Yes, the tool combined with presets is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

Too bad it doesn't do raw files, but I'll work around that. Usually, I keyword before processing, but can just as easily do it the other way around.

It really goes well with my workflow, I never keyword raws in Lightroom, for me they are just a middle step to getting to final jpegs and eventually raws all get deleted once I've pulled all I wanted and I'm happy with jpegs. So with stock ready jpegs I go into Xpiks, work on metadata and save.

If this is not a typo, then I declare myself stupid to understand simple things: "As our sales through Getty and other partners increase..."

A bit off topic, I noticed that Fotolia login doesn't work anymore in Microstockr android app and that there's no Adobe option.

Now you are gonna get flamed for uploading there 

It makes sense not to upload them all at once, if they are similar, a buyer(s) might need one of them at a given time, say they see it in the fresh section, but they don't need all of them, so the rest will probably be buried cause of no immediate downloads. If you upload them with some time apart every photo will have a equal chance to be the one that sells and rises in the search. In theory.

A lot will say that they still sell old 4mpx in huge quantities, that most photos are downloaded for web use.
But consider two other sides:
- You might be missing on sales for other uses, large prints and such.
- With more mpx body you have more ability to crop and more importantly you have more room for downsizing not so perfect photos to mask out the imperfections which will enable you to shoot more relaxed, not to worry much about ISO, tripod, heavy post etc and include photos that otherwise you would discard for lack of technical quality.

Same here, same numbers.

I don't think smudging out random faces has much to do with stock or anything creative. It would need to be a full AI 3D photorealistic solution.
If it was that simple, 3D artists would be the first ones in the line of fire losing their jobs, not photographers. Right now, not even 3D artists are making photographers obsolete. It might happen, but not anytime soon.
One has to look into 3D design to understand what that AI needs to do to make a quality 3D image, let alone photorealistic image indistinguishable from photograph.
Just consider 3D scene, shaders/materials/textures, lights, models, simulations, compositing etc...
A random human head won't do it for anything creative, it needs proper lighting, meaningful scene, props, rest of the body with clothing and all, the same thing that goes into creating a good 3D image and as I said, we still need 3D artists for that and none of the currently available major software packages is anywhere near anything automatic, actually it's a very long and tedious work with a long learning curve.
If it was that simple, none of the companies that make games that render on those Nvidia gpus would need that many 3D artists. And I think this won't change anytime soon for them, for game graphics, let alone photorealistic renders and photography.     

I dived into this a while ago, because it costs me hunderds of dollars a year. I can actually open a USD account with my bank, but Paypal will still only send euro's because my bank is not in the USA... They will only send dollars to an american bank account.

Same here, bank account specified to handle both USD and EUR and I always get sent in EUR from paypal.

Or just cutoff both highlights and blacks with curve for something like 0.1 or less percent. Or cutoff them really good to stay trendy. 

Quote from: Hannafate on December 20, 2018, 14:14

I would take $50,000 for my portfolio in a heartbeat.

And like most of us, start right over making new. 

With photos of exotic destinations.

I might be missing something but why would I buy this guy's footage instead of getting it for free from where he took them?

Yes clearly, on a technical side, but what do you guys think about sales potential, photos vs illustrations, in terms of if potential buyer is actually techy enough and knowing that 3D render can realisticly depict the thing he might be looking for in photos strictly?