Quote from: PhotoDude on February 20, 2016, 05:45

Franky, I actually meant just Title field from IPTC. When it is formatted like "City, State/Country - Month Day Year: Description of what is going on in the picture" it is accepted as editorial to SS and all other major agencies without much additional clicking/editing required (you would usually have to set Editorial check box/option to "Yes" though and sometimes select special category like at Dreamstime's system for example). However, DeepMeta required to manually specify that information again in picture description dialog and provide separate editorial description. I am not sure, it might actually be iStock requirement and DeepMeta is simply just following the  rules of the agency. My point was that it is redundant, time consuming and simply antique and I was wondering if there is any way to make it more streamlined. Manually picking all these dates and places again just makes it really time consuming to submit editorials to IS.   

While it's true that iStock uploads demand all those additional selections being made (country, date), it's also true that DeepMeta could auto-convert info imported from the IPTC title or description and auto-complete these selections for you.

In order to do that, I need to find out what the exact practice is. Details matter.

E.g. you've mentioned:
"City, State/Country - Month Day Year: Description of what is going on in the picture"
as well as:
"City, State/Country - Month Day Year: Title"

A few questions:
- It is the IPTC "title" field you are referring to, and not the "description" field?
- About "Month Day Year": is this "2 21 2016", "Februari 21 2016" or something else?
- If you put this info in the "title" field, then what goes in the "description" field?
- iStock has a separate "caption" field for editorial, where should that be taken from?

Just gathering some info here. I see some possibilities for better automation.
Thanks!

The tedious process of uploading images for consideration by iStock is about to get much easier. On February 7th  Kasper Ravlo will be launching a new tool called Q-hero (http://www.qhero.com/). The average time to submit a file for review will drop from over one minute per image to less than 1-2 seconds. Instead of being the slowest site for image submissions, iStock will become the fastest.

I asked Kasper to explain how Q-hero will work and published the information on Selling-Stock.com. You can access the story for free at this link: http://www.selling-stock.com/Article/uploading-to-istock-is-about-to-get-easier

owned by tyler olsen,  not affiliated with any agency, you can say what you want here but agencies have representatives here and some agencies have punished people for stuff written here

There is a batch delete function.  After you navigate to your uploads and you're looking at the files you want to delete:

(1) Click the square directly above or below the individual file squares in order to select all of the files on the page.

(2) If you don't wish to delete all of the files listed, click in the square beside each file that you wish to delete.

(3) Click the drop-down box at the bottom of the page below the list and choose "Delete Rejected."  Don't worry about the fact that the files haven't been rejected by an inspector.

(4) Click the "execute" button.  You'll see a pop-up window indicating that the files are being deleted.  After the operation is completed, you can close this window.

If you wish to confirm that the files have been deleted, refresh the uploads page.  I've deleted files this way successfully on several occasions.

3. Agencies like Fotolia like to hide behind their "terms" to take punitive action against anyone who speaks out against their crooked business practices. So don't be critical of FOTOLIA or they will close your account. They have people in here reporting what is said about their agency.