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Agency Based Discussion => Adobe Stock => Topic started by: Jo Ann Snover on May 19, 2025, 08:50
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Just received email about nominations for the free collection - $4 for one year or $10 in perpetuity
"How much do I get paid for each image?
You have the opportunity to renew your files for a 1-year term or for perpetual use.
One-year term: For each selected file included in the free collection, you’ll receive an upfront payment of USD 4, for the one-year term.
Perpetual Use: For each selected file included in the free collection, you’ll receive an upfront payment of USD 10, for perpetual use."
I don't and won't participate in the free collection, but for those who do, cutting the annual payment seems like a low blow to me
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Will they pay $10 per image every year?
And what about video?
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Will they pay $10 per image every year?
And what about video?
Perpetual = forever. One payment and that's it.
"Perpetual term: If any of your opted-in assets get selected, they will be added to the free collection for perpetual use. Once in the free collection, those assets won’t earn any additional royalties (since you will already have received the one-time payment per asset). The perpetual term and one-time payment will grant Adobe Stock the ability to keep the asset in the Free Collection indefinitely without subsequent payments."
Illustrations and videos are on a different schedule
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I don't and won't participate in the free collection, but for those who do, cutting the annual payment seems like a low blow to me
Well, maybe people who give their content away for free, deserve this.
Adobe pre-selects content that already sold in the past, so I never got the point of contributors giving it away for free.
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I don't and won't participate in the free collection, but for those who do, cutting the annual payment seems like a low blow to me
Well, maybe people who give their content away for free, deserve this.
Adobe pre-selects content that already sold in the past, so I never got the point of contributors giving it away for free.
the majority of the images selected have sold very few times (i think the criteria is 4 or fewer sales in the last year). with current trends, at least for me, most of the images have little to no chance of earning $10 total ever. i'm fine "giving away" a few images for $10 while i can still earn something for them. they will only accept 10% or less of the nominated images so it won't be a huge loss and in many cases i have other similar images that will still be in my port available for sale. i won't nominate images i think have better earning potential or are better earners on other sites.
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the majority of the images selected have sold very few times (i think the criteria is 4 or fewer sales in the last year). with current trends, at least for me, most of the images have little to no chance of earning $10 total ever. i'm fine "giving away" a few images for $10 while i can still earn something for them. they will only accept 10% or less of the nominated images so it won't be a huge loss and in many cases i have other similar images that will still be in my port available for sale. i won't nominate images i think have better earning potential or are better earners on other sites.
If you got similar images to the one you give away for free, why would anybody pay for your similars instead of taking the free one?
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fair point, i guess it depends on whether the free one fits their needs. the way i see it, it won't be a lot of images and it won't be much of what i consider my best so i don't mind participating.
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it seems the program is only for pictures not videos. i got an email with 31 contents
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Just received email about nominations for the free collection - $4 for one year or $10 in perpetuity
"How much do I get paid for each image?
You have the opportunity to renew your files for a 1-year term or for perpetual use.
One-year term: For each selected file included in the free collection, you’ll receive an upfront payment of USD 4, for the one-year term.
Perpetual Use: For each selected file included in the free collection, you’ll receive an upfront payment of USD 10, for perpetual use."
I don't and won't participate in the free collection, but for those who do, cutting the annual payment seems like a low blow to me
Quantity lowers demand and Ai helped to speed it up. Microstock won't exist in few years. Ppl flood servers with AI generations and cost of infrastructure growing inflation etc. Adobe is here to make money for them not to make money for us. Personaly I will opt in as I will take as much money I can now, as it's posible that next year I won't have portfolio here anymore. Look at Shutterstock Stock market, market decided that there is no need or demand for microstock already. Adobe stock price is held by their software Subscription and matter of time microstock infrastructure cost will be too high to keep around. I realy don't care at this point about photos that made money for me since 2017 time to replace them with new and better anyway. I'm happier seeing my photos on bilbords in local stores, newspapers or on TV used as background... Given away for free or paid it's better than keep them forgotten because economy and industry isn't as used to be. But that's me... Sorry for my broken engilish it have to hurt to read 😂
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it seems the program is only for pictures not videos. i got an email with 31 contents
They usually y take from me few hundereds from couple thousends of nominated... 31 nomination I would not expect they take much if any. Not even sure if those picks are done by Hume or Ai at this point.
