I have been using Filezilla to FTP to DT,StockXpert,FT,BigStock but I can't seem to get it to work for Shutterstock just tried their active uploaded which crashed somewhere in the middle of a 67 meg upload - ****!.

so I type in

ftp.shutterstock.com

my user name or e-mail address it seems a bit vague

password

Or should I download coffee cup

Just saw a post on another forum that shutterstock was "down" anyone else having trouble?

Ok my three month wait is over and I resubmitted and the man from Shutterstock said yes.

So I will do a bit to narrow the gap a bit further.

(10/10 though I should bloody hope so as they were my top ten sellers on iStock)

I have heard that Shutterstock aren't as fussy as Istock in terns acceptance rate but don't want to piss them off by FTPing lots of photos that consider not worthy. So if they were accepted by FT or DT they should be worth uploading??

 

Yes I have switched to digital but I have about 10 years of travel prints mostly of the USA unfortunately with fairly cheap compact cameras.

I have managed to get a few online (mostly at 123rf) but I was trying to get a few more on StockXpert.

Has anyone bothered (had any success) scanning old prints of unusual locations if so what rez 2mp, 3mp 4mp?

I have a feeling it depends on the print, if its  nice and bright will give you a 4 mp but if there is a lot of fine detail or if its fairly dark the grain or lack of detail in the print will be apparent.

I know iStock tell you not to even bother scanning a 6 x 4 inch (10 x 15 cm) print

One of the lucky ones
http://www.dreamstime.com/59thstreetbridge-image591167

Still waiting with baited breath for Shutterstock to review my second review batch of photos and Alamy to get back to me regarding my CD.

Steve
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I suppose any newbies would be better waiting for some feedback from the other groups before uploading to IS if they only have a 30 photo/week limit (like I do) if they have a lot of photos to submit.

I read somewhere about a guy who had set up his own nanostock agency and once he had uploaded his photos to his server it would FTP them to the sites that were FTP friendly. Need to find that newsgroup e-mail.

Do any of these programs allow you to type in a whole string of keywords or are they all like the exifer and photoshop you type in a keyword and click on "add" (just I am very right handed typing and clicking with my right hand so having to switch from the keyboard to the mouse slows down my stream of consciousness).

That why I persisted in using keywords in EXIF format for so long though only 3 sites pick them up DT, PSM and Gimme

I hope keyword order/ keyword weighting is not important at Dreamstime as I have noticed their latest idea add 10 keywords to an uploaded file and earn 2c so basically the only way to make this worth while is to copy and paste the same 10 vague to similar files, someone hit my images of Edinburgh castle
http://www.dreamstime.com/edinburghcastleatdusk-image556794

Its not hard to spot the additions, some people must have too much time on their hands or are desperately close to that $100 payout to bother. the only problem this will probably cause some rather random similar images to aopear with the new tenous keywords.


 

Renegade reviewer that explains a lot though thanks to that person I slipped below the magic 50% mark so now I can only have 30 photos in the pending queue, which can be rather annoying.

Are we allowed to resubmit images?

Sales aren't great but at least its only $30 before you can cash out.

I sometimes wonder if they do it deliberately to get us to read the blog.

They always seem to have their unscheduled maintenance in the European afternoon (USA morning) should be back in a couple of hours.

Glad i got all my uploads done this morning.

To answer your question, StockXpert is Hungary/US based, however our evaluators are based all over the world, from Poland to Malaysia. So it is possible that it appeared to the evaluators that you uploaded more than 50 a day.

If you leave your photos in the briefcase, they shouldn't be in the pending for evaluation queue.

For anyone who has had e-mails reminded them about the 50/day limit, it also explains their rapid review times.

If anyone has a 8mp camera you would be stupid not to be submitting here as you can earn $2, a pity there is no photographer referral system at present.

I use Exifer for keywording in IPTC details

I finally found if you add the keywords individually like you are supposed to

iStock's imagemanager, 123,DT,PSM,Can,BigStock,StockXpert,FT, all are happy.

Though I found that if you spot a mistake and have to correct something with photoshop and resave the details are lost.

Just collected these numbers for something else

Thursday 27th April

iStock            758,109
Shutterstock  720,384
Fotolia           603,231
Dreamtime     350,000+
Big Stock       332,000
Can Stock      191,512

Not too impressed with Big Stock's "dirty tricks" they allow a huge backlog to build up then to clear it they just reject image after image. My latest batch of over 100 photos which was had a 50-70% acceptance rate with other agencies was less than 30% with Big Stock so then that dragged me down to below 50% so I could only have 30 photos pending.

Steve
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The only downside of iStock uploade ris not being able to see thumbnails, so you need to know where your "good" files are.

My favourite method these days is to start FTPing a few files then to drag and drop new files into the queue when they are ready for uploading.

Are DT, FT, BigStock  and StockXpert the only ones with the FTP option?

For any newbies I have collected a few bits of data regarding the different agencies, regarding mimumum size, earning etc.

If you don't have time to read all the text the tables especially the last one should answer a lot of questions.

Steve
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