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 08/17/2006 10:39:59 AM · #876
Well duh! That's why I said it works well for ME!!! :o)
PS I'm sometimes crap at posting stuff too but between hub and I we usually manage to post stuff pretty quickly.

Message edited by author 2006-08-17 10:40:33.
 09/02/2006 01:17:39 PM · #877
Here's a snippit from Alamy's September newsletter regarding the upload system.

At present we're carrying out extensive internal testing. Following this we'll be carrying out some testing with a small group of Alamy Contributors at our offices as well as another small group of Contributors based at their homes or offices. This will allow us to test AlamyUpload in a real environment with a sample of our future users. Our final testing stage will be to trial the facility with a group of 150 contributors, chosen based on worldwide location in order to represent Alamy's contributor base.

Once we're happy that AlamyUpload meets with our Contributors' requirements, we will begin rolling it out gradually. We will not release the facility to all contributors at once, in order that we can be confident that the system continues to operate smoothly with a large number of users. We'll be letting you know the timescales for the roll-out as soon as we can.

09/02/2006 03:43:10 PM · #878
Ugh- that could take forever. I've been holding off submitting again til this goes thru. Oh well, guess I got some more waiting to do! :0P
 09/10/2006 04:11:56 AM · #879
I've been holding off on submitting, too, until they get their crap together with uploading... but I think I'm going to go ahead and submit a collection.

I have a selection of my 10 best photos, upsized in CS2 to just over 48MB using bicubic. Do we need to have model releases for the initial QC batch?

thanks,
Lisa
 09/10/2006 08:40:35 AM · #880
Originally posted by TG73:
I've been holding off on submitting, too, until they get their crap together with uploading... but I think I'm going to go ahead and submit a collection.

I have a selection of my 10 best photos, upsized in CS2 to just over 48MB using bicubic. Do we need to have model releases for the initial QC batch?

thanks,
Lisa


They never ask you to submit model releases. However, for any photos where you need a release, you should keep one on file. Once your photos pass QC, you can update each one before they go live into their collection. This is where you specify model released or not, and the license type (RF or L).

- John
09/11/2006 07:40:28 PM · #881
I shipped off my QC CD this afternoon.

Wish me luck!
 09/11/2006 07:46:14 PM · #882
Luck!
 09/13/2006 05:37:19 AM · #883
After submitting to alamy for ages, I have finally got a sale through MyLoupe also! so if there is anyone out there that deal thru myloupe also, stick with it, business must be picking up for them.
 09/13/2006 06:04:22 AM · #884
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 09/15/2006 02:56:44 AM · #885
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 09/16/2006 04:25:39 AM · #886
Originally posted by WGF Images:
After submitting to alamy for ages, I have finally got a sale through MyLoupe also! so if there is anyone out there that deal thru myloupe also, stick with it, business must be picking up for them.


That's good to hear, I was thinking about dropping them because it's a hassle to prep so many different sizes of images. Maybe the newsletter they send out monthly is truthfull about the rising sales (sometimes I wonder because their home page is lame and never changes).

I finally made my first Alamy sale. I was surprised to see my first sale be for over $1600!!!! And then my second the day after for only $56. They made up for having to wait a year (partly because they kept screwing up my submissions).
 09/16/2006 07:41:28 AM · #887
Originally posted by briphoto:
Originally posted by WGF Images:
After submitting to alamy for ages, I have finally got a sale through MyLoupe also! so if there is anyone out there that deal thru myloupe also, stick with it, business must be picking up for them.


That's good to hear, I was thinking about dropping them because it's a hassle to prep so many different sizes of images. Maybe the newsletter they send out monthly is truthfull about the rising sales (sometimes I wonder because their home page is lame and never changes).

I finally made my first Alamy sale. I was surprised to see my first sale be for over $1600!!!! And then my second the day after for only $56. They made up for having to wait a year (partly because they kept screwing up my submissions).

do you mind showing us which photo iit was?
 09/16/2006 09:34:27 AM · #888
Originally posted by briphoto:


I finally made my first Alamy sale. I was surprised to see my first sale be for over $1600!!!! And then my second the day after for only $56. They made up for having to wait a year (partly because they kept screwing up my submissions).