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Is there any way to see the files they have selected for inclusion?
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Was it $4 for the year last time around? I honestly don’t remember.
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Is there any way to see the files they have selected for inclusion?
click the box "eligible for free collection" on the portfolio page
https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/portfolio?eligible_for_free_state=only&limit=100&page=1&sort_by=download_desc
I see we get 20% less for nominated files, but I don't see Adobe software prices dropping 20%.
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Was it $4 for the year last time around? I honestly don’t remember.
used to be $5 and there wasn't a "perpetual" option
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I'll just click $4 Annual. $10 Perpetual would be crazy to opt into.
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I wouldn't even accept $4 rate for the annual freebie on all the "quality issue" rejections I get. Who in their right mind would give their work away for $4. Seriously, who is that desperate to give their work away? And we wonder why the industry is in such decline.
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I wouldn't even accept $4 rate for the annual freebie on all the "quality issue" rejections I get. Who in their right mind would give their work away for $4. Seriously, who is that desperate to give their work away? And we wonder why the industry is in such decline.
Not giving away, getting $4 per image. Drives customers to the site. The images selected are not best sellers. And does increase sales overall.
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This year the FreeCollection provision has been reduced by 20% - I'm really looking forward to the offer for videos :)
But all in all it doesn't matter anyway - last year I had 990 nominations (only photos, I guess they don't want AI images) of which 24 were accepted, so a 2.4% acceptance rate.
This year 968 are nominated so I can probably count on 23 or 24 theoretical acceptances - so it almost doesn't matter that it should be 20% less $ per picture.
If we now combine this with the current catastrophic reviews, we can probably expect that this will not develop positively :)
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Everybody will make their own decision on this one. For me, I won't nominate anything perpetually
Last yr I did a test; took couple of images out of 12 month free period and monitored progress - none made more than offered $5 since then
There should be an easy way to track earnings per asset for any given period of time, incl. lifetime. Something like SS has. So if you have photo uploaded very long time ago that made less than $10, it could be candidate for perpetual freebie.
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I wouldn't even accept $4 rate for the annual freebie on all the "quality issue" rejections I get. Who in their right mind would give their work away for $4. Seriously, who is that desperate to give their work away? And we wonder why the industry is in such decline.
Not giving away, getting $4 per image. Drives customers to the site. The images selected are not best sellers. And does increase sales overall.
$4 is giving it away. Ask yourself how much money you have invested in equipment, programs, bills, electricity, internet, then add on the time to go and shoot anything, then add the time for post production. For a pathetic $4 dollars you are driving the customers to their site, not yours. A lot of my content sells on other sites and I see absolutely no reason I should subsidize Adobe to my financial detriment. $4 dollars is a total kick in the noids.
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If I knew they would accept all 2000 nominated for perpetual then I’d jump at it. Can restock the images no problem, easy work…..in reality though they usually only accept 10% ish from my experience so probably stick to annual only……though food for thought, if you do the annual option every year, isn’t this the same as choosing perpetual…….in a way!
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If I knew they would accept all 2000 nominated for perpetual then I’d jump at it. Can restock the images no problem, easy work…..in reality though they usually only accept 10% ish from my experience so probably stick to annual only……though food for thought, if you do the annual option every year, isn’t this the same as choosing perpetual…….in a way!
Restock all that they take is no problem but 10% you won't take a deal? Why don't take money and ones that they take don't sell anyway plus you still sell them on other sites. Ppl here realy confused with money...
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Dam it, just put all 2000 for annual and perpetual, life’s too short! I’m more interested in how many they choose rather than the money. I deselected any with over 4 sales though……they sure nominated images with more than 4 sales, a few of mine had nearly 100 sales so best check before accepting
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From FAQ:
1. Assets in the free collection may also be used by Adobe in templates and other design assets within Adobe applications, allowing Adobe’s customers to discover and use the features of our applications. For example, Adobe could combine an asset from the free collection with text and additional design elements to create a template for use in one of the Adobe apps.
