O.K., thanks for letting me know. At least I know now what to expect.

I thought EasyRelease is very common among stock photographers. It is officially accepted by Alamy and Getty but also Fotolia, BigStock, Shutterstock, CanStockPhoto take it without complaining.
I'm not sure if you guys know how it works.

You create a release on your phone (text and logo are edible to your liking), take a picture of the model which will be included in the release, fill in contact information, witness data and have model and witness sign the release (with finger or stylus pen). The you generate a .pdf and/or a .jpg file and send it to you and/or the model by email. Of course you can print, upload, save or do whatever you want to do with it.

I can't understand why Dreamstime won't accept it.

Well, all of my people images have been rejected at Dreamstime and Dreamstime only.
Reason:
"The model release document must be printed on paper, filled in and signed with a pen. We don't accept digitally signed model releases as they are not considered good legal documents."

I'm using the iPhone app EasyRelease for handling my releases and it has been accepted by all ms agencies so far, except Dreamstime. What a bummer. Reason enough for me to not submit anything to Dreamstime.


Thought I'd share.

I was just wondering (I'm very new to micro stock), do you find your images at the micro stock sites when searching for the title?

I just tried it and even though my images were approved last week (I believe Thursday) I can't find it when I search for the exact title. I can't even find it when I broaden the search and then browse through 50 and more images. That just happened on fotolia and shutterstock. Bigstock however finds the images immediately and lists them on top.

And since I have already sold images right after they were approved on fotolia and on shutterstock I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong.

I have a question that's bugging me.
Let's say I do a TFP/TFCD shoot with a model. So I'll give her the image files and she'll proudly show them on her Facebook page.
I however submit them, let's say, to Getty with exclusivity.
Does the model (or I) have to fear any legal issues?
How do you guys handle that?

Hello,
I'm new to micro stock and even newer to the forum so please excuse when I ask stupid questions.
Anyway, I got accepted as iStockPhoto contributor a couple of days ago. However uploading seems to be such a pain. When I use their web interface it will let me upload only one file at a time. I tried DeepMeta but this tool won't read the IPTC keywords of my files.
I'm on a Windows Vista PC btw. Is there any way to make the whole process of uploading a little more convenient and less time consuming?
How do you guys upload your files to iStock?