Congrats!
09/18/2006 05:23:17 AM · #889
Originally posted by maggieddd:

do you mind showing us which photo iit was?


It is this photo (I'm linking to it here on DPC, not on Alamy)-
09/26/2006 02:04:20 PM · #890
I'm very fortunate to have bumped into this forum and this thread in particular. I have been involved with photography for some 36 years and recently started to think about selling stock photos.

After reading much of this thread and learning from you guys, I decided to send off a test CD to Alamy this morning. I hope they will accept my images as I upsixed these from D100, D70 and even a D2H (testing the water). If accepted, I should go get a 10MP Nikon body to make life easier for myself, although I have Genuine Fractals, PS CS2, Photozoom etc.

I must thank everyone for their generous contributions here and hope I can also share some of my experiences in due course.

Henry
 09/26/2006 02:43:58 PM · #891
Mailed a CD today. Hopefully my little 5MP P&S cuts it for the quality control.
 09/26/2006 05:51:52 PM · #892
Got my CD off last week, waiting for them to clear QC, anyone with an idea how long it takes at the moment?

Andy
 09/26/2006 06:03:31 PM · #893
Looking at our submission history, a little under a month from the received date until processing is complete - not sure if QC is much quicker (or slower!) than that at the moment, for what it's worth our QC went through in a little over two weeks, but that was a long time ago.
 09/26/2006 08:23:12 PM · #894
Hi Everybody;

Don't get so hung up on the time it takes for the mail, processing times, QC times etc. etc. Just put it out of your mind for a while and go out and shoot, shoot, shoot, and edit, edit, edit. Get your next CD/DVD ready. The times for these various functions at Alamy vary a lot. So don't sweat it. It will get there.

Cheers
Don
09/26/2006 08:26:06 PM · #895
After sending in over 10 dvd / cd's Alamy finally (or the postoffice) lost my last disk. Never made it to them. Well that wasted a full month waiting for nothing. Hope the next ones makes there ok.
 09/26/2006 08:29:03 PM · #896
Oh ya, Also one sale through Alamy and two through Myloupe this year.
 09/26/2006 08:44:35 PM · #897
Originally posted by PhantomEWO:
After sending in over 10 dvd / cd's Alamy finally (or the postoffice) lost my last disk. Never made it to them. Well that wasted a full month waiting for nothing. Hope the next ones makes there ok.

Once you're past the QC stage you can hope that they get their upload system working soon.
 09/26/2006 10:06:11 PM · #898
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by PhantomEWO:
After sending in over 10 dvd / cd's Alamy finally (or the postoffice) lost my last disk. Never made it to them. Well that wasted a full month waiting for nothing. Hope the next ones makes there ok.

Once you're past the QC stage you can hope that they get their upload system working soon.


Well I'm well past the QC stage. I'm thinking that I might wrap the CD case in too much packing tape and the guy at Alamy got tired of trying to open the package last time ;) ... or maybe it just got lost in the mail. Oh well I'm sure that mine is not the first that got lost on the way to Alamy. That is one of the reasons they are going to the upload system. Not sure if I'll like it any better. Sending 8 to 12 Mb per photo will be very time consuming and many high speed carriers are limited to 10 mb file size already. I expect there will be real issues unless they again reduce the file size requirement
 09/26/2006 10:11:42 PM · #899
There should be no size limit to an FTP transfer -- you can leave it running overnight.

Also, they allow TIFFs with LZW applied -- a typical 48MB TIFF will probably get down under 10-12MB anyway. Additionally, they will probably allow ZIP archives containing several TIFFs, which should realize similar size savings of 25-90% of the original.
 09/26/2006 10:16:22 PM · #900
All they now accept is JPG's saved at value 12. I don't think they will go back to TIFF files will they?
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