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In my opinion, the author of this post is bored in life  ;D
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Yes, I was surprised as it's Monday the 18th and about the right time for processing.

Hehe, stock agencies will always let you down whenever you expect anything from them.
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@blvdone

I prefer not to say the precise number but more than 7000

I'm sure your strategy pays off in the short term,we need to see if it pays off in the long term.

for the moment we are still at the beginning,then we will have to see when the competition increases.

However,you may be right,maybe I waste too much time,but I like to put content on sale that I would buy myself.

I also tried a month as a pro plan with Midjourney,because given the speed with which many of you upload,I thought that the outputs of Midjourney were more correct but this is not the case,90% of the contents have generative errors,until now all AI image generators have errors,and many things to improve.

Honestly, there isn't much more to edit AI generated photos other than erasing brand logos in very rare occasions.  I don't waste time tweaking extra/missing fingers or disfigured faces.  I just don't submit those bad ones and generate till I get good ones.  Time is money.  I just try to maximize my output per hour/day.  And based on the number you gave me, my portfolio is making 2x more $$ per photo.  So, no offense, but I know what I'm doing and it's working.  If your photo isn't selling short term, why can you expect them to do well in long term?  It just doesn't make sense unless you are producing seasonal materials way in advance.

And you're right about generating AI images on Midjourney.  Many of the generated images aren't usable.  It takes time to generate images that you want.  You need to work on the prompts and hope AI will give you usable images without extra/missing fingers and limbs.  That's where my time is spent regarding AI image creation.

Yeah, same here. In the beginning I was fixing quite long generative errors until I realized I loose to much time by doing this.
So instead I now first try to formulate a better prompt or search for a better Stable Diffusion model, which generates less errors.
I currently spend max. 2 minutes for retouche after upscaling.

With AI upscaler I even can automatically retouche minor errors or I'm fixing them very rough and quickly and the AI makes the rest.

So it's as you said time is money and you have to maximize it.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Custom License $0.30?
« Last post by Jo Ann Snover on Yesterday at 19:25 »
...- There are several tiers of custom sales - certainly different products on the buyers' side - and all sales within the same group/product come in for the same amount. So, the commissions can't be based on whatever currency the respective buyer pays in, but on US prices in US dollars.

- Those commissions either decline or increase over long periods of time (weeks and even months) and they do so solely in one direction - there aren't any ups and downs - cent by cent and day by day.

There has been discussion about these "custom" royalties in another thread. You can read the other posts in that thread as well, but I think the gist of the puzzle about the royalties we see is that there are "Pro" plans (enterprise customers) which include unlimited stock downloads

https://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/i-see-many-$1-40-royalty-per-photo-sale-this-year-anybody-noticed-too/msg598710/#msg598710

Mat had said in a different thread that the nominal "price the customer pays" for these downloads is calculated daily for all users of that particular plan. We then get 33% of that.

There appear to be several tiers of these unlimited plans as the royalties cluster around the $1.xx mark or the $0.3x mark. Today's royalties were $0.96 and $0.35 (for the custom section). These plans aren't new, but when I looked at the pages advertising them recently, I was pretty galled to see customers advised this was a way to lower their overall stock spend!

https://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/i-see-many-$1-40-royalty-per-photo-sale-this-year-anybody-noticed-too/msg598710/#msg598710

Mat has been asked repeatedly about whether there is any floor for these custom royalties, and each time he has repeated that we get 33% of what the customer pays (whether that's a constructive price or an actual payment).

Unlimited download plans are never a good deal from the contributor's point of view
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Adobe Stock / Re: Custom License $0.30?
« Last post by Anja_Kaiser on Yesterday at 17:50 »
I'm bringing this up again, because I still don't understand what these custom commissions are based on, like, *at all*.

Here's what I see and my peers in our German forums report as well:

- There are several tiers of custom sales - certainly different products on the buyers' side - and all sales within the same group/product come in for the same amount. So, the commissions can't be based on whatever currency the respective buyer pays in, but on US prices in US dollars.

