MicrostockGroup

I submitted a contact to 123. Even if they are partners, "By: - Not specified -" on my photos troubles me. It was one of reasons for closing my CanStockPhoto account, 123 may become next.

Looks like these days sites are doing their best to push contributors to exclusivity with somebody else

130

Photoshop Discussion / Re: Elements 8.0 or CS4?

« on: February 13, 2010, 19:40 »

You can use adjustment layers as layer masks (at least in PSE6) - just create a layer and join it to upper one. Do not do any adjustments, use its mask only

131

Dreamstime.com / Re: Upload limits

« on: February 13, 2010, 19:09 »

Now it is -5!

Apparently they show a difference between limit and amount of uploaded files

132

Dreamstime.com / Upload limits

« on: February 13, 2010, 18:40 »

Do they want me to start deleting images???

"You can submit up to -2 images/day."

133

General Stock Discussion / Re: Do you Buzz?

« on: February 11, 2010, 23:24 »

Quote from: dbvirago on February 11, 2010, 20:39

Yeah, got tired of looking at it, so I said ok. Now it's a menu item under my inbox that I can ignore.

What is even better - you can hide it in your settings

134

DepositPhotos / Re: DepositPhotos affiliate program

« on: February 10, 2010, 12:56 »

Quote from: leaf on February 10, 2010, 11:14

Yeah, they are really cruising on approvals - it seems to be only taking a few hours for them to go through review. No sales for me either yet, but I just finished uploading my 500 images for $100 and it took me 4 hours - about 3/4 with releases. It isn't the fastest system, but OK.

My referral link

The cruising has a side effect of weird rejects - I received several "bad isolation" ones for photos that are not isolated at all. Not that I care much, but...

135

DepositPhotos / Re: DepositPhotos affiliate program

« on: February 10, 2010, 11:30 »

Sorry for huge post, but it may be useful

Autohotkey script to submit. Press submit on photo, then -

Win-a for Animals
Win-b for Business
Win-f for Fauna & Flora
Win-z for Food and drinks
Win-h for Holidays & Events
Win-i for Illustrations
Win-m for Medicine
Win-n for Nature
Win-o for Objects
Win-p for People

Feel free to modify or extend. RF (for you

for those who use my link

!!!

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136

DepositPhotos / Re: DepositPhotos affiliate program

« on: February 10, 2010, 10:49 »

The healthiest thread on the forum! Does it really work

Let do scientific experiment: I am going to do a research of clicks on

This Link

!

137

DepositPhotos / Re: Deposit Photos Upload

« on: February 07, 2010, 15:51 »

Interesting and impressive for a new site - coming out of blue to #13 by traffic (among sites I track)
http://statsmicro.com/graphs

138

General Stock Discussion / Re: So, is there are a consensus now ?

« on: February 07, 2010, 15:13 »

Quote from: FD-amateur on February 07, 2010, 13:05

Don't forget flowers and our pet! How about our pet ruining a flower bouquet in a sunset?

Nope, this one deserves RM!

139

Featurepics.com / Re: Upload Limits?

« on: February 07, 2010, 14:21 »

Seems pretty logical for them to introduce limits (I do not know how logical for us to keep uploading) - my last batch is waiting for review already 2 months

140

Microstock Services / Re: CSPA

« on: February 07, 2010, 14:18 »

Quote from: Randy McKown on February 07, 2010, 00:06

It took forever then crashed out and didn't install the first time .. second time installed perfect .. still took way too long for an app of this size .. loaded up with errors but still loaded .. clicked a few buttons and got a few more errors ... I'm not entering my login passwords into this application.

Thanks a lot! I already had bad experience with such apps, you saved me from one more!

141

Microstock Services / CSPA

« on: February 06, 2010, 20:42 »

Just stumbled on a link
CSPA - Contributors Stock Photo Software http://www.cspa.tuulimaa.com

Screenshots look interesting, but I am cautous installing something unknown.

Did/does anybody use it? Does it worth time for installation (or even $29)?

Thanks!

Just to make sure - I have no relation to this program, and it does not offer discounts for posting

(O-ops, sorry for posting it in Services)

142

StockXpert.com / Re: Is it worth it to keep images at StockXpert for Thinkstock royalties?

« on: February 05, 2010, 18:48 »

Quote from: Danicek on February 05, 2010, 02:17

Quote from: melastmohican on February 05, 2010, 01:53
Aren't there any other sites that have 25 cents commission for subs? I do not believe that SS will feel any pressure to lower prices just because a new site is popping up.

Yes, there is CanStockPhoto. I believe the CanStockPhoto standard subscription pays 0.25. Fotosearch subscription through CanStockPhoto is 0.3.

143

DepositPhotos / Re: DepositPhotos affiliate program

« on: February 04, 2010, 10:50 »

Tyler, wouldn't it be better if MSG users had mechanism to include referral links as signature (other than manually add them)?
I think this would reduce amount of pimping posts that, honestly, are becoming annoying

144

Adobe Stock / Re: FOTOLIA - NOW PAYING LESS THAN 16% !!!!!!

« on: February 03, 2010, 10:31 »

I am wondering, how much did Getty pay FT for this and previous moves

?

145

General Stock Discussion / Re: Last day of the month

« on: January 31, 2010, 23:36 »

Quote from: UncleGene on January 31, 2010, 12:11

WM in 1.5 years with IS as main contributor to drop

Looks like somebody in IS tracked this post and decided to spent some bucks at the very last moment to make my claim invalid

146

General Stock Discussion / Re: Last day of the month

« on: January 31, 2010, 12:11 »

WM in 1.5 years

with IS as main contributor to drop

147

Software - General / Re: Lightroom 3 question

« on: January 30, 2010, 19:26 »

This is double-interesting. The data is not gone, but it became invisible for Nikon software. And more, several of exported files Nikon (View, Capture) can view, but cannot modify any metadata.

148

Software - General / Lightroom 3 question

« on: January 30, 2010, 12:55 »

I decided to try LR3 beta. Overall impression - very good, but I am stuck with one problem. It successfully copied manually added IPTC data, but all the camera info is lost.

Question: is it that I am doing something wrong, or it is LR3 bug, or common LR problem?

And question unrelated to LR: will I have any problems with empty-info (camera, date, etc.) photo uploads to any sites?

149

Adobe Stock / Re: FOTOLIA's partners

« on: January 29, 2010, 20:42 »

Quote from: stockastic on January 29, 2010, 18:58

How do you locate you images on tuweimei.com without knowing Chinese?

I was able to locate my portfolio there by just searching images (search box and button on top)

150

Featurepics.com / Re: Anyone selling at Featurepics?

« on: January 20, 2010, 19:22 »

Quote from: Elena on January 20, 2010, 16:39

I am spending 30% of my time to develop and maintain the site, 40% - to work with old portfolios, 30% - to review.

Sorry, I did not realize that you are working alone on the site