Hi Niakris,

are you planning to support the "Illustrative Editorial" imagery for Adobe Stock soon? Currently Stock Submitter says Editorial is not supported by Adobe and won´t let me upload my edotorials...

Thanks for the great work of yours and your team by the way....  Frank

Hi Niakris,

thanks for your great work, StockSubmitter is getting better and better all the time! Nevertheless I have one item on my wishlist for some time now that I want to share: I would love to have agency sets, where I can define group of agencies and after selecting such a set, the appropriate agencies are set for uploading images - basically just as when manually ticking the agencies in the lower area but more convenient. That way I could define sets for major agencies, for agencies that support editorial, video and such likes.

Hope you got my point and find the proposal useful enough to implement it! :-)

Cheers, Frank

Does Fotolia / Adobe still accept uploads of smartphone photos? I thought this is called the Fotolia Instant collection but could not find any corresponding app for iOS any more?

Yesterday I received the following warning from PayPal:

QuoteDear xyz,

Please check your server that handles PayPal Instant Payment Notifications (IPN). IPNs sent to the following URL(s) are failing:

http://franky242.net/shop/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/ipn/paypal_ipn.php

If you do not recognize this URL, you may be using a service provider that is using IPN on your behalf. Please contact your service provider with the above information. If this problem continues, IPNs may be disabled for your account.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this issue.


Sincerely,

PayPal

I switched to sandbox mode and tested a transaction: I was able to pay and download the files afterwards as a user however did not receive any notification mail as seller to the mail-account of my shop.

Today I received the same mail from PayPal again - any one experienced the same or any tipps for me? - Thank you!

Hi all,

after updating both the main theme and the child today, unfortunately I had to discover that both still feature the bug that on smaller screens (mobile devices like the iPad) the main menu is missing. See http://franky242.net/shop and reduce the size of your browser window: At a certain size the main menu under the logo (about, categories, best of, ...) will disappear.

Since the site is quite difficult to navigate through on these devices/resolutions, a fix would be highly appreciated. Anyone found a fix/workaround?

Thanks, Frank

I was laughing my butt of today when I saw one of the header images on DT together with their price tag and wanted to share the fun with you:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=331403170297189&set=a.204086353028872.37257.176689899101851&type=1&theater

Says a lot about the position us contributors are in at the moment I guess.

I am happy to announce that Apple accepted the latest version of the i$tock Contributor App for iPhone and - new! - for iPad today. As it is largely reworked, let me quickly outline the changes below. As it is now free of charge (supported by small adds appearing from time to time at the bottom of the screen) please give it a try and feel free to provide feedback also here - I'll be happy to forward it to the developers.


Quick-Check for your istockphoto.com contributor account. 

Features: 

Overview of the following account information: 

- Account balance (live) 
- Downloads
- Royalties
- Slideshow of your last downloads 
- Slideshow of your last accepted images 
- Watch your istockcharts.de statistics 
- new sitemail messages (live) 
- credits (live)
- earnings
- referrals
- upload stats
- comment stats


Check out our platform at www.istockcharts.de to find out more about other iStock contributors. If you encounter problems please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]. Thank you.
 
What's New in this Version
 
- Now a Universal App to run natively on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
- Entirely new design with retina display support
- One screen to rule them all
- New dynamic bar chart for your earnings and downloads
- Share your photos on Twitter, Facebook or by email
- Optimized for iOS 5
 

Source:  http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/i-tock-contributor-application/id298053056?mt=8

One feature I really miss in Stocksubmitter (which is by the way a great tool for managing, keywording and submitting to various sites) is the support for Editorial images: Marking photos as such, providing captions for the various platforms that support Editorial and uploading with the appropriate parameters. Any plans for such functionality?

MicrostockSubmitter seems to have a problem with Quickmeta in the current version: When I select one of my images and hit Quickmeta, I enter the search term(s) and the corresponding images load as before. However when I select the first proposed image, I receive an empty warning box and nothing is updated on the lefthand side (description, categories,... all stay empty), same happens when selecting multiple images afterwards.

Anyone experiencing the same issue? Any fix around?

This is the first issue I am having with the tool (besides some error messages when using Quickmeta before) and I really appreciate its featues!

Just had the following in my inbox - one more to go down this year already: 

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Dear contributors,
I am sorry to tell you that we have decided to shutdown Pixamba microstock collection.
Pixamba will be focusing on delivery of our innovative media management SaaS for stock imagery consumers.

The microstock collection at http://www.pixamba.com will go down on the week of May 3 2010.
All the images will be safely and permanently removed from our servers.
We'll send you all and any payouts you got with us before the shutdown.
Please feel free to write us to [email protected] for any question you may have.

Pixamba media management service will go live shortly after the microstock site shutdown. The new service helps imagery consumers organize and manage their archives offering instant search, convenient cataloging, built-in media auto-tagging and other unique features.

Thank you for being with us,
David Mail, CEO Pixamba

After numerous disapprovals of my initial 10 images application with photos that are accepted elsewhere (IS, FT, DT,...) I am wondering if anyone managed lately to get approved as a contributor lately with SS? Any motivating feedback is highly appreciated, other is also welcome since it might save me some time!  Thanks...