pancakes

MicrostockGroup Sponsors


Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - cobalt

Pages: 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 9 10 ... 211
101
Adobe Stock / Re: Sudden downfall in downloads
« on: April 20, 2025, 06:08 »
If somebody uploads 20k files, no matter what media type and customers love the content so much he earns 2500 a month...good for him/her and everyone.

Why should adobe stop the uploads of someone who understands what customers like?

I see a bigger problem with people uploading 100k files and sales of 25 dollars a month....

But even then, these ports can be dropped down by algos and usually they do because of a bad sales to size ratio.

All problems we notice can be easily solved by intelligent upload limits.

That whole crazy ai is simply not needed at all.


102
New Sites - General / Re: The Vault Stock
« on: April 20, 2025, 02:03 »
They have 5000 images and 800 videos...why should anyone buy there?

"The Vault Content Hub.
A library full of 5000+ stock images, 800+ Videos & Creative Assets including IG posts, reels, stationery, email templates and more. Weve even included Lightroom Presets inside The Vault Stock so that you can bring The Vault Stock feel to your own branded imagery.

All of the templates are editable in Canva, giving you the power to personalise and make it your own.

With The Vault Stock, you can create content that truly reflects your unique style and brand identity."

103
seasonal images can take up to 3 season to get regular sales. customers have very, very long planning times. you need to build up a following of regular seasonal image buyers and that takes a very long time.

congrats andrej! well done!

104
made it pos 1430, this is probably my easter high for 2025

I really wish adobe had allowed to keep uploading. It could have been so much better.


105
Adobe Stock / Re: Sudden downfall in downloads
« on: April 19, 2025, 02:39 »
easter holidays in many countries. schools and businesses closed.

106
good point!

is this a new partner?

might explain a small uptick in more asia centric content from my port.

probably should do more for china, you are right.

107
Adobe Stock / Re: What's Your Lifetime Position on Adboe?
« on: April 18, 2025, 03:52 »
Now 6720

108
Yesterday was my best day of the month with 68 dl. But I am still on track to earn less this easter than last year, because the critical last 4 weeks I could not upload my best files :(

rank also improved, that will be it for this month

pos 1660, 8100 files


109
looks like an api deal like ukposters.

interesting find, thank you

110
Adobe Stock / Re: Adobestock Review Time
« on: April 18, 2025, 03:18 »
The disrespect is hurting the most. The ghosting silence.

They have unleashed a completely untrained algo on producers and nobody is babysitting it.

It seems to inspect only on visual similarity and colors. It cannot distinguish between subject matters. I had a wedding cake declined that  I was sure was unique because I used the adobe similar tool to see what else was out there.

No similar cakes in sight. But...lots of images with butter, aromatheraphy oils, towels and spa with similar flowers, composition and colors. Got my file declined for similarity.

But other cakes were accepted, that have much less sales value because they lack copy space.

I had other experiences like this, images with lots of copy space declined the one without space accepted.

I make greeting cards. Basically elaborate frames.

Full frame images sell very little, they are the add on the client might download 1-5 times a year.

But a good greeting card can have 20-100 dl a year.

So I have stopped uploading, which is very damaging to my business.

The current system is rewarding the spammers, wether ai or camera, that upload gigantic quantities a day.

Whereas the creators who edit very strongly and upload 5-20 files a day are severly punished and basically cannot grow their ports.


The easiest thing to do if Adobe really felt too many similars where entering the system: Upload limits.

Then adjust that dynamically to match  review capacity.


Adobe is one of the largest software companies on the planet.

The way they look down. on the puny ant creators is eye opening.

111
It was fun, next week will be sad

@Daniel

Your port is a great example for the power of video. You are making similar money like me, but you will still have that next week when my easter sales disappear.

Doing video is really the way forward for many of us looking for a full time income.

112
looks like things are improving...for a few days...


113
General Stock Discussion / Re: Food Photography Handbook
« on: April 15, 2025, 04:57 »
Bought the book!

eta

fantastic book!

"Dont rush into your photography
sessions. Have it all planned out
so that the actual shoot flows
easily."

Yes, I will plan and organize maybe a week before I start making new christmas cards, but when it come to daily food, I just drop it down. I do use a tiny reflector and rustic wood background, but i don't style the food itself.

Overall visually very beautiful book.

Hm. I wanted to write a really simple ebook, with simple visuals...maybe I should put more thinking into the design as well.

Anyway, still need to lose the weight first.

eta2

worksheets are exactly what i want to add to my book for weight loss.

make it really easy for people, just print it out or copy write it down and get going.

life is to short to be unhealthy

114
General Stock Discussion / Re: Food Photography Handbook
« on: April 15, 2025, 04:54 »
Thank you for the encouragement and connecting on insta.

I never had a beautiful insta page, so I am late to the party and still trying to understand it.

My first "contacts" where sexbots, creepy men and then people looking for partners for their affiliate marketing program.

A few friends, but otherwise no organic engagement with people trying to lose weight. So far.

Usually, I don't like to cook and don't follow recipes, but maybe for by ebook project I will try to do better.

Went to the farmers market this morning...and realized I am not rich enough to do all my shopping there ;)

Never heard of non-diabetic Reactive Hypoglycemia, looked it up. Glad it is under control. Lear something new every day.

