Brutal, like as you would expect from the fusion with getty.

Wait until the opt out function will be removed.

and then how do you explain this?

If there have been weeks where I have made these numbers,it means that it is possible that I can very well make an average of 20-40 sales a week.

this year so far the best week has been 14 sales,excuse me,I'm also a little tired?

Adobe punished your portfolio ranking.
One can only guess what the reason was.

Have you uploaded to many similar images?
Got too much competition in best selling categories?
How good is your portfolio diversified?

I mean instead of beeing angry and upset you should either doing other things or analyze and try other content.

Quote from: Andrej.S. on April 08, 2025, 17:13

crappy week (position is still time lagged from last week).



Gonna do more seasonal content to catch up (worldwide national holidays) aswell probably more woke and lifestyle (skin / facial care, etc.) stuff.
Classic business people / food / animals / landscapes seem to be dead on Adobe Stock.

if it's a "crappy" week for you I don't know how I should define mine so far!

I repeat,I don't know how it's possible that with a portfolio of about 7000 contents,with 75% real contents and 25% AI i can't even make 20-40 sales a week!

you say that you want to make more skin care concepts,I have 14 in total of skin/facial care concepts generated with MJ for sale for a year,I haven't sold even one so far,I probably would have to have at least 100 of this concepts to sell any,I don't know.

however it is unacceptable to sell so little with my port of 7000 contents,after all there are a lot of different contents,I just don't see how it's possible not to make at least 20 sales a week minimum!

it's too little,this quantity does not reflect what should be at least the minimum for my port per week.

Ok, can you upload some of your images that are similar to your portfolio (so that one can't link it to your portfolio) so that we can compare the quality of the content?

Aswell we can compare the keywording.

I will later provide some of my content.

Adobe's rejections are 90% because of quality aspects. I guess that there are a lot of contributors who provide very good quality since the flux model is now very common.
So your competition might become a lot harder now.

You can compare the figures and see whether that seems realistic.
There are certainly deviations in the weekly ranking because it is not calculated in real time. These deviations should not exist in the overall ranking.

So: My lifetime ranking has fallen to 3,090 today.
I've had 45,625 downloads at Adobe so far - I have only images, no videos.
If there is someone who has sold a similar number of images sold, they can post their total downloads.
If there are significant deviations - which I don't believe - then the Adobe statistics would not be correct.

Ok, uff. I thought that lifetime ranking around 3,000 would have over 100k downloads.
Then probably just the top 100 are making real money and the rest gets the scraps nowdays.

Climbed slightly to position 17,700 (total 6,552 downloads).

Quote from: Saurav on April 07, 2025, 04:09

Since last month, Adobe has been on a downhill. Sales are down, above all they are rejecting literally everything since middle of February. Also, some of my images are in review for 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 months now. Every month some of the images gets stuck in review. I am afraid, with the rise of AI, a day will come when they will reduce our royalties like istock and gutterstock.

Has the Enshittification of Adobe Stock begun?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

Probably yes (but I hope I'm wrong).

Like almost all Big Tech in recent years ... Follow the money: this is the only thing they are capable of doing.

No pursuit of quality, customer and collaborator services reduced to a minimum (there are stupid chatbots everywhere now), earnings according to the 80/20 scheme. 80% of the earnings to them and 20% of the earnings to us.

Unfortunately, today almost all companies follow this scheme: 70% marketing, 20% sales, 10% service/product ... and this is why we live in a world of products and services that are increasingly disgusting.

That's how capitalism actually works. At the beginning, you have to stand out from the crowd with good products or services in the market to be able to compete.

Later, when the large customer base becomes dependent on it, the quality and service/support are reduced and prices are increased. Until eventually a collapse occurs (creative destruction) and the game starts all over again. Currently, we are in the cycle of crap and are drifting towards the big collapse.

Quote from: Injustice for all on April 01, 2025, 05:35

Quote from: synthetick on March 31, 2025, 16:06

For anyone deleting files from Adobe, note the following clause in your contributor agreement:

"6.2 Managing the Work. You may remove any Work from the Website at any time, provided, however, that you do not remove more than 100 items of Work or 10% of the Work, whichever is greater, in any 90-day period without 90 days' prior written notice to Adobe."

https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/legal/servicetou/Adobe_Stock_Contributor_Agreement_Addl_Terms_en_US_20240216.pdf

ok,I missed this one.

anyway I was planning on deleting 500 images,which is less than 10% of my port,if I decide to do so.

thanks!

