Worst that SS that offer you only about 25 very un imprecise and incomplete categories?
Worst that DT that offer you a long and infinite list that you have to scroll down any time, for any image, to find the right category (very uneasy if you are working with a little monitor or a tablet)?

I cannot say that I like a lot IS too, using DeepMeta, but I think that it is a not so bad compromise between long list and more structured categories.

Personally I find the categories of FT more complete.
And I like that when you have chosen a category it stays active till you don't change it, so in this way you can use it for different images fitting the same category.
But yes I can understand that not everybody likes this system, I think that it is a question of personal taste, and mainly a question of habit (automatism due to a long time use)

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IMHO categories should be more standardized and so be part of the metadata of the image; something that you can chose and set when you organize your images in your image librarian, before to upload.
But, yes, this is another story.

I like a lot the way Fotolia shows the images after you made a research: with the indication of the number of views and the number of downloads indicated on the base of the preview.
This can help to understand what kind of image sells and what kind not.

I like enough the indexing mode of Fotolia. Their categories are well structured and complete.

I dislike these sites, so almost all of them, that don't propose in the main menu bar all what needs a contributor, as file status, direct access to portfolio, etc.
From this point of view I like a lot Depositphoto that propose everything in a "main menu" in the main menu bar.

I dislike (hate) the upload system of 123RF. If you use ftp, to have your images uploaded, after to have loaded you images in your ftp software, you need 6 or 7 clicks to arrive to the "unfinished files" (just absurd)

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Are you paid by iS??
You've sold your soul to the devil

Just for fun:
Today iS has rejected one of my photos of cuscus in a little plate.
Reason: The following keywords used for this file do not appear to be fully relevant to the subject.
{[ Agriculture,  Dieting,  Dinner,  Dishware,  Meal,  milling,  Refreshment]}

( I asked them if "Are you joking? Or you just don't know what is cuscus???" )

Don't be angry, you just lose your time� and your nerves.

Absurd rejections happen to everybody, everyday.

So, take it easy, be happy!

ShadySue, as under "My Uploads" I could expect to find "My Uploads" (the files that I have uploaded), I could expect a voice "My Sales" (the files that I have sold) in the contributor menu to find my sales. If I can find my sales under my uploads it is a plus, but it is neither logic neither ergonomic.

This is an example of a  simple, functional and ergonomic menu (DepositPhoto)

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It is very strange but I don't find where I can see a list of my sold images.
I can see only which one have been sold.
But I don't find any information about when, how much time, for what price, these images have been sold.

Can somebody help me, I am becoming crazy will all this sites that don't know what means simplicity and ergonomic�

Thanks in advance

A while after that I have uploaded a lot of photos on 123RF, and after that they have been accepted they did not appear in my portfolio.
So I have contacted 123RF that after somedays solved the problem.

Yesterday again I had no images in my portfolio.
But not only, no uploaded, no pending, no accepted and no rejected.
All disappeared�

How to sell images if you have not a visible portfolio??

Is it always like this?

They promised to solve the problem in one week

I have asked them about RM/RF.
Here is what they answered me: "at Zoonar all RF photos will be offered as RM too, because our RM is without exclusivity. So the best would be, you choose RF. But be careful, you only can choose RF if you didn`t have this photos at another agency as RM. And if the photos shows no people without Model Release or products without Property Release. "

I am afraid that you need different software.
Corrections and Organize > lightroom, aperture, capture one, etc
Upload > some ftp client. Personally I use Transmit, but there are some other for free
Tracking I don't know, I am interested to know too.

I have been very surprised to day when I search for "my name" on google image.
All the photos that I have put on FAA appears in the first pages.
The photos are all 900 pixels large, and without any watermark.

If these images cannot be stollen to be used for printing that require high-resolution images (magazines, etc�), they can be esaly stollen to be used on the web where a 900 pixels large size fits to 90% of the needs (blogs, news etc.)

I wrote to FAA to tell them that I find absolutely not normal, and not correct, that these images can be available to Google in such size and without watermark.

They very gently answer me that:
"I am afraid, if you wish your images removed from Google then you must take them off the internet or add them to a passworded folder.

Google is a search engine and it is how people find our art and where most customers come from.  Google searches all sites and grabs the images, with the link, for people to find when looking for art in that subject.  Whatever site you add your images to for sale will work in the same way.

The images Google have are the same images you are showing on your profile pages.  No larger.

We cannot stop Google from visiting one artist out of the whole site.

Unfortunately no site can protect work from thieves who are adamant on having an image that is on their page."


Of course I know how Google grabs images around, but images from other sites that you can find on Google are not so large and are marked with a watermark.

I know that the watermark on an image is not a very big material protection (it is very easy to remove), but it can be a moral protection, as images without a watermark could (can) be considered as free image for the most of the internet users.

So, what to do?