Hi,

Your photo(s) has been approved:

http://www.albumo.com/Sunset/stock-photo-XXXXX.html


Thanks,
Albumo.com

I think I submitted this in 2008. Who remembers them?

ISP rejects my model releases created with EasyModelRelease on the iPad, which are perfectly fine and perfectly legal. Reason: "you MUST compile a real one bla bla yadda yadda".

Welcome to the digital age, the model release I have is as real as one compiled on paper, just more convenient, perfectly legal, perfectly acceptable, more ecological and so on so forth. Now, is there a good reason why they behave this way? Beside trying to make my life more difficult on purpose? This, coupled with the again completely unlawful killing of my best seller of a castle taken on public grounds, is pissing . out of me, who I usually am pretty calm and cuddly

Now, since I'm dealing with people who are unreasonable, I will print the model release, scan it, and send the scanned version. I have the legal release anyway just in case. I will not give up the ease and coolness of signing model releases on the iPad for a bunch of <insert your favorite word here>.

Thanks for listening to my rant.

http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_23022

Justice for your photos!

Part of the thumbnail's goals is to present the customer with an attractive and suggestive summary of how your file looks at original size. It's one of the agency's duties within a proper marketing of the image. We need to keep up with technological evolution and provide our customers with the best experience. The result is the new image details page, which goes live today.

In addition to the new thumbnails, now bigger and better (and lower in size!), we have done a complete redesign of the image page. The Extended and Royalty Free licenses can be purchased or compared on the same screen. The graphics also changed and prefigure our site's future look. We started with the floatable panel for lightboxes and will continue throughout the rest of the site to give you a better and more contemporary experience. The end result will ultimately be a complete redesign of the website. Considering its magnitude, this is a long process so we preferred to launch elements separately rather than wait for everything to be ready. By doing this we expect better sales, better customer experience and less technical glitches or disruptions.

The new page is available for all existing customers, while the new thumbnails are still being generated. Over 70% of the database already has the new thumbnail.

Dream on, dream until your dreams come true!

PS: the release is done gradually, some users will continue to see the previous page design, especially the ones with older credits.

Opinions? I don't love it, but the new thumbnail is pretty big.

This is pure speculation based on a couple of years of "observing" my images popularity in SS.
From observation the popularity function looks something like:

P = (a * D + b * V) / T

Where:
D = downloads
V = views
T = time
a, b = fixed coefficients

This function is consistent with the following observations:
- A new image getting some downloads from buyers scanning new images jumps up in Popularity (small T)
- If an image doesn't get downloads slowly crawls back in Popularity (increasing T)
- Subsequent downloads will result in an always smaller increase in Popularity (fixed D divided by increasing T)
- Old images' Popularity tend to be very stable (increasing T against a large T is mostly irrelevant)

I don't think any boost is given to the whole portfolio when uploading.
Any thoughts?

Thanks for your help.