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Hi there I am new to Alamy and was wondering how long it takes for the 3 images test submission? I uploaded 3 images on the 15th May, but i have not heard from a reviewer with regards to my test submission. I just says thanks for submitting, we are proccessing now and once complete we will update your profile. Brad Elliott

I've very stupidly doubled on two upload which are already in my portfolio. I need to delete two of them in the Image Manager, is it possible and how Many thanks for your time, much appreciated Pam

I was trying to find information on uploading video content.

RT3H07 Took a spaceflight on a klingon battle cruiser last week, the view of sunrise was spectacular.

Hello Friends, I recently joined Alamy and I am wondering how this site works to sell the photos. I have posted about 170 pictures on this site. Over 100 have been optimized to goos discoverability and yet I do not see any views on my image manager. Is it too early to expect? I have been here only for 2 weeks. another question regarding QC. If I upload a batch for 30 pictures and if they find one bad picture they reject all which i feel is very odd and it is a waste of time to re upload them again. In that case will it make sense to upload pictures individually instead of a batch? thank you for your inputs, suggestions and advise.

Anyone know when Alamy are closing/opening shop for QC over Christmas? BTW, Merry Xmas to all!

Has anyone tried having multiple uploads to Alamy occuring at the same time from different browser windows? Is it possible? I seem to remember trying it and it not working but I am curious to know if anyone has managed it, either in the same browser or by using another one at the same time. Hope that makes sense. Might not speed things up much but would mean that you could get on and do other things rather than having to wait for a batch to upload.

Having difficulty with first three photo uploads. I've read the information from Alamy regarding technical specifications and QC. My experienced technical team created image files to these specifications, with EXIF and metadata in the file names, but we keep getting the message that the EXIF information must be present. We're stumped. Can anyone offer suggestions? Thank you!

Greetings, New contributor to Alamy.com / we have uploaded our 3 images and passed, and they are on sale and searchable. User ID: ModernPics Web Uploads fail 100% for us / all images just report error Using FileZilla we are able to connect using our email address and password, we see the folders, we click into Stock and upload 4 images / all of them report a successful upload. However, we do not see them in file manager. DSC1495.jp, DSC1757.jpg, DSC1877.jpg and DSC2021.jpg File sizes are 6 megs, 12 megs, 10 megs and 6 megs We LOVE Alamy just need to get started with uploads. PS. I know the 1st report of this was - no issues on your end, however - everything checks out with the suggestions and still cannot upload since yesterday. Honestly perplexed as this should not be a difficult process, we also are a web hosting provider, so we have tried Passive FTP / Active FTP and Auto ... we have tried multiple browsers, clearing cache. Web uploads just report "Error" that is all No issue uploading the 3 required images for QC, which passed and you can see them in the search results on sale. Almost seems that we are not 100% vetted into the system yet? We are very new as of about a week. We just now sent an email to contributors@alamy.com and replied to a response we received from the chat session, however seems that is for buyers / sales. Same issue for 2 days at this point. Thanks for your help in advance!

Hi, newbie here. I have successfully uploaded my first 24 photos which have been accepted and are on sale. I did this via both FTP and standard upload and both worked fine. However I've done another FTP upload and another standard one since and none of these are showing up in my submissions or images at all in My Alamy. Not even 'awaiting QC'. Both of these were over 2-3 days ago. Any thoughts? It's as is my images have disappeared! Thanks, Zoe

I just uploaded some photos and went to Track Images in My Alamy after upload completed expecting to see them there with a designation like in QC que or something but an hour later still not there and yet after uploading it indicated images had been uploaded sucessfully.

Hello, I just joined as an Alamy member last week. I need a little advise from people with more experience in the stock industry. I find my progress maddeningly slow. I was approved and I've begun the submission process. My submissions remain small as I'm still worried about failing and having them all rejected. So every other day or so I get a batch approved then upload another batch. In the meantime of joined 3 other agencies and am uploading while I wait for Alamy's next approval. All the other agencies move with the same sloweness and keeping track or which agencies got which photos and have they been key worded and uploaded is really confusing. I'm wondering if I should stick to one agency at a time, upload the bulk of my images, once I'm caught up, then move onto the next agency, load the library and get caught up. For those of you that belong to multiple agencies, how did you do it? Did you upload your collections all at the same time? or one at a time? When did you start uploading larger batches to Alamy? How long did it take you to feel comfortable doing that? Sorry if this is kind of a broad question. Just a bit frustrated with it right now and looking to see how others manage their workflow.

Hi All, This is not to complain, but rather to better understand what is wrong with my approach to Alamy. I have started to upload back in 2012 and started to sell several shot (some for fod $$) that year. I got confident and increase uploading between 2012 and through the whole 2013. Here is what is frustrating me, the sales declined and became very sporadic, 1 every 2 months? Something like that. I did not get discouraged and keep uploading but now my last 2 batches are waiting for review since December 20something, so no way to speed up and contantly upload.... Am I cursed with Alamy, or my numbers are normal? The whole thing is very frustrating...to bad because I always believed in this agency.... Any tip is much appreciated! Cheers, V.