Release Notes
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Note: The auto-upgrade for most of releases is incremental and will work fine for a few latest versions only. If you got some old version of ProStockMaster it is highly recommended to download the complete archive instead of running the auto-upgrade procedure.
Release Notes for v1.6.3 - May 5, 2009
Be sure you RESTART PSM after the auto-upgrade and READ THIS blog post on this release: http://blog.prostockmaster.com/shutterstock-upload-photos-export-iptc-e-3
What's new in a nutshell:
1. Shutterstock uploads switched to FTP.
2. “Export Metadata” dialog added in “File->Export Metadata” menu. It creates a CSV file with JPG IPTC metadata and a few more file parameters for all JPGs in a specified folder. Optionally, works recursively on all subfolders of the specified folder.
3. Fixed an annoying bug causing thumbnails not to be displayed in many cases
4. EXIF reading is back
5. Manage metadata – copying data between images: verified & OK. Also the dialog will close now when a user press OK in the “applied” confirmation message.
6. Alamy uploads: only one image can be uploaded. The same is correct for Alamay uploads from their web either with Java applet or with Alamy ActiveX control. Seems to be a problem with their web server. More info: http://blog.prostockmaster.com/sell-photos-alamy-batch-upload
Release Notes for v1.6.2 - March 11, 2009
Alamy login and uploads fix.
Release Notes for v1.6.1 - March 6, 2009
This release switches Dreamstime uploads to FTP and fixes Canstock uploads issue. 25 more languages added for keywords translation.
Release Notes for v1.6.0 - January 19, 2009
This release adds our valued partner PantherMedia to the list of supported agencies. Now you can see per images stats for any image uploaded with PSM to PantherMedia! And as you might expect, the image status will automatically change when the image is accepted by PantherMedia editors. If an image will be rejected, the status will change too, but let's hope that you will never see that icon.
Release Notes for v1.5.5
This release follows recent changes at StockXpert fixing the login, stats and file uploads to StockXpert.
Release Notes for v1.5.4/v1.5.3
This release fixes keywords generation issue, adding more intelligence to the keywords suggestion mechanism. From now on the more descriptive keywords you provide in the search keyphrase the more relevant results you get. In addition, the list of suggested keywords is sorted in relevance order, thus suggesting the most relevant keywords on the top of the list.
This release also include various bug fixes and improvements, including speeding up the thumbnails display.
Release Notes for v1.5.2
This is a minor bug-fixing release, which, among other issues solves the annoying over-delivery problem.
Release Notes for v1.5.1
This software release adds more than 25 new skins and multiple context menus, improves metadata copy to multiple images, allows the images deletion from the upload queue, introduces Cut/Copy/Paste menues for all text fields and adds fine-grained upload progress indicators. List of changes & addition in v1.5.1:
- v1.5.1 introduces 25+ new GUI skins,
available from “View->Skins” menu. The application will start with the default gray Look and Feel skin, but you can change it anytime according to your taste. Here are some samples of GUI skins distributed with ProStockMaster v1.5.1:
Windows Native (Available on Windows only)
Mac Native (Available on Mac only)
Business style (any platform)
Sahara (any platform)
Quaqua (any platform)
Red Marble (any platform)
... more skins are available
- Cut/Copy/Paste and a few more related context menus are added to any text filed in the application
- “Manage Metadata” window now sports Title and Description fields,thus allowing to apply the entire metadata set to the multiple selected images.
This functionality already existed with some different user interface in the v1.4.1, but these “title” and “description” fields were lost in v1.5.0 metadata dialog due to the massive changes in the application. This version brings this stuff back
- Statistics for Fotolia are improved, showing up now the monthly numbers along with the totals.
Also Fotolia statistics are fixed for users registered at all the international Fotolia sites like es.fotolia.com, fotolia.co.uk, de.fotolia.com, it.fotolia.com and fotolia.fr.
- Added the ability to delete images, selected for upload directly from the upload queue for any agency
- Context menu added in the image preview area
- Added an ability to open the full-size viewer by double-clicking on a thumbnail in any upload queue
- Upload progress window is changed to provide fine-granulated upload progress both for the current file and for the entire batch
- Duplicate keywords are now automatically removed from the keywords text pane
in the IPTC panel when you press “Save” button or if you switch to another image, keeping the metadata changes you made.
- “Exit application” confirmation dialog got “never remind me again” check box and can be discarded now.
- “Refresh – F5” button added to multiple menus.
F5 will also work directly from the keyboard allowing you to refresh the currently viewed images folder if its content was changed by an external application.
Release Notes for v1.5.0
This is a major software release which adds many new functions, improves software stability, usability and performance and fixes many internal issues. Large parts of code were completely redesigned for flexibility, new functionality and speed. Context menus added in many graphic user interface areas (Right mouse button on Windows / Ctrl + click on Mac)
ProStockMaster v1.5 is the first in the world software which implements our "intelligent multi-threading"
technology which we have developed for a graphic-intensive pure-Java applications.
So if you got a modern multi-CPU computer hardware (e.g. Intel Core Duo / Duo 2, Intel Quad, multi-CPU AMD or similar)
you can benefit from the unleashed power of ProStockMaster capable of doing many things simultaneously.
