To be honest whether you see and/or believe there is purple fringing or not is negatable, if you submit it again or ask scout it'll probably get rejected for the jpeg artifacting of which there is quite a bit, have you used image degrader noise ninja on it?

It is a canarie in the cold mine of sorts. 

Is there no end to the blight of these poor little birds, first they gassed them down coal mines but now you're telling me they're trying to freeze the poor little things. 

I can understand the problem they have with photographs of their properties, but they also own large areas of coastline and countryside. Do the same rules apply?

Only at places where you have to pay to enter.

You should do a graph showing the amount of potential revenue lost designing graphs 

I've just had the email for buyers from iStock explaining about BM2, presuming they send it out at the same time to all buyers I'd imagine we'll only now start to see the real effect.

RT I have corrected my post sorry for the mistake I was fairly busy when I wrote that.

That's OK we all make mistakes, but this does raise a concern with me:

For me personally the whole uploading process accounts for a large proportion of my time, time that I could spend better doing other things running my business, so a service such as the one you've hinted at ( you'll see what I mean in a minute) is something that would be of interest to me. BUT my advice to you would be that you go off and work on a better proposal package, when I target a new client I go in and offer them the complete package in detail, explaining exactly what I offfer and what they'll get for their money, so far having read all of this thread I'm still not sure how you're going to operate.
For instance how do I get my images to you in order for you to upload them for me, and how exactly would it be a quicker and more efficient way than me using FTP to upload them to all the sites myself as I'm currently doing.
A second and even more concerning part is that you're offering keywording services, I mean you no offense but clearly English is not your primary language, judging by your few posts here I can say that at present there's no way I would trust what I consider the most important part of the upload process to you.

I'm all in favour of anybody starting a business, especially if that business is one that could save me time and ultimately increase my workflow, however I'm not one to give my money away.

Good luck in your venture.

And if you did not does they really actually withhold this 30% from your royalties?

Yes they do.

I removed some topics and created a sticky one with official info. The sort order is already fixed, and I'm very glad because I was about to go crazy just like everyone else.

rinderart:
You just have to upload the files to the FTP, press a button, and tag them with the bulk editor. That's it.
You can't skip the FTP part, somehow you have to get the files online.
You can't skip the button pressing part, you have to tell the system somehow that you are done.
Finally, having folders give you the ability to edit many files at the same time.
There aren't a lot of things to simplify here...
We could group images by upload date, but that's the same thing.

Peter, as you've pointed out the upload process is simple, but then again so are some people!

A seminar from Rinder/Locke/Deal would certainly be worth 600$.

Flemish, Sean is in a different league to the other two, and would probably be worth $590 of the total amount.

This is by far the best system I have seen so far. As far as I know it sorts according to what buyers bought or viewed in the past, after typing in his keyword.

If this is true there's not much point in anybody else moaning or celebrating what they see when they do a best match search on their own portfolio.

But I bet they do!

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I understand English is not your primary language, could you re word the question, by 'photo approving' do you mean the review and selection process?

I am sorry for my bad English..

You said: Looks like you're going to corner the market on swans, garden birds and bricks. I am asking you RT do you mean the photos selected on fotomina are not good ?

My fault not only is English not your first language but you probably don't understand sarcasm either so I'll explain.

They might be technically perfect shot on the worlds latest and greatest medium format camera with perfect composistion, however search the portfolios of the top 500 stock photographers in the world and you'll most probably find that there aren't that many photos of the sort that so far fill your inventory - there's a reason for that!

I didn't plan on correction the white balance because I thought the lighting would be right. 

The lighting had nothing to do with your white balance error, please try and understand nobody expects you to get it right first time, you're constantly blaming the poor guy that set the studio up for you, the white balance problem you've got is because of the way YOU set your camera.

Now I suggest if you want to learn how to do it right next time listen to people who have tried to help you, I presume the sensor you mention is a colour temperature gauge, and the answer would be no I doubt anybody here uses one because you don't need one, you've mentioned you've read your manual - go back and read it again because in there it will explain how to set a custom white balance.

Let ' talk form buyer or designers as they like to be called, why should he buy from fotomina for 2$ since the same photo is 1$ or less with credit on Big6!!  That's way you can take a look on big 6 prices and you will see that we are similar to their prices.. 20$ can be offered of we can have extra extra size like istock but at the time we are good with our prices maybe on 2010 we will revise them .. but keep in mind 1$ x 100 download = 100 $ 

Well if we're talking from the buyers point of view you're right, why would he buy from you if your prices are more than the competition, but another point to consider is why should he buy from you when your prices and images are the same (of course they won't be the same you'll have more rubbish because you'll be desperate to build up a stock of images), he might as well just stick with the site he knows and has used and has a much better selection than yours.

From a contributors point of view uploading to a new site that offers nothing that the other more established sites have will do nothing to help them, sales would be diluted from the other sites where they have been trying to build a reputation, on the big 6 the more you sell the more your portfolio will rise in the ranks, uploading to each and every agency that comes along does nothing but harm.

So I ask again - What advantage is there to a contributor by uploading to Fotomina, you haven't found any new buyers and you're not offering anything new to contributor or buyers, you're new to the industry and don't know much about it. Please explain.