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« Reply #700 on: July 01, 2015, 10:32 »
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after a while they appeared

Could you please specify when they appeared? After few hours? Next day? After few days?

Thanks.

I did not track it, but may be about a couple of days.



« Reply #701 on: July 01, 2015, 12:38 »
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I contacted support. Lee was so kind to answer quickly:

  1.  The ingestion is working fine. Files appear in the _processing directory so you have a record of what you uploaded. They stay there until the images have passed review, then they're removed. You'll see them in your account after that.

 2.  We're still a new company and we're changing our processes all the time. That includes changing which files we want in our collection. We have some reviewers removing files we think don't meet the new standards we're setting.

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OK, let's wait another day and will see if my uploaded files will appear on my portfolio.

BUT regarding already approved files I have a big concern. Today I missed another 3 images from my portfolio- all of them have been purchased just a few days ago.
It seems that they really don't check if a file already has been purchased and downloaded. Let's say, a client created a design (invitation) with a particular background and another day he decided to create another design (postcard) with the same background to make all in one style, and suddenly: 404 - Not found! It's a disrespect to clients and bad business practice, not to mention our (photographers) frustration.

I think, first of all they should approve files thoroughly in the beginning, knowing exactly what they want and what they need.
And second, if a file already has been approved, it should stay on a portfolio inviolable.
If they "are changing process all the time", what we can expect tomorrow? Next month? After few months? Step by step a company can lose confidence from both sides- clients and distributors.

Anyway, they are the boss and they can do what they want. I'm only a small fish in a big pond...


objowl

« Reply #702 on: July 01, 2015, 12:49 »
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Let's say, a client created a design (invitation) with a particular background and another day he decided to create another design (postcard) with the same background to make all in one style, and suddenly: 404 - Not found! It's a disrespect to clients and bad business practice, not to mention our (photographers) frustration.


Not so, all deleted files remain available to designers once they have saved a template.  You cannot delete a file in such a case, it will remain available for ever and a day.

« Reply #703 on: July 01, 2015, 13:02 »
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Let's say, a client created a design (invitation) with a particular background and another day he decided to create another design (postcard) with the same background to make all in one style, and suddenly: 404 - Not found! It's a disrespect to clients and bad business practice, not to mention our (photographers) frustration.


Not so, all deleted files remain available to designers once they have saved a template.  You cannot delete a file in such a case, it will remain available for ever and a day.

"If you pay for a One Time Use License, then you can only use that Stock Media in one of your Canva Designs". And I'm talking about a case, when a client decides to create ANOTHER design with the same file, so he must pay another License. How he can buy a nonexisting file?

But maybe I don't understand how it works..

objowl

« Reply #704 on: July 01, 2015, 13:15 »
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Let's say, a client created a design (invitation) with a particular background and another day he decided to create another design (postcard) with the same background to make all in one style, and suddenly: 404 - Not found! It's a disrespect to clients and bad business practice, not to mention our (photographers) frustration.


Not so, all deleted files remain available to designers once they have saved a template.  You cannot delete a file in such a case, it will remain available for ever and a day.

"If you pay for a One Time Use License, then you can only use that Stock Media in one of your Canva Designs". And I'm talking about a case, when a client decides to create ANOTHER design with the same file, so he must pay another License. How he can buy a nonexisting file?

But maybe I don't understand how it works..

Maybe, maybe not.  I haven't played with saved designs enough to know if you can tweak them to fit another template.  Lee was sure that his designers would not have a problem with deleted images.

« Reply #705 on: July 02, 2015, 15:20 »
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I've been uploading steadily with no problems -- it sometimes takes a few days for new files to appear, and a few are deleted from time to time

I currently have 7300 online of 9500 images uploaded

w7lwi

  • Those that don't stand up to evil enable evil.
« Reply #706 on: July 04, 2015, 14:53 »
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When I uploaded an image the other day, it had 18 keywords.  It was accepted today and only had two of the original keywords, one new keyword added and all the rest deleted.  Anyone else seeing similar actions on their uploads?

« Reply #707 on: July 05, 2015, 06:59 »
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It really is exceptionally annoying to see my work that has been selling very well on Canva being steadily deleted from my portfolio. Clearly, it's a policy decision - but I fail to see the logic..

« Reply #708 on: July 06, 2015, 14:56 »
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I just had another 60 images deleted from my portfolio over the weekend; extremely discouraging and frustrating!  I'm taking a break from Canva until they get their review process sorted out.

