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General Stock Discussion / Re: adobestock keywords?
« on: February 11, 2019, 11:05 »
"Your keywords need to be inserted hierarchically, starting with the most relevant words. The most relative/important word goes first, so the first few keys words should be visible aspects of the image, followed by less important or supporting aspects. Drag the keywords to rearrange the order."

https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/keywording-101/

You may have noticed the first five words are a different color than the others. They are more important in the search. Actually the first 7 are weighted heavier.

I have never organized my words on AdobeStock. It is still my second best site for selling images. Maybe I would get better sells if I did but I still get sells daily.

Maybe?  ;D

Also titles are used in the search, just like SS, but IS titles are not searched. Your titles may be helping the search results?

Since Adobe tells us that the first words are most important and Mat tells us the same, I'd say there's a good chance that the first 7 words are most important and should be the best matching the image.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Copyspace or Copy space?
« on: February 10, 2019, 12:50 »
Hello! I want to revive this topic. Current people, how do you use it?

Copy Space as one word, no others. Keep in mind I'm a minimalist as far as keywords go. But as long as you are asking I also add No One as one word for images with no people. Many sites have a box for that information. Not sure how helpful either of those is, but no harm that I could imagine.

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Dreamstime.com / Re: 500 files...3000 files, same income
« on: February 09, 2019, 10:34 »
This topic got all confused in the test :)

Yeah just noticed that and some stuttering as well.

Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you

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Sites that no longer exist / Artbreak.com gone?
« on: February 09, 2019, 09:57 »
I did a search and didn't see anything, might have missed it. I was going through bookmarks and I saw Artbreak.com down the list. Tried to go to the site, no page.

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General - Stock Video / Re: Pond5 removing 4k pricing
« on: February 08, 2019, 10:54 »
Love how they keep repeating how this is going to mean more revenue for contributors. Do they really think people are that stupid? Maybe if they say it enough times in one email, it will come true.  ???

Couldn't have said that better myself.

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I believe this position is based on the all time earnings.

On Fotolia, both the all time position and the weekly position were displayed. The one on Adobe is closer to my all time earning position.

Thanks I always wondered what that was.

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Alamy.com / Re: Alamy which photos sells best?
« on: February 08, 2019, 08:51 »
Thanks for bringing this up. I didn't know there was a what to shoot, I just looked at recent sales in measures for my own ideas. I found that to be specific and history, not much of a useful indication of the future.

Here's a link so people don't need to search.

https://www.alamy.com/contentresearchtool/whatshouldishoot.aspx

Now I'll bookmark that on my browser.

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It's nice, but it would be even nicer, it there was like two rows with last five images sold on top of the dashboard  ( not by dowwnloads, like now), and statistics graphat the bottom if it really must be there.

And then somebody will complain that they liked one column, graphic on top and 10 past sales. What I'd like most and I think will help the most of us is search in our own photos for edit, by keywords not only date or downloads. Important useful not look of a page.

Now I see the rank on the new page. (I don't care, but others do) I don't see acceptance ratio, but it might be there someplace and I missed that?

Another vote for search in the area we use to edit photo information by Keywords. Date or Downloads isn't as useful for checking and updating relevant data in images. I can't go through thousands of images, by Date just to find something I need to improve.

That search option would be useful for many of us.

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Alamy.com / Re: Alamy Tax ID Number
« on: February 07, 2019, 15:46 »
"Hi Jonathan

We don't supply tax forms for our contributors because we are a UK company but our UK VAT registration number is GB 718 2941 23 and our company number is 3807789.

Thanks,
Shelley

Alamy Contributor Relations"

Thanks for the extra effort, we don't need 100 people writing and asking the same question, you got the answer. I make up my own numbers...  ;)

Some places send earnings, even if they didn't pay us, some send totals, some send actual wages. I'll just go with your idea, look at Paypal add that up, that's the number.

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Yes, truck-ing.  :-[

I left off "at the long dimension" with that res description. Sorry for the error. But thanks for the good wishes!

Makes better sense.

So you are saying 6MP roughly?

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My last post was an attempt at humour. . . sorry if it failed.

Yes, I understand that you can bookmark any page.

I'm just fed up with the continual industry decline. Besides the technical problems, the Adobe site has some really basic design flaws. This is surprising coming from a company like Adobe that is so heavily into design and image production.

Sorry if I missed it I did see the big smileys. And they say sarcasm doesn't translate well in forums. Proof. Well one more post of the links for everyone else.

