I can understand better now, why some people want cloud, especially for travel, or multi-location use. I suppose even a small account would be good when I am on the road. I have Dropbox which could hold a weekend of photos, no video. As it is, I carry two external drives. But I see the point of cloud storage vs what some of us do on a desktop.

More than that.  What happens if your house burns down?  What happens if a burglar breaks in and steals your computer and the drives near it?

I lived in Berkeley, Calif for 26 years. Nice safe urban area.  Then the Oakland Firestorm came in 1992, destroying 3300 homes in the largest urban fire in US history. The fire was stopped literally across the street from me.  I did not lose my home that time, but it was touch-and-go.

I now live in Ecuador. Our home was burglarized and the perp stole two laptop computers and a very expensive lens (Canon 70-200 f2., plus $1000 in a petty cash drawer.  He did not take my disk drives, but what if he had taken those too?

Cloud backup should be part of everyone's data security plan.  Disks will fail, so daily local backup is good.  Homes burn down or get burglarized, so offsite backup is also needed.

If you don't have both onsite AND offsite backup, then you are playing Russian Roulette with your data. What will happen if you lose it all?  Setting up a continuous cloud backup for $10/month is pretty cheap when you consider the downside of not having it...

I need the same as I'm pushing over 10tb.  Planning a trip to Chile and hoping for a solid cloud service to upload from down there as a backup.

First, I am curious... Are you heading there in July for the eclipse?  (if so, we might see each other...)

Second, I use BackBlaze.  The only "problem" is that when I get home, all my media is moved to my desktop monster (fully loaded iMac Pro), where is must backup again. Once that is done, I delete it from my MacBook Pro, so that protection is only for the duration of the trip.

And, of course, it is very rare to have an upload speed sufficient to get my stuff all on the cloud during any of these trips. As such, I only get half, or quarter, or even less of the images to the cloud before I am home and moving them all to a different computer.

That is why I always travel with a portable 4TB USB drive.  Everything is copied to that nightly, and it is kept in a different suitcase than the computer.

Hi, is there any way to upload editorial image ti Adobe Stock using Stocksubmitter?

What would be the point of that??? Adobe does NOT accept editorial. They will be rejected outright.

I made that mistake (submitting some editorial to see if they would slip through) about a year ago.  Not only did every one get rejected, but that also dropped my overall acceptance rate well below 50%, which meant I did not qualify for the free year of Lightroom/Photoshop.

In my case, I stopped doing such foolishness after only a couple hundred images. When I returned to only submitting commercial images, my acceptance rate rose over 50% again, and I got the LR/PS coupon...

Lightroom, but works great for organizing your ready to upload footage and adding all the meta data, you can then export CSV files that can be applied when you upload your footage.

That is how I do it too.  I use JbListView to generate the csv files.  The files still need a little massaging afterwards, but never more than 5 minutes worth per batch off 200.

FWIW, they existed a long time. My copy of iView Media Pro 2.6 is dated Feb 2005, which goes back further than the release date of Lightroom. Every edition has been rock solid. Microsoft owned it for 4 years and changed its name to Expression Media and then Phase One picked it up. It's hard to explain unless you've used it to generate metadata, it's orders of magnitude better than Lightroom. Or I guess I should say was orders of magnitude better than Lightroom.

Yes, i used them when it iView Media Pro. That was before Lightroom was published.  I continued to use when MicroSloth had it as Expression Media.

About the time Phase One took over, Lightroom came out.  I realized that iView/Expression/Whatever was an orphan looking for a home.  I played with Apple Aperture and Lightroom both for a year. I decided that LR would be the winner, and switched entirely to it.  Have seen no reason to look back.  LR does everything I need, and if someone else comes out with some gee whiz feature, I know LR will have it soon enough if it is really worth having...

I used to always recommend Media Pro by Phase One, it was nearly perfect in every respect. Sadly they have discontinued the product.

And THAT is why I typically stick with the front-runner.  Over the decades, I have tried way too many "gee this looks good, and the xxx feature that yyy is missing" products.  In the huge majority of cases, the cool little tool became discontinued, leaving me with thousands (and sometimes hundreds of thousands) of files that no longer had support.

No more...

I use Adobe Lightroom.  The clear frontrunner in the image cataloging field.  It also has top notch image editing tools, and every one of my 277,924 images has been processed by it.  They also have an excellent keyword / title / description / etc, etc, etc field support.

For video, they are not suitable for editing, but still have all the metadata support.  I have roughly 3000 videos in the catalog.  I do all the editing of metadata inside Lightroom, then can copy/paste to any website that needs it (since video does not support metadata).

I live in Colombia! Maybe your FB group about Ecuador can help me too. Can you please give me the url? Thanks a lot . And of course, I won't spam, I usually find my organisms but this one is being complicated

The proper name is "flora and fauna of Ecuador" it is here -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/320185741466636/

It is certainly important to include relevant keywords, but a keyword is either relevant or not, and how often it's searched for by buyers doesn't make it any more relevant to an image.

I disagree completely on that point.  Assuming the keyword is relevant to my image, then I absolutely want the keywords that are most often used by buyers.

If all my keywords are relevant, but no buyer uses them, then I have wasted my time even bothering to upload it. 

I frequently find that I can get more than the maximum allowed 50 keywords.  That is where knowing the "competitiveness" of the keywords comes into play.  If I find myself with 60, currently I knock out 10 that I would personally not use.  I would much rather knock off 10 that I know buyers are not using though.

I somehow missed your first announcement here. Glad the thread continued, as it came into my RSS feed again.  I liked it quite a bit, and have subscribed. 

And I must admit I expected you would say that mountain top run was a winner.  Surprised to hear it was a loser.

There is only one or two agencies that have a "hot news" channel to upload to.  For all the others, your approval speed will be the same as with any other material.

Personally I can count on one hand the number of times I have sold something editorial for an event already past.  The writers are already on to The Next Great Thing and have no interest in the past (assuming you are not talking about some major assassination or perhaps major storm damage from a named hurricane).

As such, I edit and submit in my normal cycle.  If it is a one-time event, I may not even bother.  For seasonal events (New Years Eve, Christmas parades, and the like), I submit them, knowing they have potential in future years.  I have some of those that have sold reliably every year for 5+ years.  Nothing on them for 11 months, then all sales in the month leading up to the next occurrence of the event.

New promocodes from our elves

I got in via Facebook (a way I REALLY don't like using...).  tried to buy your 100/mo starter for 10EU.  Entered a 10EU credit, and it still went to PayPal to try and bill me 10EU...?

Last time I tried to use SSmtr, it had a lot of bugs, so I waited until now.  Looks like it still has plenty of bugs if the sign-up is any indication...

It would be interesting to know of those 200 million plus images, the percentage that have sold at least once.

One of the forums I frequent is run by a guy that has frequent interactions with the heads of Shutterstock, Adobe stock, etc.  After a meeting with at a big electronics show earlier this year in New York, he reported some key info.

The SS rep stated that 90% of their photos never have a single sale.  The other agencies agreed that was about the right ratio.

They then went to say that the trick is to figure out WHICH 10% will sell. They are each trying different approaches to try to raise that percentage, but none have come up with a workable mechanism yet.