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« on: April 13, 2013, 20:07 »
Sean - thanks. I plundered through to the bottom of the page and found that dropdown. My bad for not looking way down there. set prices for all, sent to curator...313 images....cheers
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« on: April 13, 2013, 19:59 »
On that main upload page, you can just select all and set the price, send to queue, etc.
hmm, don't know why that isn't working for me. I tried that, just tried again and it only sets the price for one image (the first in queue)...thanks anyways, I'm using Firefox. I'll keep playing with it, maybe I'm doing something dumb.
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« on: April 13, 2013, 08:16 »
how did you upload? I have mine uploaded, metadata embedded. but it still wants me to set price etc., individually.
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« on: April 12, 2013, 23:19 »
^ you're faster than me. I have 300 uploaded, and I haven't gone back in since I realized I have to go through them one by one. ugh, I'll tackle it at some point, the royalty rate is good enough to lure me, but there's really no excuse for a bad upload system today.
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« on: April 11, 2013, 15:28 »
^ ditto. impossible not to compare with the other agencies whose upload systems allow for quick, batch editing. I like Pond5's royalties and site, but I'm not spending hours uploading. I have a portfolio of close to 10K images.
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« on: April 11, 2013, 15:23 »
ugh - well, sorry, but I'm not spending hours uploading. if they want our work, it's gotta be easier than that
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« on: April 11, 2013, 15:16 »
Jasmin, lol, I think tickstock has that special superpower that only anonymity can generate
@gbalex: it's the new agencies, the fair trade agencies and those that genuinely follow suit that are going to affect change in the stock industry. I don't think we can cleanly differentiate between macro/micro/traditional anymore; pricing tiers are all so varied, as is licensing today. royalties have been crunched in traditional as much as in microstock. in some ways, we've hit close to rock bottom and it is the new models that prioritize keeping artists comfy and cozy that will probably lead us into the next evolution in the stock industry. there will be bugs, issues, hurdles no doubt but we're all primed for change.
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« on: April 11, 2013, 14:51 »
^ while having the freedom and opportunity to do lots of other stuff without being at the mercy of one company being run in a manner I thoroughly disagree with. I won't argue with the royalty comparisons...but you have cherry picked to make your point. there are way more fires in which to place the irons.
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« on: April 11, 2013, 14:45 »
Let's hope other agencies watch what iStock has done and use it as a cautionary tale. Losing some of your longest term contributors by squeezing them relentlessly is not the stuff that business legends are made of.
I'll say for SS, Jon Oringer and his execs are photographers first. They're artists and actively participate on the frontlines. So I give them more leeway than the upper echelon suits running iStock. having said that, I'm not loving piddly amounts for dls on SS thus far. but these are early days and I don't have enough files up yet. Offset has me intrigued too, which tells me they're thinking in the right direction.
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« on: April 11, 2013, 14:42 »
do they have batch editing capabilities?
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« on: April 11, 2013, 14:31 »
Is there a batch edit option? If not, is it worth uploading and individually editing every single image?
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« on: April 11, 2013, 12:54 »
Despite having dropped my exclusivity in February, I haven't felt the surge of concern I thought I would. In fact, I've felt the opposite. I'm inspired by new beginnings. I'm experiencing the initial drop in income, which I prepared for and which I expect to be a factor for about 6 months to a year. It was a huge letdown to watch TPTB erode and decimate everything that was so unique about iStock.
Going through my portfolio of almost 8K images has reminded me how many great files were best match casualties with hardly any views. I'm working very hard to get established on the other sites, and I will keep my files non-exclusively on iStock. But ventures like Stocksy, and GL can be truly sustainable marketplaces for artists and the companies that run them; companies created by fellow artists and ethically run with a focus on long-term success. I haven't looked back since ditching the crown. iStock and Getty are simply building a new breed of exclusives who have much lower expectations than our 'generation'. I was once so genuinely proud of being an iStock exclusive. iStock is no longer a community, nor is it an agency in which artists are motivated to strive for growth or to excel in their art. It isn't even an agency anymmore. It is now a Walmart, looking to sell to the highest bidder, with the smallest royalties possible going to suppliers. There is no opportunity left there. I don't know that change could even occur today. The window for change, for wooing unhappy contributors back into the fold has passed.
