I only use it for editing portraits, but yes, one time I get a fantastic result simply by selecting a double chin and voil� it's gone, and the other time I select part of a foot and Firefly replaces it by flashy pink socks!  It really feels like a lottery ...

Mine are WAY down compared to the positive trend of the last 6 months, partly caused by a lot of negative "washington" sales ...
Are we supposed to all open a ticket at Istock now, or do you think the massive protest on the Istock forums will do the trick?

Since December 15, 2023, I have 3 payments that have been made through Trolley, if I believe the lines written  (https://www.canva.com/settings/payments).

Yes, I noticed the same thing.  Canva is already using Trolley to pay us, but the announced "changes" are planned after 31st March.  I was also hoping they would stop taking off the taxes as from 1st April, because that complicates my tax form every year, so that's two reasons to pay extra attention to the Canva payment next month.

Quote from the Canva e-mailing of 30 November 2023 :

"Starting December 1, 2023, we will be asking you to register with our new payout provider Trolley by March 31, 2024. In order to receive your payouts after Mar 31, 2024, you will be required to both be registered with the new payout provider and to have completed the requisite tax forms. The tax forms are US W-8 (non-US Resident) or W-9 (US Resident) forms, and are needed in order to properly identify you and calculate correct taxes with the US government.
If you have not registered with Trolley and completed the tax forms by Mar 31, 2024 we will be unable to process your payouts. "


So March 31 is approaching, and (I suppose) we all completed the tax forms, but did any one register with Trolley?   I had a look on their website, and there is no such thing as a free registration. You're supposed to go for a paid subscription. 
Or did Canva just use the wrong wording in their e-mail and we're not supposed to register on the Trolley website at all ?

The funny thing is: Canva is known for deleting hundreds of images behind our backs, without notice and without any clear reason, and now they start sending violation e-mails about single photos ... haha.


It often happens that I submit a 50-image batch, of which 30 are accepted ... resulting in a total of +10 online files.  No way to find which 20 old ones they deleted (or why).

I had one too :  they deleted a photo of a tiger eating prey (which happens to be a large piece of meat, probably because tigers don't like veggies).  Reason:  violent content.
They did not delete any of the other 10 photos of the same tiger with the same prey ...  (though they are easily found with the same keywords).
Would you delete those?

I have not received any communication from Payoneer regarding the new 3% withdrawal fee. Could anyone copy paste here the email from Payoneer ?

Hi,
Here at Payoneer, we are constantly working to provide the best products and services in the market. We are reaching out today to inform you of changes to our pricing structure that will be relevant as of March 1, 2024.
To continue providing the highest quality product possible, we occasionally need to update our prices due to changes in the market.
Please see the table below to understand which prices are changing and how this will affect you and your business:
New Pricing Structure
Withdrawing your balance to a bank account : 3% of transaction amount
Withdraw funds from a Payoneer balance to your bank account : 3% of transaction amount
Example:
USD balance > EUR bank account, bank is in EU :  : 3% of transaction amount
EUR balance > USD Bank account, bank is in Hong Kong : 3% of transaction amount
Payments to recipient�s bank accounts via bank transfer : 3% of transaction amount

I think they will only add AI keywords/descriptions for images without metadata.  If yours are already keyworded, the AI will do nothing (at least that's how I understood it).

I sell about 20 images on Etsy, but they are targetted at baby photographers (like me), not at the general public.  Earnings were about 100 euros (nett) in the first year and 25 euros this year.  I don't do ANY marketing for them though.

Quote from: Anyka on October 27, 2023, 02:38

Question for those whole upload to Istock regularly :  do new files sell at all?  or is the largest part of your Istock income based on old(er) files?

After a (years-long) break I started uploading to iStock again earlier this year. So some of those "new" files weren't literally new, but were new to iStock, and they are selling. My portfolio is small - about 1.8k - but making payout nearly every month.

Thanks all for the replies.  The weird thing is I stopped uploading there many years ago, and since then, I have been making payout almost every month too, with a VERY old port of about 6000 images.  So I wondered, if old photos keep on selling - do get new ones even a chance?  Happy to hear they do ...

Quote from: Anyka on October 17, 2023, 02:48

Probably a very dumb question, but how do you check your own port to see if there are AI images in them?  Up till today I did not upload any AI to Adobe, but when I read this thread, I 'd like to check if Adobe mislabeled any of mine ...

https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/contributornumber/contributorname?&filters%5Bgentech%5D=only
Replace contributornumber and contributorname with your actual number and name.

Thanks!  My result is zero (which is correct) - but I think that's because I've been uploading model released images, so little chance that reviewers consider them as "generated"

Quote from: Anyka on October 15, 2023, 03:44

... BUT my total number of accepted images goes DOWN instead of up.  So I can only conclude that they are rejecting older images, or "cleaning up" my port.

Sorry for probably asking (I really don't find Canva's Contributor interface intuitive) - but where can I see the number of assets I've accepted?

For that, I only have this link :
www.canva.com/p/xxxx/   (and xxx is your contributor name)

Also, I read this on DPreview :
The new Content Credentials feature attaches metadata to Firefly-generated images to let others know the creator, edits made, and the tools used, what Adobe is calling a "nutrition label" for AI images.

I just followed an Adobe Youtube clip about this "Content Credentials" feature.  It is embedded in Photoshop 25 as a Beta feature and it can be switched on or off through your "preferences".  If it is "ON", the use of generative fill is recorded in the file, even if it is a tiny adjustment like the removal of a logo.