2. Content in the free collection can be offered by Adobe to customers for free or for a fee (e.g., as part of a subscription or enterprise contract).
So it's not a perpetual license to distribute for free, it's a perpetual license to distribute any way Adobe wants. Not exactly "Perpetual Free Collection" TBH.
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Will they pay $10 per image every year?
And what about video?
video October probably with payment in November,and September Firefly bonus...always probably! :)
for this round i think i will select almost all the content with less than 5 sales for a year,and i will also make a small selection of perpetuals.
I won't select again the content that's coming out of the free collection now,because at least as far as I'm concerned,the point of the free collection is also to get interactions for old content that otherwise stagnates.
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The only way I can give away my images is through my website, to do marketing FOR ME, not for agencies.
So, this year too: opt-out! Not a single image of mine in the Adobe Stock Free collection, if you want them, you pay! 8)
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I only have 28 nominated files and I opted most of them for the 4 dollar plan and a small amount for the perpetual. Basically things I don‘t expect to sell anyway.
But renting for a year is a better option. Some files have been rented for 3 years now, so if it keeps getting nominated then 4 dollars a year is better than a one time payment of 10.
I see these files as a way to advertise my presence in the free collection and since my other files are featured below, I hope it leads to some add on sales.
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I nominated a few for the year plan. Mostly images that have very few sales and would be easy to duplicate. Ones that couldn't easily be duplicated or have more sales I kept out. I suspect a low percentage of those I opted in will be selected, but you never know.
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Even ChatGPT sayd that 10 dollars for perpetual use is too low ;D
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Even ChatGPT sayd that 10 dollars for perpetual use is too low ;D
If you can sell it for more than obviously don't opt in. It's microstock market so not sure why ppl are so emotional... We sell licences for 1c by now and many give it for free hoping to get donation. That's how supply demand works. Next time it will be 5$ or Adobe just remove microstock if they stop making money of it. Just like basicaly over half of microstock markets bankruptcies. Even shutterstock that bought at this point all microstock company's going straight for bancrupcy. There is no demand for microstock anymore.
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Even ChatGPT sayd that 10 dollars for perpetual use is too low ;D
I thought it said $100. ;D But really, $10 is too low, and perpetual is "forever". No thanks, I'll take the $4 and have some fun, but no lifetime, giveaway.
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I'll just click $4 Annual. $10 Perpetual would be crazy to opt into.
Exactly. If they offer 500USD per image, I'm okey with that. Sometime I sell image at SS for 700+USD
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meanwhile at vectorstock....
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I wouldn't even accept $4 rate for the annual freebie on all the "quality issue" rejections I get. Who in their right mind would give their work away for $4. Seriously, who is that desperate to give their work away? And we wonder why the industry is in such decline.
Not giving away, getting $4 per image. Drives customers to the site. The images selected are not best sellers. And does increase sales overall.
$4 is giving it away. Ask yourself how much money you have invested in equipment, programs, bills, electricity, internet, then add on the time to go and shoot anything, then add the time for post production. For a pathetic $4 dollars you are driving the customers to their site, not yours. A lot of my content sells on other sites and I see absolutely no reason I should subsidize Adobe to my financial detriment. $4 dollars is a total kick in the noids.
Only a small percentage, a few thousand images, were selected, for a year, low-sellers anyway. History has shown this move Increases my sales.
I wouldn't give away any image either. They are "on loan" for a year. My sales got a nice boost after this promotion went into effect. It it was my best-sellers, then I definitely wouldn't opt in.
The bottom line is: these low-sellers aren't going to earn $4 each in a year. But now they will. Thanks Adobe Stock.
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The bottom line is: these low-sellers aren't going to earn $4 each in a year. But now they will. Thanks Adobe Stock.
I don't know. There are different ways to look at this. Maybe they would earn $4 on Adobe, maybe not. But if it's free on Adobe you increase chances they wouldn't be licensed elsewhere. Customers aren't dumb
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The bottom line is: these low-sellers aren't going to earn $4 each in a year. But now they will. Thanks Adobe Stock.
