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« on: May 27, 2019, 11:27 »
Yes it's caused by the installer being not signed.
You can ignore this warning safely, click more info and run anyway.
Hope you are having a good Memorial Weekend. Just wanted to tell you that I installed the new SS version. I backed up my configuration before upgrading, but I cannot restore that configuration to the new SS. Any thoughts?
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« on: May 22, 2019, 12:34 »
On a side note. I recently upgraded to the basic plan (100 monthly uploads). If I decide to upgrade to the next level (250 uploads a month) can I do so and have the fee applied to the basic plan (4 euro) applied towards the upgrade?
Yes of course, you can upgrade to another plan by paying the difference in their prices. So if you do so, 6 EUR will be charged from your account balance and you will have +150 submissions for the rest of the current 30-day period.
Please note that you won't be able to switch back to the Starter plan unless you purchase a new 3-month package because this plan is promotional.
Thanks. One more question. I am trying to upgrade to the newest version of SS but "Windows Defender" will not let the EXE file run. I am using Windows 10. Just thought you would like to know this information. Here is a screenshot of the error I get when trying to install SS (StockSubmitterSetup_15.exe)
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« on: May 18, 2019, 14:38 »
On a side note. I recently upgraded to the basic plan (100 monthly uploads). If I decide to upgrade to the next level (250 uploads a month) can I do so and have the fee applied to the basic plan (4 euro) applied towards the upgrade?
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« on: May 18, 2019, 14:34 »
OOPS! My Bad. I moved the files to a different folder then I remembered. Sorry for the bother. Thanks for the help.
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« on: May 18, 2019, 11:07 »
It means that you (or other software) has either removed or overwritten the JPEG files (since the metadata is stored in JPEG files).
Humm... I don't see how. Only if moving the files from one folder to another would do this (i.e. "Submitted" folder to "Approved" or "Rejected" folders). Does moving files to a different folder cause this?
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« on: May 18, 2019, 00:15 »
The STATUS data and all the titles, keywords and tags, is what I lost. All the images that were uploaded and submitted to microstock sites no longer show their status in association with the sites, i.e. "Ready", "Uploaded", "Submitted". They have not tags or other information associated with them. So, now I have no idea which ones have already been uploaded and submitted. It as if I had never did anything to them or submitted them. Weeks of work gone.
Only images I have worked on AFTER the reinstall show any data or status.
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« on: May 17, 2019, 21:08 »
So, I was having trouble and uninstalled and reinstalled SS to try to fix the problem. I have done a lot of work since the reinstall of SS, before I realized that none of my old data was there for all the images I had processed before the reinstall (several hundred images). I have a backup from before the reinstall, but I am wondering if I can restore that old back up without changing the current data. To make it simple, I just want to add the data from the old backup to SS without out changing the current data. Can I do this? How can this be done?
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« on: May 16, 2019, 23:38 »
So, I was having trouble and uninstalled and reinstalled SS to try to fix the problem. I have done a lot of work since the reinstall of SS, before I realized that none of my old data was there for all the images I had processed before the reinstall (several hundred images). I have a backup from before the reinstall, but I am wondering if I can restore that old back up without changing the current data. To make it simple, I just want to add the data from the old backup to SS without out changing the current data. Can I do this? How can this be done?
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« on: April 17, 2019, 08:29 »
My top seller on SS.
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/amazon-black-piranha-teeth-1104578060
Taken with a Sony Mavica CD-300 in 2002. Just sells and sells and sells. Go figure. 
Woah, nice! Although I am a little disappointed its from a post floppy-disk Mavica, which would further enhance the story.
Hey, I wish I could afford to fly down to the amazon and retake the picture with my Sony a6500, but, well, you know. By today's standards, the Sony Mavica CD-300 is crap, but back in 2002, it was a $1,000 top of the line prosumer camera. Never judge the past by the present.
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« on: March 01, 2019, 14:29 »
Have you tried any of the specialist nature agencies?
I am new to this whole stock image thing and was not aware that there were such things as agencies that specialize in nature photos. I got into stock images kind of by accident. It all started with me trying to improve the SEO ranking of my own travel website where I share my images and videos. After discovering that a key to good website ranking SEO is TEXT, not images (search engines are dumb and do not know what images are unless you tell them), I decided to create individual educational pages about the nature photographs I have taken in my travels. Thus boosting the TEXT content on my site and improving the SEO ( just FYI. This worked like a charm for my sites SEO) Basically, did what you suggested (add the story behind the photo), but on my own website. Like everyone else, I need to make a little money for all my hard work, so I thought about selling my images directly off my site. My site earns money through affiliate marketing, But since I was investing so much effort into individual images and giving them their own page, I thought, "What the heck! Why not try to sell the image?" But selling images directly gets complicated REAL fast, so I decided that I would let a stock agency like SS sell them and just link to them from my website. But then I was just getting $0.25 a photo and that led me to start looking to at how to earn more and I learned about Macro-stock. Unfortunately, my older photos were taken with older equipment that did not meet the standards for sites like Alamy. So I upgraded my equipment to make sure my new photos are up to snuff with the higher quality standards of macro sites; for new photos at least. So, as you can see, it has been a stepping stone sequence of events. Each step opening up new areas and challenges. Had I known where this would all lead me, I would have never stared, but now I am too invested to drop it, and in spite of everything, I am seeing some return for my efforts, so I am encouraged that with time and lots of learning, it will be worth it in the end. At the end of the day, I love world travel and nature photography. I want to keep doing it as long as I can, but I need funds to keep me going. You know that person that said, "Find a way to make money at what you love to do and you will never work a day in your life". Yeah well, they were an idiot. I love what I am doing but this whole stock image thing is a truckload of WORK! LOL!
