I searched here and on Dreamstime, but I can't locate anything that states what types of images DT will accept as editorial. That information must be somewhere on the site. Would someone be able to post me a link to where I can find it?

I realized that SS's policies are 100% different from iStock's on what constitutes editorial (by uploading a batch all of which were rejected as not editorial) so before I try anywhere else, especially DT where a bunch of rejections will wreck my acceptance percentage and thus search position, upload limits, etc, I'd like to make sure I know what they want.

Someone has stolen a bunch of Shutterstock images and put them into a Picasa album on the web. See here.

I clicked on my image (blond woman with a headset) and the full size image is there. There's no EXIF in the image, but the image name - shutterstock_1482912 - is the Shutterstock image number.

I have submitted a DMCA takedown notice. Others with Shutterstock images might want to check for theirs. This isn't new, but courtesy of Google's new image search, I just came across it.

See the info on Adobe's site here.

It's an intriguing thought that someone who had intermittent needs for Photoshop (or for the latest version if they didn't have it) might be able to get it for $49 a month every now and then.

What I don't get is why you'd pay $420 a year for a Photoshop subscription versus buying it. Perhaps the notion is that with the upgrade price every 18 months or so it isn't such a bad deal? I'm sure most folks here already own Photoshop, but I wonder who they're expecting will sign up for this? And does this mean that they're having a hard time flogging their overpriced upgrades?

I started a thread in IS's help forum this morning because I received a 34 cent royalty on an XS image sale (regular collection, not dollar bin). At a 35% royalty rate and 2 credits for that size, the buyer paid 48 cents a credit.

If a newbie independent - at 15% royalty - made an XS sale (1 credit) that would net them just over 7 cents. That's less than the 10 cents a sale royalty I got for a small size (it was S, M, L then) in 2004 when I was a newbie (and there was no exclusivity then; everyone was 20%). Even Yuri at 20% would only net 9.6 cents royalty on an XS.

You can see the discssion - if there is any - here, including Sean's referencce to an earlier enquiry about 50 cent per credit prices where CR had responded that it was a special deal for a large buyer.

I guess my thought was that too many credit sales at that sort of a discount and you've effectively brought the partner program to iStock - I'd have made 42 cents a sale on that image if it had been via the partner program.

I'm not sure where contributors go with this sort of price squeeze. But it does make me think that we have more to worry about than the RC targets that will determine our 2012 royalty rates. If IS is trying to bolster market share by cutting prices to bigger buyers our $$ per download are going to slip. Very depressing stuff.

Someone wants to buy it, but it's no longer on IS. TinEye finds hits, but only in use (i.e. former clients). I had a quick look at SS and couldn't find it.

Does anyone recognize whose work it is? The would-be-buyer would like to contact the photographer if possible.

It's good they announced it, but not good (a) that it happened or (b) that they don't feel the need to explain how this got effed up.

See Lobo's announcement here.

I got e-mail this morning from "DreamStock.com Team" inviting me to join their new site. I guess they weren't being as careful about their "By Exclusive Invitation Only" list as they should have been or they'd not have wasted their time soliciting an iStock exclusive

50% commission seems reasonable, but their subscription business is unlimited downloads - 1 month for $99.95 - paying photographers 10 cents per download. They pitch this as a positive saying that because it's unlimited you'll make more money.  They're insane if they think this model will last any amount of time. SS started that way (and I think 123rf did too) but it didn't take long before they imposed limits. Even if that price is limited to unlimited medium size, I just don't think it'll last.

The email says this is a new project by DreamTemplate - they offer web templates, also with unlimited subscriptions.

The email also says "Please note: this email is intended for you, we urge you not to encourage other photographers to join during our special invite program, we intend to only invite the best photographers for premium placement during this time." In keeping with their request, I'll urge anyone not to join as this seems like an insanely bad (for contributors) idea.

I received e-mail this afternoon of a Crestock offer of a 3 month subscription (or extension of an existing one) for $249.50. Offer good until Feb. 15th.

This has to mean some sort of trouble for the site - 50% off is what they're claiming and that's a very big discount to give. You get 20 images a day - that's 13 cents an image if you use the full 1,800...