Author Topic: Upload Program (Read 7057 times)

comicgeek12 · « **on:** September 08, 2010, 13:29 »

I've been a microstocker for a few years now but only used bigstock and Istock. Now that things are changing I need to get my pics out there a bit more. That being said, is there a program that will allow you to upload your images once and do the legwork for you? Also, what other sites would you guys recommend? I'm not the best so some of the big boys keep rejecting me. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

microstockphoto.co.uk · « **Reply #1 on:** September 08, 2010, 15:00 »

Photoshelter and iSyndica are doing exactly that - uploading once and then FTPing to (almost) all sites - but it's expensive. And still they don't do the boring part: choosing categories, ect.

Then there are some other programs which are a sort of specialised FTP.

But I think the best way is to tag your pictures carefully with IPTC tags, and then use an FTP program to upload at full speed at night when you don't need your bandwidth.

kjorgen · « **Reply #2 on:** October 26, 2010, 04:34 »

What do you think is the best program for ITPC tags?
I use IrfanView now, but there are some agencies that doesn't read all the data!
I really miss Isyndica....it made things so easy

FD · « **Reply #3 on:** October 26, 2010, 05:25 »

Quote from: kjorgen on October 26, 2010, 04:34

What do you think is the best program for ITPC tags?
I use IrfanView now, but there are some agencies that doesn't read all the data!

All agencies read the base IPTC scheme as Irfanview supports, except... Veer. I had to help the LO programmer out long ago on this. For tagging, I still use my own script FD-tagger, copypasting to Irfanview. I hope Veer will follow the industry standard one time soon. The industry standard is not the private XMP scheme that Adobe wants to push down our throats.

leaf · « **Reply #4 on:** October 26, 2010, 05:32 »

Quote from: kjorgen on October 26, 2010, 04:34

What do you think is the best program for ITPC tags?
I use IrfanView now, but there are some agencies that doesn't read all the data!
I really miss Isyndica....it made things so easy

I just use bridge to enter the information. It doesn't have any spell checking or word counting features but it works.

leaf · « **Reply #5 on:** October 26, 2010, 05:34 »

Quote from: comicgeek12 on September 08, 2010, 13:29

Also, what other sites would you guys recommend? I'm not the best so some of the big boys keep rejecting me. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

I would just look at the list on the right and work your way down. If you can't get into Shutterstock, you should for sure be submitting to Dreamstime and Fotolia, then Yaymicro, Crestock (strict reviews), 123RF, CanstockPhoto and Veer and all good.

kjorgen · « **Reply #6 on:** October 26, 2010, 05:46 »

Quote from: FD-regular on October 26, 2010, 05:25

All agencies read the base IPTC scheme as Irfanview supports, except... Veer. I had to help the LO programmer out long ago on this. For tagging, I still use my own script FD-tagger, copypasting to Irfanview. I hope Veer will follow the industry standard one time soon. The industry standard is not the private XMP scheme that Adobe wants to push down our throats.

Hmm...wonder why I have problems then $:-\$ GL don't take keywords + title, Dreamstime/bigstock/Zoonar/FeaturePics/ScandinavianStockPhoto don't take the title. The other agencies take everything..including Veer

kjorgen · « **Reply #7 on:** October 26, 2010, 05:52 »

Quote from: leaf on October 26, 2010, 05:32

I just use bridge to enter the information. It doesn't have any spell checking or word counting features but it works.

I'll give it a try

Thanx

FD · « **Reply #8 on:** October 26, 2010, 06:39 »

Quote from: kjorgen on October 26, 2010, 05:46

Hmm...wonder why I have problems then $:-\$ GL don't take keywords + title, Dreamstime/bigstock/Zoonar/FeaturePics/ScandinavianStockPhoto don't take the title. The other agencies take everything..including Veer

Sounds odd. Are you sure that you used the Object name IPTC tag as title and not the Headline? Some sites take both. Object name is always safe.
As to keywords, much depends on the delimiters. Commas, spaces and semicolons used to be accepted on some sites, but the safest are <newline> delimited keywords. FD-tagger uses <newline> by default, but you can still change this in the settings. If you use <newline>, the keywords should show as a single column in Irfanview.

kjorgen · « **Reply #9 on:** October 26, 2010, 06:59 »

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Sounds odd. Are you sure that you used the Object name IPTC tag as title and not the Headline? Some sites take both. Object name is always safe.
As to keywords, much depends on the delimiters. Commas, spaces and semicolons used to be accepted on some sites, but the safest are <newline> delimited keywords. FD-tagger uses <newline> by default, but you can still change this in the settings. If you use <newline>, the keywords should show as a single column in Irfanview.

Ahaa...I have been using Headline! I thought it must be me who was doing something wrong

Thank you very much! This should make things easier

RacePhoto · « **Reply #10 on:** October 26, 2010, 19:45 »

Here's an interesting website and list. I find it funny that the official website calls it "claims to be compatible" list.

http://www.iptc.org/cms/site/photometadatasupportlist.html?channel=CH0101

FD · « **Reply #11 on:** October 27, 2010, 01:33 »

Quote from: kjorgen on October 26, 2010, 06:59

Ahaa...I have been using Headline! I thought it must be me who was doing something wrong Thank you very much! This should make things easier

Yeah, sometimes I'm useful.

Had to find it out all too.

FD · « **Reply #12 on:** October 27, 2010, 01:55 »

Quote from: RacePhoto on October 26, 2010, 19:45

Here's an interesting website and list. I find it funny that the official website calls it "claims to be compatible" list.

The core IPTC scheme is very straightfoward and php 5.0 has the extract functions actually built in (I gave you the source). The mess began when Adobe started to implement its own and proprietary scheme, which in principle should be a superset but it isn't really. I found out that when you use "object name" in Irfanview for "title", Adobe preserves it well, and for keywords, you'll need to use <newline>. "Caption" has never been a problem, except for Shutterstock that uses "Caption" as "title". Fotolia did that too till a year or so ago when they changed it. Veer is still a disaster on this point. It takes keywords most of the time but Caption doesn't work well and neither does Object name when you've put something in the Headline. I had to copypaste the IPTC info of most of my dash-for-cash images but for the ones in the edit queue (over 300), I have no time to do that. Just like Snap, they also do something weird with the keywords in as much I can't find back my own images.

Moonb007 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 28, 2010, 12:55 »

For IPTC I just enter the info in through Photoshop and as for uploading I use FileZilla (FTP) and create multiple tabs so it just keeps uploading while I do other things. I used to use isynidca when I was in a hurry, but you still had to log into each site and process.

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