Someone downloaded 11 of my images yesterday and 21 today, all $0.35 subs.
They are all local editorials, outdoors but very different subjects from Christmas market to car races and food festivals.
I wonder if this is a legit buyer or it will end up as customer refund?

I asked for account closure and deletion of all my images at Canstock.

I got a fast answer, account closed.

My problem is that their affiliates still display all my images, even those deleted by me many month ago.

One of their affiliates, https://www.freeart.com gives away small resolution images for free and without watermark, which are still usable for bloggers.

I asked CS to close affiliate accounts too but I got a bogus answer to wait 24 hours till affiliates update their database which is not happening.

Does anyone know how to get rid of these guys?

Many thanks in advance.

As expected:
https://petapixel.com/2019/05/02/adobes-10-photography-plan-gone-from-site-cheapest-is-20-month/

Hi everyone,


It seams that DT is on autopilot.

My main complaint is that none of my approved images this month are showing in my portfolio. I contacted support on the 10th and got an answer that my list with the missing image ID-s was forwarded to their tech guys but nothing was fixed till the time of this writing.


Also, after completing the submission process (keywording, categories, submitting), some images simple vanish, not in pending, not in rejected, not in approved.

I stopped uploading now until they fix their bugs.

Anyone else having these problems?

I uploaded seven images on November 13 to the Adobe, for the first time using the portal. They were approved but three of them are not mirrored on my Fotolia portfolio and the search engine can't find them either on Fotolia.

I reported it to FT, no answer yet but later I realized that this must be an AS glitch, so now I reported it to AS too (waiting).

My question to fellow contributors: is this happening to someone else too, do you check each time if the images are mirrored on FT?

I've read here on this forum that uploading to AS is faster and easier than FT.
I am very disappointed with the upload process and I would mention two problems that could be better (in case anyone listens):

1. If you have more than 50 keywords, which happens once in a while, AS cuts down the last ones without giving the chance to choose which one to delete.

2.If there are no subcategories, at least there should be more meaningless categories, for example,  for Christmas images  the category "Religion" is totally inappropriate IMO, even the world "holidays" would be more expressive.

Your thoughts?

P.S. I got a lightning fast answer from AS Support, thank you. They "reindexed" my missing images and now they show up on FT too.
The question remains, do we have to check this all the time?

Hi everyone,

I have a sale for "Web use, One month, Bulk Discount, Flat Rate".

Can anyone please tell me what does the "One month" bit mean from this report?


I found the image on a website on May 16 but it was never reported. After a long email exchange with Alamy support, now the sale showed up being shown as downloaded on September 25, $1 my cut.

It is more than 4 month that the image is online on that site, so I wonder what does the "one month" mean in Alamy report?

Thanks.

Has anybody heard about ALAMY/BE & W AGENCY?

I've found one of my images on a website watermarked with "ALAMY LIMITED/ BE & W AGENCY" but I have no download reported for the image on Alamy.

I contacted support and they confirmed that BE & W AGENCY is their distributor and they seam to have a yet unreported sale for the image but I should write back to Alamy if I don't see the sale in my account  by 16/09/2018.

The webpage with my image (and others) was published on May  16 and Google search already shows 5 pages of which 4 pages are verbatim copies of the first site (with different URL-s), all in Russian. Pinterest also shows my image as pinned from a Russian site.

So, anyone can use and misuse our images on Alamy and in six month, when the website is history, they will just refund the buyer.

Wait, they don't have to refund him, he never payed for it.

After SS's miserable footage pricing the avalanche began, at least these guys give us an opt out.

My question(s) is:
- the new pricing is in credits, the old one is in license points. Is 1 credit = 1 license point?
- if so, is 1credit = $1?
Thank you.

Not that it matters much, I'm just curious. Two weeks ago I deleted my last 5 editorials that were pending for 8 month.

PS. bellow are the new prices, excerpt from the email:

I just got this email from Flickr:

We�re excited to announce that Flickr has agreed to be acquired by SmugMug, the photography platform dedicated to visual storytellers.

.......you can choose to not have your Flickr account and data transferred to SmugMug until May 25, 2018. If you want to keep your Flickr account and data from being transferred, you must go to your Flickr account to download the photos and videos you want to keep, then delete your account from your Account Settings by May 25, 2018.

If you do not delete your account by May 25, 2018, your Flickr account and data will transfer to SmugMug and will be governed by SmugMug�s Terms and Privacy Policy.

So, what are you guys and gals doing?

I have a sale in red (image bellow), it is self explanatory what it means but my question is: is this normal?
They used the image for 5 month and now they don't need it any more and they get their money back?

I had my EL-s disable on all files. Today I went to upload some images and I found them enabled.
Please, do you know a way to disable them on all file at once.

Someone already talked about a method but I can't find it.

Thank you.

I can't log in to FT, it is asking the check the captcha which is not in use for a long time now. The captcha sign is parked at bottom right but there is nothing to check.
It happened before but it went away after reloading the page. Is there a workaround for this?

Thanks.

Can anyone enlighten me how could this happen?