Thank you, Jon, and shutterstock for saving my weekend.

The only way I can see to even see titles is to go into approved images and click on each individual image. That would take months. I emailed asking for a specific list of images.  If it is the uploader doing it this is their fault but my guess is that if they don't have a backup we will have to redo our images ourselves.

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Quote from: Mantis on June 30, 2016, 14:33

I'm banned from SS forums. Can someone go poke their head in and see if admins are chiming in and repost back here?

There are four threads going on in there on this topic, but so far no admins have chimed in.

Thank you.

actually the message in the email is the start of thread by a shutterstock admin called kate shutterstock, so they are getting the issue of spam addressed, which is fine, the email must have been an error, and you can still read the forums if you are banned,

http://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/88687-shutterstocks-position-on-repeated-words-and-phrases-in-titles/

You're right. Gracie.

it is NOT about keywords

Correct

Quote from: Mantis on June 30, 2016, 14:33

I'm banned from SS forums. Can someone go poke their head in and see if admins are chiming in and repost back here?

There are four threads going on in there on this topic, but so far no admins have chimed in.

Thank you.

any bets if they will even apologize to us! 

I would rather have them tell us it's a bug so WE CAN ALL BREATH A SIGH OF RELIEF...but a polite sorry would be welcome too. I was sitting outside at lunch, had my headphones on, enjoying the sunshine and music and for whatever reason decided to check email and saw this. I cut my lunch short to run back to work to follow up with SS.  They own me a bibbonbop at a Japanese restaurant...lol

I also got it and I make it a point to have clean titles and descriptions, and have for 10 years. I guess I need to respond to contributor relations.  My guess is that they accidentally sent this to everyone when they meant to send it to one person.

Quote from: Mantis on June 21, 2016, 07:50

Quote from: Herg on June 21, 2016, 02:04

Why, after uploading continually, do I not see sales for weeks, then a few in one go, then weeks without, then a few in one go, etc etc ?

This is their new way to ensure that sales get distributed fairly among all contributors.  Their model is not based on the value of your work and how much effort and quality you put into it.  Those who don't really care and upload crap get rewarded for that lack of effort.

Yeah, you've said it like 100 times before. We get it. But I don't believe that's the reason, since everybody is reporting lower sales. And search was cahnged (apparently) months ago. For me, disasterous sales are only for the last two months.

I'm sharing this because there are NEW participants here every week. I am just trying to communicate what has been communicated to me by DT to new forum members. This isn't about you, so chill out.

Quote from: Mantis on June 21, 2016, 08:03

Like many of you I got a VB survey. I filled it out.  My main things were "yes I like the 100% commission" and the one thing I don't like is "slow sales".  That's probably going to be the tone of the survey. But one question makes me reflect on the old Istock "money doesn't matter" comments.  Here is a screen shot of that question. I am wondering if this is a prelude to something forthcoming where VB can claim "money doesn't matter" sometime down the road as a reflection of this survey.

My biggest concern, like many others here, is that they cut the 100% commission but keep pricing at $49. We've been talking about this since VB started....almost claiming it is inevitable that they will cut commissions. This just seems to be a prelude to that.....to me anyway. YES, 100% MATTERS.

I think 1% or 100% comission really doesn't matter since you get from VB more than from any other agency in total (this May for me and my husband). You walk in a store with money but not percentage of comission.

It matters because their clips are only $49.

I just had some images approved.  Took just about a month. I actually forgot about them until I got 30 emails.

Without sod sales, I would be making hundreds less per month. On demands are way down and in most cases i get skunked. Video sales are slower, but image sales have been impacted more in the last 2-3 months.  Probably a combo of a lot of variables, but search might be one. This particular situations happened fast, not a time phased thing. Still like that today. I make $100 one day and $9 the next. My average is $40 a day.

I use Nuke for compositing and After Effects for quick comps and effects work - both should do the job easily. If you have Premiere then you probably have access to After Effects on Adobe's Creative Cloud package - Nuke would be overkill in this case.

I'll describe a quick fix for an After Effects workflow which I think you could easily adapt to Premiere if you wish, no effects or plugins needed.
- Duplicate your footage clip on your timeline and draw a small circular mask using the pen tool next to your dust spot (about 30 - 50 pixeld to the right or left) and feather it about 12 pixels or so.
- If you solo your masked clip you should just have a blue spot where your mask is.
- Next, just move the masked clip over your original and the dust spot is overlayed by your masked clip (the dust spot should be directly underneath your masked clip which has sampled a different piece of sky).
- No need to render a still frame as a tiff because this way you will keep your grain and any subtle changes in color over time.

What you would have done is to create a patch adjacent to your dust spot and shifted that patch over the offending area.

Another method would be to use the clone tool to clone a piece of sky next to your dust spot by sampling a clean piece of sky next to it but I don't think Premiere has that.

Remember to choose a clean piece of sky that lies on a horizontal axis (left/right) as opposed to a piece of sky either above or below your dust spot because sky is generally lighter lower on the horizon line and gets darker as you move up.

Hope this helps...

This is how I do it almost every time. You can move the clip around until get a nice blend over the spot. If I happen to be in Photoshop with my clip I create a new layer and simply clone over the sensor spot as in a photo and make sure that layer is times to the whole clip. Skies are usually easy unless there is moving clouds and blue sky mixes, especially on time lapses.  In FCPX I've taken a couple of masks and pulled them into Apple Motion and inverted them, reserving as an inverted mask so I can have the flexibility I might need.  Either way, Benozaur's method is my most commonly used spot correction tool.

 Wondering if anyone got this email. Looks suspicious as it it is trying to get me to sign up for another payment system.  Really? PayPal will be delayed by 3-4 weeks? That's by this seems to smell a little.

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