In this release:

• iStock login fixed again.
• Statistics for 123rf & Fotolia fixed. Note that 123rf stats show up quite slow due to their server speed.
• Fixed: “99% upload – read timeout” error while uploading large files to Panthermedia.
• Removed some internal limitations from the free version.
• Mac: system / hidden folders will not show up in the file tree.
• Mac: some customers reported they could not run PSM 1.7 on their Macs, typically Leopard & Snow Leopard OS. This was caused by improper application packaging for Mac. Get v1.7.1 - it should run OK now.
• Linux releases & Linux support is discontinued from this release on. We prefer to focus on Mac and Win OS only.
• Shutterstock & Dreamstime FTP uploads: large / long batches interrupts fixed

This releases switches Dreamstime uploads to FTP and fixes a small issue which recently stopped Canstockphoto uploads. There is no change in your Canstock workflow, but for the Dreamstime uploads you have to add your FTP credentials now.
In order to do that, please login to Dreamstime web and go to
http://www.dreamstime.com/ftpupload.php
At the right part of the page you will see text similar to this:

When you open Dreamstime credentials dialog in PSM v1.6.1 ("Upload->Stock Agnecies" menu in PSM, click on the checkbutton next to Dreamstime name), the follow window opens:

Note that ProStockMaster already fills in for you the Dreamstime FTP server name and the correct server' FTP port, as well as takes care of entering Passive FTP mode when connected to Dreamstime FTP server. So the only two FTP parameters that you still have to provide are your FTP user ID from the Dreamstime web (see the image above) and your FTP password.
For Dreamstime, your FTP password is identical to your web password (please verify that your personal FTP details on Dreamstime web confirm that).

All you have to do to activate your FTP uploads to Dreamstime is copying your FTP user ID from Dreamstime web page directly to ProStockMaster GUI (you can use CTRL-C/CTRL-V keyboards sequences for bullet-proof Copy/Paste) and providing PSM with your FTP password (which seems to be the same like your web password).

You will still need to provide your web credentials in the top form of PSM GUI in order to get your Dreamstime statistics through PSM HTTP connection.

Let's see what else was added in v1.6.1.
This version sports 25 more languages in keywords translations, so together with previously introduced 23 most popular languages PSM is now capable of translating your keywords from 48 different languages.

In addition to the West European and North American languages set, we support now most East European languages (e.g. Hungarian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian) , accomplished by a nice selection of Asian languages like Turkish, Thai and Uzbek. We keep our target in mind: photographers should be able to describe their creations using their own words in their native language. We at ProStockMaster try to help them with this target, taking care of all the rest of the dirty and time consuming images keywording work.

Note, that ProStockMaster inserts your keywords directly into the IPTC segment of your image, thus never touching your pixels. Unfortunately, not all the applications available on the market today behave in the same way.

For instance, you use such a high-quality and high-performance tool like Adobe Photoshop to edit image' metadata each time opening your JPG, modifying keywords and closing the file back you can end up with the image of significantly lower quality than your original. Each time you use Photoshop to edit anything in your JPG Photoshop decompress JPG to be represented as bitmap RGB data. When you are done with your modifications and save a JPG file Photoshop re-compresses the data again and saves it as JPG file.

Thus, such a simple and intuitive Photoshop "Open a JPG -> add-metadata-with-File_Info -> Save JPG & Close" flow of operations becomes unsafe in terms of the image quality. Doing such modifications frequently on a certain file you can easily end up with visual artifacts and other image quality degradation results. If you want to stick with modifying your images metadata with Photoshop you better switch to the safe RAW-based workflow where no de/re-compression applies.

Alternatively, you can use ProStockMaster which even in it free version combines the convenience of multilingual translations, keywords suggestions and multi-agencies uploads for your stock photo images. All that without touching a single pixel of your valued artwork.

Dreamstime adds a captcha to images uploads via HTTP, thus intentionally or unintentionally blocking PSM uploads.

The captcha adds a lot of work for regular web-based uploads since the contributors should now enter permanently changing captcha values for every new image they upload through Dreamstime web.

I sent an email to Dreamstime regarding this new feature and I hope this issue will be sorted out soon.
I will inform you how we proceed on this matter as soon as I get a new information.

I am happy to tell you that we and the Dreamstime management came to the mutual understanding regarding this issue. Dreamstime explained to the public that the recent web-based blocking was not intended to block ProStockMaster customers specifically, but was a general attempt to block any type of automatic software that unreasonably overloaded their servers.

Knowing that, we agreed that for the meantime ProStockMaster will switch to FTP uploads instead of HTTP uploading path. It also looks possible that the HTTP-based PSM service, which gives more control and more info for the Dreamstime customers than FTP uploads will come back later on, this time using some different tools / APIs. This is a subject to the availability of the development resources at Dreamstime and ProStockMaster.

I am happy to see that this issue is resolved in a goodwill. The software update follows.