Perhaps delete the stuck pictures and reupload? Seems to be what many are doing now.

The summer slump is hard for most ports, although I know a few people with rising sales in summer. They have a strongly vacation/travel oriented port, often with a lot of editorial.

It also affects people who have no ai in their ports. If criminals abuse your port to test stolen credit cards and you have unusual volume of downloads, your port can be blocked as well.

Because in addition to testing credit cards, some creators now "book" a downloading service to buy their files and thus promote their portfolio.

So, you are under suspicion, it could be a criminal testing cards, it could be you ordering from a download service...

I just select free images from the menu in the dashboard and I see 16 files. "Kostenlos" is free in German.

But no payment yet.

Yesterday had 24dl which is good these days. So perhaps it will be a good week. I also had a 7 dollar sale for an image.

Ai is buzzword wallstreet has been pushing out to naive investors, the same way blockchain 10 years ago was supposed to change the world, replace banks and insurances, make normal currencies obsolete etc�

Longterm ai will find it�s place, but the most important part - intelligence - is simply not there.

I do hope midjourney gets forced to pay for proper training of their generator.

Indon�t think they can be punished for the commercial use of content created with disney characters.

There is a lot of creative art using starwars or mickey mouse.

But midjourney just snatched everything from the jnternet without paying creators.

Other generators license content for training and at least we get paid something.

The big problem is from what I understand, not a lawyer, that many countries want to establish a different copyright law for ai.

Basically let them steal whatever they want for training to encourage building a strong ai industry in their country.

Japan seems to be leading this.

And then you get the issues that what is legal in Japan, is not legal elsewhere and international copyright law will probably need 20 years to harmonise again.

But ai is not going away, it is a new tool that will be impossible to avoid, because it will be included in your camera software, all processing tools etc�

I am already using an old photoshop elements version to process camera images for istock and others.

But longterm even the digital images I take will probably have automated ai enhancements that I cannot switch off.

Well, it is Monday, so...

Things are very slow and june 25 will probably be less than june 24, mostly because I uploaded very files in the last 10 weeks because of the rejection drama.

But summer is always very slow for me.

I am trying to do more camera content and also upload more elsewhere.

I hope we get some free collection money this wek.

The only thing that makes me happy is that I have a very wide diversity in sales and every week files get their first ever sales. So my portfolio is less reliant on individual bestsellers.

That was my goal for my second stock life. More longtail port with many files selling 1-3 times a year or perhaps once a month instead of a small number of files that make up 60% of sales.

I have missed this place and all of you. Even those on ignore!

No, they have rejectiongate. Apparently a large part of reviews are now done by an algo and since 10 weeks the review is unpredictable and often random.

With 70% you are still doing very well.

They refuse to communicate about the problem and we are left alone to figure out what works and what doesn't.

The only good thing they did was to add upload limits.

So inspections are now getting faster.

The free license is a license, so you would not need to pay the 5 dollars under my plan.

I am against agencies charging us, but the ai situation is special. And I think Adobe should look into people that use Adobe software.

Perhaps give them an extra 100 uploads a week and openly say that this is a promotion for Adobe software users.

But the best are strict upload limits and I think they should be done selectively by media type.

Perhaps keep traditional images, illustrations, camera video with high uploads, lower limits for image ai drastically, but keep ai video with a high limit because it is still very new and also expensive to produce.

I am very glad they finally listened and added limits.

It will make inspections much faster once they have cleared the backlog.

fwiw I just had a first time sale from a really old file uploaded in 2013.

Also most of my new files are placed in the premium collection. The ones that get priced at 35 are the ones with lower file quality, handheld, a little too blurry or noisy etc...

I don't think this means we will be getting the listed price, more that it might additional visibiity.

This file was from the standard collection.

Only 1100 fils, trying to add more and create more videos.

But pond5 is not dead yet.

That looks fantastic, congratulations!

I have stockperformer, so I can track sales easily.

For Adobe May is on track to be around 15% less than May 24.

While I usually have a summer slump, I am sure if I had been allowed to upload normally May 25 would have seen a good improvement over 24.

But this morning I had 4 instant acceptance for ai illustrations. Maybe there is some hope.

Camera video and photos have normal acceptance. So now I just have to wait for ai photos to get regular videos.

For ai video I now had a clip accepted where the underling ai image was declined as too similar.


I am very pleased with the new upload limits which help to clear up the queue.

I know I should be producing more camera jpgs/objects on white, but now I am working off my video backlog.