I don't know. There are different ways to look at this. Maybe they would earn $4 on Adobe, maybe not. But if it's free on Adobe you increase chances they wouldn't be licensed elsewhere. Customers aren't dumb
I guess it depends on a number of factors, like portfolio size. I just know I'm earning substantial more money per year since this was introduced.
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I guess it depends on a number of factors, like portfolio size. I just know I'm earning substantial more money per year since this was introduced.
Same here. It really comes down to how to best manage your assets. This type of discussion comes up on Alamy Forum frequently.
Alamy "exclusives" argument is "Why would you give away your photo for pennies on micros when it could earn you 100s of dollars, if it was available only on Alamy"
Opposite argument is "Upload only on Alamy and it never gets sold. At least it will make something if it's available on micros"
At the end everyone has to decide for themselves and one size doesn't fit all.
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I guess it depends on a number of factors, like portfolio size. I just know I'm earning substantial more money per year since this was introduced.
Same here. It really comes down to how to best manage your assets. This type of discussion comes up on Alamy Forum frequently.
Alamy "exclusives" argument is "Why would you give away your photo for pennies on micros when it could earn you 100s of dollars, if it was available only on Alamy"
Opposite argument is "Upload only on Alamy and it never gets sold. At least it will make something if it's available on micros"
At the end everyone has to decide for themselves and one size doesn't fit all.
Both arguments are correct. What works for me is that some images are only supposed to be at Alamy and other images are only supposed to be at micros (they can be at Alamy as well but probably will never sell). I've sold close to 1000 assets at Alamy and can that what sells are on there are mainly editorials of specific places/landmarks/businesses, as well as newsworthy content.
For me I'm seeing such a rapid decline in my average royalties (while inflation has been rampant out in the real world) that I'll take $10 perpetually per asset to cash in their value while they still have some.
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what sells are on there are mainly editorials of specific places/landmarks/businesses, as well as newsworthy content.
Yes, but not always true. Couple of weeks ago this sold for 3-digits (attached)
(https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2JNC6CP/panoramic-alpine-landscape-view-twin-teal-colored-devon-lakes-rocky-mountains-peaks-skyline-sunny-day-scenic-summertime-hiking-banff-national-park-2JNC6CP.jpg)
It's remote back-country of Banff National Park in Canada. Takes 2 days of hiking just to get here. Camped by these lakes in the valley, had all this to myself. Who needed this kind of photo I am not sure, but apparently there is a market for mountain landscapes on Alamy
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I'll just click $4 Annual. $10 Perpetual would be crazy to opt into.
Exactly. If they offer 500USD per image, I'm okey with that. Sometime I sell image at SS for 700+USD
what? Where? What kind of license you talking about? At SS right now max commission you can earn is around 100$.
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I have not participated and will not participate in the free collection. No free work from me.
Contributors, be very careful about this offer. Do not fall into the 10 dollar trap, if you want to continue selling your work in the future.
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My own thoughts on this. First, AS only take a small percentage of the nominated photos so we're generally talking about a very small percentage of my portfolio. Second, most of my photos don't make $4 in a year and, with the way stock is going, are unlikely to make $10 in their lifetime. Third, the nominated photos are not ones which sell a lot anyway. So I'll take what money I can get from them now.
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I have not participated and will not participate in the free collection. No free work from me.
Contributors, be very careful about this offer. Do not fall into the 10 dollar trap, if you want to continue selling your work in the future.
let's don't be over dramatic and let's be smart about selling our work because that's the point. We are not a painters and I shoot on average 300 new photos per month to sell. Feels completly unlogic to don't sell even 5 year old photos that didn't sell or made few dolars since on this platform. Not mentioning you can sell them on other platforms or own site. Microstock market is almost dead and only accelerating that direction. Overblown supply with smaller and smoller demand. In next 5 years when all stock site will close we will be telling our children about unbelievable 10$ deal as no one will use our stock photos even for free 😂
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what sells are on there are mainly editorials of specific places/landmarks/businesses, as well as newsworthy content.
