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If Alamy decide to offer higher commissions for exclusive images, how about having that apply only to new images, or images that have never been uploaded elsewhere? There could be an extra tab for customers to search on "New AND Exclusive". The fact that an image is exclusive does not mean that it has never been sold elsewhere. There should be a minimum time that an image remains exclusive, eg one year, and then a requirement for 6 months notice to be given before exclusivity can be removed. This would give Alamy an opportunity to get a better price. It would also give
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Have a look at Thumbs Plus at http://www.cerious.com. We've been using it for many years and found nothing else that's anywhere near as good on PC. You can send photos to external programs such as Photoshop, and search in a variety of ways. Custom fields are no problem. You can use the built-in MS Access engine or a proper client-server setup, either remote or local. We use a PostgreSQL server on the network.
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The Image Manager thread
scotstock replied to Matt Ashmore's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
I have several hundred images of New Zealand, all keyworded in Photoshop and with 'New' and 'Zealand' entered separately. Now I want to make New Zealand a phrase, and get rid of the individual words. I selected the first 500 and deleted both individual words. The system only worked on the first 80, luckily, as I then couldn't batch enter 'New Zealand' as a phrase. System kept telling me I had exceeded my 50 keyword limit. I tried to do it a few at a time, still the same message, even when none of the selected images had more than 50 keywords. Eventually I added the phrase to all of those 80 i- 781 replies
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The other thing that needs asking, is why is there so much old stuff at the front of the search? The first page of any search seems to be dominated by A-D. Where are the G and H? I know we have the new tab, but let's face it, that often shows rows of similars from people who can't resist uploading everything. I think most of us improve over time, and I think most of us would rather see our newer, better images at the front. Many of the people I used to see as my main competition have disappeared from the front of the search. No doubt they are us unhappy as I am. I'm also disappointed t
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Car brand and type pls
scotstock replied to a topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
Renault 4CV, I think. -
I would like to be able to see the keywords used when an image is sold, not just zooms.
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I'd like a way for when keywording the word 'England', other variants could automatically be entered at the same time (in to the Main Keywords box). For example typing 'england' would also add 'english, gb, great britain, british, uk, united kingdom, europe, european' etc. etc. Also the same for Wales, Scotland, Ireland etc. What a good a idea! I would like to be able to batch add keywords through Manage Images, without losing existing ones - for example, I have a lot of landscapes, keyworded with the word "landscape". You recently brought in a category for landscapes, which seems to
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All you need to link to an individual photo is something like http://www.alamy.com/search/ImageResults.aspx?qt=CPFHC2 with the appropriate image ID. For the display page it only needs the http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-Bamburgh_Castle_on_the_Northumberland_Coast_England-48286135.html without the rest of the alphabet soup. Alamy will now complain that leaving the rest off will upset their site housekeeping... For a pseudonym it's http://www.alamy.com/search/ImageResults.aspx?qn=scotstock
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Hi Carole, The best way we have found to transfer photos between Android, iThing and PC is Photo Transfer App. It's a cheap paid app for Android and iOS, free for Windows and OSX. As you've found, drag and drop doesn't work to iDevices. Don't worry about the 72dpi, that affects the file as much as the filename does - it's just a label. Just make sure your phone is saving the full 8MP file as fotoDogue says. Colin
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Oddly enough, I was porting Actions to the laptop this morning, and got the proper warning when the destination folder didn't exist. An error box popped up to say "Could not save as "P:\Submissions\Alamy\" because the file could not be found." Do 'Record Again' on the Save step and all is fixed. This is PS CS6 on Windows. Colin
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Stockimo Data Entry and Editing
scotstock replied to scotstock's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
Hi Jon, Thanks for that - you've got even more of a problem. At least on the 5s the app keeps working. Colin- 2 replies
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