- Application performance, preview and thumbnails display speed are
significantly improved. Note, that the first-time image access will always be slower since the software builds the images thumbnails and register the data in the database. All the later display requests for the same thumbnail will work fast because the thumbnail has been already created and cached.
- Ability to alter upload date, time and upload status for any image and
agency. Together with ability to edit number of downloads and earnings it gives you full flexibility and complete control on the image history and archive statuses.
- "Select/Unselect All" check box added, allowing quickly select/unselect all agencies for each image
- Uploads reliability significantly improved.
PSM will now verify your login credentials for any site both at the time of the agency selection and during the upload process.
If the upload process fails because of the network error (which is quite a typical issue with long uploads and not-so-stable networks), PSM will retry uploading the failed file a number of times and will gracefully inform you if the application will be still unavailable to upload the file after a few retries. The application will continue trying to upload other files to that agency, if possible (i.e. no exit if one file fails)
- Total redesign of keywording functionality, adding new extremely
powerful "Manage Metadata" dialog and multiple context menus
Built-in translation for any keyword, either entered from the keyword or exported from a file.
Support of 23 input languages
- "Back translation" for the selected keyword from English to
your input language on a mouse click These three functions above allow you describing the image in your native language with instant translation to English and help provided by "Suggest!" functionality described below.
- "Suggest!" functionality improvements:
Suggestion with "on-the-fly" translation: now the keywords can be entered in any supported language. They will be translated on-the-fly and for their English translation more matching English keywords will be selected
Suggest more keywords right from the generated keywords using context menus right on the keywords lists
Two general suggestion modes:
Suggest more for a single keyword
Suggest more for a keyphrase or multiple comma-separated keywords (recommended). The more descriptive keywords you provide the more relevant results you get
- Import keywords from a CSV file with optional "on-the-fly" translation
- Export keywords to a CSV file. They will be saved in UTF-16. These
Import/Export functions allow you to manage an external set of keywords templates in any language (see the "Categories tree" sample above), exporting them with or without translation any time you want to apply them or use other images as keywords templates (using "Extract from image")
- Change keywords order, moving them up and down
in the keywords list, thus putting most significant keywords at the beginning of the list. Some agencies takes in account the keywords order while performing their database queries
- Extract keywords from an image (IPTC)
- Applying selected keywords set to multiple selected images. This
function together with "Extract" above replaces previous "Copy Metadata" functionality. That's why the 'Copy' button in the main IPTC panel was removed as unnecessary.
- ISO-8859-1 (ISOLatin) IPTC support - the ability to retrieve and write
IPTC keywords into the images in the majority of Western languages
- Ability to translate all or some selected metadata for the images located in the
selected folder, creating the new set of images with translated metadata in the chosen destination. This function allows you to keep multiple sets with the same images with keywords and other metadata in various languages, offering them for sale in different countries through the local agencies.
- Completely new Look and Feel and multiple Graphic User Interface changes
- The thumbnails pane can be resized now, thus switching between "filmstrip view" and "table view".
- All the file chooser windows (any Open, Import, Export etc dialog) have the Preview window now,
showing the thumbnail of selected file even before the final selection is confirmed
- Basic file management functionality added: Copy, Move, Delete
images through the thumbnails context menu. Their new location and status will be registered in the ProStockMaster DB accordingly.
- Now you can switch between different application' databases. If
one day you move your DB to another location PSM will ask you on startup where to find it's database and will work with the DB located anywhere. You can verify the location of your current DB anytime opening "Tools->Switch DB" menu. You can now perform periodic DB backups and restore the DB on a computer system failure, pointing PSM to the restored DB location.
- "Connect" button is added in the initial installation dialog, allowing to
connect to the existing ProStockMaster database if a previous PSM database already exists on your computer system.
Windows users: installation script already does it for you, if you install the new version of ProStockMaster into the same directory where the previous version was located. So, typically on Windows there is no need to connect manually to your previous DB.
All users (Mac, Windows and Linux) can choose now the previous DB location during the installation of new version of PSM or by selecting another DB location later on, using "Tools->Switch DB" menu.
- Database clean-up and maintenance function added, cleaning-up the DB
from non-existing images and re-building the DB indexes for the faster DB access. It is recommended to run this procedure periodically.
- Full-size image viewer: movement option added with "press-n-drag"
mouse button (Photoshop-style) for easier and faster image reviewing at the full size.
- "View log" menu added
- Top-level application menus are redesigned, new menu items added
- "Upload->Folder" functionality redesign: now all the images are selected
according to their upload statuses and images that were already uploaded to some sites will not be re-uploaded to these sites if their status remains "uploaded". If you wish to re-upload such images you have to change their status manually</P>
- Upload confirmation dialog changed to provide visual information
(thumbnails lists) for both "Upload->Folder" and "Upload->Selected Images" menus.
- Alt+Click on image thumbnail shows the most important image information:
exposure parameters, ISO, focal distance, last modification and creation dates, image size in MB and MP, and more.
- Simultaneous upload of multiple images to StockXpert - only 1 image uploaded: bug fixed
