Awesome, but when will there be a version in Esperanto?!


Note: I'm kidding.

That exciting feeling when you discover one of your images in the wild... at your front door, in a local political campaign door stuffer that has probably made it into 10,000+ homes in the area, and then realize it's never sold for more than $2.48. I'm alternating between excited and annoyed. It's a bit strange.

After a little over two years, I've hit payout on Dreamstime, in large part thanks to what I think was a single person who boosted my typical daily sales count by about 1,000%. I suspect it will take a little less than two years to hit payout again.

My question is - how stable is Dreamstime? Do I want to maintain my account with the idea they'll still be a player in 2019, or is it time to close it down? The primary reason I'm asking is I don't know what would happen with balances if they were to shut down.

To be clear - I know nothing more about the company than everyone else here -- that they've been loosening license terms because sales haven't been what they wanted.

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on July 17, 2017, 10:18

At the beginning, they were trying to get their rental program off the ground by forcing people. Now the program has lots of subscribers, perhaps they will be concerned about the money they're leaving on the table by not selling licenses - or about putting Affinity Photo out of business.

I sure hope they don't try to go after AP. I really detested PSE when I was using it and I wouldn't go back to it even as a stand-alone program, much less a subscription. AP is much, much better.

I'll admit I do my work in Elements and am largely satisfied. It doesn't have CMYK or the basic vector tools full Photoshop has, but for regular photos it competes above its paygrade, at least for me. One thing that is a challenge is using both Elements and full Photoshop. For some strange reason some of the keyboard shortcuts and menus are in different places...

I've always sort of assumed as much. Granted, the header information would mostly just make clear the file was saved in Photoshop, and that could mean you just resized it.

I closed my account within the last couple of weeks but still got one. I filled it out, and was honest about why I left. I suspect nothing will come of it, but I can help.

I officially submitted a request to close my iStock account. I said I would give them two months after the unification, and I ended up giving them more, although that was only because I had a payment issue that wasn't their fault that I wanted to fix before I asked them to close my account.

Two cents for a download is a joke. Maybe if it had been a rarity, but it just happened too much.

My number of sales was down a bit, but it was my BME because I got a few unusually high dollar (for me) sales.

At long last, I finally got a sale on Alamy.

 I was briefly really excited that this was going to be something that improved on their recent changes, some of which have been good, some of which have been annoying. Then I realized I had no idea what the Payment History page even was. Improve the Earnings Page! I've never used the Payment History page.

Could just be a bad reviewer. When I have photos rejected, I'll look them over and if I think the rejection is bunk, I reupload. Usually they get accepted the second time around.

I got a 2 cent commission. I told myself after looking at January's numbers I would give them two months, just in case January was a fluke. This month 46% of my sales were under $0.25, which is making it hard to even want to stay for month number two.