Free Software For Selling Photos Online
Issues
Alamy stock photography agency login
Jan 27th
If you can login to Alamy web, but for some reason you can not login with the same user name and password into your Alamy account through ProStockMaster application, take a look at the length of your password.
It seems that in the past this royalty free and rights managed stock photography agency allowed long passwords, but one day their developers decided that they do not want anything longer than 12 letters. So, instead of asking you to replace your old long password with some shorter characters sequence, Alamy developers just decided to cut off your old long password to fit their new 12-letters standard, simple like that.
Do you think you log into Alamy web site with your old trusted “myAlamyVerySecurePassword”?
Wrong! Actually, you login there with just “myAlamyVeryS” – exactly the first 12 characters, while all the rest of the password is cut off on your login and ignored by Alamy.
That’s why if you try “myAlamyVerySecurePassword” in ProStockMaster you are unable to login into your Alamy account. Instead, you should use just the first 12 characters of your long password. Well, at least until Alamy do anything about that.
StockXpert Issue : UPDATE – FIXED in v1.5.5
Oct 18th
UPDATE: Fixed in v1.5.5 – just released
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Due to the latest changes at StockXpert PSM can not login to their site.
We are working on this issue and the fix will be ready in the next 24h.
Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience.
Changes in stock photos keywording algorithm
Oct 12th
UPDATE: v1.5.4 fixes v1.5.3 critical failure
We also speed up the thumbnails display
A word about the stock photos keywords suggestion service:
the keywords list is now sorted in the order of relevance to your search pattern, top-down, thus the most relevant keywords are always on top.
In addition, the logic of suggestion algorithm has been changed – in the older versions of PSM the more keywords you type in the less results you got.
Starting from this version, the more keywords you type in to describe your stock photograph or an illustration, the more relevant results you get, and not necessary less keywords will be suggested.
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v1.5.3 released yesterday has a critical issue:
only the first image in the batch to any agency is uploaded
We will release the fix with v1.5.4 in the next 24h
Further optimization of microstock workflow
Sep 11th
We switched on the auto-upgrade flag for v1.5.1, so if you run a previous version of ProStockMaster the software will offer you to upgrade to the latest 1.5.1.
1.5.1 comes with more exciting microstock tools inside, further optimizing your stock photography workflow.
Again – if you feel that anything went wrong with the upgrade, just download and install the full version of the software on top of your previous version or in parallel to it.
It is correct for both Mac and Windows versions.
StockXpert microstock uploads issue
Jan 29th
v1.4.1 has a flaw with StockXpert uploads – only one first stock photo in the batch is uploaded. All the rest are reported to be uploaded, but never appear on StockXpert web site.
I am going to investigate this problem and once resolved I’ll issue a software update.
Fotolia login, sales stats and stock images uploads fixed
Jan 1st
Recently microstock Fotolia.com has switched their login procedure from HTTP to HTTPS, thus providing some additional security to stock photographers’ credentials at login. This was accompanied with a change in login parameters, so ProStockMaster microstock software could not work with Fotolia stock site anymore.
The new version 1.4.1 released today follows the Fotolia’s change and fixes Fotolia login, sales statistics ans stock photos uploads.
The auto-update should automatically update your microstock application with the latest components, so there is no need to re-download / re-install the program.
Thank you all who alerted me about issues with Fotolia: Jack, Les, Einar and others.
Updated: Java 6 is not supported yet!
Apr 24th
UPDATE:
v1.3 is here and it sports embedded Java, so there are no more issues with variuos Java versions
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v1.2.3 and all the previous version of ProStockMaster were tested with Java 1.4.2 up to Java 5 Update 11.
The application was NOT tested yet with Java 6.
I am already aware of at least one issue with Java 6.
Symptoms:
a) at every run ProStockMaster shows “updated successfully” message and adds 2 more stock sites accounts to the list of existing sites
or
b) if you select a new stock site it is never shown in the sites list under the image in the main window
Important: At the moment ProStockMaster does NOT work properly under Java 6.
This is because of an error in one of the third-party libraries when the application runs within Java 6 virtual machine.
Workaround: until I did not resolve the issue it is recommended to install latest Java 5 update (currently Update 11)
Java 5 Runtime Environment can be downloaded here: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp
