Moot point. Worry no. Easy upload (normally) and friendly site - yes.

One of those site for me where the personal contribution of the owner in forums is something I remember. Won't pay for my holiday to see England get roundly beaten in Brazil in 2014, but might earn enough so I can drown my sorrows when we get beaten by the U.S.A on penalties.

Odd - I'll give it a couple of days to see if it resolves before contacting support...

Hiya

I got the same error message - some in a batch were fine - some weren't. I simply re-uploaded them and it was fine. They ranged from 3.5-4.5mb. I put it down to a glitch?

Only just happened about an hour ago...

Hiya - quick rant about the time it takes some sites to pay up when you've submitted for payment. I divide them into the following:

Good - Dreamstime - 2-4 days on the nail - brilliant!

Medium - Those with regular payment schedules - IS, SS, Veer, 123. I'll add in Canstock here, they are pretty quick off the mark. A nod to Most and Cutcaster as well - they seem to care about their turnaround.

Bad - BS and Fotolia - maybe it's just me - they are pretty slow and random IMO

Terrible - Yay - shame this one, they used to be on the ball. This changed a couple of months ago for the old fraud chestnut. Now they are starting to push way out.

Do other people have similar thoughts?

Oldhand - who really does like Yay for many reasons and wouldn't like them to slip too far down his list of reliable payers!!!

Ditto - windfall might be a tad excessive, but four times what I'd usually see as well.

I'd take your camera in store and photograph the canvas for reference. Best to keep some evidence in case...

Don't think Yuri qualifies - he is now an agency with staff photographers. Neither is he the top selling agency - hugely off the mark. The best probably keep a nice, low profile. That's why they are successful over a long period of time.

Hi there - I don't know about retouching, but there's a couple of options for your keywords - Dreamstime do it and so do Picworkflow.

The company I work for has designers off-shore - on the whole they are very good, but it does make me laugh when a website for a nice cozy pub comes back with lots of youths drunk in an Ibiza nightclub-  there is always going to be a culture issue...

http://business.hibu.co.uk/products/websites/trial-website/

http://www.moonfruit.com/partners

Couple more here - same idea...Getty and iStock  - build your own sites....

It's feckin banjaxed as they say in the auld sod.

Hi all - I'm after a bit of informed feedback with this one.

Say an advertising agency makes a deal with a Microstock agency. The advertising agency creates an account and downloads let's say 1000 images. For this they pay a fee per image of say $20 each. That's $20 to the agency - who will pay the contributor the going commission rate.

The 1000 images are download by a design team and stored in an internal database. The team of designers now has unrestricted access to the images to use as many times as they want in any type of print ad or website.  Let's say they are a large advertising agency and have 10's of 1000's of clients. You get the drift - for the $20 fee they use the image 100's of times. There is no internal log by the advertising agency on usage.

Question: is there a license with any Micro agency you know which would allow this? I'd have though they would have to buy the rights per image outright - but maybe I'm wrong?

Thanks...

Maybe it is the tiling at the bottom. Some hotel pools have their names written with the tiles under the water.

In this case they just look random. If you cropped them out of the image I have a feeling it might get accepted. That's what I would do assuming there are no identifying marks on the ball.