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« on: March 21, 2022, 04:03 »
What's wrong with this image? I wouldn't upload anything better for the $0.10 they pay...
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« on: January 02, 2022, 06:49 »
No goals, really. I'm doing this just for fun, because I'm an artist at heart.
Plus stock agencies will always find new ways to let us down, and we have no control over this.
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« on: December 30, 2021, 08:14 »
You're right, this doesn't make sense.. The 1080 sale should have been $0.01.
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« on: December 25, 2021, 12:43 »
If you have a PC you can try installing the free Bluestacks 5, an Android emulator, which comes with a working Google Play Store.
The other option is to just borrow a friend's phone to register.
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« on: October 18, 2021, 02:55 »
The next logical step for SS would be to buy the MSG, then shut it down.
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« on: October 16, 2021, 06:35 »
wow! totally unacceptable. now I wonder what else I'll hear about this company. horror story after horror story. no surprise they shut their own forums down.
watching SS grow since 2003 is like watching Anakin turn into Vader.
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« on: October 03, 2021, 14:08 »
Maybe someone could clone the forums and make them available with another url. It would be a pity for all that info to be gone.
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« on: April 13, 2021, 04:56 »
You can sell your cat as an NFT if you want.
Youd have to scan him first though.
And there's more than one way to scan a cat.
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« on: March 17, 2021, 11:12 »
A 'painting' would be a derivative work, which I don't think is allowed by the license. You should clearly label the product you sell as a 'print', even if the process of transferring the digital image on canvas is manual.
I dont see any mention of derivatives in any of the forbidden uses.
Just think about it. If you label your product as a painting, it means that you're an artist and this is your artistic interpretation of the original image. This would automatically make you a co-author of this new piece of art. A can of worms, as you said. If you just label it as 'Print of [original stock image name] by [photographer's name] done with oil paints on the Cathy-3000 Plus printer' you can safely sell it, without claiming that any part of it is your artistic creation.  And of course there's the separate question if this specific license allows you to sell prints (not on mugs and t-shirts). The wording there is not clear about this.
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« on: March 17, 2021, 08:00 »
A 'painting' would be a derivative work, which I don't think is allowed by the license. You should clearly label the product you sell as a 'print', even if the process of transferring the digital image on canvas is manual.
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« on: March 17, 2021, 03:33 »
Analog printing, using a machine vs manual "printing" (by hand).
If the license allows running the source image through an "oil paint" Photoshop plugin before printing, I don't see why you shouldn't be allowed to do it manually. But you have to remember to credit the photographer as the author.
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« on: March 01, 2021, 10:52 »
'Tuq' which literally means 'adult female who deeply honors and respects her husband and the Klingon tradition'.
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« on: February 28, 2021, 06:09 »
Shutterstock just failed miserably. All the cool people left, leaving an army of bored Ukrainian housewives, taking snaps of their fluffy pets for a $0.1 reward.
'Housewives' don't exist any more. That term died in the 1970s. Respect women. Respect female photographers. Respect generally.
Well, I didn't make that word up. Sources: Google Translator 2021. If you find the term offensive, sue Google. 
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« on: February 28, 2021, 04:57 »
Just accept that a certain percentage of the rejections are random. I've seen some technically perfect photos that were rejected. Probably agencies do it to keep the contributors on their toes, pushing the technical quality higher and higher. If that rejection got you thinking "hmm, maybe I need an even sharper lens", they achieved their goal.
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« on: February 25, 2021, 06:58 »
Photergate?
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« on: February 24, 2021, 08:14 »
Shutterstock just failed miserably. All the cool people left, leaving an army of bored Ukrainian housewives, taking snaps of their fluffy pets for a $0.1 reward.
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« on: February 19, 2021, 08:01 »
Learn how to block the noise, and your life will be filled with beautiful colors.
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« on: February 09, 2021, 08:00 »
100% legit, as long as they have purchased the proper license. Anyone with a proper license can upload to YouTube and monetize.
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« on: February 02, 2021, 05:43 »
this is how shitterstock looks in my rear view mirror ꓘƆOTƧЯƎTTIHƧ
Everyone is leaving Shitterstock ... except for the people who got shitterstuck.
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« on: December 15, 2020, 10:39 »
I thought that white people are a minority. 
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« on: December 08, 2020, 02:30 »
omg they appropriated your video.
never. upload. shutterstock. never.
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« on: November 29, 2020, 03:02 »
Looking at the Earnings Breakdown above, with its Levels... I realize that SS is not a company that considers Photography to be an art form, but some kind of a game, a twisted version of Minecraft. ...
of course it's not an art form - same for all other agencies. if you thinks it is you're in the wrong business. as several of us noted, it's a commodity and priced accordingly
A good picture, microstock or not, tells a story. This is Photography, this is Art. What you're talking about are textures. Useful, high quality textures. I support every Photographer who is deleting their SS port.
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« on: November 28, 2020, 15:25 »
Looking at the Earnings Breakdown above, with its Levels... I realize that SS is not a company that considers Photography to be an art form, but some kind of a game, a twisted version of Minecraft. And every year on January 1st (!!!) you die, lose all your progress, and have to start from scratch.
What are these guys smoking?
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« on: November 28, 2020, 07:27 »
Justanotherphotographer has a point. Being paid 15% for the images you create, keyword and upload is already absurd. In reality the actual number is even lower.
But I guess SS have figured out that there are enough people taking pictures just for fun, and not looking at photography as a source of income.
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« on: November 25, 2020, 03:47 »
Advice to a Microstock author buying content: "Three years earnings is too much!"
Advice to a Microstock author selling content: "Doesn't matter if you only make 35 cents a download, and get ten sales a year... don't sell them for any less than $10,000 per item!" Haha so true! 
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