Yes, but not always true. Couple of weeks ago this sold for 3-digits (attached)
(https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2JNC6CP/panoramic-alpine-landscape-view-twin-teal-colored-devon-lakes-rocky-mountains-peaks-skyline-sunny-day-scenic-summertime-hiking-banff-national-park-2JNC6CP.jpg)
It's remote back-country of Banff National Park in Canada. Takes 2 days of hiking just to get here. Camped by these lakes in the valley, had all this to myself. Who needed this kind of photo I am not sure, but apparently there is a market for mountain landscapes on Alamy
That's a great shot. On my list of places I want to visit for sure.
Would be interesting to track down the usage.
I still upload pretty much everything to Alamy that I upload to micros but not vice-versa. Some very generic boring commercial shots have sold for me at Alamy and for nice prices, such as this dartboard. Funny that it doesn't really sell on micros (has only earned me $5).
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I have not participated and will not participate in the free collection. No free work from me.
Contributors, be very careful about this offer. Do not fall into the 10 dollar trap, if you want to continue selling your work in the future.
You can continue to sell these photos or videos on other sites.
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That's a great shot. On my list of places I want to visit for sure.
Would be interesting to track down the usage.
Thanks Alex. Will try to track the usage. Overall I find Canadian Rockies fairly good market, despite general opinion that "landscapes don't sell". Few yrs back book publisher from Banff contacted me directly to license bunch of shots for 10th edition of best known hiking guidebook in Canada; so if you have web presence, direct sales are possible too. On the other side, I have some great shots from Spain last winter and very little return - at least so far.
That pano that sold on Alamy is mid-day, so not optimal light, but scenery makes up for it. I am probably only hiker that goes this far into wilderness with Canon SLR/Lens in the backpack, lol. Full account of that trip is https://autumnsky.zenfolio.com/rockies/icefields/devon-lakes (https://autumnsky.zenfolio.com/rockies/icefields/devon-lakes) - will take time for all photos to load, Zenfolio really sucks
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That pano that sold on Alamy is mid-day, so not optimal light, but scenery makes up for it. I am probably only hiker that goes this far into wilderness with Canon SLR/Lens in the backpack, lol. Full account of that trip is https://autumnsky.zenfolio.com/rockies/icefields/devon-lakes (https://autumnsky.zenfolio.com/rockies/icefields/devon-lakes) - will take time for all photos to load, Zenfolio really sucks
While I have not hiked two days with my DSLR, I would absolutely bring it and a spare lens if I went on such a hike. It goes wherever I go. The one time went hiking and left it behind I stumbled upon a once in a lifetime scenario and all I had was my phone. Never again!
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what sells are on there are mainly editorials of specific places/landmarks/businesses, as well as newsworthy content.
Yes, but not always true. Couple of weeks ago this sold for 3-digits (attached)
(https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2JNC6CP/panoramic-alpine-landscape-view-twin-teal-colored-devon-lakes-rocky-mountains-peaks-skyline-sunny-day-scenic-summertime-hiking-banff-national-park-2JNC6CP.jpg)
It's remote back-country of Banff National Park in Canada. Takes 2 days of hiking just to get here. Camped by these lakes in the valley, had all this to myself. Who needed this kind of photo I am not sure, but apparently there is a market for mountain landscapes on Alamy
Did you Photoshop out some people at the bottom left?
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Did you Photoshop out some people at the bottom left?
No, was alone 4 days without soul in sight (benefit of backpacking to remote wilderness). But I think I see where you are going - bottom left corner looks like it might be clone stamped. This was 3 yrs ago, so I couldn't remember if it was maybe PS content aware fill after stitching; looked up, and again answer is no. Just natural ground pattern.
If you want to take a closer look, go here https://autumnsky.zenfolio.com/rockies/icefields/devon---deluc-crossover
This pic is in the Gallery, 5th from the top. You can click with mouse to zoom & then move around (will have to disable add blocker for this feature if you are running one)
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Congratulations!
