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i called shutterstock 2 times and nothing, first they said they don`t have support for submiters, i left my phone, and they said they gonna try to find someone who can help me, they said if i have any questions i need to write email to suppot, until now nothing. second time, same answer,

Then they have to say so in their TOS. Your argument is missing logic. Beyond that, do you wanna delete everyones Portfolio who "has to use a filter". I am under the impression that your argument is rather based on emotions than logic.

Wow. You just vote for shutterstock undermining contributor rights and haven`t even read what all this was about?
Not a surprise that Agencies do with us what they want...

I think you have it backwards my friend. your argument is based on ideology and mine is based on reality. im being LOGICAL and seeing it from the agencies point of view. SS currently has more than enough contributors. Enough talent is already in SS. They will not waste time and resources on certain types of contributors (low performing).
What are they going to re-write on their TOS? "We used to beg for images and accepted almost anybody before, but due to our success and the amount of quality images in our library, if your portfolio falls below a certain standard we see fit for our library, we will find faults in ur images and reject your photos and delete your account if there is any slight breach of contract."

The only people that HAS to use a filter are the types that really cant create it on their own. Or their lazy, and it doesn't pay to be lazy in micro.

this is a really hot topic!


I was thinking about submitting to Shutterstock first... anyway after reading all the pages of this thread - someone mentioned about the blog this guy had and I think this all really weird: shutterstockisbad.blogspot.com/


there's gotta be another side to this...

Do accounts get closed often at Shutterstock??
 

On this board alone we know at least about two cases. This one and another one with a member called FD-Regular. He too assured us he didn`t do any violation at all and had a very good standing with the forum.

So, both cases in which the affected contributors posted their cases in public here had been somehow questionable. We don`t know how many Contributors in total are affected, but it may be a larger number ...

Plugins that apply an effect to an image.  Blur, sharpen, various enhancement effects; these are all filters.  In Photoshop they appear on the Filters menu.

As best we can tell (the story is somewhat muddled), the individual in question used a filter to create his images.  He started with a blank canvas or a stock image and applied multiple effects from the same filter application.  That he provided no content of his own in the process may have led to his termination.  But we can't be sure, since his English isn't the greatest and we have only his own explanation for what happened.

yeah and so this guy is saying he can use the filmstrip filter -http://www.filterforge.com/filters/2190.html

but was his whole gallery different renditions of the filmstrip? there seems to be a lot of other filters that make pictures on filterforge?

if only there were real dinosaurs to photograph, my friend...sigh

Whatever happened with FD-Regular. I read that thread with interest and have not seen or heard about it, or from him, in a long while.

Anyone know anything?

I don't know for a fact that he was suspended for using filters, maybe someone else has more information. All I know is he was suspended and decided to ignore SS. I don't even know if he appealed or just said, screw it, I'm going independent.

I can't see any great offense in using a film rebate filter, especially since the people who sell it, approve and obviously SS has been accepting these for some time.

I'm suspicious that there's more to this and we aren't getting the whole story. Otherwise as the OP has pointed out, about 100 more people should be suspended.

As for rights, someone show me the photographers bill of rights, where it says we have some. I don't like it, but that's the way it seems to work. They (the agencies) hold all the cards, change the rules on a whim, and can do whatever they want.