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Messages - synthetick
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« on: August 15, 2024, 01:29 »
I think not just that this is piece of s**t but also I'm quite sure that the view of Sydney opera in this "video" is INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT , so moderation "team" made a HUGE mistake here.
I totally agree with the first part of what you said, however photos and depictions of the Sydney Opera House are permitted as part of a wider cityscape. This is what the SOH's website says: "Where your photo or image places SOH in its geographical context of Sydney Harbour, in equal representation with other elements of the harbour such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the city skyline, commercial usage of the image would be permitted. In cases where SOH forms the exclusive or dominant feature, approval should be sought by contacting our Brand team." Adobe guidelines say, "Isolated images of the Sydney Opera House are prohibited. All depictions are evaluated on case-by-case basis."
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« on: August 13, 2024, 07:12 »
iStock now allows Generative AI retouching, see their forum and contributor portal for guidelines.
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« on: August 08, 2024, 07:22 »
On several occasions I have tried to send support tickets about this to them but each time their support is unavailable. This is the latest one I drafted:
Hi, I have noticed that your keyword suggestions in both the New and Legacy upload dialogs are possibly broken. Normally I find that the suggestions are reasonably accurate but I have been getting some very strange keyword suggestions, which seem like they are suggestions for some other file entirely. For example an animation I did of a pencil writing Back to School on a lined notepad gives me these suggested keywords: amazon, america, blink, bufo, bufonidae, crest, crested, ecuador, eye, forest, hop, ump, jungle, leaf, leap, margaritifer, neotropical, rainforest, rhinella, south, toad, tropical, warty, wink, burn
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« on: August 07, 2024, 07:50 »
Hi, I just got an email that my account will be unblocked.
Great news! 
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« on: August 05, 2024, 07:55 »
Does anyone know if Shutterstock's moderation is done in-house or do they contract it to a third party who wouldn't have access to checking for duplicates? I think that Adobe probably outsources their moderation and I wonder if it might be better done in-house.
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« on: July 28, 2024, 06:08 »
Open a support ticket and ask them directly.
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« on: July 27, 2024, 08:05 »
But won't AI generators get to a point when anyone can generate their AI images and videos themselves at good enough quality and then the AI stock images and videos will be irrelevant? And the technology is moving so fast in that direction. After that it may be better to focus on real photos of real places and authentic people.
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« on: July 17, 2024, 16:59 »
How did it get into the bestsellerlist?
https://stock.adobe.com/de/contributor/211258406/ahmed?load_type=author&prev_url=detail
Something very fishy going on there! They have 621 images but if you do a blank search on their portfolio and add "&filters%5Bundiscovered%5D=only" into the URL you can see that there are only 5 images that have not been sold. That is far from normal and should be a red flag that Adobe needs to investigate the portfolio for possible sales fraud.
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« on: July 17, 2024, 16:51 »
Income was double that of last June and RPD was slightly higher than usual.
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« on: July 17, 2024, 07:39 »
Surprised to have gotten a $95.01 sale from SS today.
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« on: July 12, 2024, 06:47 »
Thanks for your support!
Last week I sold 48 photos (all with the same theme) at once to a single customer (I know this, because a few days later the buyer contacted me directly to ask if I have even more photos on the subject), maybe thats the problem?
Quite ironic: The day after Adobe deactivated my account I got an email, that one of my uploads in the queue (1 photo) has been approved. Hooray.
Yours is an interesting case and I'm sorry to hear about it. When this buyer contacted you, did they seem pretty legit? I'm wondering if they used a stolen credit card. Anyway, what you need to do is contact Adobe via the link they provided and then you will get the reason for the block.
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« on: July 01, 2024, 04:02 »
1500 videos, 6500 images (mostly Ai, created as a hobby by my son).
I've created a nice motion graphics clip in After effects for a client, it was looking good. I gave the Ae project to my son and he created 250 clips as variations of that project, I've uploaded those and that collection's income is between 200-300$ per month for the last 18 months.
