If you wish, list the IS lightboxes you manage in that thread so that other photographers can PM you to add some of their related pictures to it.

Or just PM a photographer to add your related pictures to a specific IS lightbox, you don't have to manage a lightbox to participate 

Note: a public lightbox will not be visible to other members until it contains more than one artist and over 20 images.  Don't forget to checkmark the make it "Public" box.
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Here are the collections I manage:

Objects
Chicago
Kitchen Related
Iowa Heartland
France
Church Details
Madonna (Mary)
Musical Instruments

What are yours? 

Featurepics added an option for licensing small resolution Blog pictures.  Use of such pictures is free.  The idea is that it would be a good way to promote the photographer's portfolio.  Has anyone used this option? Does anyone have an opinion on this option?   I'm still undecided and would appreciate any of your feedback.  Thanks!

Here is the site explanation:

"If you allow Clients to use your thumbnails (130px max) in the blog and news content, the users will be required to place a link to your image where other types of licenses are listed.

This type of seemingly free service will go a long way to promoting your Portfolios.

All thumbnails will have an authorization code inside of the image tag that will include the date when the code was used. If you decide to stop assigning "Blog Use License" for your images - we can identify that the image was placed prior to the license withdrawal, so we have extra security on this transaction. "

(note:  Leaf, I didn't find a specific forum for Featurepics, did I miss it?)

What do you think about this Alexa 3-year traffic ranking graph?  Does it predict some trends for the months or years to come?
Any comments welcome.  Thanks.

Traffic Details (daily page view) for:
(graph edited - I don't know why it ended up showing only 1 line)

    * istockphoto.com
    * Shutterstock.com
    * Dreamstime.com(Beige)
    * Fotolia.com
    * stockxpert.com

As the majority of photographers here are non-exclusive, I would like to have your opinion about the waiting time in the submission process.  Just in the context of microstock (macros have different sets of rules), and not taking in consideration the results nor the upload limitations, just the timing.

I have always been impressed with how SX gives very quick results.
SS is pretty quick too, usually a few hours.
123rf and SPM, although slow earners, are handling the volume quite well, with a result within 24 hours.
DT takes the longest time, 8 to 10 days.

How does the waiting time reflects about the perception of the site?  Or does it?  What do you think?

Yesterday I uploaded a picture of a candle, which was approved - the whole series was.  I was very pleased.

There is an edit for each picture, as an option to replace the picture for an improved version.  I thought that I would use it this morning.  The only thing I changed is one small part of the isolation, to refine it further.

Well, I got the result:  "please upload better quality images"...

I emailed the site about it, still no answer.

I hope that in these kind of circumstances there would be an option to keep the previous approved version, even though it is of a slightly lesser quality.  Anyway, it does not inspire me to use this edit function in the future...

Mistakes are made, but it is sometimes frustrating.

This is for the pictures approved after the 'migration':  they don't show up online.  I understand that there is a delay, but it used to be no more than an hour.  This is more than 48 hours...

Do you have the same problem, or are yours showing online?

From SS forum:

imagist
Site Admin
Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:30 pm

Please do NOT give out or save your username and/or password information to any website, program, or browser except directly to submit.shutterstock.com. Doing so will only jeopardize the privacy of your personal information and the integrity of our payout process.

Regards,
Shutterstock


Here is the link...

http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17139&highlight=

Since Scott is a very reliable photograph, and that he mentioned that the conversation can be copied on another forum, I thought that I would mention the link here:

edited - the link has been deleted.  Here is the 1st post from that link:

"lumaxart2d
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 5:08 pm
Hungarian Law & Accounting at a micro site we will name "x" Requires the answering of a identity security question in the U.S. that is used almost exclusively for Identity in credit verification process???
And the site is willing to bribe you for it by paying $20usd for that answer?
I am going to promptly delete my entire portfolio there if it is required to be in their database.
Your Thoughts?"

For the SS contributors interested, lilcrazyfuzzy is preparing a Xmas card to present to the SS team.  Here is the link if you wish to be addded.  No downloading of the card anymore, too many signatures 

http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15219&highlight=

I am in the process of 'cleaning' my portfolios, and withdraw some of my earlier pictures before they get downloaded - yes, I prefer that  .  In the SS Q&A I found this:

"Can I remove a photo I submitted?
Yes. Any photo you submit can be removed by you at any time. Removal is immediate and not reversible."

But no explanation for how to do it.

I went to the 'Edit Photo ID' on the 'Status of submitted photos' page.  I only found options to change the title/description, keywords, categories, and the watermark, but couldn't find an option for deleting the picture itself.

Can you help me find the page I missed ?  Thanks!

On the "Current Search Issues" topic, page 28, I found an interesting comment made by qingwa, which would favor first the 5-star rating as first choice in the searches.  What do you think?  Here is the comment:


"Just noticed that rating appear to still play a significant part in determining best match.  I searched on "orchid" and sorted by age to see what was new.  My newest file appears on the 20th spot of the first page.  If you search on "orchid" by best match, you find that same image shows up at number 12 on the first page.  Why is that?  I did notice that all the images before it have a least one 5 camera rating.
One thing that is very interesting is there is a newer file in the age sort that has a download, that does not show up until page 14 of the best match sort.  I could not understand why this would be, newer then mine, and it has a download, so it should be a better match I would think.  After some investigation, I realized that all the images on the proceeding 13 pages have one thing in common, they all have a rating of 5.  On page 14, you start with images that have no rating, but are newest.  I would conclude the best match is sorting in something like the following order: Matching tag>rating of 5, sorted newest first> no rating, newest first.  Maybe other tags sort differently, but I'm not sure how else to interpret these results.
Jim"

Just received this email:


Dear Microstock Forum user and Photographers,
 
We are still waiting for the domainname microstockphoto.com to be moved to us as new owners and were planning to wait with moving the microstockphoto.com website to a new server untill this was finished, but because of this delay, we don't want to wait longer and will start moving all content this weekend.
Because of this, we will close the login to the Forum and photographer login just untill the movement of the website is completed.
 
We will also present some screenshots of the new design for microstockphoto here later today, which we will try to implement into the site asap.
 
We will send out an email to all photographers about this and hope you all have understanding if any problems should occur. (which we don't hope so offcourse)
 
As stated previously, many updates are planned, concerning updates, marketing etc. and we will try to keep everybody updated on it.
please check the forum announcement page now and then for updates.
 
Denne melding og oppdateringer ligger ogs� p�: http://www.microstockphoto.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=152
 
 
Ruben
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