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« on: May 31, 2011, 08:51 »
Awesome tool Tyler, better than Yuris imho  Should lead to higher quality keywords too, since it's not pre-selecting a load of unrelated rubbish keywords. That's something I've been trying to create for a couple of years, and I think you've mastered it. Very nicely done
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« on: May 16, 2011, 20:49 »
Just found this thread via google. Thanks for the kind words Bob
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« on: May 10, 2011, 07:35 »
Hey Bobby!
I have problem with 123RF data, can't reach data, I put username and pass in every box where is possible to log in...
This is already well covered on several other threads in this forum: It works for some, not for everyone and there's nothing I can do about it. A new (old) bug has returned. When more then 1,000$ on IS has been accumulated, the right panel stops updating with sales (no sound either), the top bar does. Pictures accepted keep updating OK.
Thanks, I'll fix this in next update. I have crossed a few time the 1k and it works for me Bob!!!
I 'think' it has something to do with regionalisation settings on the iStock website, "1100.00" or "1,100.00" should parse correctly, but "1,100,00" will not. This is as much a limitation of javascript in the browser as it just uses native parsing, but either way should be trivial to catch the edge-case and format it correctly
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« on: March 25, 2011, 14:05 »
Confirmed. If I check off Fotolia Workflow there is no Javascript error.
Error on Fotolia editing page:
Warning: Non-standard document.width was used. Use standard document.body.clientWidth instead.
Source File: http://www.fotolia.com/Member/IndexContent/30977530
Line: 0
Thanks, though that is a warning rather than an error, and wouldn't cause any issue in the page (it just means an old variable is now depracated (but still functional), and is caused by something in fotolia's code. What issue are you getting with the toolbar when the fotolia submitassist is enabled? Thanks Bob
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« on: March 23, 2011, 18:26 »
OT: Why is the minimum polling time set to 3 minutes ?
Just to reduce non-essential traffic to agency sites. If you need to poll more often than that you are earning enough money to pay someone to tweak the code for you  hehe
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« on: March 23, 2011, 14:36 »
There is no good fix for 123rf... for some people it works, for others it doesn't. It seems to work best for those who sell few images there. The reason for this is 123rf's really poor (or non-existent) caching algorithm and slow database. I've left it in only this long because it works for 'enough' people, but if they don't fix their site soon it will be removed (though I will add a custom poller).
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« on: March 23, 2011, 13:39 »
How can I get to Options. I wish I could disable actions for Fotolia cause I got Javascript errors.
Firstly you need to turn the firefox status bar back on: This can be done by right-clicking the firefox tools menu (hold the Alt key and it should appear at the top), then check the 'Add-on Bar' entry to turn the status bar back on. (This contains the P icon and will show up at the bottom).
Then right-click the P icon
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« on: March 20, 2011, 16:28 »
Heya All I'm wondering if anyone is interested in keywording images for picWorkflow? There are about 10 keyworders already (5-6 regularly active and have received payouts). Demand for the keywording service is higher than I expected (better even than I'd hoped), so before I look at using platforms like mturk (which has the risk of lower quality keywords), I'm wondering if anyone here (experienced in keywording their own or other's images) is interested in becoming a picWorkflow keyworder? Payment is 90% of the cost to the keyword-purchaser, and is usually around 30-50c per image (paid per keyword at a flexible rate). I've been amazed at how fast it adds up too, I didn't expect to be making payouts so often so early on and really pleased that it's going well so far If you're interested, take a look at: https://www.picworkflow.com/keywording/Then drop me an email: [email protected] with links to your portfolio so I can take a look at your keywording prowess Cheers Bob
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« on: March 08, 2011, 16:54 »
Heya Simone, thanks Aye, sorry about 123rf (I'm guessing you read the other thread about it). I am considering dropping them entirely from the next version, though until it gets there, I'll just leave it (it works for people with few sales).
