here are my thoughts from the United States side:

--- Improvements: The only one I have noticed is that sales credits are immediately approved now rather than the original 3-day wait.  Oh, yes, and that hover-your-mouse-over-the-thumbnail enlarged view---wow.

--- Detriments:
     - As slow as or slower than V1.
     - New watermark makes for much easier thievery.
     - As of this writing a couple of my files still have no keywords.
     - The staff seem to be super-hyper-sensitive to any criticism, even worse than Istock, which is hard to imagine.
     - I still get their "floating status bar" which makes it impossible to see portions of my screen.

Overall, not much of an improvement for contributors, I think.  Sales are starting to pick up for me now that vacation-time is drawing to a close, so I hope that at least their search engine has seen a real upgrade.

- 4MP minimum size (why not 1600x1200?)

It used to be like that until some months ago.  I guess smaller images are rarer now, but I also find it a pity because sometimes I "discover" some good old 2 or 3MPix image in my HD...

I can't actually complain of FT, it's not my best seller, but a steady one (even after V2) and the only one I ever had ELs (one last month, but others also in the past).

Regards,
Adelaide

You can probably upsize a 3MP to 4MP and get away with it - it's only a 15% size increase.

That's a good idea, and I had a few carefully upsized images in some sites (even IS!) and one was even 100% from 640x480 to 1280x960. I wonder however how picky FT may be on that, any experiences?

Regards,
Adelaide