@aprott:
First of all, I'm really glad to hear that your account has been unblocked by Mat - great!

As I have had a blocked account myself (the reason was a reference to "Giger") I know what it's like... I then went through my account and deleted everything that could even remotely be a reference problem from my portfolio, e.g. cars without logos (because of the shape), clown dolls (possibly alluding to a movie), etc.

I hope your account will recover quite quickly from the block - it started slowly for me and after 10-12 weeks I was back to about the download level per week from before.

All fingers are crossed :-)

I haven't received any payment yet - I applied for everything regularly on the site.

But it's only $11 for me - let's see

No, I use Chaotica.

Thanks for the info - I will try that one for sure, looks nice

Someone in North Carolina spent $499 on one of my abstract fractal images. (My non-exclusive 15% was $74.85.)

Very nice one :-)
I like to do fractals too - do you use Ultra Fractal 6 too?

Michael / MPfoto71

I just checked my video downloads in 2023 for the video sites - maybe this helps you a little:

- IStock - RpD $3,09 - Revenue 33.21%
- ShutterStock - RpD $14,25 - Revenue 32.05%
- AdobeStock - RpD $9,87 - Revenue 25.90%
- Pond5 - RpD $13,32 - Revenue 5,99%
- DepositPhotos - RpD $8,09 - Revenue 1,82%
- Dreamstimes - RpD 5,09 - Revenue 0,57%

So in my case IStock has the lowest RpD, but a lot of videos sales which makes it the highest revenue site.
Pond5, Deposit, Dreamstime (in my case) are just a waste of time.

But those numbers may by completely different for other people with higher quality videos then mine :-)

@Cascoly
Thank you for sharing!

That's what I call a terse response with a standard answer.
But at least I now know what answer I will get, if they ever respond to my support request on this topic.

With every further attempt to place images there, I get the impression that they want to get rid of us (which I would understand in purely economic terms) - but then where are the images supposed to come from?

Because let's be honest, the AI offered by Canva doesn't even begin to replace any photos at the moment.

@DannyCanva:
In case the contributors are of any interest to you, a statement here would be really helpful :-)

Have a sunny day@all

About 12 hours later the images got rejected (of course) ;-)

I wonder what they will say if you write to them for support, although I think they will say the standard phrase... we collect then we�ll pay

I asked the support team this question about the 6-month payout for the "Contributor Fund" and so far they haven't said anything about it.
But it's only been a good week - I think they'll just ignore the question.

Btw: The isolated png's are still in review...

Today after almost 2 month waiting time my transparent png's got 100% rejected.

It is really incomprehensible what the goal of Canva is?

Here in the forum nobody answers, in the support nobody answers and images are almost 100% immediately rejected by some automatic system.

Dear Canva team,

have you become so indifferent to us that we are no longer even worthy of a short reply?
If so, all you have to do is say so and you'll be rid of us in no time :-)

Have a sunny day,
Michael

Quote from: JustAnImage on November 22, 2023, 18:49

Have a sunny day@all,

Rain is very usefull

We definitely have enough rain here in northern Germany - a ray of sunshine every now and then is quite pleasant ;-)

If you were just illustrating a concept, and clearly labelled the image(s) as "gen ai", then I don't think you should have done that. From the screenshots you posted, it appears you did clearly show it was a "concept", which should have been fine.

Thank you for your opinion, which I basically share - but after I already have an account block behind me, which was quite expensive - I have become very careful.

Fortunately, my account block was only for 8 days, which was probably only so short thanks to the help of Mat and Mr Gomez, but it still cost me all my top 25 images, which are hardly ever bought anymore and even after 3 months and 4,500 additional assets, I'm still not at the same level as before the account block.

That makes you cautious and now I'd rather wait and see what Mat has to say about the questions - I can always upload the images again if it doesn't conflict with the guidelines.

Thank you Mat for letting us know!

If you allow I would like to ask, what this part of the rules mean:
"... from submitting generative AI content with titles that imply that it is depicting an actual newsworthy event. If a contributor mistitles generative AI content, we will review and take appropriate action, including removing the content or terminating the contributor account."

A few questions immediately come to mind here, as I already have an account block behind me:

(Question I) "If a contributor mistitles..." - does this mean, only the title is checked? Or in other words, is it all about the title and the keywords don't matter?

(Question II) "... with titles that imply that it is depicting an actual newsworthy event" - does this mean, only if a title names a specific event like "35th birthday of ..."

(Question III) Can files that are already online or have been submitted before the rule change also cause an account block under the new rule? In other words, do we now have to check every single image that was previously accepted?


I have prepared two examples from my account via screenshot (see below) and wonder if these pictures describe a specific event or if the title is general enough.
One image of those has already been accepted, one image was submitted before the new rule came into force and of course some of the keywords do refer in some kind to actual events in the world, but not a specific event in the title.

Perhaps I'm being a little overcautious, but this rule extension has me worried that the next and perhaps final account block is just around the corner.

Have a sunny day@all,
Michael