Nice tool, however the keyword tool only adds keywords and no titles or descriptions from the image(s) chosen. That�s definitely an advante of Stocksubmitter - so please keep on working on the Mac version! :-)

Nice tool, however the keyword tool only adds keywords and no titles or descriptions from the image(s) chosen. That�s definitely an advante of Stocksubmitter - so please keep on working on the Mac version! :-)

Hey, you mean the Keywords Suggestion tool?

Nice, will give it a try for my next sets

Thanks!

It's not really a competition because these tools serve completely different purposes. StockSubmitter focuses on full submission automation (making contributor not having to visit agency website at all) while Xpiks is a keywording/uploading tool.

Choice of forum for this thread is weird though, I agree.

And this works with all agencies?
I found Xpiks sounds nice and its free i will give it a try!

Xpiks works with all agencies, which support FTP

Full submission automation is when application finds keywords, fills categories and uploads to stocks. In Stocksubmitter you have to do it manually as well as in Xpiks. The only difference yet is that StockSubmitter allows user to submit images directly on several stocks and fills categories as well, but this difference is subtle or at least will pass soon.

Well, StockSubmitter actually does automatically fill categories. Sometimes they need some tuning but most of the time they will work fine.
As of auto keywording, there are various degrees of automation available for that in StockSubmitter, from "fill in the title, press 1 button and it's done" to "fill in some keywords, press a button, select images you like, tune the keywords, press another button and it's done".
So basically pre-uploading process is automated in StockSubmitter pretty well.

Regarding automatic submission: this is actually what takes the most time when you're sending images to many agencies. Uploading can be done in FileZilla with few clicks. Auto keywording can be done in a couple of web services. Submission takes lots of time. StockSubmitter fully automates that.

As of 'it will pass soon', I don't think so. This functionality takes lots of time and efforts to implement and keep up to date, that's why it can't really be done in free software (unless you're having strong passive earnings source and can devote all your time to coding).

And StockSubmitter is proprietary software available only for Windows platform as well as not free (with the limitations), and Xpiks on the other hand is not only completely free, but also cross-platform, available on OS X (where tons of illustrators and photographers do their job) and even on Linux (to support Open Source community and enthusiasts).

First alpha release of OS X version of StockSubmitter will be there in a week or so.
Since it's written in C++ it will be ported to Linux later.
Yes, it has the main feature (automatic submission) limited in the free version, but this feature is not available in any other (free or not) software anyway.
And it's limited for a reason: you can't really implement it and keep it up to date in a free software because it takes lots of time and efforts as I described above.

Quote from: r2d2 on December 20, 2015, 16:35

And this works with all agencies?

Automatic submission works with all fully supported agencies. There are more than 20 fully supported agencies at the moment.

First of all, please, stop advertising StockSubmitter so extensively with kind of "answering" my questions It's good, I don't argue, but keep this ads for your website, please.

Regarding other stuff.
You phrase "Since it's writtein in C++, it will be ported to Linux later" is very bogus. Writing software in C++ does not guarantee anything. Visual frameworks (except Qt, wxWidgets, etc.) for OS X and Linux'es are very different and even if it's not so important (I mean StockSubmitter for Linux) I don't want you to fool people in this thread.

StockSubmitter is by now kind of stable and reliable software, which does very well what it does, but it looks and feels like a monster or Crishna with 1000 hands. It's not as user-friendly as it could have been, but I think a good redesign will not be that big problem.

All I wanted to say, that it exists several years, while Xpiks was developed only in free time (think of it as an hour a day) for about a year. But now things will change soon, as I will have more dedicated time and I will belive in power of Open Source community. Together people can more. Hopefully.

Thus, I'm not 'fooling' anyone. And this wording was kind of insulting imo. I hope we can keep the discussion constructive.

Well, now you're not, but as a developer, you should agree that just "writing in C++" is ambigue in terms of porting to a different platform.

Sure, wish you luck with the OS X version. Looking forward to hearing about it!