Splendid image, you deserve it 8)
As far as my experience, Alamy is the only agency where I have 3 digits sales ;).
what sells are on there are mainly editorials of specific places/landmarks/businesses, as well as newsworthy content.
Yes, but not always true. Couple of weeks ago this sold for 3-digits (attached)
(https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2JNC6CP/panoramic-alpine-landscape-view-twin-teal-colored-devon-lakes-rocky-mountains-peaks-skyline-sunny-day-scenic-summertime-hiking-banff-national-park-2JNC6CP.jpg)
It's remote back-country of Banff National Park in Canada. Takes 2 days of hiking just to get here. Camped by these lakes in the valley, had all this to myself. Who needed this kind of photo I am not sure, but apparently there is a market for mountain landscapes on Alamy
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Congratulations!
Splendid image, you deserve it 8)
As far as my experience, Alamy is the only agency where I have 3 digits sales ;).
Thank you as usual for kind words Luisa! Same here, I had once 3 digit license on Shutterstock, but Alamy is the only place where this happens with some level of regularity. Even had 4-digit sale once. They also treat you fair, none of this what's been going on with Adobe lately.
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but Alamy is the only place where this happens with some level of regularity. Even had 4-digit sale once. They also treat you fair, none of this what's been going on with Adobe lately.
Absolute true ...but 4-digit wow! Super, happy for you ;D
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meanwhile at vectorstock....
Wooow, i wonder what kind of vector could sell ? becuasem nowadays with AI people without knowledge about making vectors can create them!
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Congrats on the good sale as well as the photo, I do love the color of glacial lakes.
I certainly have plenty of mountain photos taken from places that are not that easily accessible. I have even sold a few on Alamy for decent amounts which I appreciate greatly.
I have some issues with how Alamy does things and some of the changes they have made in the last few years, but many months they are my top earner - not this one though unless some big sales come through. Returns do seem to be going down there, but not as fast as they have at some of the other sites.
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Congrats on the good sale as well as the photo, I do love the color of glacial lakes.
I certainly have plenty of mountain photos taken from places that are not that easily accessible. I have even sold a few on Alamy for decent amounts which I appreciate greatly.
I have some issues with how Alamy does things and some of the changes they have made in the last few years, but many months they are my top earner - not this one though unless some big sales come through. Returns do seem to be going down there, but not as fast as they have at some of the other sites.
Thanks Tom. I lived in your neck of the woods and did some hiking, but probably nowhere as much as you. My 4 digit Alamy sale is actually trailhead photo of Iron Mtn in Poway, San Diego county. Wish I explored Sierra much more. Biggest regret is I didn't do Whitney. Human congestion is much harder to deal with compared to Canada though.
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I think we able to see which images was chosen for the free collection, click under free it no longer shows under review.
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I think we able to see which images was chosen for the free collection, click under free it no longer shows under review.
Yes, I can see 66 of my images in FREE collection but no money yet :)
How much should I expect this time around?
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Well I guess it would depend how many of those you made perpetual and if they choose the same amount of perpetual as yearly.
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Well I guess it would depend how many of those you made perpetual and if they choose the same amount of perpetual as yearly.
Have you received funds for free images this year? I've 66 images in free collection but no funds yet?
When we should expect some $$$?
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Well I guess it would depend how many of those you made perpetual and if they choose the same amount of perpetual as yearly.
Have you received funds for free images this year? I've 66 images in free collection but no funds yet?
When we should expect some $$$?
I think it's usually on the 26th, probably get email first.
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I might have 2 out of the few I nominated selected.
In other news of eroding earnings - I checked to see if I had any sales of $1 or more - I had to scroll back over 100 sales before I found a few 1.01 sales and there were just a few of those in the last about 300 sales I looked at. I randomly picked a date in 2020 and I had 2 sales for $3.80 that day. It was a bit of a lucky hit, but scrolling over 100 sales back then I probably had at least 10 that were over $1 and many .99 ones. Still, that beats the lone sale I get .61 for at Alamy this month, although big sales still happen there, at least $$ if not $$$. I Never had a 4 digit one there though.
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I might have 2 out of the few I nominated selected.