For me a giant - for missing, but I'll agree I really hate happy people, all that smiling and joy. Lets stamp that out together.  ;D

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: 2018 1099 anyone?
« on: February 07, 2019, 10:26 »
Somebody pointed me to the download. Go find the Tax Interview and the statements are below the Start Interview button at the bottom.  Account Management / Profile / Tax Interview.

Thanks Stan. I don't do very well on the new ESP site.  :-[

Oh under account management. Great!   https://accountmanagement.gettyimages.com/Account/BeginTaxInterview

I had that linked so I could watch the download YTD number, before I got bored with counts and no values.

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Alamy.com / Re: Alamy Tax ID Number
« on: February 07, 2019, 10:19 »
I know they don't send a 1099, but does anyone have their TIN?

Thanks!

They don't? How do I get my sales data for the year, based on what they paid me?

Is there a download for my taxes?

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I hate the smiley happy people I have to look at on the 'Contributors of the Week' page just to get to 'My Statistics'.

I hate smiley happy people  :)

No you don't have to look at CotW, I don't, just bookmark the Insights page. Martha and I have posted this about a dozen times and you seem intent on ignoring the help, but complaining about clicks.

So I'll post it again for anyone else who wants to go directly to their Insight, sales and earnings page. Plus one click on the Display Statistics blue bubble changes it from earnings to Top Sellers.  ;D Yes that makes me happy and smiling.  ;)

https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/insights/sales-earnings

I miss seeing the stream of recent sales with $$ as soon as I lend on contributor page. I just want to know what was sold and for how much and when I can request the $$ (would be nice to have this automated too.) It's possible to see on Adobe, but I need to click 5 times and there is no way to bookmark it as the date get saved into url.

Yes, yes, yes, yes.  That's all I want.
I miss seeing the stream of recent sales with $$ as soon as I lend on contributor page. I just want to know what was sold and for how much and when I can request the $$ (would be nice to have this automated too.) It's possible to see on Adobe, but I need to click 5 times and there is no way to bookmark it as the date get saved into url.

I haven't been submitting files over Adobe yet, so can't really comment on this.

Yes, and if you decide to refresh the page with the sales of the current date "from 7 February 2019 to 7 February 2019" it goes back to "from 7 February 2019 to 7 November 2018". I hope they fix everything soon!


I think this will do it?

https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/insights/sales-earnings

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Photos must be 3000 pixels (at 300 PPI) or greater resolution

What does that mean in Megapixels or dimensions? 3000 pixels total would be a tiny dot. 3000 on a side, minimum would be 9MP if a square? PPI is pixels per inch, a measure of the resolution of display screens, scanners, and printers.

Truck-ing? (I see now what was removed, added the hyphen) Freight?  :)

Good luck with your small agency project.

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iStockPhoto.com / 2018 1099 anyone?
« on: February 06, 2019, 15:24 »
Waiting for mine so I can file my income taxes. Anyone get theirs, or did I miss some online way to download and print?

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MAT, I must say your upload system at AS is the best ever in 14 Years.

I moved over months ago and I'm enjoying the new artist friendly submission interface as well.

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General - Stock Video / Re: Vertical video anyone?
« on: February 03, 2019, 12:29 »
I'm personally very interested in this question and while I have an opinion, what I'd really like to know is if anyone has invested the time and energy into vertical video and seen success.

As a long time veteran of stereoscopic 3d (Avatar), I know that some things sound like the future but don't end up realizing their potential. 

is vertical video the next thing or merely a hot idea that people are talking about at the moment?

Thanks,
Dennis

Dennis, Are you referring to 3D video for Anaglyph viewing, say Red/Blue or something much more complicated like the full color movie Avatar? Is there any market in stock for 3D video, either type, or stills, that requires colored glasses to view?

Back on topic I hope some people experiment with vertical video and see what happens.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Why Shutterstock is accepting everything
« on: February 03, 2019, 12:21 »
By the way. As it's Winter where I live, cold and all that. I've been going through some old saved photos and Microstock rejects. Some personally put aside before uploading and some that SS declined years ago. I found three that I thought had some potential, just because of the subject or composition. No I'm not retiring to live off Microstock, but I basically self reviewed, I don't remember if I perked them up a bit in editing, then uploaded a few weeks ago. Two have sold. Oh yes, passed review of course.

