I respect that Ichiro and don't want to waste your time at all.

I hope that you will at least check it out again in 2 months and reconsider then once you see what we will do but I fully understand that we might not be for everyone. 

I thought that the smiley face you used meant you were kidding with me. 

Interesting.  I'll try another style that is more translucent.

You are right about it being tricky to find the right level of security. I know that at one point we had a watermark that was too white and it was hard to see through it so we changed that and then we had a colored one at another point and that screwed up with the overall color of the image.  So it is definitely a balance that we will get.  Good stuff though and getting better I think.

Clivia,

Good call and I have been tinkering with a few watermarks.  Which sites do you think have the best watermark.  I was thinking of making it much more opaque and then putting a watermark in all four corners and then the middle so its protected but I am open to any suggestions as to best protect it.  Many thanks.

@lizard,  I will work on that and let you know.  I will be done with the new watermark tonight.   thanks

@windmill,  that is what we thought as well.

yeah there is a definite time element to it.  if it just sits around for a year inactive,  the price will come down over time.  did that help?

Hey Guys,

I am John the founder and wanted to see if I could clarify up somethings but also thank you for the feedback.  This will help us get better and I'm learning ;-).  As you can probably tell, we just launched into beta on the first of this month so our doors have only been open for a month.

cshack's comment made me laugh but we are in beta.  Cut me a little slack as I try to catch up to the bigger sites ;-)  Our content has quadrupled since I left my job 4 months ago and we have our FTP almost ready to go but we have bulk upload through the site right now.  I am hoping by next week we have the FTP ready for images.

As for setting your prices, you can set your own price, choose our Cutcaster algorithm as well as set the start price for where it begins trading or you can choose the algorithm and we will set the default start price at 20.  To be totally honest, I don't want to tell you what to charge for your photos because you are the ones who took the time and expense to create them and how would I ever know how to price all the content that was uploaded to me.  Id be lying as well if I said all content should be priced equally. That is what I always found funny about the other sites that they told you what to charge.

jsnover.  That is a great question and i am really glad you brought up that concern.  The bidding shouldn't be a time waster but a way for you to understand where the demand lies at different pricing levels.  In addition, you don't have to respond to bids but you can now get hard data on where to price your content on other sites, your own site or what buyers are willing to pay.  This isn't for Cutcaster.  It's for any of the members so use it as you like.  I am going to publish data on pricing trends, tell sellers and buyers about how people are pricing and detail pricing history in historical charts for people so they know better how to price and license their content.   The idea was to create tools to help people sell more and still keep their prices high.  Not participate in the race to the bottom where the prices for content are being set by the agencies and they are seeing how low they can go to attract more buyers which is hurting everyone. 

Ichiro17 and snurder.  hahahah. That's a good one. No comment on the steroids;-)  I love it, snurder.   

and wisent i emailed you earlier so you should have my email in your inbox.  im not sure where it went wrong but check your spam folder maybe.  i will always be there to help and respond if anyone has any questions or suggestions.  I made that pledge when I started Cutcaster and only brought on people that would help live by that motto and philosophy.  That is why I post my cell phone on the site 2156882751 ( you can call me whenever you like) or my email [email protected]. 

I'm new but I'm learning.  Thanks for the feedback and keep it coming. And keep up the good jokes ichiro.  hahaha

Similar to what happened to Google Videos and YouTube minus the mess Google made out of that with the "refunds issue," it seems that these huge companies with massive resources still haven't figured out how to be everything to everybody. They'll give it a shot in-house, and then go out and buy a company that does it better.

http://cutcaster.blogspot.com/2007/08/yahoo-photos-is-no-more.html

i wrote about this on my blog how to do your keywording.   http://cutcaster.blogspot.com/2007/08/choose-your-words-wisely-keywording.html

also beware of the difference between the american english meaning of a word vs the british english meaning.  ie. potato chip vs crisp, elevator vs lift.  wikipedia has a good write up on some of the differences to help you.

also you can use your microsoft word thesaurus or some of the programs mentioned above.

i wonder who FT's email service provider is?  they should just get aweber or one of those other services to do it. thats an easy problem to fix but annoying to get all those emails.

leaf that would make a lot of sense from a non compete point of view.  good pick up

wow. that is a great achievement.  congrats and here's to the next 300k.