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« on: March 07, 2011, 10:16 »
Heya It works for firefox 4, though the mozilla people have changed the way a lot of their interface works so it's a little trickier after the first install. Firstly you need to turn the firefox status bar back on: This can be done by right-clicking the firefox tools menu (hold the Alt key and it should appear at the top), then check the 'Add-on Bar' entry to turn the status bar back on. (This contains the P icon and will show up at the bottom). In this same menu, you will also find the 'picNiche toolbar' entry (and the 'picNiche Image Search toolbar' entry if you have that installed too). Some people report that this is not disabled by default, others report that it is, so if it's off, check it on, etc etc. A lot of developers are really annoyed at the mozilla team for turning off a lot of stuff which people take for granted as being on, though they are not going to fix it, so I will be releasing an update in the coming weeks which will attempt to curb much of this confusion. Sorry for the confusion and inconvenience with this stuff, but sadly it's out of my hands (and something many many other people are having to do as they find their addons seem to 'vanish' in fx4). I will be redesigning the way it works to 'fit' better with the new firefox4 UI and may also release a version for Chrome browser at around the same time. Sadly it will involve rewriting pretty-much the entire codebase so I probably won't have it done for the official fx4 release (just gone into final-beta). Does that help? Thanks Bob
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« on: March 01, 2011, 10:43 »
I get quite a lot of questions via email just like yours from people who discover picNiche (as part of it uses the views stat), and I usually send more-or-less the same response I gave in my previous post on your thread, but you inspired me to write up the collection of tips I usually end up giving new photographers across the various questions/comments I get emailed. Here is my TOP 10 Tips for New Microstock Photographers
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« on: March 01, 2011, 08:03 »
I did this once on a network drive in work (had a background window focussed instead of the foreground one I thought I was deleting from. 200gb gone in an instant.) Very very luckily I had only recently erased the previous day's 3rd backup from my local system so a very quick undelete and restore to network pretty much saved my job PS: GetDataBack (NTFS version most likely) is by far the best 'normal person' data recovery software I've ever used. I've had this software get data back from some crazy situations... it is awesome (try the demo): http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm
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« on: March 01, 2011, 07:58 »
Whilst views can be a good indicator of search volume when considering a reasonably large collection of images (particularly when looking cross-topic/cross-portfolio), for a portfolio of less than (at least) 1000 images, I would ignore it completely.
Spend your time on better things like better quality images, more relevant and targeted metadata and a larger portfolio.
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« on: February 09, 2011, 18:45 »
I use picWorkflow keywording interface of course I used Lightroom originally.
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« on: February 09, 2011, 18:43 »
I'm adding a free portfolio-site feature to picWorkflow in a few days which lets you create a fully searchable portal to all of your microstock portfolios. It sounds pretty much like what you're after.
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« on: February 08, 2011, 06:21 »
As I alluded earlier in this thread, picWorkflow now offers free microstock distribution for images when you purchase keywords through the keywording service: http://blog.picniche.com/featured/free-microstock-distribution-with-picworkflow/I have also added an new account policy where your account will be credited with 40 free credits each month (if you spent any the previous month).
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« on: February 01, 2011, 13:40 »
Good to hear, thanks for letting me know
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« on: January 31, 2011, 19:52 »
It's definitely uploaded and received (log shows correct raw data transferred), but Shutterstock are not currently importing files from their FTP server to user accounts. (Most likely some problem or maintenance on their end).
To double check I've tested several other upload methods and this is the same for files uploaded via FTP for regular software, browser and picWorkflow. Doesn't happen often but the files should appear whenever they fix whatever is broken (I've seen a similar issue for upto a couple of hours at their end, but usually not much more than that).
Edit: My test files finally appeared in Shutterstock account around 7am (GMT), meaning about 7 hours delay or downtime on the ss server.
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« on: January 31, 2011, 06:07 »
I notice also the impossibility to reduce pictures size for shutterstock and other subscription site, it's easy to add and very useful, without that, I can't use picworlfow.
Thanks.
I have updated picWorkflow to let you specify for a destination the resolution (in steps of 1 megapixel) each image will be uploaded at. If any image uploaded is larger than the size you specify it will be downsized at 100% jpeg quality before uploading. It will size as close to the megapixel as it can whilst still staying slightly above that number (so you can upload safely at an agency minimum), and will keep the frame divisible by a 'safe' number of pixels to avoid recompression artifacts (usually a size divisible by 4, but sometimes the height will cause a size divisible by 6/8). It has also been requested to have an option to keep original filenames on export, this has been added too. You can find both these settings on the credential management page under the 'Edit' panel for each configured destination.  Does that help Smithore?