« Reply #709 on: July 06, 2015, 15:34 »
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They already deleted 65% of my portfolio!
I liked Canva very much before, now I hate them! That's what they achieved with this policy!
I will never use their services or will recommend them to someone!

« Reply #710 on: July 06, 2015, 15:42 »
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:) it was a trap

« Reply #711 on: July 06, 2015, 17:30 »
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They already deleted 65% of my portfolio!
I liked Canva very much before, now I hate them! That's what they achieved with this policy!
I will never use their services or will recommend them to someone!

Wow!  I just thought it is time to give Canva a chance and finally start uploading... no way! And now I am happy I didn't.

« Reply #712 on: July 07, 2015, 02:52 »
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It does seem disrespectful, to say the least, to be now deleting accepted images from photographers that supported this new business. It's their agency and they can, of course, decide their own policy on what images they want - but why not just make this for new images going forward, not those already accepted? I never joined, but would be very upset if I had images that had been accepted and were getting sales (as some have reported here) only to now have them deleted. Canva had a lot of goodwill here -which they now seem to be putting at risk by this policy. Regards, David.

« Reply #713 on: July 08, 2015, 06:04 »
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Of course it is frustrating when Canva deletes previously accapeted files, especially those that are selling. Initially they accepted almost everything, now they have decided they do not want all kinds of files. I do not think that is much worse than the other agencies rejecting a lot of files that do sell well at other agencies. If Canva will end up with a clear policy of what is wanted, that is so much better than the seemingly very random rejections at other agencies; one batch completetly rejected, another one completely approved.

The contributor interface is really not that user-friendly, and the way they delete approved files IS frustrating, BUT: they are good at the most important thing, they do sell. They are my top earner, and that is what matter most.

« Reply #714 on: July 08, 2015, 07:20 »
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they are your top earner at 35 cents a file and no els or other higher sales?

they must do a huge volume then , is that correct?

Me


« Reply #715 on: July 08, 2015, 09:06 »
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Or they are only on Canva, Crestock and Yay

« Reply #716 on: July 08, 2015, 09:31 »
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they are your top earner at 35 cents a file and no els or other higher sales?

they must do a huge volume then , is that correct?
So far this year, my earnings on Canva are 50% higher than on SS, which was my previous best earner. I upload to the big four, 123 and some more.

I am a hobbyist with smaller portfolios around 300-600. My BME at Canva is 100 dls (May 2015), I have a steady flow of dls there, as I used to have at SS. SS is on and off nowadays.

Many of my sales at Canva comes from abstract backgrounds, and it sure helps that three of them are included in Canva layouts. But I also sell quite a few nature and flower photographs there.

Semmick Photo

« Reply #717 on: July 08, 2015, 10:43 »
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they are your top earner at 35 cents a file and no els or other higher sales?

they must do a huge volume then , is that correct?
So far this year, my earnings on Canva are 50% higher than on SS, which was my previous best earner. I upload to the big four, 123 and some more.

I am a hobbyist with smaller portfolios around 300-600. My BME at Canva is 100 dls (May 2015), I have a steady flow of dls there, as I used to have at SS. SS is on and off nowadays.

Many of my sales at Canva comes from abstract backgrounds, and it sure helps that three of them are included in Canva layouts. But I also sell quite a few nature and flower photographs there.


You make 25 dollar on SS with 300 photos and 35 dollar on Canva. Interesting

« Reply #718 on: July 08, 2015, 11:06 »
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they are your top earner at 35 cents a file and no els or other higher sales?

they must do a huge volume then , is that correct?
So far this year, my earnings on Canva are 50% higher than on SS, which was my previous best earner. I upload to the big four, 123 and some more.

I am a hobbyist with smaller portfolios around 300-600. My BME at Canva is 100 dls (May 2015), I have a steady flow of dls there, as I used to have at SS. SS is on and off nowadays.

Many of my sales at Canva comes from abstract backgrounds, and it sure helps that three of them are included in Canva layouts. But I also sell quite a few nature and flower photographs there.


You make 25 dollar on SS with 300 photos and 35 dollar on Canva. Interesting
I know I have small portfolios (around 400 on SS and 600 on Canva)...but the trend is so clear...Canva is increasing steadily while all the others are decreasing. Been like that for a long time now. That is why I like Canva even if they delete images etc.

I wonder, you who have large portfolios, dont you see the same trend?

« Reply #719 on: July 08, 2015, 11:28 »
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I think it depends on what kind of photos you have. Seems like, backgrounds are popular at Canva, and it kind of makes sense. I have about 200 photos on canva and I've made only 3 sales. But they are online for only bout 3 weeks or so.

