These are the release notes for the previous version of ProStockMaster. Here are the latest release notes.

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.

1. Application performance, preview and thumbnails display speed is 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.

2. 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.

3. "Select/Unselect All" check box added, allowing quickly select/unselect all agencies for each image

4. Uploads reliability significantly improved.

   1. PSM will now verify your login credentials for any site both at the time of the agency selection and during the upload process.

   2. 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)

5. Total redesign of keywording functionality, adding new extremely powerful "Manage Keywords" dialog and multiple context menus

1. Built-in translation for any keyword, either entered from the keyword or exported from a file. 23 input languages supported

2. "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 "Generate" functionality described below.

3. "Generate" functionality improvements:

1. Generate 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

2. Generate more keywords right from the generated keywords using context menus directly in keywords lists

1. Generate from a single keyword (this is the recommended practice)

2. Generate from a keyphrase or multiple comma-separated keywords. This method will bring you much less but more relevant results. Sometimes no keywords matching a keyphrase can be found, so keywords generation from just one keyword is definitely the most recommended practice

5. Import keywords from a CSV file with optional "on-the-fly" translation

6. 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")

7. 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

8. Extract keywords from an image (IPTC)

9. 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.

10. ISO-8859-1 (ISOLatin) IPTC support - the ability to retrieve and write IPTC keywords into the images in the majority of Western languages

11. 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.

6. Completely new Look and Feel and multiple Graphic User Interface changes

7. The thumbnials pane can be resized now, thus switching between "filmstrip view" and "table view".

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. "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 ProStcokMaster 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. Logging

    1. "View log" menu added - open and review the log

    2. Logging level menu allows to switch between normal and detailed logging

15. Top-level application menus are redesigned, new menu items added

16. "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

17. Upload confirmation dialog changed to provide visual information (thumbnails lists) for both "Upload->Folder" and "Upload->Selected Images" menus.

18. 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.

19. Simultaneous upload of multiple images to StockXpert - only 1 image uploaded: bug fixed