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« on: November 10, 2017, 10:06 »
It's a subscription sale and I am thankful for it. I hope it's for good.
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« on: November 10, 2017, 04:04 »
These last three days since they are toying with the new system my sales are down to almost nothing.
It will be a very slow month if they continue doing this.
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« on: November 10, 2017, 03:49 »
From your dashboard, check 'Sales History' and that lets you know when the buyer notified Alamy of a sale.
From your dashboard, check 'Account Balance' and you can see whether a sale has been paid or not. That's where the big gap can come about. (Minimum 45 days, apparently)
However, if you don't know that the image was taken from Alamy, they won't be able to help you. My files there are all exclusive to Alamy (though they don't have to be, so long as RM files there would be RM elsewhere).
Thanks ShadySue. I checked those pages. All sales have a date in the "Date purchased" column, if that is what I should look for. As you said, it doesn't matter if I don't know who sold the file. I will contact A in a few days though. Thanks again.
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« on: November 09, 2017, 14:27 »
I should have explained that I wait six months if a file has been notified but not paid.
If there's an in-use which hasn't shown up, I email much sooner than that. A probable abuse (like a pic in an apparently-reputable US newspaper with an Alamy watermark, which hadn't been reported), I report immediately.
Thanks ShadySue. Would you please tell me what does it mean when a file is notified? Sorry, I am still not used to A unique wording and navigation. Is that something I can check? The file mentioned is on other agencies too, it has many downloads showing up on sites in all languages, from Spanish to Chinese (including Pinterest), so there is no way to know where was it downloaded from.
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« on: November 09, 2017, 03:21 »
I'll wait till the end of the month and then I think I should contact Alamy.
I must say that Alamy have the best customer service I've encountered. They'll help you out.
Thanks.
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« on: November 08, 2017, 09:56 »
Thank you ShadySue and Sammy for your answer.
Six month you say. For my image downloaded in May, this is the 7th month. I'll wait till the end of the month and then I think I should contact Alamy.
Thanks again.
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« on: November 07, 2017, 17:22 »
What I don't like is that you have to wait so much for the payment (from buyer). I have files downloaded in May and still not payed for.
Yea that's annoying.
Alamy bend over backwards to please their clients, I suppose that's how they remain competitive.
Its because Alamy provide extended credit terms to certain clients like newspapers and magazines.
That is normal in the world of industry and commerce.
How much is this credit extended? Is there a timeframe (limit) for payment with these clients?
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« on: November 07, 2017, 10:20 »
I am with Alamy from July 2016 with 750 files, I had some small sales $5.33; $3.44 ... a piece but they all were distribution sales, meaning that A & distributor get 70% and 30% (&1.5) is my cut.
This month I got my first bigger sale, $28.41 sold by A, 50%-50% cut.
What I don't like is that you have to wait so much for the payment (from buyer). I have files downloaded in May and still not payed for.
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« on: October 22, 2017, 16:47 »
Guys, take care, there is much more misery to this update, I find them gradually as I go to use things like:
Adobe has deactivated most of my other media programs, even deleted the shortcut icons from the desktop.
I like win 10's Movies & TV app, it plays 4k video very well but now it is deactivated, something with the rootkit on the error message.
I have all my stuff on external drive and I cannot open a single video.
Also Infranview vanished and who knows what else.
This was a brand new i7 with OS and all programs newly installed, now it is full of garbage.
Thanks god I created a restore point before the update and restored the system but now LR doesn't open, instead there is a login window to my Adobe account, each time I open it and it demands internet access. After I log in it says that I have 30 days free trial, hear that, to my own perpetual copy, that is outrageous.
Adobe pushes everyone to the cloud with this update, what a scam.
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« on: October 22, 2017, 12:27 »
These days I never update any software until I really have to as 95% of the time the incremental improvements are not worth the angst and I let the early adopters do the user acceptance testing 
That is a very healthy idea, it was my intention too when I asked the question here. Not much help though. Not to mention that now, all the sudden, my mail is full with CC "kind offerings", emails.
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« on: October 22, 2017, 09:49 »
I haveLR 6.0 so I wont update to 6.12 then.
To be honest, I havent noticed any performance results or crashes with LR 6
Well, honestly I don't see the poit to update but as I already lost half the day researchig, I'll share my findings for others, maybe interested. I compared the updated LR with the old one on two computers and this is the result: Though system info says the new one is LR 6.12 still - no new camera or lens profiles - only one of the new features show, it is called "transform" - no dehaze, no new presets As I said before the new one is on Win 10, the old one is on Win7 professional (64-bit) These are just my results, others could be luckier. In case it is helpful to anyone, according to Adobe the update can be installed on wIN 7 SP1(64-bit) and newer, https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/system-requirements.htmlIt's CC that needs the Microsoft Visual C++2015 Redistributable (64 & 86-bit) system update to be installed. This is the error message I get on Win 7: Error when launching
The program can't start because api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem. https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/vc2015_update.htmlSo I'll just keep the LR 6.0 on Win 7, I don't want to mess with my OS for nothing.
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« on: October 22, 2017, 05:18 »
I was just expecting something faster, but it is the exact contrary  The update changes everything Adobe on your computer, Bridge, Camera raw, PS, Premiere. Plus, the creative cloud exe. was welcoming me as a new cloud member. This could be the reason (or maybe not) for the slowdow, anyway, I didn't ask for it so I uninstalled it immediately. I updated two machines, an i7 with win 10 which worked and my older, still running win 7 where the LR update didn't work but changed all the rest. I don't see any slow down yet, I see the interface has changed on adobe programs but I had no time to experiment yet. I mostly wanted the update for the Panasonic profile which Adobe says it is there but it is not.