In other news of eroding earnings - I checked to see if I had any sales of $1 or more - I had to scroll back over 100 sales before I found a few 1.01 sales and there were just a few of those in the last about 300 sales I looked at. I randomly picked a date in 2020 and I had 2 sales for $3.80 that day. It was a bit of a lucky hit, but scrolling over 100 sales back then I probably had at least 10 that were over $1 and many .99 ones. Still, that beats the lone sale I get .61 for at Alamy this month, although big sales still happen there, at least $$ if not $$$. I Never had a 4 digit one there though.
My sales in the range 0.90-0.99 are almost daily...
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So, I got paid. 133$
2 things that doesn't make sense:
- it shows 36 free assets (+1 video, which I'm guessing 1 year hasn't expired yet), that would be 144$
- You can't divide 133 with 4, because you get 33,25.
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Yeah there's something that's off on my account as well. Doesn't add up to what shows under free but also when i refreshed i saw the number of images on free went down. Not sure if its still updating
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I think there they also counted $10 as $4
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I think there they also counted $10 as $4
1. I didn't nominate any files for 10$
2. Even if there would beimages counted for 10, you cant get to 133
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There is still a correction to reduce the images, and the tax has been deducted. We are also scratching our heads why there is so little money))
They are adding more payments!
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Last year I got 36 aaccepted and I got 180$
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they just split the 4 Dollar free pictures ab the 10 dollar all time free pictures. now its done
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I got two payments, a smaller one in the morning and a larger one two hours later.
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Subtracting sales for the day from total earnings for the day leaves me with 3.96 for the one photo they selected.
edited: They did report it as a $4 sale so I poked around and compared daily sales to daily totals and among other things Adobe mixes time zones but more importantly uses fractions of a cent but only reports to the nearest cent - at least that is what it seems like. Some totals were low by a few cents, others were high.
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The only way I can give away my images is through my website, to do marketing FOR ME, not for agencies.
So, this year too: opt-out! Not a single image of mine in the Adobe Stock Free collection, if you want them, you pay! 8)
the point is NO ONE WANTS these images! i gladly take $4 of passive income for older images that havent sold.
and nothing prevents you from private sales - likely a very different audience
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The only way I can give away my images is through my website, to do marketing FOR ME, not for agencies.
So, this year too: opt-out! Not a single image of mine in the Adobe Stock Free collection, if you want them, you pay! 8)
the point is NO ONE WANTS these images! i gladly take $4 of passive income for older images that havent sold.
and nothing prevents you from private sales - likely a very different audience
Most buyers don’t shop around, or check if the same image is free on Adobe.
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Where does it show how much you got?
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Where does it show how much you got?
https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/insights/other-payments?end_date=2025-06-26&start_date=2025-03-26&time_range=day×tamp=1750918146314
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The only way I can give away my images is through my website, to do marketing FOR ME, not for agencies.
So, this year too: opt-out! Not a single image of mine in the Adobe Stock Free collection, if you want them, you pay! 8)
the point is NO ONE WANTS these images! i gladly take $4 of passive income for older images that havent sold.
and nothing prevents you from private sales - likely a very different audience
Many photos that I don't sell on Adobe bring me tens of $ on Shutterstock or Istock.
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Where does it show how much you got?
https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/insights/other-payments?end_date=2025-06-26&start_date=2025-03-26&time_range=day×tamp=1750918146314
Thanks!
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The only way I can give away my images is through my website, to do marketing FOR ME, not for agencies.
So, this year too: opt-out! Not a single image of mine in the Adobe Stock Free collection, if you want them, you pay! 8)
the point is NO ONE WANTS these images! i gladly take $4 of passive income for older images that havent sold.
and nothing prevents you from private sales - likely a very different audience
Many photos that I don't sell on Adobe bring me tens of $ on Shutterstock or Istock.
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so why not get $ from AS which otherwise would get nothing? it's unlikely to affect your sales elsewhere since they're buying elsewhere but one's buying on AS. how many users shop around when man agency offers images for pennies?
these variousm dataset payments have kept my total income where it was 3+ YEARS AGO.