ImageSpan has just launched a Batch Edit feature for its LicenseStream service. This new process streamlines the entire editing process in cases where content already has been uploaded to LicenseStream.

More specifically, the new feature lets you select a batch of content that already has been uploaded and edit, add keywording or other metadata, and apply various types of licenses to it. You may also take a previously uploaded and prepared batch of content and create a gallery of images, or upload the content to an existing store. Previously, subscribers could batch edit content only after uploading but not after preparing the content.

Here’s a step-by-step guide to using this handy new time-saving feature:

1. Prepare Content: From the ‘Prepare Content’ page you are now able to apply a License Model to the selected uploaded content, as well as add the selected content directly to a Store and/or Gallery from here. 

• After upload you will see your content on the ‘Prepare Content’ page (or you can access this page by clicking on ‘Add Content’, then clicking the ‘Prepare Content’ button on the right side of the page).
• Apply your metadata as usual (if the metadata has previously been embedded via an Editing program as IPTC or XML, it will have been imported into the appropriate metadata fields).
• Under the ‘Allowed License Models’ section select the models you would like to apply: 
  • Rights Managed content: By default all License Models are checked, but you can uncheck any License Model you do not want to offer your clients. The following five License Models are available to your Buyers: 
    • Quick License: Broad License based on PLUS standards
    • Plus Packs: PLUS Packs offer the flexibility of broadly defined licenses in a form that is simple, straightforward and transparent.
    • Custom License: Detailed Custom License based on PLUS standards
    • Saved License: If you have saved preset Rights Managed Licenses you can apply them from here
    • Request License: User can send you an e-mail request to negotiate pricing (this option cannot be removed and will always be available to your clients) 
  •  Royalty Free/Rights Simple content: When you select ‘Royalty Free’ or ‘Rights Simple’ as your License Type, only the Royalty Free or Rights Simple option will appear as a default. 
• Under the ‘Store & Gallery’ header select the appropriate Store and/or Gallery where you would like your content to appear
  • Store: If you have not yet created a Store, please go to the ‘Business/Store Manager > Store Manager’ to create your Store first, then come back to the ‘Prepare Content’ page to add the content. You can also add the content to a Store from the ‘Manage Content’ page later.
  •  Gallery: Select an existing Gallery or click on ‘Create New Gallery’ to add your content to a new Gallery.
•  Click ‘Prepare Content’ to activate your content.

2. Batch Edit: From the ‘Manage Content’ page you can now select multiple content and add it to the Batch Content Editor to add/update metadata, apply a License Model and add the content to a Store and/or Gallery.

• Go to ‘Manage Content’
• Select the content you’d like to edit
• Go to ‘Actions > Add Selected to > Batch Content Editor
• Here you can add/update your metadata, change the License Models (see details above) and add your content to a Store and/or Gallery (see details above)
• Click on ‘Save Information’ to apply the changes

 For more information on this process and other helpful tips you can visit our online help guide. 

As you already know the ‘Market Content’ section helps you create html code that you can paste into your own website or blog. With this code, you can create thumbnails of your images that link directly back to your LicenseStream account. That way, anyone, anywhere in the world who sees one of your thumbnails can click on the image or related link button to begin licensing on the spot.

But did you know that you can also:

•  Use the html code to link to your licensing page from your Flickr images?
•  Use larger, preview-sized images instead of thumbnails to link back to your licensing page?
•  Link directly to your licensing page from your own or another website?

In each of these cases, all you need to do is modify the html code we provide to make sure it links back to the correct content – usually a licensing page within your LicenseStream store. Here are a few quick examples and tips on leveraging HTML code to better market your content.

Link from Flickr

1.   Say an image buyer for a travel agency finds your amazing image of underwater diving off the coast of Hawaii on Flickr. To make it easy and seamless for them to license that image, simply provide a link that will take them from the Flickr image directly back to your LicenseStream account (add the html code to the description field for the image). Before adding the code that follows below, modify it by replacing the image ID after id= with your own image ID from the html code provided in the Market Content area:

<a href="http://www.licensestream.com/LicenseStream2/Shared/Dispatcher.aspx?id=cfb140f7-f793-4a2e-bec9-830f7aa5d1c2" rel="nofollow">License this image</a>

Once it is modified, add it to the description field for the image.
Example from Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/uschi1306/3725097329/in/set-72157621406631921/

Showcase Your Photography

2.    If you have a visually superb photograph that you want to showcase, you may want to display  larger images instead of thumbnails. To ensure that anyone clicking on that larger image can begin licensing it with a mouse click, simply modify the html code by replacing the text ‘Thumbnails’ with ‘UserComps’ in your html code:

<a href="http://www.licensestream2.com/LicenseStream2/Shared/Dispatcher.aspx?id=3071c372-1531-4c0c-8d58-9d1b6423f2fa"><img src="http://www.licensestream2.com/LicenseStream2/ContentStorage/47/

UserComps/fdemp5bb.jpg></a>

Example of a linkback from a larger image:

http://www.uschigerschner.com/PhotoArchive.html

Link from your Own (or Another) Website

3.   If you have a LicenseStream account but have built your own online presence elsewhere, it’s easy to link to your LicenseStream account from an image you are hosting directly on your own website. All you have to do is modify the html code below by replacing the image ID after id= with your own image ID from your html code:

<a href="http://www.licensestream.com/LicenseStream2/Shared/Dispatcher.aspx?id=2688b5bc-dfe0-418a-9c8e-ab0710525730">License this image</a>

Example of a linkback from another website:

http://www.uschigerschner.com/index.html

liveBooks users please note: Most liveBooks sites are created using Flash. As a result, you will not be able to link back to specific content in your LicenseStream account using the html code. Instead, you can simply add a link to your LicenseStream store from your liveBooks site.

As always, please feel free to contact support@licensestream.com with any questions or feedback.