Greeted with more evidence of the slowdown this morning

Today is a particularly sad day for all of us at JPG and 8020 Media.

We've spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we've reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents, but we just weren't able to raise the money needed to keep JPG alive in these extraordinary economic times. We sought out buyers, spoke with numerous potential investors, and pitched several last-ditch creative efforts, all without success. As a result, jpgmag.com will shut down on Monday, January 5, 2009.

The one thing we've been the most proud of: your amazing talent. We feel honored and humbled to have been able to share jpgmag.com with such a dynamic, warm, and wonderful community of nearly 200,000 photographers. The photography on the website and in the magazine was adored by many, leaving no doubt that this community created work of the highest caliber. The kindness, generosity, and support shared among members made it a community in the truest sense of the word, and one that we have loved being a part of for these past two years.

We wish we could have found a way to leave the site running for the benefit of the amazing folks who have made JPG what it is, and we have spent sleepless nights trying to figure something out, all to no avail. Some things you may want to do before the site closes:

- Download the PDFs of back issues, outtakes, and photo challenge selections. We'll always have the memories! www.jpgmag.com/downloads/archives.html
- Make note of your favorite photographers. You may want to flip through your favorites list and jot down names and URLs of some of the people you'd like to stay in touch with. You may even want to cut and paste your contacts page into a personal record.
- Catch up with your fellow members. Our roots are in this humble flickr forum and we recommend going back to find fellow members, discuss the situation, or participate in another great photo community. www.flickr.com/groups/jpgmag/
- Keep in touch. This has always been much more than just a job to each of us, and we'll miss you guys! We'll be checking the account [email protected] in our free time going forward. We can't promise to reply to every email (since we'll be busy tuning up our resumes) but we'd love to hear from you.
- Stay posted. Although the magazine is ceasing publication, we'll be updating you on what's happening with your subscription early next week.

We're soggy-eyed messes, but it is what it is. At that, JPGers, we bid you goodbye, and good luck in 2009 and the future.

Laura Brunow Miner
Editor in Chief

David   

My other job is a software developer and I am updating my skills, so I needed a project to play with, so I have been developing some image software, based on what gets posted in the Alamy forum about the time involved in having to edit the image data once uploaded, I have posted the results with little interest 

Another bit of software is SlideShowPro where you have to create the xml, and edit it if you want to sort images on your pc before uploading, so that is another Idea.

I am also looking at an app to just harvesting and organise my own image keywords, I cannot see why I need thousands of keywords, that is a couple of idea's anyone else got any?

here is the Alamy web part:

<a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zX2iMXkjv80" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zX2iMXkjv80</a>

Here is the backend, what do you think?

<a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=294fxCSOtsM" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=294fxCSOtsM</a>

David 

I read on several forums how easy Alamy is but it seems that there are a few that are having problems with QC and slowing down the 48 hour turn around, read more here:

http://www.alamy.com/Blog/contributor/archive/2008/07/23/3256.aspx

David

Trinity Mirror shares suffered a record one-day fall yesterday, as the advertising revenue has fallen by 12 -14%, the CEO said "All we can do is understand and react to what is going on, building our digital business and managing our cost base", Trinity Mirror publishes the Daily and Sunday Mirror and The People tabloids.

As thier advertisers are cutting costs as well, is this a trend in the USA as well, and is this bad news for all micro and macro contributors?


David

I have seen some threads about how good TinEye is for finding your images in use on the web, thats good, or is it?

On reflection for RM images that is great, however if you have RF images that have had a lot of downloads, it could be a tool for the web developer that does not want to pay.

They could go to the top macro / micro sites look at Images with a lot of downloads and then use TinEye to find the image in use online and then one click they have a free websize download, as they are RF the contributor has no way of knowing if they have paid, on the Microsites they can only get a comp, with TinEye they could get selected xs web size Images free.

So credits or subscription on the stock sites, or purchase TinEye when it's out of Beta?

I wonder if there will be a way to remove your images from the database, this is also true of google, if I google a stock photographers name I wil get lots of thier images, but TinEye allows me to find a specific Image.

Just another perspective before I say "Yippee TinEye is great for finding My Free Images"

David

I am new to stock tiny portfolio, but I was wondering how you find where your images were used, is it just luck, or the way you search online?

With Google there is another UK photographer and artist with the same name "David Cox", so this brings up loads of pages, search for Adeptris and it is mainly postings in forums, so any tips would help.

David