dirkr -

I am going to need more info from you regarding this IPTC issue. I just uploaded a bunch of images via FTP with embedded metadata and everything went through just fine.

Feel free to email me directly at [email protected]

Thanks, I'll send you an e-mail...

Thanks for the quick response.
It's certainly no general problem with Metadata import, I just see some changed titles / descriptions (slight changes, I'm absolutely fine with that) and had the feeling that single keywords are missing (things like specific location information  on wildlife shots, which I think are useful), but I'll check the keywords later today and see how much that really is (need to do some comparisons with my saved IPTC data at home).

Anyway, it was mainly curiosity on my part.

Quote from: dirkr on December 11, 2014, 17:59

Quote from: dijkcity on December 11, 2014, 17:51

What is going on there?

Volume rebates on steroids.

That's what subscriptions are.

Thanks, does that mean they have the same 'rights' as people without subscription?

Yes, the license terms are the same.

Does 'disuptive' Oleg leave Fotolia with all this money or will he still manage the place? Does anyone know?

The press release says he "will continue to lead the Fotolia team as part of Adobe's Digital Media business".

It will be interesting to see at what terms they will "offer its services to the Creative Cloud base".
And what that will mean for contributors.

One heads up to Adobe: if you mess with contributors, your 800 million investment is at risk. Without content there's nothing you can "integrate with Creative Cloud".

The real way to go would be to admit that the previous owners have neglected contributors for too long and that Adobe (as being an integrall part of that creative community - you want those contributors to use your products, right?) will change that by improving conditions. E.g. raise commissions, remove crappy re-seller deals etc.

yup, same for me (photos, not vectors).
Uploaded via FTP, but then the site showed a "unknown error" for each uploaded file..

This must be a new record for me: approved 44 minutes after uploading!
 

Quote from: Realist on November 20, 2014, 12:35

Cigarettes are a stupidity tax. You have to pay it only if you are stupid.
Smart people don't pay this tax.

smart people don't pay taxes at all.

yeah...
and those smart people move to where taxes and cost of living are low...
and then start to complain and whine about "the widespread corruption, racism, double standards, scams, and ripoff, and what about even basic things like broken roads, rubbish bags everywhere, bad smells, drunks, police asking bribes ..."

On the contrary, really intelligent people accept taxes as a neccessity to run a civilized society and are thankful that they can pay their taxes - and get working infrastructure, solid healthcare, a reliable legal system as return.

Thanks. If you accept upsized images (as long as the result is sharp enough) I might do that for those that are good enough to start with.
All newer images are big enough anyway.

And your name: you're just one letter off to make it sound like that: http://www.toitoidixi.de/en/produkte/toilettenkabinen/DIXI-B.php   

Some of mine uploaded on Nov 06 are still pending, while others uploaded later have already been accepted (and now are in "processing" state...).
I'll just wait until something happens, Canstock is not important enough to make a fuss about it...

...simply for the extra 3-5 cents, ...

Without disagreeing with everything else you said, if a company can reduce the cost of sales for one item from 38 cents to 25 cents, that is about 30%.

Go to any big company and ask them what they would pay you if you had an idea how they could reduce their cost of sales by 30%.

That is not insignificant.

That being said, although I can see the motivation, that alone is no proof that they actually did/do punish specific portfolios.

Quote from: Microstock Man on November 05, 2014, 17:42

This might have already been answered, but is there a way to view your portfolio that is actually approved and online? I know there is a Portfolio link in the menu, but it doesn't seem to be able to display simply which files are online/approved?

Here's how I do it: Select Your Portfolio from the pulldown.  Click on any of the pictures in your portfolio, whether or not they're approved.  Then click on your username on the right side of the page.  That will bring up a display of your approved images.  Or it would, if the site wasn't giving errors at the moment.

Or simply: https://www.canva.com/YourUserName

where (obviously) you have to replace YourUserName by your user name