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

There is an issue with uploading files to some agencies, mainly for Fotolia and iStock. Sometimes (not consistently and for some customers only) files are uploaded more than once, causing duplicate entries on photographers' account. We are going to fix it soon.

UPDATE:
This issue is fixed in v1.5.2 released today.
Download the latest version

We extend Fotolia statistics support in v1.5.1, including now the statistics for all international customers that use local Fotolia sites in their languages, like es.fotolia.com, de.fotolia.com or fr.fotolia.com.

Additionally, Fotolia statistics in ProStockMaster will show now the number of the current month downloads and the monthly earnings.

Recently Fotolia.com has switched from HTTP to HTTPS login, thus providing some additional security to photographers' credentials at login. This was accompanied with change in login parameters, so ProStockMaster could not work with Fotolia anymore.

The new version 1.4.1 released today follows the Fotolia's change and fixes Fotolia login/statisitcs/uploads.
The auto-update should automatically update your software with the latest components, so there is no need to re-download / re-install the porgram.
Thank you all who alerted me about issues with Fotolia: Jack, Les, Einar and others.

What's inside:
1. Fotolia uploads can go now either to "unfinished" zone (like it was in all versions prior to v1.3.3) or directly-to-approval-queue (like it was introduced in v1.3.3).
This behavior is controlled by Preferences and can be manually changed for any group of files your going to upload to Fotolia.

For instance, if the files you are about to upload require model releases, you can select uploading to "unfinished" zone, uplaod the files and then add model releases. Alternatively, if you are going to upload e.g. nature shots, you can upload directly to approval queue, thus saving significant amount of dirty work at Fotolia web.

2. Issues with BigStockPhoto uploads, caused by the changes at BigStockPhoto web, are fixed now.

What's new in this upcoming update?

First, Fotolia uploads and statistics will come back. It seems I am going to implement this stuff without using their API, since Fotolia guys are sooo slow in replying emails. Could it be caused by their V2 web site which is unreasonably slow too?

Indeed, the site features almost the same functionality like the previous version and with very similar look and feel. They claim it took them 1 year to develop V2. Add here a week or so while Fotolia web was off-line, loosing their money...
And now "completly redesigned" Fotolia V2 still lacks some basic "must-to-have" functionality (IMO), e.g. "Search-in-Forums". (Should I use Google for that? - come on, guys!)
Personally, I would expect getting something better than their current V2 after all these efforts.
Hopefully, it will change soon. I believe that Fotolia guys have a pool of features that they are going to implement basing on their new infrastructure.

So, meanwhile I am still waiting for my Fotolia V2 API developer key and my customers are waiting to upload their work to Fotolia. It seems I do not have much choice at the moment, so I'll go for a proven "straight-forward" implementation technique - and this is what will be included in upcoming v1.3.3.

Next, I am working on speeding up the images preparation procedure. More specifically, on speeding up multiple images selection for the upload.

As you know, ProStockMaster sports 2 options for the files upload: uploading a folder and uploading "a manual selection".
Uploading a folder is wizard-based procedure allowing you to upload a folder full of your stock images just in a few seconds clicking on "Next"->"Next"->"Next".

Uploading a selection is also quite fast. However, making the selection is not fast at all.
You have open each file, add title, description, keywords and select sites for uploading. This is a one-by-one procedure, which can be considerable time consuming.
In order to speed up the selection and image preparation process, I am going to add some new functionality to "Copy" button in the main IPTC panel.

"Copy" button will open a wizard asking you if you wish to copy metadata to or from currently open image. Another option will allow you to add sites selection as a part of data that will be copied.

If you select "from this image to other multiple images" the next wizard window will allow you to select multiple files located anywhere in your system. Once you finish your selection, IPTC metadata and/or sites selection will be copied from the currently open file to the selected files.

I believe it significantly speeds up preparation of multiple images that are going to be uploaded on the same sites. If these images represent a set with the same subject, copying IPTC data from the "master" image to all the rest can also help.

Alternatively, if you select "to this" image the wizard will allow you to select a single image on your system, which will be used as a source for IPTC data and/or for the site selection.

If you use ProStockMaster to upload your files to Fotolia, please note that the current implementation of Fotolia web site requires you to pass web-based training wizard if you never upload files to Fotolia via HTTP (i.e. from your web browser). Even if you already have many files uploaded to Fotolia by FTP, and even if they are already accepted and are selling on Fotolia, you are still required (!!) to pass this web training first time you use HTTP upload. If you did not pass the training Fotolia's web site will NOT allow ProStockMaster to upload your files.

You can check if you have already passed the training some time ago by login to Fotolia and pointing your browser to http://www.fotolia.com/user/foto_add.php
If you see there a page with "Start Trainig" button - you did not pass the trainig, please do it now. If you did not do it your ProStockMaster will be unable to work with Fotolia.
If you see a page allowing you to select a file on you hard disk and than upload it to Fotolia - you have already passed the training and there is nothing more to do.

UPDATE: iStockPhoto uploads are fixed, Fotolia staistics is tuned. All these in the latest release 1.2.1
Either upgrade http://www.prostockmaster.com/upgrade.htm or download http://www.prostockmaster.com/download.php to get the all latest fixes and changes.
- David

Recently I was informed about a problem with iStockPhoto uploads. I am going to issues the fix in the next 24h - please stay tuned. If you have any question / suggestion please email me at support(at)prostockmaster(dot)com

And thanks to Martin who pointed me out to that problem!

This Service Pack upgrades the application from version 1.1 to version 1.2.
The upgrade is free of charge and available for both evaluation and commercial license holders.

ProStockMaster v1.2 Release Notes
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1. New functionality added:

1.1 "Upload Folder" wizard ("Tools/Upload Folder..." menu)
Allows upload all the images in the selected folder and, optionally, subfolders to the selected stock photo sites.
All files in the selected folder(s) are verified for IPTC data vailidity before upload. Files with invalid IPTC data
(e.g. with no keywords) will be rejected from the list of files to be uploaded.
The upload window can be minimized or send to the background and the photographer can continue
working with ProStockMaster during the upload (be carefull not modfying the uploading files)

1.2 "Generate" button in the main IPTC panel activated, keywords generation functionality added.
Type a couple of keywords for your new image, than press "Generate" and wait for a few seconds.
The keywords text area will be filled by the additional popular keywords associated with the keywords you typed.

1.3 Two more stock photography sites are suported: Fotolia and LuckyOliver. Go to "Tools/Sites..." to activate them both.

1.4 "Help/Software Updates..." menu is partially implemented: if selected, the applicatioon will look if a new version is available on http://www.prostockmaster.com
However, the download and install of the upgarde is not automated yet - if available, the upgrade should be done manually.

1.5 Added support for proxy with authorization. In order to switch proxy support on, add proxy parameters to "PorStockMaster.properties" file.
The format is name=value, one parameter on each line, like it is shown below:
proxy.user=username
proxy.password=pswd
proxy.host=hostname
proxy.port=8080

2. User interface is adjusted for the high-resolution monitors.
Follow resolutions are supported now:
1920x1200, 1920x1080, 1680x1050, 1600x1200, 1440x900, 1280x1024, 1280x800, 1280x720, 1024x768, 800x600

3. Search cancel confirmation is removed as unnecessary

4. Evaluation license changed: 30 days expiration only (no upload limits anymore)

5. Issues solved:
3.1 "Application failed: null" error message during the program installation on non-US Mac OSX with Java 1.4 and 1.5 and on non-US Windows with Java 1.4
3.2 Attempt to close the main window by pressing "X" in the top window bar did not show the confirmation dialog and did not save the UI settings