Please explain how less images and deleting images you already have accepted, will make more money? What's the secret.

If you replace them by images with better quality / keywords then it absolutely makes sense.

Also it could be possible that your portfolio ranking will rise a little bit up since I believe that there is obviously an algorithm, which takes in account how many downloads each image has. The bestsellers of your portfolio are setting up the most your portfolio ranking.

My currently observation is that an increasing amount of one's bestsellers in a portfolio will lead to further downloads of your whole portfolio.

But it's just in the case of Adobe Stock and could be also just coincidence.

Similar to my size but more sales, well done!

This morning I had 8 files accepted that I uploaded yesterday, so this is encouraging. All are photo ai, single uploads from vastly different genres.

I am now making the files smaller, sizes around 1600*2800 or 1700*3022.

Perhaps the smaller size helps.

Other files still in the queue, 18 at the moment.

Might remove that are in there longer and perhaps reprocess/downsize them.

Now I will test ai illustrations, then camera photos and videos.

I don't upscale to high resolutions anymore because it's too risky that you will get unwanted artifacts, which will lead to rejection.
I use 2 x AI upscaling to 2688 x 1536 or to 3072 x 1280 or max to 3168 x 1344 pixels resolution.

My AI bestseller with 139 downloads and 3 or 4 extended licenses has a 2688 x 1536 resolution, so no it's not worth investing more time in upscaling to a higher resolution.
I assume that the majority of the images will be used for digital advertising on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, etc. rather than for print purposes, and higher resolutions are not required for these platforms.

 

Congratulations, well deserved.

How large is your portfolio now?

And are you getting good acceptance with new uploads?

I am very frustrated by the upload lottery. I will earn a lot less for easter because I am terrified of the random declines.

So i upload what feels "totally safe" but that is usually a slow selling file with more niche content.

Thank you.

Currently my portfolio size is 7.264 and 220 images are pending in review.
My acceptance ratio is currently 100%.

The review time is all in all very fast (approx 1 to 2 weeks).
Easter images are accepted within 5 minutes to 3 days, so that these are in time.
But 17 images are pending since 3 to 6 months (there is obviously something broken in the review line).

It seems that my portfolio ranking climbed a lot, so that things got this week more easy.

Quote from: Mcrstckfllw on April 01, 2025, 08:45

The scary thing about GPT-4o image generation is that it really enables people with no knowledge of graphic design to create the exact image in their mind�just by putting it into words. In seconds.

The problem with photography is, it enables people to make an exact image, without having the skills or knowledge to draw or paint. Just by pushing a button on a box.

I don't like AI and I don't use it to make things, except humor or quick fun, but I also recognize that just like computers and cameras and other technology, you can't fight progress or or stop change.

Quote from: HalfFull on April 02, 2025, 08:48

As long as you want a six fingered person with three arms and half a leg sitting in a chair that is floating in a room with two sources of sunlight.... ok, I exaggerate... they might have one full leg.

That too. And three legged chairs or impossible mechanical features.

We've discussed this topic many times before. It depends.

For simple motifs that are essentially only used as one-day images for Facebook, LinkedIn or Instagram, AI delivers very good results and greatly simplifies the work for photographers.

You don't need to waste your time with the photo setting or wear out your equipment for these simple motifs.

However, for complex motifs, AI is not good enough. In this case, it's worth preparing the  setting and using the expensive equipment as a photographer.

The future is clearly a mixed work of AI rendering and classical photography.
Professionals will likely use AI for image editing (AI photoshop) for classical photography to increase their efficiency.

So, yes, AI is definitely a progress.

03/2024: 25 Downloads / 19,06 USD
03/2025: 544 Downloads / 427,12 USD

Climbed up from 22.000 to 17.850 this year.

Hi Folks,
I need some advise to Generate AI images then Upscale and sell to stock website.
What is Best tool for Generation in your eye.

Flux Pro 1.1, but pricy. Look for Flux Dev. or Schnell 1.1.

Does is there any tool available which can do everything, we will just give the prompt - maybe in input as CSV file and we supply user/pwd and upload to directly stock website.

No, there is no such service because the demand would be too low as such service would be too pricy.
You can use Leonardo AI, Krea or Freepik for Upscaling and pixify for Keywording.

I am an vector/illustration artist but i guess i should jump into AI too.

Try not too spam with AI as it just would harm the masses.

Please advise.