It is frustrating to receive such funky rejection notices but it would really help you and all of us to understand better what we're dealing with here if you show the image in question.

Consider the slight chance that we can all learn from this...

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Leo, just in case you are bored right now (LOL) I think the image processor does not like "Adobe RGB" color spaces and gives me an error without importing the image.

I don't have the error code right now. If you require it I can try to reproduce it but maybe you are already aware of this issue anyway.

The last couple of months are really slow at Pond5 (talking footage here).

Beginning of the year was better, last year was a lot better. I hope they get more buyers soon.

I hope it's not the fact that they get swamped with new content and sales get diluted... 

Thank you Leo! Terrific work!

Just uploaded vertical image and thumbnail generation is flawless!

Back to uploading!

I seem to have some issue uploading vertical (portrait) images. The thumbnails used to be generated being 149 pixels high.

After this update the portrait images are being generated 225 pixels high. I don't care too much for that if I wouldn't be using the newest images feature because the new thumbnails are significantly bigger and therefore cause formatting issues.

The image width of the horizontal (panorama) thumbnails is still the same and totally ok.

Can someone confirm this issue?

Awesome look! Congrats!

If you don't mind me asking, how did you remove the drop-down menu (Images/Blog) next to the search field? I want the search function also just to work on images, therefore that menu is redundant.

Thanks in advance!

Sorry I"ve been relying on everyone to help eachother while I keep working on next release

Have you added the images to the "Featured images" category yet?

Its possible that you have a situation left over from the "old days" before I implemented this. In that case you can delete featured images category, then reactivate your theme.

At that point you should be up to standard with all the new versions of Symbiostock, where people do not have to pull their hair out (much).

Hi Leo, I really don't want to bother you with that.

I don't really have a problem assigning the featured images to the widget - it works great. The newest, similar and featured widgets work fine on the image pages.

The problem I am having is that these widgets do not show on the home page.

There was a thread where Symbiostock users were showcasing their sites. One user already has his site (illustrations) up with more than 1500 images. He has his front page filled with the newest and featured images I believe.

I wanted to create something similar by adding the newest and feature widget to my home page and possibly adding some static content underneath.

So I'm trying to add the widgets to "Home Page (Above Content)" or "Home Page (Below Content)" but no images show up.

Does this have anything to do with a custom created page set to the default home page?

To do that, in the control panel, I goto "Appearance" -> "Themes" -> Symbiostock "Customize" and in the left menu at the bottom I set my front page to be a static page.

Will this override or disable the widgets from showing up on my front page?

In the video: http://www.symbiostock.com/free-files/widgets_and_menus.swf

at the 2:00 mark, Leo added the featured images widget to the Home Page (below content) area. When I do that, it just doesn't show.

All three widgets (newest, similar, featured) work fine on all image pages at the bottom - I'm good with that.

Most importantly though I would like the newest and featured widgets on the front page though...

Thanks cclapper but I don't understand the image 

I must have some mental block going on right now. Where do I get the CTA template or any of the other templates?

Am I to understand that the OP, a German bloke who apparently runs a business with several employees, is actually complaining about being 'bullied' by a Canadian girl in Istock's CR team? 'Bullied' how __ because she asked a few questions of you?

Why so keen to play the hand-wringing victim? Why don't you just grow a pair, answer the questions and stand up for yourself like any normal person would do?

'Bullied' __ my arse.

I'm not taking sides here (although it probably appears so...) but the German bloke and Canadian girl thing isn't going to work here nor is it of any relevance.

Photographer A gets questioned by agency B for something that is out of the question.

If I boil this soup down, I get a situation like this:

Just because I own a faster car, I am more likely to get pulled over over for presumably "speeding" without actually measuring the speed I was going at.

To me it appears that Axel is trying to explain that the sole fact that he is running a business employing photographers is enough "evidence" for IS to question whether all of his content is coming from him personally.

I find this quite upsetting as:

1. long no other photographer claimed a copyright infringement at IS for content in Axel's portfolio
and
2. Axel signed a contract with IS (as we all did - or whoever is left on that ship anyway...) stating that all uploaded content comes from him (individual photographer).

While IS considers this behavior as "legitimate" research to ensure a proper copyright situation it is nonetheless a frustrating and time consuming matter over which I would be upset as well.

The world won't stop turning and as much as Axel is blowing steam all over the place he still has a business to run and is uploading images to other agencies - I dare to assume that he is well aware that the world won't end with this annoying issue at hand with IS.

I'm just trying to build a bridge between people who passionately try to break the language and cultural barrier.

Anywho, this is as far as I'm gonna go. I hope we still can all learn from each other and that everyone can respect other members here for constructive discussions.

@Click_Click
Thank you very much for you help.
You interpretation is pretty much what happened and i really thought that i wrote it down in an understandable way but probably i didnt.
Like  i said very often - i really do not care about rejections!!
But i do care (and i become deeply desperate) if rejections are stupid, irrational and if "supporters" behave like napoleon when you complain

OK, in these cases i really become sarcastic and ironic which is not the best way to solve problems and that might have led to the topic we are talking about in this thread.
But i am to old to learn how to do the perfect kowtow.

regards axel

I'm trying to help everyone out here, both you and everyone responding to you to get things cleared out.

Since I've come to the US I learned the hard way that the "typical" German way of addressing issues is not going to get you very far as most of your conversation partners will just shut up instead of trying to carrying on a conversation where you are trying to make a point.

Sometimes it takes me quite a while to get my point across because of both the language barrier and also the culture shock effect.

Nobody should be offended by Axel. He doesn't mean to be offensive even if it appears on the first look.

In Germany issues can be discussed in quite a heated manner on both sides which does not mean that either party is mad at the other one.

Trying to make a point can become somewhat "emotional" at some point of the discussion.

We all might yank someone's leg every now and then but neither Shady Sue nor Axel meant to be mean to each other.

I've refrained from complaining about agencies here on the forum as it's always a matter of perspective that not always applies to the OP situation (not referring to the funky copyright infringement cases we had here - LOL).

Maybe we can all get along...?