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Messages - ribtoks
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« on: March 06, 2024, 03:03 »
Does uploading to AdobeStock work for you?
Yes. If you have a problem, please contact support - this way we will get diagnostic logs and will be able to help.
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« on: February 29, 2024, 03:12 »
Xpiks: They offer an auto-keywording plugin that seems quite efficient in generating relevant keywords for images.
Xpiks offers descriptions too, btw. In general, I always recommend to take the AI generated ones as a starting point. If you want to improve your sales, treat metadata seriously! It was discussed multiple times in Xpiks blog.
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« on: February 14, 2024, 13:31 »
It is strongly adviced to NOT use fully same metadata for set. Yuri Arcurs in his interview advices to use only half of the keywords maximum to be the same, while the other half to be different, to increase coverage of search queries where you photo will rank
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« on: November 01, 2023, 09:31 »
I only stayed for one (wix) and it works as a kind of presentation of who I am with some promotional videos showing the diversity of work i can do. In the videos I leave a link where you can buy those and other clips or 2d/3d animations.
Could you share your website? Where those links point to? Microstocks?
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« on: November 01, 2023, 08:03 »
Hi folks Luisa Fumi (aka gameover) wrote an interesting story about her experience with self-hosting here: https://xpiksapp.com/blog/selling-images-on-your-website/Please let us know what do you think and maybe you also have a story to share? Will be definitely useful for others! Cheers, Taras
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« on: October 24, 2023, 03:08 »
Yeah, all this off topic talk is making it much harder for you to farm us for content for your blog 
Nah, I'm just disappointed to experience Godwin's law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law) again and again on the internet, even in threads that I start! P.S. You are free to compile responses from this thread to a blogpost of your own, if you think this is how it works and that it's so easy 
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« on: October 24, 2023, 02:20 »
Could you guys just stop the useless unrelated to this topic flood?
Focus on ChatGPT please.
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« on: October 24, 2023, 00:56 »
I've never used it for keywording, but it has been a great sparring partner for me in learning Illustrator scripting, which I have used to make algorithmic-based stock vectors.
This is really cool! Can you share any "hello world" example what exactly did you do? All things aside (e.g. microstock, money etc.), it sounds just like quite a unique and fun thing to do! (you could send a DM, if you don't want to share publicly) P.S. I don't mean the code of any of your algorithm-based picture, but more of things that surround that, e.g. how did you create an illustrator plugin/script, what did you ask ChatGPT to help with exactly etc.
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« on: October 23, 2023, 05:27 »
I have used it, and overall it's very difficult to get good consistent results - such that I've found doing it the "old school" way is much better. I now usually use from time to time just to "complement" my original workflow (but even then, debating its usefulness because of the extra time required to sort through crap).
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As of yet - for myself - I have not yet figured out an efficient way of getting consistent, useable information.
Thank you for your detailed response! This was largely my experience too. But still I was interested if anybody managed to make any use of it. By the way, did you use free version (GPT 3.5) or Pro (GPT-4)?
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« on: October 23, 2023, 04:03 »
It's easy to ask all community than actually use a tool called search for it first isn't it?
Have you tried using your own tip? Did you find in search any results relevant to microstocks? I'm asking about a personal experience, relevant to microstocks. Not "how to use ChatGPT for photography".
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« on: October 23, 2023, 02:36 »
I was wondering if anybody was seriously using ChatGPT for work (e.g. keywording, DCMA, anything else), related to microstocks. If so, what did you do and how did it work?
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« on: September 07, 2023, 04:49 »
Xpiks just got "RAW" files support - it enables integrations with Lightroom and other similar software, like DxO. This is available starting from version 1.7.3
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« on: September 07, 2023, 04:48 »
It is actually strongly adviced to NOT use the exact same keywords for all of the images and this decreases their indexability. Yuri Arcurs was advising to use about half of the keywords the same and others - different. That is if you want to earn more money, if you want just to finish keywording faster, then I guess it's fine.
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« on: August 16, 2023, 12:40 »
It would be interesting to see which categories are the worst sellers. It certainly would and it will be a topic of a future blogpost / research at some point. Stay tuned!
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« on: August 16, 2023, 04:19 »
Without knowing the number of assets per category in his portfolio, its difficult to draw any conclusions.
Thank you for your feedback. I updated the blogpost with portfolio composition information and indeed, it helps a lot! P.S. I saw your original message and I don't know why this blogpost made you so allienated.
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« on: August 15, 2023, 03:13 »
Hi folks Just did a second deep dive into Steve Heap's earnings data in the new blogpost: https://xpiksapp.com/blog/best-selling-microstock-categories/Previous time I analyzed earnings trends across agencies and portfolio half-life and this time - the same data, but split into categories of each photo. Let me know what you think!
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« on: July 30, 2023, 07:12 »
You can drag and drop to POND5 upload page multiple files simultaneously. No slower really than FTP.
Ive tried that in the past and found it very problematic. Ive found that stock agency upload pages are usually fine for submitting photo files. But generally unreliable and buggy when submitting video files.
(spoiler - it's a small self-promotion) If you upload via Xpiks Cloud, we retry FTP upload until it succeeds on our side. So you only upload once to our (hopefully) reliable storage, and then we deal with Pond5.
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« on: June 28, 2023, 23:38 »
DMCA takedown notices also work, but they're a pain to do and so that's only if there are no other options
How do you send them? Do you need a lawyer or you can do it yourself? BTW, thank you a lot for your response!
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« on: June 28, 2023, 00:51 »
Do you write to support?
Do you use any legal service?
Curious about takedown procedures you have experience with
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« on: April 30, 2023, 04:43 »
Good article, thanks. I don't normally say that (beacuse I find many 'internet' articles nowadays are simply regurgitated spam designed to get SEO traffic so people click on ads). But I actually learned something from yours, thanks. Is that someone who works for your company, or a 3rd party? (I noticed the name is different from yours/the creator of the software).
Thank you for your feedback! Article is written by me.
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« on: April 06, 2023, 12:19 »
As promised, I've read your article thoroughly and attentively. It's a great article, informative and unbiased, and I totally agree with your conclusion "you will not be replaced by AI, but you will be replaced by people who use AI".
The sad gist of it is, only those able to stimulate an AI with some creativity will have a possibility. The others will have no other option than joining the naysayers or looking for another way out (another niche perhaps?).
The problem is anything but new: since the dawn of time every new technology has left some people jobless by doing their job faster, better and cheaper. And every time the Luddites succumbed while the ones who were quick enough to jump on the new horse prospered.
Thank you for your feedback and for your thoughts! Really glad you liked the article.
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