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« on: August 30, 2007, 10:36 »
(Oops! This should have a Fotolia subject line and not Dreamstime. I'm not sure how to change that now that it's posted---sorry.)
Share your opinions of FT's upgrade to V2. Here are my thoughts from the United States side:
--- Improvements: The only one I have noticed is that sales credits are immediately approved now rather than the original 3-day wait. Oh, yes, and that hover-your-mouse-over-the-thumbnail enlarged view---wow.
--- Detriments:
- As slow as or slower than V1.
- New watermark makes for much easier thievery.
- As of this writing a couple of my files still have no keywords.
- The staff seem to be super-hyper-sensitive to any criticism, even worse than Istock, which is hard to imagine.
- I still get their "floating status bar" which makes it impossible to see portions of my screen.
Overall, not much of an improvement for contributors, I think. Sales are starting to pick up for me now that vacation-time is drawing to a close, so I hope that at least their search engine has seen a real upgrade.