Personally I don't think the low carb diets are that healthy, especially keto.

The "Mastering Diabetes" people are highly critical of the longterm effects.

https://www.masteringdiabetes.org

They recommend eating lots of healthy carbs, loads of fresh fruits, fresh potato, brown rice.

You can train your metabolism to burn carbs better, apparently that even works for diabetes type1. They have some really impressive results, one of the authors is a type 1 diabetic and was able to drastically cut how much insulin he needs.

Their community is filled with people losing weight while eating gigantic fruit and food platters.

It takes a few months for the body to improve the carb metabolism but it really does work. I got a strong boost in weight loss and really enjoy eating bananas, mango, cherries or grapes that I had avoided for years. It got me reliable below 100kg and now stable at 92kg.

I hope to write enough articles on the medium blog that it can be converted and expanded later for the little book.

But first I have to lose more weight. Now in public :)

115
General Stock Discussion / Re: Food Photography Handbook
« on: April 14, 2025, 23:33 »
Following this thread with renewed interest.

Not just because the food pics look great, but I have started a new project and might write an ebook.

I have lost over 80 pounds with a healthy morning meal followed by fresh fruits, then chocolate, cake or anything bad.

Combined with intermittent fasting I feel like I have cracked the code for easy and automatic weight loss.

No calorie counting, a pizza every week, very cheap, no gym needed, although I try to go swimming once a week and attempt to walk 4000 steps a day.

The warm cooked healthy morning meal stimulates my metabolism which had slowed down a lot with endless yoyo diets.

Plus there is science about feeding your gut bacteria well and they will produce appetite dampening chemicals and keep you happy.

I started a blog on medium, so people can follow the last 20 pounds of weight loss.

https://medium.com/@jasminsbreakfast

There is also an insta with the same name.

Comments and critique welcome!

No beautiful food pictures yet, but I am trying to improve that.

Also taking little videos for stock.

When I have enough articles and have refined and rethought what I do and why it works, I want to summarize it in a useful little book.

Usually I dont follow recipes, but perhaps while doing this project this will improve. I really dont enjoy cooking.

One good thing that came from the vurrent Adobe disaster, I finally started the blog.

Apologies for my ugly food  pics :)


116
Are the videos safe from the killer algo?

I have processed quite a few videos, but havent uploaded yet.

The algo seems to be getting crazier by the day and the situation is not improving.

117
I make greeting cards and I am testing illustrations. Watercolor sells, oil paintings don't.

I agree that I need to branch out. My add on theme this year is "ai people" and camera video for everyone. But eco themes are a very good suggestion. However I first need to research and analyse a new genre before production.

"I thought your results here are quite good but is this slow for you at this time of year / compared to last year?"

Last year I made over 730 dollars with easter themes, this year it will probably be less than 500. And a big problem is that the essential flow of the last 6 weeks leading up to the holiday is missing. I couldn't get my good files in. The algo regularly declines potential good selling images, usually with a lot of copy space and accepts often vertical close up images with little sales value. It is the kind of things people might download as an add on, but it is not what makes me money.

My disappointment comes from having a hopefully good stock business plan and now being held back by the crazy adobe algo and what looks like an orange menace recession for the US time zone.

I am trying to rebuild my income to do it full time again. The last years were actually better than expected, but this spring things are really bad.

And I cannot get content approved at my favorite agency, this really ruins all plans for the year.

They apparently also decline lots of camera content.

For the size of the port, now 8100 files, it is probably a good rank, but it could be a lot better.

It should be a lot better.




118
Adobe Stock / Re: Files being removed from port
« on: April 12, 2025, 04:40 »
In the discord the removed files include simple color backgrounds that supposedly break adobes terms and other weird examples.

What is the point of that?


119
today only 23 dl so far, but overall my rank improved a bit

very depressed with the latest declines. it feels like anything that will make money is kicked out and boring images with low sales value is getting in.

I have no control over my port, it is so depressing.


120
General Stock Discussion / Re: Where Are the Customers?
« on: April 09, 2025, 13:37 »
i think we are beginning to see the start of a worldwide orangeconma made recession that could be worse than covid

121
I think the current reviews are a form of evil roulette with lots of good content being declined without logic.

Had 6 more files accepted with 4mp size and always doing single uploads, will stick to this for a while.

Also starting to process camera videos, i hope they get accepted.

eta

tiny improvement


122
please try the small size thing. in the discord there is an ai uploader who just had 400 from 490 accepted and he points out that small size is important.

123
I think 15-20 a day is perfectly normal for good content and usually enough to grow a port.

We should not be forced to compete with the spammers.

I uploaded around 10 yesterday and 20 today. I also deleted several older files from the queue.

I think once a few from a day are reviewed, I will always remove those that are left. looks like these files are destined for the garbage bin.


124
A tiny move up.

Got another similar decline for something that is new to my port.

I am so tired of this Adobe roulette system. I really used to love that agency.


125
Thank you. I might try them. Keywording in German is no issue, then a mixed German English description is fine too.

I have alot of local editorial content.

Chromeorange is the other place that was recommended to me for the German market.

Your sales sound encouraging.

Pages: 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 9 10 ... 211

Sponsors

Mega Bundle of 5,900+ Professional Lightroom Presets

Microstock Poll Results

Sponsors