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Messages - BelieveInStock
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« on: October 28, 2024, 12:52 »
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« on: October 28, 2024, 12:09 »
I just wanted to confirm a sudden drop in sales for long term high ranked contributors. In last two weeks I fell from about 150th place weekly to around 250th. Sales down from 200 a day to 140 a day.
Constant uploads, mix of real and AI. I have been at Adobe (Fotolia) since about 2008.
Very discouraging, must have been some change in algorithm.
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« on: September 19, 2024, 13:34 »
what can I say. from 220-280 sales per day in 2017-2021. Now I have about 20-30 per day  . I have no idea what's going on there but the algorithm hates me.
It's getting worse from month to month in my case.
Similar here, I feel your pain.
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« on: September 17, 2024, 11:33 »
Thanks. While a few hundred isn't quite the few thousand I got last year, I still think it's fair for only last year uploads. And it's incomparable to those money-grabbers over at Shutterstock.
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« on: May 10, 2024, 02:49 »
Around 20k including a few thousand AI generated added last year. A one-man business.
I am seeing a lot of people copying my image titles and generating AI images that are very similar to mine. They don't even bother to change even one characted in the title.
Impressive, how long are you doing this? are you still uploading new content?
15 years or so. I keep uploading on regular basis but feeling more and more discouraged. The worst thing that may happen to you is when you are in weekly top sellers. Next week all you portfolio is copied x-times by AI prompters.
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« on: May 10, 2024, 02:14 »
Around 20k including a few thousand AI generated added last year. A one-man business.
I am seeing a lot of people copying my image titles and generating AI images that are very similar to mine. They don't even bother to change even one characted in the title.
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« on: May 09, 2024, 12:29 »
I confirm, something strange is happening with Adobe this week. Sales are even worse than Easter week. Normally I have well over 200 downloads a day, today barely 100
Did you notice a sales drop from last year? I see a huge difference, and the last few weeks there is another ~20% drop in revenue...
Yes, very similar observations. And I used to be around 100th in weekly rank, now closer to 200th ...
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« on: May 09, 2024, 11:38 »
I confirm, something strange is happening with Adobe this week. Sales are even worse than Easter week. Normally I have well over 200 downloads a day, today barely 100
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« on: January 09, 2024, 10:08 »
I have not received any communication from Payoneer regarding the new 3% withdrawal fee. Could anyone copy paste here the email from Payoneer ?
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« on: January 08, 2024, 08:39 »
Ai is useless for specifics.
It creates all kind of fantasy flowers, hybrid animals, strange underwater wildlife, a cactus from mexico growing in the sahara desert etc...
Same for locations, nothing is real.
So especially for high quality localized content, with or without people, also for food etc..nothing beats real photography.
The ai world is a fantasy world.
There is an endless amount of genuine, local content you can create and if possible add more latin names to flora and fauna, add "authentic" and more locally specific keywords and point out as much as you can that what you are shooting is real.
Very useful observations! Thanks!
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« on: January 08, 2024, 04:40 »
How can we add extra value in today's stock photography market?
Almost everything can now be created with AI, which is continuously improving. I'm trying to find a space for myself where there is that extra value for clients. I thought maybe an option would be PNGs on Adobe Stock, but that category is also oversaturated. I'm out of ideas... are we still needed? After all, anyone can generate any image just as well as those of us who are professionally involved in stock photography.
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« on: November 17, 2023, 05:43 »
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« on: October 18, 2023, 07:18 »
I am sure it will be a monthly bonus. What we received now is too low to be a one time boost as Adobe paid us.
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« on: October 10, 2023, 02:58 »
Wow, it seems like the weekly bestsellers page (in Photos) is now exclusively showcasing AI portfolios. This highlights the immense competition that traditional photographers have to face now. Where does this lead to ?
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« on: October 05, 2023, 02:00 »
I believe about $1000 to be a fair price for 5 sets, not less. Banana mission update 
photos taken 3022
topics completed 47
needless to say,I have never taken all these photos in such a short time.
everything is going well,now I'm going to shoot 2 more topics,then I'll close tomorrow morning with a series of shots on different surfaces randomly,however there are still 2 whole days left.
I think 300 USD for 5 sets is a fair price,but certainly no less,perhaps Adobe for the next missions could think of a type of rewards that increase as more sets are completed,or to an extra bonus if you complete all sets.
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« on: October 04, 2023, 10:43 »
Thanks Danny,
When will you share the details with us on how those royalties will be distributed ?
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« on: October 03, 2023, 02:31 »
Hi,
Tomorrow the Canva Magic AI tool will be launched. How are contributors going to be compensated for training their AI tool ?
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« on: October 02, 2023, 13:55 »
I see. Good luck and have fun
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« on: October 02, 2023, 12:39 »
Injusticeforall, you said you estimate to complete the task in 6 days full time job. Where are you from that you feel comfortable making $300 a week?
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« on: July 21, 2023, 03:20 »
Mat, what about the picture that are already in the pending queue and uploaded as illustrations ?
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« on: April 07, 2023, 04:39 »
Hi,
From now and then I receive e-mails from Yay that they intake of images is up etc. So people seem to upload there. Is anyone active with them ? What are your impressions as of 2023 ?
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« on: February 10, 2023, 04:51 »
This is simply not exactly how search works.
Could you please elaborate ?
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« on: February 10, 2023, 04:46 »
Ok, so Xpiks supports PNG only when I buy Pro or Pro+ license, right ?
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« on: February 09, 2023, 16:12 »
Xpiks does not support PNG. When I try to add PNG files to Xpiks the window shows "No files added". Hi,
I was looking for a program to add keywords etc to .PNG.
No major tagging software (Stocksubmitter included) seems to cover that need.
Hi
Xpiks supports PNG files, no problem.
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« on: February 09, 2023, 07:03 »
Yeah, but it is not comfortable. I mean there is no option to copy paste metadata to multiple images, change order of keywords etc..
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