Semmick Photo

« Reply #720 on: July 08, 2015, 11:31 »
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they are your top earner at 35 cents a file and no els or other higher sales?

they must do a huge volume then , is that correct?
So far this year, my earnings on Canva are 50% higher than on SS, which was my previous best earner. I upload to the big four, 123 and some more.

I am a hobbyist with smaller portfolios around 300-600. My BME at Canva is 100 dls (May 2015), I have a steady flow of dls there, as I used to have at SS. SS is on and off nowadays.

Many of my sales at Canva comes from abstract backgrounds, and it sure helps that three of them are included in Canva layouts. But I also sell quite a few nature and flower photographs there.


You make 25 dollar on SS with 300 photos and 35 dollar on Canva. Interesting
I know I have small portfolios (around 400 on SS and 600 on Canva)...but the trend is so clear...Canva is increasing steadily while all the others are decreasing. Been like that for a long time now. That is why I like Canva even if they delete images etc.

I wonder, you who have large portfolios, dont you see the same trend?

My earnings have been the same for 19 months, but I added 1000 photos. I have a 3000 portfolio on the micros, only 260 on Canva. I cant tell you how much I make on SS, its against the TOS. I am seeing the same on all micros. Adding images but no growth in earnings. I havent seen the decline yet.

I still do have the occasional BME. So there is growth, but extremely slow.

« Reply #721 on: July 08, 2015, 11:43 »
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...I wonder, you who have large portfolios, dont you see the same trend?

Not exactly.

I have 1879 images on SS and 424 on Canva (at least today; they keep deleting images here and there). Canva sales are growing - at this point every month is a BME, and that's great, but it's much easier to do when you're new than when you have a large sales volume.

Even so, SS in June 2015 was up (in $$) 28% over June 2014.

I can't compare with Canva as I had 3 sales in June 2014 (I just started uploading then). But if I look at the $$, SS sales were just about 15 times Canva sales, so they aren't even in the same ballpark at the moment. If you adjust for the difference in portfolio size (just numerically), SS is still about 3.5 times Canva in money terms.

I'm happy to see someone trying something new - Canva is something new IMO - and even happier to see it grow. But for the moment, they are still small in overall income, growth notwithstanding

« Reply #722 on: July 08, 2015, 12:00 »
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My earnings have been the same for 19 months, but I added 1000 photos. I have a 3000 portfolio on the micros, only 260 on Canva. I cant tell you how much I make on SS, its against the TOS. I am seeing the same on all micros. Adding images but no growth in earnings. I havent seen the decline yet.

I still do have the occasional BME. So there is growth, but extremely slow.

Sales vary a lot for me every month because I have small portfolios, but over time no increase even if I add more. Except for Canva where I get BME almost every month. They have not deleted that much from my portfolio there either.

« Reply #723 on: July 08, 2015, 12:15 »
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...I wonder, you who have large portfolios, dont you see the same trend?

Not exactly.

I have 1879 images on SS and 424 on Canva (at least today; they keep deleting images here and there). Canva sales are growing - at this point every month is a BME, and that's great, but it's much easier to do when you're new than when you have a large sales volume.

Even so, SS in June 2015 was up (in $$) 28% over June 2014.

I can't compare with Canva as I had 3 sales in June 2014 (I just started uploading then). But if I look at the $$, SS sales were just about 15 times Canva sales, so they aren't even in the same ballpark at the moment. If you adjust for the difference in portfolio size (just numerically), SS is still about 3.5 times Canva in money terms.

I'm happy to see someone trying something new - Canva is something new IMO - and even happier to see it grow. But for the moment, they are still small in overall income, growth notwithstanding

Thanks. I guess I have a portfolio well suited for Canva. But my images that sell well there also sell well on other sites.

I believed in Canva in the first place and uploaded before they started. They do have a new concept and I have enjoyed using their tool myself; I think they will grow much more.

I havent been into this micro thing that long, and I have noticed that some of my images that are not that original have been selling at Canva because I was an early contributor, image types they already have seen too many of at other sites.

Canva is very different and I wonder if the sales there are "new" sales, or if they should have been bought at some other agency if Canva did not exist.

Semmick Photo

« Reply #724 on: July 08, 2015, 12:22 »
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My port on Canva was edited from 1200 to 275 and it hurt my sales. So I cant report on any trends, I was going very well but my sales have dropped since the new policy kicked in.


 

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