I have the Intuos III 6x8 and couldn't live without it.  I do still use the mouse that came with it for general web browsing and the like.  But when it comes to processing images, there's no comparison with the pen.  Like others have said, it takes some getting used to (took me about two weeks).  But once you're there, you'll never go back.

Reproduction of Currency

Authority: The Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550

Color Reproductions
Section 411 of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations permits the printing, publishing or importation, or the making or importation of the necessary plates or items for such printing or publication, of color illustrations of U.S. currency provided that:

1. The illustration must be of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of any matter so illustrated;

2. The illustration must be one sided; and

3. All negatives, plates, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof shall be destroyed and or deleted or erased after their final use in accordance with this section.

Black and White Reproductions
Title 18, United States Code, Section 504 permits black and white reproductions of currency and other obligations, provided such reproductions meet the size requirement.

Has anyone tried HDRSHOP?  It's an HDR program developed by the University of Southern California (USC). There are two versions.  The first is free, but is not to be used for commercial purposes.  The second costs like mad, but can be used for any purpose.   I'm just wondering if it is as good as some of the commercially available HDR programs, such as Photomatrix, etc.

In addition to what others have said, here's what I see.

On the glass, lower left side near the bottom there appears to be some green bleed over onto the white.  You've got some fairly heavy shadowing that isn't helping the image any.  And on the stem (right side, it looks like there may be some CA on both the top and bottom.

Here's a trick for you.  Go into Photoshop and add a new adjustment layer.  Adjust the layer by moving the left slider (black) all the way over to the right till it's on top of the white point.  What you should see is the glass and flower all black (or pretty much black anyway) and the rest white.  Where it's not white, there's color of some sort.  On your image, there's color all over the place.  Ergo, the background ain't white and you've got a lot of clean-up left to do.   

Reminds me of Through The Looking Glass.

As The Red Queen said to Alice: "You must run as fast as you possibly can to just stand still.  If you want to actually get somewhere, you'll need to run twice as fast."  Not a word-for-word quote, but close enough.

Same thing seems to apply to uploading images.

Only problem with Lizard's third image is now the cloud's blown.  Take the cloud from the second image and pop it onto the third and you've got a winner for SS.  And DanP68's right ... don't bother sending it to IS.  The big "overfiltered" rejection.

OK, sounds like you got it worked out.  I don't know why, but this is a fairly common problem among new photographers.  Just too many digital things to keep track of I suppose, particularly when they all sound the same.  Now get out there and get some 4 mp images uploaded to SS so you can get approved.  Good luck.

I think I saw this topic discussed elsewhere, but can't seem to locate it right now.

I uploaded a batch of images to DT the middle of last week.  12 hours later, half of them made it through to their pending file and the other half remained behind.  Now after several days, those that didn't make it through the first time are still hung up somewhere.  Will these eventually make it through or should I try to upload them a second time?  I can see them sitting somewhere on my FTP upload screen (Filezilla) and can try to delete them from there, but don't know whether that will work or not.

Any suggestions?

SS as all the rights bestowed upon it by congress and no more I believe that the founding fathers of America led the world in freedom and free speech.
It know falls upon its children to bestow those ideals across the world by the use of the internet.

This example of American treatment of free speech is for others to judge.

Pete,

Freedom of speech is not bestowed on us by congress.  If anything, they are trying to curtail many of our freedoms by imposing federal control over many aspects of out lives.  No, freedom of speech, along with all of our other freedoms, is bestowed by the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights (first ten amendments) and all subsequent amendments.  Congress can only pass laws based on the framework provided by that constitution.  

But more importantly, along with this freedom comes responsibility.  Yes we are free to say whatever we wish.  But we are not free to do it irresponsibly.  You can't yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater if there is no fire.  Remember the story of the boy who cried wolf.  Thought it was great fun until the people ignored him and the wolf ate him.  I don't mean to imply your concern was crying wolf.  You did a service by bringing it to everyone's attention.  But your responsibility ended there.  It was only in continuing, after SS acknowledged your warning, that you crossed the line into irresponsibility.  How SS responds to a warning is their responsibility, not yours.  By continuing, you were intruding on their authority.

You may disagree that  a privately owned forum can set its own rules, but that's also a part of freedom of speech.  They are free to set whatever rules they deem necessary to the successful operation of their forum, so long as they conform to generally accepted laws under which they must operate.  That includes restrictions on what type of speech may or may not be allowed on the forum.  Government agencies must strictly abide by the constitution and its interpretations, but private individuals and groups are under less restrictive limits.  That's where the laws set by congress come in.  This right has been affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court on several occasions.

Lastly, it doesn't do you or anyone else any good to cast sweeping generalizations about "Americans" as you have been doing.  While true that some of us are less than perfect when it come to bigotry and intolerance, may I remind you of the circumstances that forced our forefathers to write and defend our constitution ... King George ... an Englishman.  Do I blame all Englishmen for this and think they are all cast from the same mold.  Of course not.  I have several English friends and have visited in their homes and traveled throughout the UK extensively.  A place and people of great culture and history.  So tone it down a bit.  If you want to make a point, fine.  But do it with reasoned thought and do it responsibly.  Everyone isn't going to agree with you and that's fine.  That's their right as much as it is yours to disagree with them.  Agree to disagree.  And do it in a civilized way.  The moment you start to get down and dirty, that's when you lose the argument, no matter how right you may be.

"We can change the license type of your images from RF to Licensed provided they have not yet been downloaded or sold before."

If they have been sold on SS as RF, how can you then sell them on Alamy as licensed?

That's downloaded or sold on Alamy, not SS.

Who was it who said "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen"?

President Harry Truman.

I have been getting the following message for the last three days whenever I try to log in.

Service Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.
Reference #6.b54f648.1193670273.36c1420

I get to the login page OK, but after typing in my ID and password, this message pops up.

Is anyone else having this problem?  I haven't seen anything posted about this, so it may just be me.

Quote from: w7lwi on October 20, 2007, 10:16

One change to the rating system that would make it a bit more fair would be to use some form of the Olympic Scoring system.  That is, throw out the highest and lowest scores and average the rest.  I'd think something along the line of throw out the highest and lowest of the first 20 ratings, the highest and lowest two scores of the first 40, and so on in 20 rating increments.  Is this perfect, of course not.  But it would help minimize both positive and negative spamming as well as revenge rating.

Just a thought.

- Interesting approach, very good. What if we already have implemented something similar in one of the variables (sort of)?
Would that make you more relaxed about voting and votes? :-)

Without knowing what that variable was and how it interfaces with the rest of the algorithm, it's not possible to make an informed judgement.  I wouldn't expect you to make all the variables and their weighting public.  That's part of your proprietary program.  So in the end, it all comes down to each individual's previous experience, level of trust in others and tolerance of risk.  The same things that should be considered when playing the stock market.

Since I haven't really taken a good look at your site and it's goals, what market(s) are you really targeting ... Swedish, Nordic, all of the EU or anyone, anywhere.  And what types of images do you envision would best meet your target market's needs ... travel scenics, people, isolations, business, European only, or   I know what market microstock addresses and what needs macrostock fills.  I assume midstock is the grey area where these other two overlap; but, more specifically, what market need does it directly address and how does MP intend to meet that need?