No, I also use Payoneer to get funds from IS, and other companies. You can also use it to get funds from Veer.

That's cool, but I miss my biggest earner on it, Shutterstock.

That is a one way path.  With masks you can go back to correct a missed detail, not to mention brush opacity and the opportunity to run a blur on the mask.

Sorry to look dumb, but you can go back in the history, and you can set your erase brush opacity and softness too. Not that I doubt this is a better way perhaps. I was just wondering.

...wanted to talk about our standard happy smiling people pictures... and jumping gold fishes

9 things I learned about the world according to anonymous stock photo models 

boy, with all you eager writers here - if you ever want to write something for the microstockgroup blog - let me know.  I have been trying to write 1 article/week and have kept up most of the time, but it wouldn't hurt to have a bit more.

I've been brooding on a couple of simple tutorials for a while, things that pop up all the time on forums. I don't like to put them on my own site since that smells like pimping.  
The Dreamstime blog would be a good outlet but blogging there is very limited since you can't insert external images, something vital for tutorials. What is your platform? How easy is it to insert images and control the layout? I'm used to Wordpress. Do we need an author's account on the MSG blog or how does it work practically?

For me, it's a perfect camera as my primary source of income in the photography world has been weddings.  I also was shooting some sporting events and have a big focus on wildlife.  All of those subjects require speed.
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If I were to buy a camera specifically for stock it would be the 5D Mark II.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

+1
The 1D I borrowed was with the famous 50mm prime of Canon and the guy shot weddings, events, concerts in available light (not for stock) and he had a leading edge on people with lesser cams. I prefer my 5DII for well lit stock in optimal conditions and I wouldn't dream to walk around with a heavy 1D in those circumstances. For every task the proper tool. (I could also add I can't afford the 1D with the 50mm).

Most useful post + 1 heart.

I really hate the guts of spammers and pimpers. They make me lose time. Lately this site acquired a few blatant (sometimes hidden) referral spammers that will take advantage of any thread to say nothing useful but to dump their egg. They make me lose more time by having to clean my cookies before signing up on a new site. I want to choose my own referrals, and those are people I either like or have a history of posting useful info. As 'useful info', I don't consider "yay I had a sale, 200 images uploaded, approved at DP". I don't want to be trapped into being a referral for a moron.

Those blatant low authority/low info/high spamming "posters" should be banned like at most sites. Of course you can block them, which I do, but their empty messages still do pop up and the "new threads" they spam in too. Portfolio links in the sig should just be portfolio links, and not hidden referrals. Certainly those obnoxious large banners in the sig should be made impossible.

Agencies should leave the system of contributor referrals. That might have been useful ages ago when �stock was unknown. But now when everybody and his brother signs up to 20 sites, there is no need for it any more. Referral earnings take away part of my income by people that in most cases just live from spamming. The only valid referral should be a buyer referral.

Anyone know of a shortcut for submitting them in bulk from the Unfinished area, or do you have to edit each one, assign categories, and submit individually?

I FTP-ed 300 at a time and assigning categories was easy since I submitted similar-category images in a row by clicking on the small square thumb at every image. Only categories are inherited then (no models) and what really slowed me down is assigning releases for every image. There is no bulk release assign possibility.

What took me most time is reinventing the titles in case I entered something in the 'headline' IPTC field, since that field precedes the 'object name' field for title. Quite off-standard for �stock. Also annoying and slowing you down is that you get erroneous error messages when title or description include non-alphanumeric characters, like quotes.

Whatever, I got my 111$ today and I will lay the site to rest now. I don't have high expectations as to sales the moment buyers will actually have to pay for their images. Right now, you can just sign up and get 150 images for free, for which the contributors are payed. This is an avenue that nobody mentioned here in the referral folly. Find or create a number of "buyers" that will "buy" your shots and you can easily get 100$ extra.

The clock sounds to tick when the referral program is over and when buyers will have to pay. The moment of truth is August 1 when the 6 months are over, since I don't upload any more. A sub sale every week like on CanStockPhoto isn't good enough.

speaking about the date, the new rule now that it should say explicitly "shoot date" rather than just "date". I've got several rejections last/this week for the reason my release was missing "shoot date", despite the date entered 3 times

Yes the Getty/iStock release makes a distinction between the
Date signed (dd/mm/year) ________________________________________
Shoot Date (dd/mm/year) _________________________________________

For the shoot date I filled in December 1-4, for the date signed December 4. It's a bit logical since you can do the paperwork later (not recommended) and since the shoot date can be a (short) period, and the date signed cannot. Unless you are a very slow writer, the signing is one specific date. 

I have the slightly modified (fonts, country of jurisdiction) Getty release in MS-Word format here. All sites I upload to have accepted it, included IS of course.

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I've added four images here. I'm not sure you will be able to see it without having an account.

I guess so since I land on a page about an Iceland project. It's a nice and well programmed site, and I'm sure you'll get a warm feeling being there. But does it make money?
We all need to focus on our work and on our sites that sell. You can drown, if you want, in forums, community sites, show-sites, that give you "exposure" and no money. At the end of the day, it's the money that counts so perhaps this is another waste of time?

Thanks again everyone for your comments

You're welcome. I'm sure you will do great with audio.  

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Yes the Taiwanese have money, certainly if you see how they drive