Deep Meta - an Istock uploading tool
So, you’re using Image Manager to upload to IStock?
1) Shoot yourself in the head because it’s less painful.
2) Go to http://www.deepmeta.com and download the program.
There’s a reason I hated uploading to Istock - it was plain & simple a pain in the butt. With a 20 per…whatever…limit, you never had a good way to know when to submit more, how many slots you had free, etc.
Deep Meta changes a LOT about the way IStock will work for me. I can simple add images (not simple in IM - you had to add them one by one!) Then categorize, add to queue and upload. Deep Meta will submit as many as you can submit (my limit is 20 right now). Then, when you get your emails from Istock about those images, simply enter the program, press F5 to refresh data, it’ll update your statuses of those images, and press “upload” again - all the other images you queued are ready to go! You could have 500 in queue ready to push, all categorized, etc. VERY simple!
Deep Meta tracks a lot of IStock stats but I’m really mainly concerned with getting my images online and Deep Meta makes that SO much easier. So thank you to the creator(s)! I love it!!

Yes, that’s what I use too. Much easier to upload comparing with iStock web interface.
Comment by MikLav — July 4, 2008 @ 9:00 am
Great software, love it..
Comment by Willie B. Thomas — July 7, 2008 @ 2:56 pm
WOW! another nugget from Matt. I will give this baby a go later i think. You are sooo right. IS is a pain but this might just make it bearable!
Thanks.
Steven.
Comment by Steven — July 8, 2008 @ 6:57 am