About a year ago I decided to upload to Can Stock and saw a pretty good return despite they are a low tier site. These last two months sales have taken a dive more than half in sales, anyone else seen this happen? Anyhow no more uploading to a site that does not perform!

Well that is the problem right, having to upgrade all your software is not cheap. I have PS CS5 and don't want to pay for Photoshop again since the version I have does what I need, and then Lightroom too! The other thing I don't like is that Photoshop went to subscription so if I am correct and maybe I am not, but my understanding is they no longer sell you the actual software, you are leasing it month to month! Can you even use the newest Photoshop if your internet is down?

The dilemma is that I want to own my software and still use it on the newest Mac OSX. Also Mac no longer offers its older OSX versions for download.

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Is anyone running Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan and using Lightroom. Last year I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan when it came out and it was not compatible with Lightroom 4 and PS CS5. My entire system went down. I had to restore my Mac back to its original operating system and I have not upgraded to the newer OSX. This bothers me because I would like to be using Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan but I need my Adobe Software to work.

Thanks

This is a known issue with both Apple and Adobe. I have several hours invested in talking with both companies tech support. It is an Apple El Capitan issue. Bridge and Lightroom are both affected. The last message received from Adobe is they are waiting for Apple to upgrade El Capitan OS.

El Capitan is a crippled OS.

Any update on these issues, have they fixed the problems now that its been a year?

I joined Pond5 over a week ago and still a batch of photos I uploaded to test out their site is just siting there waiting for review. I guess I'm just used to SS looking and approving the same day. Anyone know what Pond5 review time frame is like?

Thanks

I am confused with this sites layout. I opened an account their this week and uploaded some photos to see what would happen, I can't find any website navigation that shows you your portfolio or accepted or rejected images. Anyone know where to look for that.

Thanks.

Just wondering if anyone is having problems loving into their Alamy account. Every time I try my Safari tells me that it can not make a connection to the secure login page for Alamy.

Thanks!

Every now and then Alamy refunds the money made on a sale from my portfolio back to the purchaser. Typically it will be for a high price sale. So that means they are purchasing the larger file size getting the down load and then asking for a refund. Whats to prevent them from then using the photo and having paid nothing?

So person who does not understand marketing is spamming the site with his essay service, hope microstockgroup files a suit against him with the spam act.

Its the same on my account, sent them a note hopefully they are aware already. I do not use the app so I don't know about that.

I was trying to import an image into photoshop tonight that had a portion of a hundred dollar bill in it and Photoshop said it could not open the image due to Currency issues and then wanted to direct me to some currency website.

Has anyone else had this problem of Photoshop recognizing money in the image and rejecting them?

It was flat on but it was only a third of the money. Anyone have a work around for this problem.

I ended up using Gimp instead but its not the same as using photoshop and was a pain to get the results I needed.

Hi pixel8, just want to clarify some of your concerns here. (For context, our sister agency is VideoBlocks, hence my profile image.) First, GraphicStock's free trial, which is offered through certain partners, does not allow unlimited downloads. (That would be silly!) We allow up to 20 downloads per day for 7 days. Most of our customers pay $99 per year for full access to the library.

Each of our contributors is paid thousands, if not tens of thousands, of dollars for licensing rights to their work. And we're non-exclusive, so contributors can continue selling and distributing their work elsewhere. The model seems to work well for the contributors we work with!

Ok I can respect that, a promo. I was under the assumption that when it said download anything you want it meant as much as you want as well. My mistake, I do apologize for that. However $99 per year for full access to the library that in itself sounds bad for contributors. Can you tell us how many downloads that entails and what kind of compensation a contributor receives in return?

I don't know if anyone else has seen this but if you have and if your work is on this site Graphic Stock, I personally ask that you remove your work before the industry is completely destroyed! At what point are contributors going to come together and say enough already?

Graphic Stock is giving away unlimited photos for seven days with unlimited usage. Having been a graphic designer in the past for a media company I would simply go there and download for seven days straight and would have enough content to last for a long time, maybe even years if it was a well thought out download.

If this continues down this path stock photography will eventually all be free with sites making money from advertising which means practically no payout for any contributor.

Is there a law suit here? I thought I learned in school that this would be considered dumping and therefore driving down prices and illegal?