now the bloody photo is on the front page oh the shame of the mediocre photo

Featurepics

and they have picked two awful pictures that i wanted to delete as they are stuck as rights managed.

Can anyone beat 301 credits?

If you go to featurepics and do a blank search you will see a rather boring picture of a sign indicating a Police station as the first image.

Its been stuck there for most of the day, I have been wondrring why it has been the first image but apparently from an e-mail I just received its their 50,000 image and its mine  .

So just goes to show some sites don't massage their landmark images apparently i get a wireless remote control which sounds pretty cool. I am curious if it wil actually arrive supposedly they have to send it from Germany.

Not my best photo but it does define my current micro stock uploads lots of signs all the good stuff from that day is going to Alamy.

For me the beginning of August has been better than the beginning of July at SS though today is really slow.

Though I think I wil start new threads at the DT forum more often 8 DLs today so far (which for me is very good) still $6 away from another payout so near and yet so far.

I have been curious for a while where everyone if from.

So what countries do we have represented?

Bonny Scotland for me.

Well its Monday the start of a new week so how are those microstock companies doing?

1 Fotolia� � � � � � � 1,048,546 {1,013,804} (977,382)� inc 34,742
2 istock� � � � � � � � �970,255 {956,000} (940,763)� increase 14,255
3 Shutterstock� � � �940,323 {923,690} (906,228) increase 16,633

4 Dreamstime� � � � �530,000# {520,000*} (510,000)� incr 10,000 #1st August *27th July
5 Big Stock Photo� �438,000 {430,000} (424,000) increase 8,000

6 123 rf� � � � � � � � 300,000+
7 Can Stock Photo� 244,776 {242,798} (240,520)� increase 1,978

8 Stockxpert� � � � � 170,000?

9 Stockphotomedia� 69,765 {68,875} (67,325) increase 890
10 Featurepics� � � � 49,802 {47,253} (43,962) increase 2,549
11 Gimmestock� � � �46,691 {46,260} (45,835) increase 431

So FT still double the number of new images of iStock + SS

Thanks Erdosain

Just uploaded my eps files to DT. Hopefully they will streamline the process next time I might try FTPing the jpeg and eps file at the same time.

I suppose with their current systems iStock can rigidly enforce their strict upload limits. If they introduced FTP they would be receiving terabytes of crap every day.

Of course with a bit of planning such as StockXpert, you could FTP quite a lot but only transfer a certain number of files to the iStock queue each day/week. But they still end up with servers full of photos.

Probably better to issue FTP accounts to members that have sols some photos under the understanding that if you break the upload limits you have to go bad to imagemanager.

Maybe iStock spent a hunk of change on imagemanger and want to get their money's worth out of it.

One thing is sure their categories suck.

both StockXpert + DT replied to say they had contacted the lazy keyworder. DT informed me he will sort it out when he back from his holidays in a month. I hope he makes more effort with his holiday snaps.

Hey what about the illustrators?

Couldn't find any instructions about uploading eps files, tried FTPing some eps files but they haven't reached unfinished files yet.

A lot of photographers at DT weren't happy about uploading RAW their digital negative.

OK apoligies for stating the bleeding obvious

but just in case there are a few people who don't know about "queue" function on Filezilla.

You need to set up a list of micro stock sites login in names and passwords which you can access through quickconnect

Quickconnect your first site

drag your files to the bottom area of the screen (not the right area where they will be immediately uploaded)

Quickconect to your next site
drag your files to the bottom area of the screen

and so on
when you have connected to all your sites (FT,StockXpert,DT,SS,SPM,LO,FP)

right click on the first file in your queue at the bottom of the screen and select process queue and you can go to bed or whatever and FileZilla will do the rest.

Well I thought it was pretty cool, if only 123, CanStockPhoto, istock would join the FTP club.

I stand corrected

Every batch they have done the same thing give every photo in a batch gets the same keywords.

This might be OK for a series of photos of� planes but X-rays of different parts of the body

I found them at DT as well with the same lazy keywords.

They are FT but I can't see the keywords, has anyone else noticed hidden keywords at least people can't copy!