- Those commissions either decline or increase over long periods of time (weeks and even months) and they do so solely in one direction - there aren't any ups and downs - cent by cent and day by day.

First, I thought this was due to exchange rate differences between Euros and Dollars, but the difference is *way* to high for that. E.g. the group at the highest commission rate paid $1,46 in January, then started gradually declining to $1,00 in mid February and then to $0,96 right now. (Again: ALL in the same group did so.) The dollar to Euro exchange rate never differed by roughly one third. (Also, as Europeans we already have to take the exchange rate risk, because we get paid in US dollars now, we shouldn't have to take it *twice* after all, should we?)

If this relates to differences in the buyers' behavior instead (= using up more or less of their potential downloads), why does this happen that gradually and solely in one direction? Shouldn't there be any ups and downs over several weeks or even months in this case?
And, given this type of "fluctuation" is calculated over longer periods than, say, days or weeks, why would the amounts change cent by cent *each day* then?

If you even disregard this: How does such a split work at all? A buyer pays a certain amount of dollars for a certain pack of assets (resp. credits while the credits to be invested on a certain asset are fixed). They then use x of them and don't use y. From what I understand, from the amount for "unused" assets y nearly 100% go directly to Adobe - so far, so good for them. But what about the "rest" of actually downloaded assets? The total amount x stays the same. Our percentage stays the same, too. If each artist gets their part, because a buyer had actually licensed one of their assets, why would the commission change then, anyway?

Maybe it's just me not quite getting it (I'm admittedly not good at figures.), but perhaps you could shed some more light on this matter, @MatHayward ? It would be much appreciated for sure! :)

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Just checked, no update yet. It's 6:45 EST Monday. Will check back tomorrow.
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iStockPhoto.com / Re: February 2024 statements - how did you do?
« Last post by synthetick on Yesterday at 17:45 »
it looks like iStock followed Shutterstock's lead and took down their forum?

Nah, the forum is still there. They moved it to the menu on the left side. Click on Community in that menu to access it. There's a post in the forum saying that they are moving the forum link back to to the front page.
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Off Topic / Re: This should settle some different opinions
« Last post by Wilm on Yesterday at 17:33 »
You're not only a bad liar, you're also a methematic dunce.

1. I studied mathematics professionally.


 ::) :o ;D
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Off Topic / Re: This should settle some different opinions
« Last post by Zero Talent on Yesterday at 17:18 »
The results of the post-election survey conducted by the independent Russian project "Vote Abroad" are available late this evening. According to the results, 31% of the 2,533 voters surveyed in Bonn voted for Putin and a further 28% for Davankov. The candidate of the Communist Party, Nikolai Kharitonov, received only one percent. Nobody voted for the fourth candidate, the chairman of the "Liberal Democratic Party of Russia" Leonid Sluzki. A quarter of respondents did not want to provide any information to "Vote Abroad". And 15 percent damaged their ballot paper - in protest. 
30%+25% = 55% for putin.

There is no trust in these Russian polls.
All Russians are supporters of the empire and rashists.
What?

Since the number of surveyed voters in Berlin and Bonn is roughly the same, the weighted average for Germany is the same as the average of both polling locations (10% and 31%), so roughly 20% of the Russians living there.

If anything, that number is even lower than 20%, as many Russians may still be afraid to disclose their anti-putin vote to strangers on the street, even if they live in Germany.

Check the site voteabroad.info , and you will see that the exit polls are made by independent pollsters.
The database shows not only the exit poll numbers but also the official count, which is much higher than the exit polls (just normal vote counting in a dictatorship).
The official vote numbers for putin are 44% in Berlin and 65% in Bonn. So even based on official numbers, putin only got ~54% of the Russian residents in Germany, far from the overall average.
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Off Topic / Re: This should settle some different opinions
« Last post by stoker2014 on Yesterday at 16:54 »
Nice video for the evening. Elimination of Russian orcs in Ukraine.  8) 8) 8)

Avdiivka, Ukraine.

https://t.me/ssternenko/26446

https://t.me/ssternenko/26427
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