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« on: October 21, 2017, 11:10 »
I made the update and it managed to mess up my entire system. Lr doesn't even start. The web is full of complaints about this so, take care! Adobe doesn't bother to list the system requirements.
Now I can start uninstalling and reinstalling.
He/l with Adobe.
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« on: October 21, 2017, 09:45 »
^ 6.12, and always worked perfectly.
I was just expecting something faster, but it is the exact contrary
Some operations like importing are maybe faster (not sure) but this is not where I need the application to be faster; I need it to be faster when using the develop module.
(Thinking to go back with time machine)
https://www.outdoorphotographer.com/lightroom-cc-vs-lightroom-classic/
Thank you. So now you have LR classic CC. I've read that article before and it messed my head even more. So this is not true: Lightroom Classic CC (a.k.a. Lightroom-As-We-Knew-It) is the unchanged Lightroom we have grown to depend on. So, thats good news. Lightroom Classic CC will also work better than ever. I'll try to update from LR 6.0 to 6.12 and if something goes wrong I still have the DVD to reinstall. I almost never use LR, I hate programs that organize for me, so I can't lose much. Thanks again.
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« on: October 21, 2017, 08:46 »
I have made the upgrade to Lightroom Classic.
I must say that I am not happy at all!
Adobe has made a very bad work this time: all is very very slow.
Not only me by the way: https://forums.adobe.com/message/9905229#9905229
That is why I am afraid to update. What was your previous version?
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« on: October 21, 2017, 08:37 »
Please excuse my ignorance but what is Lightroom classic? I am so confused with all these versions. I have Lightroom 6.0 standalone and now, reading this thread I thought I check for updates if Lr 6 is going away. The only update is Lightroom CC (2015.12)/6.12 (This update to Lightroom CC includes bug fixes and new camera support.) Is Lightroom CC and Lightroom 6 the same thing? I don't want subscription, so can I update to Lightroom CC (2015.12)/6.12 without paying a subscription? This is what I see on Adobe site: Get the latest features and bug fixes by simply updating Lightroom to the latest version.
What is the most current version?
Lightroom CC/Lightroom 6
The latest/most current version of Lightroom CC is 2015.12 and Lightroom 6 is 6.12. I just want to be sure.
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« on: October 19, 2017, 15:32 »
Alamy's Latest picture needsThis part of requirements for education is quite entertaining: Clothing on girls/women
. Shoulders need to be covered by short sleeves or longer.
. No vests or strappy tops (if youre shooting someone with a strappy top/no sleeves you could put a cardigan on and shoot a couple more for an ELT alternative).
. Skirts/shorts should be at or below the knee.
. No cleavage visible (e.g. shirts/tops/dresses need to have a high enough neckline not to show cleavage or bare chest flesh).
. Clothing shouldnt be too tight (e.g. no tight tops that show the bust or tight leggings that give too much definition to the legs or bottom unless in a sports situation).
. Sports clothing should have as little flesh on show as possible. I guess gymnastics, swimming, ballet and such is excluded according to the last line except somebody has a "19th century swimsuit".  By Anonymus (American: Harpers magazine.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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« on: October 19, 2017, 14:27 »
I religiously put my images in collections, so I have more than 20 collections/galleries.
Question 1. How did AS decide which one to port over from FT?
I was looking for a specific image in a gallery to select it as custom header image but I couldn't find it. So I noticed that AS collections don't contain all the images from the same FT collection, ex. 305 in FT vs 198 in AS.
It would be very hard work to compare the two and add the missing image in back.
Question 2. Will AS continue to port over the missing images in each gallery (305 - 198 = 107) or should we create duplicate galleries with the same images + the missing ones?
The blog article says that I can create as many collections as I want.
Question 3. How do I delete one of the 20 collections to make place for a new one?
I don't understand what is new in this feature. All AS had to do is copy over the collections from FT and then add some new features like changing the cover photo of a gallery.
How are these custom galleries if we can't change anything on what AS decided it would be good for us?
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« on: October 14, 2017, 04:24 »
I figure, because if it's 0,99 sale, I actually get 0,94 because of 5% taxes which are deducted only from US customers.
That is 10% for me and US sales weighting ~ 60% of all sales now for me, while it was 20-30 % before the merge. This ratio shift makes up the difference I see in the decrease of total sales. I also think that they neglected EU buyers or vice-versa, EU buyers don't like As.
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« on: October 14, 2017, 04:00 »
I don't complain about sales, not much but still the best agency from middle tier.
What I don't understand is where do these $0.140 credit sales come from? I just got one, anyone else?
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« on: September 25, 2017, 13:59 »
I have it very often, not with duplicates. I then change the file name (not the image title), keep it short and reupload. This works all the time.
I could never find out the reason this happens.
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« on: September 18, 2017, 11:57 »
Thanks MxR for clarifying it.
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« on: September 18, 2017, 09:05 »
Here is their contributor support page. I don't see anything about images needing to be exclusive:
https://www.offset.com/artistsupport/?l=en_US
I know, I've read that. I just thought they have to be exclusive if those are "curated" images, though I don't really know what curated means, except expensive.
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« on: September 18, 2017, 08:32 »
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« on: September 14, 2017, 02:27 »
Thanks Mat,
I know that As owns FT but we all know that there still are differences. To name one, there still is a button named "Exclusivity" under each image when indexing a file on FT but AS has no exclusives.
Also, I see long series of not just similar but even identical images uploaded 3-4 times or more, one after the other (SS style) in some portfolios.
That's why I thought there could be different permissions on AS, apparently I get the bad reviewer each time.
Thanks for your answer.
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