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« on: April 10, 2013, 01:14 »
Thanks for all these informations about Offset, I'm really happy to see coming a new quality photo site, more open than the Stocksy sect.
Are you sure it will be more open? At the moment it is by invitation only.
they seem somewhat similarly positioned....interesting to see where this goes and where the 'curated' collections push the market
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« on: March 30, 2013, 14:04 »
I knew there was a reason I keep all my media badges. my nieces and nephews love to play with them, but I keep them hanging around. I should probably scan them all in. I also file my accreditation letters just in case.
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« on: March 29, 2013, 16:26 »
Cheers and hope the Easter bunny brings everyone some chocolate.
I've given the Easter bunny specific instructions to stop at Godiva for my basket. Hope he complies. 
he should swing past the liquor store too...:-)
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« on: March 29, 2013, 16:08 »
@gostwyck: sure, there is bound to be suggestion/constructive criticism, which I think is probably welcomed. everyone is entitled to their opinion. hope the bunny comes to........too
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« on: March 29, 2013, 15:08 »
There will always be varying opinions about what constitutes "good". But I'm perplexed how much negativity has been expressed by the usual suspects here, considering Stocksy is precisely, even optimally what many here wanted to see happen. Personally, I couldn't have envisioned a more perfect execution of a co-op agency. I didn't see it coming so quickly and so beautifully. It is here, and it is thrilling to be part of it.
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« on: March 28, 2013, 15:53 »
Ok, maybe they changed that. Well, the queue is long anyway, so I guess 2 weeks more or less dont matter. But like they suggested I would add a note to the reviewer that you are coming from istock in the batch that you upload.
You will love their upload process, it is just fantastic and easy.
yeah, the SS upload process is super easy and fast. really like it.
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« on: March 27, 2013, 13:45 »
have it figured out, using the flash upload to bulk upload. now, someone please tell me there is a way to bath edit? so far, not finding it...:-)
Look at my post in this thread where I already told you 
thank you, sorry. missed it.
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« on: March 27, 2013, 12:47 »
The site looks great, is fast and responsive. Just the uploading, especially the descriptions, keywords etc...are a pain. Although I agree with weighted keywords. But why do i have to add manually how many people are in the picture? That is what model releases are for, right?
ditto :-)
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« on: March 26, 2013, 00:11 »
You can just copy and paste to a text file, and then import that into excel. The question is how, then to get it into the jpg...
that's the part I want to be able to do....magically connect it all
Lightroom or Adobe Bridge?...one file at a time of course  . Maybe if you know how to write plug-ins for Lightroom it can be automated?
I already use Bridge to input metadata, and it allows bulk editing. so that is my current workaround. but it would have been great to be able to export my metadata from DM into the respective jpgs, but i assume that would be fairly complicated, especially if file locations have changed.
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« on: March 25, 2013, 20:47 »
have it figured out, using the flash upload to bulk upload. now, someone please tell me there is a way to bath edit? so far, not finding it...:-)
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« on: March 25, 2013, 19:08 »
can you further explain the password part...I have my 6 digit number, but nothing I input for password works. I don't find the instruction clear or I'm misreading it
As password for the FTP account you have to use both your login name and password for the regular website login, written together as one word.
So if you log into the FT website with username SNP and password let-me-in, your password for your FTP account is SNPlet-me-in
That should work.
thanks all, appreciate the quick answers.
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« on: March 25, 2013, 18:22 »
Looks like it's not image exclusive, as was speculated earlier. At least as far as I can tell. Some of Simon's stuff is the same stuff I've seen elsewhere, including the famous twitter bird.
It is image exclusive. If someone has the same image elsewhere I'm guessing it is in the process of being removed (if it isn't gone already)
Tyler, you and Sean beat me to it. it has taken time for contributors to get our images online at Stocksy and removed elsewhere, but image exclusivity is the goal/required.
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« on: March 25, 2013, 15:24 »
dude, it is image exclusivity. 
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