When I switched to full sensor camera I started experiencing problems with chromatic aberrations more often than before. I only use Lightroom 2.5 for my post processing so I looked at its lens correction module and it seems like it will be very hard to automate it in y workflow. I started looking for some solutions. Of course if you have full version of PhotoShop you can create action and then use it in LR but I would prefer something cheaper than this. I found great tool called PTLens. Unfortunately there is no plug-in for LR so I started looking for it and found none. I downloaded Adobe Lightroom SDK and decided that learning Lua programming language is probably not so hard. It took two evenings to right something that works. I got post processing filter that calls PTlens after exporting each photo. It's good enough for me but I wonted make it more like Photomatix plug-n so you can select image and edit it interactively in PTLens. 

If interested you can watch progress on Google Code: ptlens-lightroom-plugin. When it's ready I will publish it to Adobe Exchange.

Hard to tell if there is any trend. I would call it random.

Nov 08    $0.78
Dec 08    $0.73
Jan 09    $0.66
Feb 09    $0.57
Mar 09    $0.93
Apr 09    $1.05
May 09    $1.11
Jun 09    $1.02
Jul 09    $0.81
Aug 09    $1.19
Sep 09    $0.59
Oct 09    $0.75
Nov 09    $1.06

Average $0.88

"About Getty Images Artist Picks

Welcome to Getty Images Artist Picks
Artist Picks is a private Flickr group for all artists who have enrolled to participate in the Flickr collection on Getty Images. This is where we let you nominate your own images to be considered for invitation to the collection - up to 50 images per week. So choose your best photos or illustrations and let us take a look, or check out the discussions in this group where we�re talking about what our customers are asking for and go make some new pictures to nominate!

Please limit the discussion topics to those specifically related to the Artist Picks program. For all other discussions about the Flickr Collection please continue to use the Getty Images Contributors group. www.flickr.com/groups/gettyimagescontributors/.

How does Artist Picks work?
It's simple, all you need to do is post your selection of pictures into this group and our Creative team will take a look and invite everything we think our customers could be interested in. Please be sure that all similar images (from the same shoot/situation/scenario, etc.) are submitted at the same time. This makes it easier for our Creative team to see them all at once and review them.

Given the volume of submissions, we will not be able to email you individually with the reasons for not inviting images. In many cases it will be technical or legal issues, but we are also going to be factoring in saleability and the amount of images of a given subject we already have available.

* Tip: Once you've joined the group, use this Organizr link for the easiest way to submit up to 50 images at once.

Legal and technical criteria
� At least three megapixels in size for the originals.

� Model or property releases available where needed. Check out the threads and FAQs on the Getty Images Contributors group for more information.

� No currently active licenses to any other users or through any other agency or distributor (Can I sell my Creative Commons-licensed content?)

� You are the creator and copyright holder of the image.

� The photos must be set as �public�. Even though you are able to post "private" images to the pool, please make sure the photos you submit are set as "public", as only those can be selected by us.

� We will decide the licensing model (RF or RM) for the images based on our knowledge of the market and how each image fits into that -- just like with our other selections.

� We are still working through the sets you've emailed us as well, so please DON'T post any images to the pool that you've already submitted via the sets!"

Still it's not same as "real" Getty account. You cannot submit your images at will. You can only add to a group they are browsing for new images. If they like something they will add it it to their queue.

Just got email that they removed picture of car wreck from Bodie ghost town. My number one seller is fragment of sport car. I wonder when they going to notice it :-)

For me it has not happened yet. Maybe they start from older portfolios?

Overall 3rd best month ever so maybe bad days are over. I am glad that SS now only 50% of my total earnings. Top 5 would be the same if I would not have one large sale on CanStockPhoto. DT slowly growing to pass StockXpert. FT is steady but surprisingly followed very closly by IS which got BME. I do not know what can I do improve IS performance.

Oct Oct/Sep
SS 48.89% 107.69%
CanStockPhoto 12.92% 926.23%
DT 9.94% 204.13%
StockXpert 9.06% 142.45%
123RF 6.11% 66.02%
FT 4.98% 92.83%
IS 4.27% 185.12%
Veer 1.55%
BS 0.91% 400.00%
CS 0.91% 800.00%
YM 0.46%
121.40%


I would gladly forget about them but sometimes, not very often, they send me an email about some stupid Chinese propaganda or image sold.

Can we once and for all say that there is no proof for agencies claims that it is beneficial for contributors. Stick it somewhere on the top of this forum so there will be no questions asked again? Maybe there are lawyers here who come up with class action suit against agencies that are laying to contributors about it?

Interesting article about next Google's venture: http://gizmodo.com/5391966/google-and-the-deadly-power-of-data

Also mentioned Getty and Corbis as possible next targets.

I use sitecopy and task scheduler to multiple sites when I sleep :-)

I am using keywording page from Yuri so I think I am close to current trends for a subject :-) I am selecting images that are visually similar to mine and then uncheck keywords that are irrelevant from suggested top 50. I tend to have around 30

I bet you got more royalties from the Veer sales than the yay sales though.  I think its still too early to go Veer bashing.

Wrong, I got 3x more from YAY. If only they got volume...