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Each one needs to be edited to remove the color bar in the lower right. Resizing could be done batch. Still, I haven't seen anything from Open AI that didn't need editing, and people who use the other, still need to edit for size and error's.


Not sure what color bar you are talking about, my AI images don't have any.

Everyone who still claims AI images need some major editing is either lying to keep up the pretense that there is some actual human work involved or is simply using the wrong AI image generator.
Maybe this was true for the first gen Ai generators, but by now they produce perfect results at least 90% of the time.

Perfect results, you're joking.

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Cashed out some revenue: what should have been €140, was now $140, which converted to EUR and Paypal fees included, resulted in €125 to my bank account.

A more than 10% decrease in revenue. Thanks Adobe.

Welcome to the club many of us outside the eurozone were part of since the very beginning.

Still, that's different; most other agencies outside Europe never had a € payout option, so you accept the $ currency when you sign up, simply because there was no other option.
Fotolia had €-accounts from the beginning, so you sign up for that and expect € payments for life.

Suddenly Adobe decided to change it unilaterally and practically overnight. It's a disservice and a big middlefinger to all contributors overseas. It's taking away a service that should be standard for any international agency.

This isn't Fotolia anymore. You got a bonus that others didn't, now that's done.

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Just a warning to all the people who contacted DP and told them to be removed from the revenue share program and were told they were removed: Please double check. I was told I was removed, I had disabled my photos when I was put in the program against my will and yesterday I enabled some photos as a check: They are all IN the revenue share program. 
When you go to your dashboard at https://de.depositphotos.com/files.html and look at the columns right after the earnings column there is a column for the revenue share program where it says "yes" or "no" and it says "yes" for all my files.
So pay attention to this in case DP lied to you or just put you right back in as they did with me.

 :-\

DP is known for lying.

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You all keep making the same arguments while completely confusing  simple technology with AI. these are two completely different things. Technology itself was never a threat to humaity or creativity. AI can replace almost everything that makes humans human, espect for the biological part.

AWB, auto focus, auto exposure, auto ISO, programming, the only part a human has to do is push the button. No film, no processing, a digital photo can be edited down to pixels. Auto levels, color correction, sharpen or blur, much more including making parts that never existed, shadows and lighting. Digital images can replace almost everything that makes a human taking photo.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Mr. Rinder?
« on: March 05, 2023, 08:09 »
Jesus what a mean thread  :(

The man is about 80 years old.  Let's not use this forum to pick on elders.
Not yet April 3 1943

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Contributor Ugly Dashboard
« on: February 15, 2023, 11:20 »
Who cares any more?

People who still make decenet money from SS? For most contributors here, according to the monthly poll, SS ist still the second best earner.

One of the first things to take into account in surveys is that the sample they primarily represent is "people who participated in the survey."

True, though in this case this doesn't change the answer? Question was "who cares?". Answer is: People who still make money with SS.  And if you assume that this is just "people who participated in the survey" then even that doesn't change that among these people there are still people who make money with SS and therefore, most likely, still care.

SS is 1/3rd of what it used to be. That could be how much we have lost or who takes the survey. The numbers become meaningless if the people who make more for past years, stopped taking the survey because they stopped coming to the forum. It's only 50-60 people who take the survey.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Contributor Ugly Dashboard
« on: February 13, 2023, 09:39 »
How do I see my most recent downloads by image? All I can figure is one at a time using earnings. Is there some way to sort by date and see?

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS continues to deteriorate
« on: January 21, 2023, 07:19 »

And back to the part I was commenting on, percentage of sold images from anyone's portfolio, will also go down the harder we work and the longer we add new images.


That too, for me, is going up, not down. But I think that's mainly because my old photos were crap and I did not have a good understanding what sells well when I started out. But the more data from my own port I had, the more conclusion on what sells and what doesn't I could draw and the better I got at photography, the more I could produce content that sells and therefore the percentage of sold images is going up and not down.

Impossible unless your % of new images sold is 100% and I doubt that. % of all images, sold from your entire collection will always go down if you upload new images. If somebody stops uploading your % of images that have sold at least one time, could go up.

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Adobe now has over 605 000 generative ai images. It also has a lot more that were uploaded without marking them as gen ai.

Once the Midjourney app comes out, this will be the fastest growing collection ever. With endless duplicates.

But then...if there is no limit on uploading a plate with spaghetti, why should there be a limit to genai? let the market sort it out.

But it does sell. My stuff from dalle is much simpler than the stunning Midjourney files, but I already have a few sales, which I find really suprising, because I am limited by the square format.

This will be the greatest incoming flood of content in stock history.

That's Microstock isn't that? A great flood of endless duplicate similar content.

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Off Topic / Re: Bausch & Lomb 60mm telescope
« on: December 19, 2022, 10:36 »
I just found out I can get it for $10 USD. I just wish I could see it work before I buy it.

So torn.

Buy it.

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How would you like stock photography platforms to handle the uploading of AI-generated content?

Should there be a difference between completely-AI-generated content, and AI-assisted content in which there is substantial human work and editing involved?


