All sites made a good start, and Istock is doing worse than ever.   Average 40% below May 2010.

The Easter holidays are coming - 5 days off!
We're planning a shoot with 5 models for Christmas images, so I'm decorating the Christmas tree on Good Friday 
So I'll be the only one who can say Merry Christmas and Happy Easter on the same weekend!

A year ago, I sold the rights of 1 image on DST.  I had not changed the default price, so it was sold at 350 dollars.  It was not a popular image, so 350$ was a good deal, and I managed to get it off the other sites very quickly.
However, I was not asked by DST to sell the rights, I was told that the rights were sold, so I realised that - if this had happened to one of my bestsellers, I would NOT have been very pleased at all.
After that day, I changed all my sell-the-rights prices into 2000 dollars.

Now my question is :   if a person buys the exclusive use for 1 year, what will the price be?   A percentage of my 2000$ ?  Or a price fixed by Dreamstime? 
I think I prefer to switch off that choice for all my images now.  Can this be done in one move?  Anyone now how?

I just joined too and spent my first 100$.  I wonder why India is not included on the map.  One of the poorest and largest countries, and not one loan? 

Quote from: gostwyck on March 12, 2011, 20:12

^^^ There's a lot of PS expertise available from places like India at relatively cheap prices. Just Google it. The difficult bit might be finding one who is used to working to microstock quality standards.

Thanks but really not interested in forging a relationship with someone in India.

You don't need to work together with them, just use their time and services for the isolation work.
I tested this company :  http://www.clippingprovider.com/CP_II_EU/Welcome.html
You can send them 4 to 5 test files for free.   Send them a few of your best shots, and choose difficult isolation cases, like the wolf.
Later on, you can sell (1) the wolf on white and (2) the wolf-against-the-moon like already suggested.
They even add the clipping path.

I remember that Isyndica used to have thumbnails in the left column, followed by empty buttons for each channel.  These buttons turned yellow when they were ticked (assigned), and green when the image was successfully submitted to a channel. 
If the user wanted to submit an image, he/she just ticked all the necessary buttons, followed by a big "submit" button. (as far as I remember, you could also "submit all" images of a batch to all channels, or submit all images of a batch to one particular channel).

Right now, I have a batch of 20, assigned to all channels.  My upload limit of istock was on 18, so 2 images were not submitted  (I had to wait 17 hours before Istock allowed me to submit again). 
I have the impression Lightburner does not do a second trial, so I have to check and find out at Istock which 2 images are missing (I cannot see this in Lightburner) and re-assign them.

I realise this would mean a rather big lay-out change, but if we could see which image went to which channel, that would be great! 

Hi, has any one ever tried deleting a channel? 
I tried deleting Bigstock, because I have two channels for this site, and I get a pop-up refusal telling me "that I'm not the owner of this channel".
 
If I'm not the owner of my own channels, who is ?
And if I cannot delete my channels, why is there a "delete" button?

I am at www.clikpic.com.  They offer the possibility for selling your photos, but so far, I did not choose that formula, so I cannot say if it works well or not.  I just like them because it is very easy to add images.

I would also suggest automatically creating a separate folder for each FTP session (or even better allowing us to submit folders) This would simplify submitting all pictures in a folder without assigning each picture. It's difficult to find out which pictures were already submitted.

Absolutely.  This is the one thing I miss most : keeping track of what has been submitted (and to which channel), which was really easy at Isyndica.  Now I just delete everything that's been submitted before uploading more.

Not a bad idea.  Not just say "these are part of a set of 26" but also add "advised by reviewer to submit all 26 apart instead of collages".

You were told to JOIN them???  by Istockphoto?
now that's the limit! 
May-be I should've started by sending the 26 apart, and hope for a rejection "please join them"   

Submitting 26 images could mean more money too, but a few months ago, I submitted the 12 zodiac signs as 12 separate images with a note to the reviewer "part of a set of 12" ... and gues what :  9 approved, 3 rejected (for 3 different reasons).
I finally managed to get them all through, but only with a LOT of effort/resubmissions.

They only stole 2 of mine, for 7,5 dollars in total.  No bestsellers at all, just two animal shots.  I'm glad they did not go for anyone's bestsellers : if the purpose was to start selling them, all victims would have lost lots of future sales ...