Like most of mine, they are one of a kind shots, and I'm not suggesting that anyone just spam their own portfolio and upload a bunch of marginal Crapstock. I'm saying that past rejections, before a few years ago, with some interesting subjects or that had a rejection for a minor reason, might be good enough to reconsider.

Annual reminder that we need to remember to look back at


"old photos, on hard drives on our computers"

Yeah seriously and a little humor as well.

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Photo Critique / Re: Would like feedback on this photo and more
« on: February 03, 2019, 12:02 »
Good image. Low color and constrast.

Same thing I thought on first view.

Yes eggs are eggs, easy to find, common subject, but I think the OP has a nice composition and a shot that could potentially be more marketable.

In the general sense of Microstock, true, eggs are like sliced tomatoes, or house pets... name some other common things you can find around the house to take photos of.

This shot is outside of the common or ordinary.

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Off Topic / Re: Global Warming is causing the Polar Vortex ???
« on: February 03, 2019, 11:54 »
As the Arctic gets warmer and warmer, the severe weather picks up, Dr. Cohen said.

and a different climatologist says

The frequency of cold waves have decreased during the past fifty years, not increased. That alone shows that such claims are baseless, Mass said.

 ???

Surely not all 'severe weather' constitutes cold waves, so it's possible for there to be an increase in severe weather while still having a decrease in cold spells?

The point was pretty simple, one climatologist says that Winters are more sever and colder, over the last 50 years, because of global warming. While the other climatologist says, look at the data, the Winters are less cold and less sever over the last 50 years.

Assuming they are both using the same data, and neither is just making up facts for the press, one of them is wrong. Anyone can take their pick which side they like better, because we don't have the data to review and make an informed decision.

My other point was, and somewhat tongue in cheek, but some people have no sense of humor, Global Warming is making it colder...  :o

No ones words were twisted, misquoted or distorted, these two scientists disagree. Not like that hasn't happened before in any other fields. We are dealing with theories and models, and climatology is a fairly modern science. There are bound to be adjustments and contradictions. Actually the predictions, some short term and some long, keep changing because the conclusions are not supported by the evidence. Nothing unusual about that either.

Science is not all laws created from immutable facts. Science and the conclusions are flexible, able to adjust and be reformulated based on best evidence. As new discoveries and data is collected science adapts. One would expect as time goes by (Hupfeld) the climate models and theories will also adjust and change.

Short term observations, weather events, followed by the general public claiming it's climate, is terribly unscientific. With that, a cold snap doesn't disprove global warming any more  than a heat wave in the Summer in Australia is proof of global warming. Long term matters, not daily, monthly or event current annual events.

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Can you change the name to "Wack-a-dolt"?  :)

Yes we assume, but it seems there's no member program working on other sites. Probably because SS is biggest, they attract the most of the easy money crooks. I have reported totally off photos on iStock, they are still there. I mean keywords that are irrelevant and none match the image at all, not nit picking.

Oh I almost forgot the entertaining part of this, the descriptions. That would make a good collection before they go away. I should have started last month before we lost a couple of the best and funniest.

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Newbie Discussion / Re: Direct contact from a customer?
« on: February 02, 2019, 19:12 »
Oh good ideas, I'm going to look at my profile. I cut the feed to my Twitter because I don't want to spam my friends who already know what I do. Not sure if that still works anymore.  Yes attitude can work, good confidence and impression management. Good positive point.

I do have one email just for family and photo business. That keeps the spam and notifications for forums, events or software, on another.

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General - Stock Video / Re: Vertical video anyone?
« on: February 02, 2019, 09:55 »
Good point @NotToday

I will do! @UnclePete Not as a niche but as a supplement to landscape oriented ones whenever applicable :)

Yeah Baby,



even better, compare formats with like content.

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Small update:
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All-time summary:

Total moles identified to date: 468

Total moles wacked: 236

Summary for week ending Feb 3:

Moles wacked (by SS) from Jan 27 - Feb 2: 116

Moles pending: 105

https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/96349-thieves-thread-update-week-ending-feb-3-468-so-far-flagged/

Highest praise for you, and finally somehow getting their attention. I only got two shut down last year on my own, you've done an outstanding job. And I realize that some people on the SS forum have been contributing to your collection as well.

If the crooks found that they can't profit, hopefully the word will get out and they will do this less. If the claim of locations are true, those people are probably using fake IDs or borrowed IDs and could be the same group behind it. I mean, once they can't profit, we could get rid of a repeating person or orginization and get the profits to the correct artists.
 

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