If AI-generated content is allowed, should royalties and earnings of the AI-generated content be shared with human creators? If so, what share would be appropriate?

If I take a digital photo and edit in photoshop, that's my image. If I enter words and AI makes an image and I edit in illustrator, that's my image. Why should I share my earnings from either?

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS continues to deteriorate
« on: November 14, 2022, 09:03 »
From your experience? No, that's not enough! Please tell me you're not basing "Usually the authors by March-June (someone like) already reach the normal percentage of deductions" purely based on when you 'reach the normal percentage of reductions'?

Surely you're getting the point by now... opinions and personal experiences are fine but don't present them as facts unless they are facts. 'I reach the normal percentage of reductions by around March to June'... fine. 'Usually the authors by March-June (someone like) already reach the normal percentage of deductions'... not fine, unless you have some stats that are not available to the rest of us.
I do not respond to flood. Therefore, I will not dignify you with an answer.

stoker2014 Posts:212 (2.986 per day)Useful Posts:+0/-0 is that what flood means?

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Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe profits more than double in latest quarter
« on: November 14, 2022, 08:55 »
I am around 200th for the week with around 1000dls (don't want to be more specific or discuss portfolio size)

Why not?

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One time payment for briefs. Sounds like a dead end trap.

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General - Top Sites / Re: Dall e 2 will make us all redundant?
« on: October 14, 2022, 06:43 »
Quote from: Vincent van Gogh
I can't believe how difficult it's becoming to make a living as creative these days.

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123RF / Re: If you have work on 123RF PLEASE READ
« on: October 10, 2022, 07:35 »

We recently deployed an update where by all new uploads won't be tagged with the PLUS tab anymore. We hope this gives you assurance that your newer content isn't automatically opted into the PLUS program.

You should maybe have developed an update where old uploads won't be tagged with the PLUS tab by default instead, seeing as that's what people are complaining about here. Then you also would not have to waste recources un-tagging them after contributors' requests.

They are trying to double talk out of a bad decision and they know it was a mony grab that backfired.

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I just bought a rare old vinyl recording and paid 100X over the original price. Do I send the money to the record company or the musicians? Or do I report the seller to make sure he pays the artists for their old work.

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: august sales statement not published yet
« on: September 24, 2022, 07:33 »
Stats available now

Ask the rest of them what day is it today?

Royalties, earnings and contributor account balances are now calculated and reported monthly, so real time information is not available.

Royalty Statements are published on the 20th of each month. You will see what you have sold and what you have earned and can download that data.

If your earnings for the month exceed your minimum payment threshold, then you will receive your payout on the 25th of each month.
https://contributors.gettyimages.com/HelpArticle.aspx?article_id=5191

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Anyway, no there isn't a service or agency right now that allows anyone to produce commercial AI created images that are good enough.
Ah Uncle Pete they are, they are already of enough good quality.
And strange enough, nobody commented here this
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/1/23332684/ai-generated-artwork-wins-state-fair-competition-colorado

Is that a commercial service or production site?

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Shutterstock.com / Re: SS strict rejection policy
« on: September 14, 2022, 09:26 »
Well, Well, I don't know what to think anymore. Photographs that look great and are selling in other agencies and whose model release has been accepted without any problem, are rejected again and again in SS because supposedly the model release is not valid. I have already written my problem above. Nobody answers me anything other than, I can't have two accounts and I can't upload photos to two accounts. What a forum, so little help.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)


What is your question? I don't see any questions, just your experience and your conclusions. People will help if you ask a question.

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Someone tell me, CO2 is 0.0414% of the atmosphere and that's causing the climate to change? I never knew it was such a small number as 4/100th of 1 percent.

What is causing the climate change is the manmade increase in the CO2 concentration. The base line concentration of about 0.028% is also causing a greenhouse effect and together with some other gases is responsible for the Earth being a class M planet. Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be an ice planet.

Five quadrillion tonnes of atmosphere, and .028% change causes all this destruction. Very fragile that such a small change can cause all these problems. How do we stop the change? 200 years of humans making co2 how can we reverse that?

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Weird, if customers don’t shop around why have been contacted by two of the top four agencies in the last couple of weeks offering me sweeteners to upload more of my portfolio (which they noticed has more work in it on a rival agency)?

Seems like a lot of effort if they know buyers don’t shop around.

Buyers with subscriptions and contracts on an agency don't shop around. The agency, the two that Annie shows, both seem to have the same data and the same broken English. Maybe one place, not two. Almost everything on all the agencies is the same because so many people upload everything to all of them. When the place asking comes across good images, they troll for new artists.

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Brandon beat Trump, so keep cheering him on.

Trump did alot to beat Trump too.

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Pond5 / Re: Pond5 has joined Shutterstock
« on: May 14, 2022, 09:12 »
I can see this partnership in the future being just one massive subscription site. Thats where all this is heading.

A massive collection of subscription agencies that pay us almost nothing. SS will take P5 into the sewer along with their own business.

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