Figure out what drives the search engines at each agent, it's not that hard.

It's great that you found out the well-kept secrets of the best match at iStock. Without any doubt, your large and successful portfolio on iStock was a great help in finding that grale.   
I think I'll turn my noise reduction engine on again here, and reduce this thread from 3 to 1.5 pages without loss of signal.

However, there's a big difference between buyers organizing their own lightboxes and you guys creating lightboxes/galleries for the buyers.

Correct, I think we're talking about a different type of lightboxes. The ones that buyers make for themselves are actually glorified bookmarks. I use them on my buyer's account in DT to pass to the designers (that use the same account). Lightboxes on DT are not even public (collections are, just like lightboxes on IS). When the (Indian) designers log in they check my lightbox and download out of it what matches best the page layout or dominant colors.

Contributor-made lightboxes or collections are totally different. They are very useful for a niche subject that would take too much time for a buyer to explore himself.

PRO:
1 - a great cure for global warming
2 - fantastic sunsets by the ashes in the atmosphere
3 - 95% of all microstock photographers are killed - more room for you, more room for me
4 - great photo-op with a good tele - try video too
5 - no plane hijackings since no flights any more - use abandoned planes as props
6 - yellowstone park pictures become priceless on stock

CONTRA:
1 - 95% of all microstock buyers are killed - less sales for you, less sales for me
2 - more sensor dust when changing lenses
3 - "magma chamber explosion" over-abundant category on stock
4 - model girls with headset difficult to find

Don't worry, be happy 

From careful observation and rememberance of several comments existing here there is one call FD who sound like having qualification you seek. At least from various comments made by the person. Unless it is all person named FD know is limited but my idea is this person sound with knowledge to design site so.

Come on TanSen, flattery will bring you nowhere. 

I had suggested something similar several years ago, but nobody seemed interested/willing to embark on such a project.

It came up 2 or 3 times. Perhaps the need wasn't there then.

(I know some will moan)

Moan. Where's your port by the way? This is not a referral collection site but a photography site. Never mind.

There are scammers, there are idiot scammers, and there are totally dumb scammers. The Chinese still have a lot to learn from the Nigerians.  

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I have many photography colleagues at Facebook, when I post something there it is they, not clients, who see this. And yes, I find it annoying those "I sold N images at DT today", therefore I don't use such tools - actually I don't want to promote anything from micros. 

Well, basically it's a social tool then. Nothing wrong with that.

Thanks for the info!

Actually I just restarted till I found out by the task manager I can just kill the hungry beast.  (kill process tree and not just process).

FD ... I don't have photoshop, only photoshop elements.  I'm REALLY interested in what you said about HDR.  Does it do or simulate doing any tone mapping?  I'm cheap and trying to avoid replacing my HDR software that got lost in the computer transfer.

1 - It doesn't matter, PE or PS. You will have to export the images in TIF from DPP anyways (write to disk), so whatever can read TIF is fine.

2 - It's not really HDR but you can exploit the fact that a RAW (depending on cam) has more dynamic range as a JPG. You can export TIF-d with all the shadows well structured (highlights are blown out, histogram clipped at the right) and a TIF-l (all highlights recovered, shadow a dark patch, histogram clipped at the left).
Since DPP doesn't have layers, you'll have to selectively erase in PS. I don't know if it would work in a HDR program but you could try.

3 - Losing registered software is never a problem. You can send them an email with your info and they will replace it.

FD:  would it be feasible to do all my CR2 editing in DPP and saving to JPG for upload?  IE: not use PSE at all?  Would that reduce my artifacts rejections?

1 - You could do that if your image is OK in DPP, but personally I love to tweak always in layers (hence PS), and then you're better off in TIF. JPG is a lossy format and it should always be the last step before uploading, with no way back. Don't reopen it or you get generation loss. TIF is lossless and keep that as your master copy. You can reopen/save it an endless number of times (for retweaking) without loss. (see my compendium under lossy and TIF).

2 - I don't see how skipping a step can reduce artifacts, but probably you mean starting from RAW. Well RAW has more info (dynamic range) than JPG, so if you stretch RAW out in under- or overexposed shots, you will get less artifacts than if you do the same in the reduced JPG. Of course, RAW isn't a miracle - but it's a way to save borderline shots. Most of the time you will get pixelation or artifacts when you stretch the luminance range of an under- or overexposed shot, or one with too little contrast (the histogram flocking together in the middle). If you stretch that in PS, you will "cook" new info that wasn't there and that's perceived as pixelation.
Not only by stretching luminance you'll get it, but also by too much saturation, USM mask, and especially oversharpening.

Thanks for the info and any other advice anyone may care to offer/discuss.  Maybe we can all get more use out of DPP.  

Well you have it there, just try it out and play with it. I was surprised BaldricksTrousers used it too. Of course some people trust Lightroom but last year I saw a group of professional assignment photographers work with it and it's not my cup of tea for stock.

PS:  FD, did you check with Adobe for a CR2 plugin?  I found one for my PSE8 and it was a fairly simple install.

Any link?

Will do. Makes sense and I hope I'll also get lots of followers that I can spam my stuff to  

Don't do that. I just unfollowed hlenerer because he uses that idiot Shutterstock Twitter plugin. Hi, I just sold 4 images today on SS, Hi, I just got 5 new images approved on SS... grrrrrrr. Every one-two weeks a tweet about something important is enough. No need to promote your stuff with other contributors since they aren't your market.

@FD... this is way off subject but that leak is interesting.  Is it common?  I seem to be having a Memory Leak problem but haven't been able to isolate it.

Yes it's common. FF is known for that and I came accross joke sites on the net about it. It can go till 1Gbyte in RAM, depending on the number of tabs you have open and the scripts on there. On a PC with just 2GByte ram (like mine), it can slow things terribly down. Beware: it's not enough to close FF in the normal way since it will stay resident. You'll have to invoke the task manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL) and kill the FF process tree manually.

I don't get why anybody should close a forum for spambots (if that's the real reason, of course). There are some good captchas around and if forum access would be limited to contributors with at least 5 images or buyers with at least 1 purchase, there would be no spambots at all. Surrendering to an independent forum where YAY has no control over (and where YAYosceptics can post too) might not be a very good business decision.