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« on: February 28, 2019, 09:46 »
Alamy doesn't sell well for me on wildlife/nature, as opposed to iS, where these topics sell more or less in parallel with its percentage in my port. You can check in Alamy Measures, where for one species I have pics of, I (alone) sold more in a year on iS than there were recorded searches on Alamy (No idea what percentage of searches are 'recorded'.)
As my name implies, I shoot nature. I try to focus on rare to extremely rare, but I will shoot anything. I did not know Alamy was an exclusive style. I was under the impression that alamy was a Macro-Stock site, where quality standards were higher than micro, sales were fewer, but commissions were a lot higher than on micro sites like SS.
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« on: February 28, 2019, 09:38 »
1. What is the lowest amount I will make off a single image sale on Alamy? <$1
2. What is the most I will make off a single image sale? Realistically >$300+ net
3. What is the average amount I will make off of a single image sale? I'm at about $20 net
4. What is the benefit of making images "Exclusive" to alamy? Other than the extra 20% revenue, none.
Muito obrigado!
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« on: February 27, 2019, 22:09 »
Let me ask you this? What stock site do you earn the most from? So far for me, it is SS hands down. But most of my images go for $0.25 on SS, so it takes a lot of sales to make anything. I was hoping to make higher commissions on Alamy, but I am not sure how long it really takes to start getting sales on there, and what kind of quantity you have to have.
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« on: February 27, 2019, 22:06 »
What she said ^ - my all time gross average is a little over $50, but it has been dropping - more like $40 so far this year (which is probably not a big enough sample to be all that statistically valid). If I knew which images would actually sell on Alamy, I'd be happy to put most of them there as exclusive, but I have not been able to predict these things at all. I guess they went about 10 years without taking a bigger bite from each sale so there is that.
Thanks.
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« on: February 27, 2019, 22:03 »
1. 60c or less
2. The sky can be the limit
3. Who knows, it varies wildly. Most money seems to accrue from US sales or for some people via Live News. I Think they say that the average sale is $35 gross.
4. You get 50% of the same value rather than 40% (for direct sales).
Thanks. By 60c do you mean 60 cents USD ($0.60)?
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« on: February 27, 2019, 20:01 »
I just got approved for Alamy last month. I have several other microstock accounts that I use to host pictures from my older cameras, and only upload photos from my new Sony A6500 to Alamy. I am wondering if I should make all of these exclusive to alamy, or go ahead and put them up on my other accounts? So, I have some questions that I hope can help me decide.
1. What is the lowest amount I will make off a single image sale on Alamy?
2. What is the most I will make off a single image sale?
3. What is the average amount I will make off of a single image sale?
4. What is the benefit of making images "Exclusive" to alamy?
TIA
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« on: February 27, 2019, 12:52 »
Don't worry about that 
If you will ever want to use a paid subscription you can support us that way But it's fine if you don't
Can I ask you an unrelated question here? I uploaded some pictures directly to Alamy while out of the country. I am now back home and have added those picture to stocksubmitter to finish doing the metadata work and submit them. But SS does not see the picture on my alamy account and wants me to upload them again before I can submit them. How can I tell SS that the images are already on the account so I can update the metadata for the images without having to reupload them?
Unfortunately, there is no way for the program to understand, which files on your disk match those files on the agency website to read the metadata from them and submit them.
You will have to either re-upload them or submit them manually I'm afraid.
Thanks for the reply. Do you think the program will ever be able to do this? It would be really handy as a Microstock manager to be able to sync data between your online accounts and you local folders. I know the SS can check the online accounts for earnings download that data because it reports earnings in the program.
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« on: February 26, 2019, 14:09 »
Don't worry about that
If you will ever want to use a paid subscription you can support us that way But it's fine if you don't
Can I ask you an unrelated question here? I uploaded some pictures directly to Alamy while out of the country. I am now back home and have added those picture to stocksubmitter to finish doing the metadata work and submit them. But SS does not see the picture on my alamy account and wants me to upload them again before I can submit them. How can I tell SS that the images are already on the account so I can update the metadata for the images without having to reupload them?
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« on: February 26, 2019, 13:43 »
Thanks. I don't really do that much and the 33 uploads per month in the free version is way more than I need. I just wanted to make a one-time donation to show my appreciation for your hard work. If I start doing more, I will definitely subscribe. Thanks again.
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« on: February 26, 2019, 08:09 »
It did not offer me the option to send an error report last night when I got that last error, so that is why I just posted the picture here. I checked it again this morning and it is working fine.
It downloaded an update when I launched the program, so I assume that you worked on it last night. Dude, You are awesome! Send me a link to make a donation for you.
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« on: February 26, 2019, 00:26 »
I've been debugging the crash for few days already but this one is not so easy.
Please try the new program update and let me know if it doesn't help
Thank you for your hard work. I tried out the new program update and got this error when running QuickMeta.
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« on: February 25, 2019, 21:56 »
I have a couple that are like that that just sell and I can't figure it out.
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« on: February 25, 2019, 21:39 »
This just started today. I have uninstalled and reinstalled but I am still having the same problem. Every time I try to use the QuickMeta function, it just hangs and then gives me this error. Am I the only person this is happing too? 
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« on: November 08, 2018, 23:23 »
I am still very new at this and just learning the ropes. Could you give me an explanation for the difference between Editorial and Commercial. I have read some descriptions, but I still don't get it. If you sell a photos and some used it , that seems like it is one in the same. How does it being marked Editorial make it different? Thanks.
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