Sally

Cheers Bryan.

Alamy has told me that they are still working on the changes. A bit of information about the progress/timescales would be helpful. Meanwhile thousands of my images are not available for wider use.

I’ve had to email Alamy about the changes. Most of my images did not allow Personal Use sales but since that is no longer allowed, I asked them to change all of them to allow Personal Use, otherwise those which could be commercial use would not be available for that purpose. Now I find that every image is restricted to editorial only, whether or not they have people or property in them. I always complete the optional section. A landscape, for example, or a flower, is showing as editorial only. What a pain.

Thanks Bryan.

Great, thanks Bryan.

Oh yes, me too Ian. I’ve never paid full price for the last five years for a subscription as they always prefer to keep you rather than lose you as a subscriber. But there are always news images in print that don’t appear in the digital version. You can access the e-paper (print) version at the bottom of the screen from the digital version but it only gives you the London based version which is no good to us in Scotland as often our photos are used instead of others, so I wish I had known about the app a long time before now!

Worth noting - as I have just discovered- that if you have a Times subscription then you can access the print version (England/Scotland/Ireland versions too so very handy for some of us) in a Times app. Saves going to the local supermarket and flicking through the paper.

Cheers!

My images are either editorial only or available for anything except personal use. As i understand it, the latter would be moved to editorial only, which is not sensible for the vast majority. How can I easily (with a relatively large portfolio) make the latter non-editorial?

Also spotted a composite in The Sunday Times, not credited to Alamy but with a strange caption “YY-FRINGE2-1600” with one of mime and one of Iain Masterton’s. Not sure about the third. In the print version, too. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/edinburgh-fringe-director-netflix-and-amazon-are-coming-to-shop-our-talent-cx03pmd6x

Cheers Bryan. I never look at that section so missed that on too.

Many thanks Bryan

Many thanks Bryan, I missed that one!

Thanks Bryan

Not sure it makes a huge difference, but often the image I have chosen as the cover photo is the one used. I just upload that one image first and then upload the rest using the Upload More tab.