Very cool, thanks for the information! I hope I find the time for testing soon.

Almost all of them. After getting out of iStock exclusivity, I uploaded to just about every agency out there. Most of them didn't ever reach payout. I got a bit more selective 2 years ago, then life got in the way and I didn't upload much. Getting back into photography now and deleted most of my accounts.

I'll be keeping
- Shutterstock (best micro earner)
- istock (some legacy files there that still make money, no new uploads)
- Adobe Stock (interesting contra point, sells files thatd don't sell elsewhere)
- Alamy (Very promising for local and tourism content, which is something I love to shoot)
- Pond5 (videos only)

Thanks for your answer, ShadySue! I found out shortly after posting. Sorry, I must have edited my post while you wrote yours.

That's really cool!

2 questions:
- Will you continue to develob stocksubmitter, or will it be replaced by the new web based service?
- will there be a way to import configuration from stocksubmitter save files?

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Just found out that it doesn't work with stocksubmitter anyway. Time to forget IS.

Quote from: Niakris on April 18, 2017, 21:03

Quote from: sturmwarnung on April 18, 2017, 18:52
When I start the app, Windows asks me if I want to allow changes by SetupStrongCipher. Is this the official update now or is there something fishy? (Haven't used it in a while)

Yes it is part of the program required to make sure .NET framework uses modern HTTPS ciphers.

Thank you!

When I start the app, Windows asks me if I want to allow changes by SetupStrongCipher. Is this the official update now or is there something fishy? (Haven't used it in a while)

Quote from: ArenaCreative on May 01, 2015, 15:13
When you are so sick of keywording that you just keep editing and piling up images into a folder on your hard drive instead...  like doing all of your laundry, but never folding it or putting it away.

Guilty as charged

Quote from: lewis larkin on May 01, 2015, 16:54
....  when you make less money this month than last ... 

...there's always next month...

Quote from: etudiante_rapide on May 01, 2015, 21:38
when your family calls to congratulate you because they saw your photos on
the subway, xxx website, book cover,etc...

Still waiting for that moment! 

...one more thing: When you get more excited about a 30 cent download on a new site than about the real-life paycheck that brings considerably more money... 

...you find a huge hairy spider in your bathroom and your first thought is: "Hm, if I move it to the white part of the wall, I will get a better shot!"

What are your "Maybe I'm a bit strange"-Moments?

(I hope a little humor is welcome in here)

I tried with Twenty20 and Instaprints, no sales on either. Twenty20 is fun though, with the competitions and stuff. That is if you like to waste your time sometimes, like I do.

I did update, but... today I earned 5900 Dollars. Maybe instead of istock, the app is monitoring my wildest dreams? 

Edit: Balance was corrected overnight, but it's still in the stats.

Hi. Stockagent shows a sudden income of 4300 and then some Dollars for iStock today, which - needless to say - I did not earn. Actually, today I did not sell a single file.

The amount does not correlate to any other sum i can think of, like total earnings etc.

What happened there?

I bought the premium version, found some issues:

- Login Problem with 123rf - I checked and rechecked Login and Password, still get a "failed" when trying to add the agency. (I also tried the email instead of the username because of the bigstock issue below - no luck)

- You ask for email for the Bigstock, but it works only with the username.

- Tried to add 500px from the "optional" agencies, but I get the message "error - you need to be logged in to google play" - which I am, or my play store would not work (I think). What can I do?

Finally, a little thing for presentation: There is a huge whitespace between the graph and the explanation - makes it hard to see the graph and the agencies at the same time in meaningful resolution. (I attached a screenshot - using a Galaxy Note 2, if that makes any difference)

Oh, I didn't know that dp is an ftp upload. Thanks!

Are there currently any problems with depositphotos? Program says the files have been uploaded, but I can't see them on the site, neither in pending nor in unfinished.

I also use Stock submitter. Works great (except at the moment with 123rf), and I wish I had discovered it earlier, I could have so many more images online if I had not wasted so much time with individual site uploading.

Quote from: Niakris on July 24, 2013, 22:34
Uploading is free.
The only thing you need to pay for is submitting images. And only if you submit more than 33 per stock per month.

123rf submit is not working properly atm, please wait for the fix and disable submit checkbox for it until it is fixed.

OK, thank you.

Quote from: Ron on July 24, 2013, 18:49
?

You need to pay to upload to 123 now?

No, you need to pay to upload more than 30 photos / month through microstockSubmitter. Not sure how this is counted anyway... maybe someone can explain?

When I upload an image to 123rf, the image is submitted, and then the submitting is repeated in every cycle. At least the "images submitted" count is going up. Checked the 123rf account, images are in the waiting section only once, so I am not sure what is going on technically.

Important thing is, this count seems to be relevant for the upload limits. I maxed out my free count, and bought the 10$ package. The count sits at 69 images for 123rf, but shows the correct amount (since upgrading) of 2 for my other sites.

Any idea what could be wrong?

Quote from: ClaridgeJ on November 27, 2012, 15:54
Are they treated better elsewhere?  I dont think so. Just that we put up with it simply because they dont enforce exclusivity.

After the long, looong silences from iStock support, I've been impressed with the communication on all sites I tried so far. May be the newbie bonus, though.

I terminated my exclusivity at the beginning of 2012, but did not start uploading to other agencies until october (life and other work got in the way). Not a good move financially (I hope that will change with time), but it was necessary for my peace of mind. Frankly, the way contributors are treated there nowadays makes me me wonder why I (or anyone) still bother to upload there.

Quote from: leaf on November 01, 2012, 10:42

Did you try stockSubmitter?  I use that and am a big fan

Yeah sorry, I got that mixed up in my post.

Stocksubmitter is the program asking for .NET 3.5

Prostockmaster is classified as malware by my antivirus program, so I didn't install it.

I am actually trying to find a program for that now, but no luck so far.

Prostockmaster dows not start on my machine, with some error message saying .NET 3.5 is not up to date. I'm running NET 4.0, not going to downgrade for one program. (Not sure if it could be done anyway)

Lightburner looked promising, however, after uploading and finishing the files and mapping them to the intended outlets, nothing happened for 2 days. No distribution, no error messages, just waiting. I deleted my account then.

Stockphotoexpress does not list some of the agencies I want to submit to, so I did not test it.

Octopus looked good, too, but when I try to get a batch ready, after all information is added, I still get a red triangle with an error message - something to do with the keywords. Probably something I am doing wrong, but I couldn't figure it out from the docs, and a message to support was not answered.

So, no luck in optimizing my workflow. I still hope there will be a working solution some day.

I don't see a reason to deactivate anything now, I will be withdrawing my images in December.

Oh, first post on here. Hi everyone!