If you want to do that, I think you can get shells that are external that you can slip internal drives into.  That way it would be easier to swap rather than having to open up your case.

So they just make money from teh frame.

Interesting.

Admart001 - let us know if you get any sales and on what type of photo.  it will be intersting to see what sells.

My "this is bull story" with SS is taht I refered someone.  They apparently used my link but for some reason he isn't up on my referal list.

I sent an email to SS to say, can you please add member number XXXXX.  He hadn't even been approved yet.

They say, it can only be done at time of submission, not at any other time.

I have written back to complain as it is clear that I referred him and that is the whole idea of the referal system.

(his cookies cant be working as the same happened at Fotolia but I am still waiting their reply - they approve photos a lot quicker than they answer emails )

I have more acceptances on dreamtime.� In general if it got rejected on dreamtime, then it will get rejected on shutterstock however there are a few exceptions as I think dreamtime rejected a few as having too many "nice scenry shots".

Not sure if that helps but I thihnk you have done the safe thing and only submit shots have haven't been rejected elsewhere.� Better to be same with the first lot then dump on them once you are approved.

If you submit to istockphoto they are picker in my opinion and give reason for rejections which whould let youi know if shutterstock will accept.

CJ

Very weird.  If it was schduled, they would have a page up saying that wouldn't they?

Shutter stock is.  Just go into istock though so it is back up.

I think this is worring for the individual microstocker but nothing we can do about it.

I think because of this type of activity we will see upload restrictions imposed and approval ratings linked to these.  this will stop bulk uploading, especially with no review of the indivdual image.  It might alos be the end of ftp upload to make it harder for bulk upload.  However, thinking about it, the microstock agency doesn't care, as long as they get good photos so maybe nothing will change except a tighter control on acceptance ratios.

The important thing is to ensure you do not sign up to an account where the compnay pays you a flat fee and then has the right to do with that image as they please - I think one was mentioned on here before.  ie. you sell your photo to them for say $5 and then they go and put it onto every microstock agency.

Hopefully I manage to get a payout from my sites before sales get swamped and it is no long worth my while.

Good luck.

I thing when ordering its hits, it looks at the first 7 words.  Ie so if you sort be relevance, having the word in the top 7 will help you out.

In that case, if you wanted to jump the cue and you know you would be submitting a batch in the next couple of days, submit one photo to hold your place and if it isn't reviewed before you submit the rest, you have successfully cue jumped!

Has anyone else notice that when you submit one lot of photos on (say) Monday, and a second lot on (say) Tuesday, they all get reviewed at the same time despite the fact they were submited 24 hours apart.

This seems weird as they aren't doing it in a ture first in first out basis.

I use Pixvue.  Right click in windows explorer and then enter IPTC data.  YOu can also select a few photos at a time so when you save one, it automatically opens the next (unfortunately it doesn't populate with the same info).

I also keep track of all titles and keywords in excel.

Have submitted the files now so the site seems to be working properly.  Just have to wait my 134 hours!!!! to see if they get approved.  At least they give an indication which I think is helpful.