You may not be aware of Adobe's contributor guidelines about not submitting work that you didn't create yourself, so I'll add the link here: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/submission-guidelines.html"You must own or control all the rights to the files you submit to Adobe Stock. Dont submit files that dont belong to you, such as photos taken by your spouse. Dont incorporate anything into your content that was created by someone else not even images you got from a website that allows free downloads unless you have a complete property release from the owner of the other content."
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« on: July 01, 2024, 03:56 »
A nice surprise this morning at Shutterstock. My highest image sale ever.
It's an editorial photo from the 50s with 2 American celebrities.
Congrats!!
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« on: June 23, 2024, 07:06 »
I'm qualified and my Filezilla is chugging away rn
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« on: June 20, 2024, 06:46 »
LMAO Seriously? Can you share the link? They would need to provide a property release for each image and never sell the images to more than one buyer.
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« on: June 19, 2024, 19:17 »
Logically they must earn more than HD because they reach more buyers, both those who want HD and those who want 4K.
I remember synthetick, is this the same lady who used to post on the old istockvideo forums back in the day?
Yes I was an iStock video exclusive from 2008 to 2014. I left exclusivity because I was approached by Shutterstock who were in an acquisition phase at that time. Also, around that time iStock made the change to pricing 4K videos the same as HD, and I objected to that a lot at the time. I re-rendered most of my After Effects projects in 4K resolution and put them on SS and P5, and in 2018 on AS, but I never gave iS any of my 4K videos because their RPD on videos is so low, in fact I stopped uploading to iStock at all for about 8 years. When I started uploading to iS again in 2022 it was mostly stills only, then I moved to uploading video content I'd made in the intervening 8 years, but all of it downsized to HD. But at the start of this year when AS joined SS and iS in pricing 4K the same as HD, I felt there was no longer any point in withholding 4K from iS, so I started replacing my HD videos on iS with 4K. I have replaced about 400 so far.
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« on: June 19, 2024, 07:15 »
Logically they must earn more than HD because they reach more buyers, both those who want HD and those who want 4K.
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« on: June 18, 2024, 08:04 »
Lightroom still displays the keywords in app in alphabetical order. However, when you add the content to Adobe Stock, the keyword order is re-sorted to. the original order in which you added them.
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« on: June 14, 2024, 08:14 »
No.
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« on: June 06, 2024, 18:12 »
A series of posts on another forum I'm on explains that this has been completely blown out of proportion. Nothing has changed with the terms - Adobe made the mistake of saying the quiet parts out loud when attempting to update verbiage. Section 4.1 deals directly with Cloud services. See a statement from Adobe's Scott Belsky: ( https://petapixel.com/2024/06/06/photographers-outraged-by-adobes-new-privacy-and-content-terms/ ) (1) any modern cloud service has legal screening requirements like child exploitation imagery - the TOS ability to review is legally required for those who host content. (2) the license required solely for the purpose of operating is required to do basic things for customers, like making thumbnails, open a file on the Photoshop web app, index for search, etc. and when we support third-party integrations for workflows, that requires a sublicense. (3) we have always used ML to improve masking, selection and other basic tools, but explicitly dont train Firefly GenAI on customer content, it is trained on a licensed dataset with a customer compensation program that is well documented. But I agree the summary wording is unclear and Ive given that feedback to legal. the actual TOS are similar to any other modern software provider with cloud features that requires the service be able to access a file like when a user wants to open it on Photoshop web app, needs files indexed for search purposes, chooses to share a document for review online with a colleague, auto-tagging in Lightroom, or other cloud-enabled capabilities. And many of these capabilities technically require a license solely for the purpose of operating as stated. Adobe has had something like this in TOS for over a decade."
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« on: June 06, 2024, 07:23 »
I don't mind not seeing the money, but I would like to see the downloads sorted by day. If I sell an asset one day and then I sell it again the next day, then I have no record of what days it sold because it all gets lumped into the most recent download.
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« on: June 05, 2024, 07:20 »
Meh, I would like to see my Daily stats.
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