BTW...thanks for the helium and elance references. I'll check them out.

Hey Charlie,

I'll tackle your questions in order. Remember, this is just my experience and may vary a lot from anyone else.

I've actually accelerated my image creation in a few different w ...

Hi Charlie,

You asked questions on a number of threads. So I thought I'd start a new one here that sort of answers all of them from my perspective.

The first few months can seem like an awful l ...

Thanks John,

Today it was a breeze to get on CutCaster and get things loaded. I'm looking forward to my first sales...

Good luck on that server move. Never fun. I owned a company a few y ...

Quick update...

While I was typing the last post, I was able to get in a little deeper. The pages are very slow to load, but it seems that if I reload I can get somewhere. The positive thing ...

Even though my FTP messages said the connection failed...all my images came through. There were 900...so I was happy they didn't get cut midway meaning I would have had to figure out which ones made ...

Just a follow-up. All my images seem to be in place and I'm having no trouble with the site. Maybe just temporary HTML gremlins.

Cheers,

Scott

Hi John...

I've been having some trouble uploading and logging on. have you had any compatibility issues with Safari?

I was able to upload several hundred images...but my FTP connection got cut ...

LO has been consistently offline for the last couple days. I think it's probably gone...

Hi everyone. ShutterStock announced the terms of their raise today which was met with some degree of controversy. Many SS submitters feel the raise is lower than they had hoped and/or expected. Ot ...

Hi everyone...

I want to weigh in on the megapixel discussion. I'm a commercial photographer and am looking to increasingly move my work over to microstock so that I may flee this country and live ...

Hi Lars,

My experience with the relevance function on all the sites is that it can be mystifying. Everyone is using algorithms (not even sure I know how to spell that) and assume they vary a bit. ...

Since my last post, I have been able to log in. It seems like they were just down for a day or so.

I have very good luck with Fotolia. My portfolio is almost 90% people...and that seems to go very well there. In a funny sort of way I think my American sensibilities work well there for the Eastern ...

As of about 8:00 AM this morning I have been unable to log into Lucky Oliver...I can't imagine they would be doing maintenance, so perhaps it's gone.