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« on: January 30, 2011, 14:59 »
Bob, I don't have time actually to contact Alamy, if you already tried two times without success, it's not me who gonna change something.
As you are the developer of picworkflow, it's up to you...
Much of the 'behaviour' of agencies is determined by their contributors, they are resistant to third-party companies... simply put, if you want your agencies to provide better services, demand it of them. I can only work within the boundaries they set :/
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« on: January 28, 2011, 15:53 »
try searching for terms like "freeware image metadata tool", "open source metadata sync", "exif sync tool", etc etc. There are others more familiar with that process than me. I tend to code my own apps or scripts for stuff like that, but only occasionally make them stable and 'pretty' enough for general release (if you tried the picNiche Image Deck you'll see what I mean ). I hope to add 'sync-back' support for purchased keywords to the picWorkflow Lightroom export plugin, but at the moment the Lightroom api just doesn't quite support it.
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« on: January 28, 2011, 13:33 »
Thanks, but it's too complicated to use and take long time, also visibility is impossible: title, description and keywords are mixed on the same line and i hate csv.
Export .tsv instead of .csv and the tab separator makes sure excel/openoffice displays them correctly. (ie. it won't split the keywords into individual columns) Also, there's the other problems of new keywords appearing, some files have now 54 keywords instead of 40! that's a real mess!
Thanks, caught a bug there, some files were outputting removed keywords too. I've updated the database query to now export the correct keywords for all files. Oups, sorry Bob, there's no Alamy distribution on picworkflow?
Not yet, I've contacted them twice but still have heard nothing back. If you'd like alamy added, please contact them and request that they allow picWorkflow access on your behalf and maybe they'll get a move on and get back to me
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« on: January 28, 2011, 12:41 »
The most practical export settings for what you want to do is probably: tsv (tab separated). Empty filter field. Then export string of: [orig_filename],[title],[description],[keywords] [filename] gives the picworkflow token (most important if for example uploading a meta text-file after footage export to shutterstock/canstock) whereas [orig_filename] gives the name of the source file when you uploaded it to pw. Bob Edit: since the addition of the keywording service, this is the most likely required export format for which there is no preset (there are SS and CanStockPhoto presets), so I have set it as the default selection for all 'new' metadata exports.
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« on: January 28, 2011, 12:31 »
I don't know how to copy and paste the keywords from your site to my files on the computer: there's no possibility of copy/paste and keywords are not separated by comma!
They can be copy-pasted for a single file if clicking the [num] link on the metadata view (will show a dialog in the center of the screen, where keywords are shown (ie. not the edit view)). The better option though is to use the 'Export Metadata' tool (bottom middle on process page) to generate a spreadsheet (csv or tsv) in your desired format for all selected files (or of course to export source files to your own ftp). There are many tools (some free some not so free) which can then be used to re-apply the metadata to your local sources. I'd like to build something for this into the picNiche toolbar though it's a very complex build so for now I defer to the many desktop apps which already do a great job of it. I notice also the impossibility to reduce pictures size for shutterstock and other subscription site, it's easy to add and very useful, without that, I can't use picworlfow.
This is coming very soon (hopefully will have time this weekend), though it's not as easy as it first sounds because of the traffic and cpu requirement to perform the resize when hosting 'in the cloud'. I am also adding the ability to retain original filenames when distributed so will release these at the same time as they face more-or-less the same technical issue. I don't understand also why we must write the copyright for each picture, it's waste of time.
If an image is uploaded & imported without the copyright field specified, picWorkflow will automatically set your copyright field based on the value you have most often used previously. (If you have only imported a single batch on which all files had no copyright field set, then you won't have seen this, but it is set on following imports). The copyright field is settable per-file because people often attribute their files differently (company name, personal name, wife/hubby, business partner, etc etc) depending on who they are exporting to, or on the type of file (footage/illustration/photo/etc). Does that help?
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