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« on: May 23, 2025, 21:08 »
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 - 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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« on: May 19, 2025, 11:25 »
Was it $4 for the year last time around? I honestly don’t remember.
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« on: April 17, 2025, 16:25 »
The time to opt out was in 2020 when SS went to the 0.10 per sale. Unfortunately very few people suspended or closed their accounts. The same will be true here.
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« on: February 13, 2025, 15:05 »
In September I was riding down the highway and saw something I knew had microstock utility. I was a passenger and we were hauling a giant trailer, so I thought better of asking to pull over on the side of the interstate. I just rolled down the window and took as many photos as I could.
A few of the images had no motion blur, and to my delight, the one I uploaded sells weekly, which is strong for me. Special thanks to Adobe Photoshop’s Sky Replacement, which makes almost all outside photos look better and typically requires only minimal manual tweaking.
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« on: January 24, 2025, 22:28 »
As I recall, I also received electronic and mailed copies from Adobe last year.
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« on: January 14, 2025, 11:36 »
I got the email below from Alamy today. This only seems like a positive, but as a result I’m not sure why they’re asking rather than just demanding. Am I missing something?
Would you like to increase your revenue from Collecting Society payments?
Alamy currently works with several Collecting Societies on your behalf to claim royalty payments on secondary uses of your images. We pay you 50% of commission of the funds awarded. You may have already received payments related to the work we do with ASCRL and other Collecting Societies.
We now have the opportunity to apply for a greater share of the royalty payments, which you can benefit from by sharing your date of birth with us. This is a new administrative requirement of some of the funders, including ASCRL, who want this additional information so they can identify copyright owners more easily.
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« on: November 27, 2024, 12:20 »
How do you get these shots and not get eaten yourself!
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« on: November 19, 2024, 00:08 »
you forgot the reviewers who know nothing about anything
As someone who also knows nothing about anything I am deeply offended that you are insulting our kind. It is not our fault we’re morons!
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« on: November 05, 2024, 23:35 »
I’m opted out yet continue to receive dataset earnings. Sigh. What is even the point of the opt out button?
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« on: October 30, 2024, 13:02 »
Roughly $45 has appeared in my Adobe Stock balance and I can figure out why. It happened yesterday, well after the Firefly revenue we received weeks ago, and it doesn’t correlate to any sales.
I would reach out to Adobe, but after seeing other folks have their accounts blocked for weeks because Adobe wrongly decided they were fraudsters, I’ve thought better of it.
Anyone else have extra cash appear recently / know where it might have come from?
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« on: October 16, 2024, 23:15 »
The conclusion is obvious. Adobe sent all its employees to check the works created by artificial intelligence. Adobe is no longer interested in photos and videos created without artificial intelligence.
What’s more likely, the reviewers are focusing on AI, or AI has taken over the reviewers and is only reviewing AI images as they have an affinity for images of their computer generated world. Skynet is learning.
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« on: October 08, 2024, 13:38 »
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I mostly take landscape and travel photos and I'm seeing in the AI images places that don't exist, but in the description I read: Santorini, Tuscany, Paris, Dolomites, Normandy ...
Would you buy a travel guide with these photos of fake places?
As far as I'm concerned, I may have removed an electrical cable or a branch, I may have saturated the colors a bit, but the place is that.
Just as it can be dangerous to show perfect models that do not exist in reality.
I have also seen AI generated landscapes on AS. I don’t get the allure unless the sellers are trying to fool people. I’ve been to that place, I know it doesn’t look like that, although it’s somewhat closeish.
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« on: October 07, 2024, 20:06 »
Just had a couple non AI, non Illustrative Editorial files that have been in review for three weeks get approved, meanwhile, I have other files that have been in review for two months that are still waiting.
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« on: October 03, 2024, 22:55 »
Unbelievably old thread alert!
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« on: September 26, 2024, 11:45 »
Most recent approval time: 11 weeks.
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« on: September 14, 2024, 21:41 »
Another thief;
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Aqeela_Image
I guess selling public domain images from the Department of Defense as your own is alright at Shutterstock for the last 4 years..
*. 2000 of them. And 1 duck.
Further proof SS have no human review system any more. If they did, any basic reviewer would have realised these images were NOT shot by that person with appropriate rights and permissions.
Making bank on that duck photo, I’m sure.
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« on: September 11, 2024, 23:08 »
So anyway, talking about review times, in Adobe Stock VP Matt Smith's blog post today, apart from all the exciting news about the Firefly bonus, it is stated that Adobe Stock has tripled their review team.
The images in my review queue beg to disagree.
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« on: September 05, 2024, 16:22 »
It took ten weeks, but I just had some images clear review, and to my pleasant surprise, one sold immediately.
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« on: August 24, 2024, 15:27 »
I know it’s been happening to other folks for a while, but I’ve now got images that have passed eight weeks. Sigh.
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« on: August 17, 2024, 15:17 »
They simply don't want non-AI, non-Editorial images. Most likely they configured AI to alert human reviewer only if it "thinks" image is exceptional. Otherwise it just sits in the queue; eventually someone, maybe even AI, goes around and clears the backlog by rejecting for "Quality Reasons"
The question is why do they want real illustrative editorial images but not real regular images. The whole thing makes no sense.
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« on: July 26, 2024, 18:21 »
in my opinion,with all due respect to everyone,obviously,but in my opinion there could be reasons behind it and we simply don't have the general picture.
We don’t have the full picture, but Adobe is reviewing AI images and illustrative editorial images very quickly, so they’re able to. It’s only conventional photos that sit on the sidelines for weeks and weeks and weeks. The whole thing doesn’t make sense.
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« on: July 14, 2024, 22:53 »
If we soon discover cave paintings from the stone age as brand new images in the database, we know that the review is taking too long. I have uploaded a few new images when Ramses II was still going about his government business - they are still waiting for the review.
Ramses I’s image review policies were much more efficient. But then he sacrificed my sister to Ra. I’ve got mixed feelings since then.
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« on: July 10, 2024, 18:08 »
They will close thief accounts, but don’t they require it be reported by the copyright holder? They generally won’t delete accounts if I notice a problem with someone else’s images. Agencies will close thief accounts if they are reported, but otherwise do little to prevent fraud because there is nothing in it for them. They get 85% (or whatever) regardless if asset has been downloaded from original creator port or stolen port. As simple as that.
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« on: July 08, 2024, 20:05 »
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« on: July 08, 2024, 18:44 »
I have a photo showing a United States locale that is named using a non-standard English character. It has an ñ in the formal name. When writing keywords/titles, should I use a standard n or keep the tilde?
Dreamstime made me change it to a regular n, but I’m not sure how to best handle other sites to ensure it’s easily findable by buyers.
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