So far, so good! And this is even without the sub sales.

Wondering how much they'll bring.

Read this (long) thread about this issue - from 2010, and it wasn't the first time the issue came up.

http://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/fotolia-now-paying-less-than-16-!!!!!!/

Fotolia's strongest market is Germany - Euro paying customers. To the extent that the sales are made to USD receiving contributors they make out like bandits

Link's dead to me.

And wow if they don't let you change your currency later. I'll write to support anyway and see if anything's changed.

Bumpity-bump.

Are people contributing to canva? Do you have results?
I'm thinking of contributing, but don't want to waste time, so if anyone has anything to say, I'm all ears.

I think you can get by cheaper by buying a PC, or building a hackintosh.

My configuration:

Proc: Intel Core i7 4770   
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO - 250 GB
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 - SATA III 6 Gb/s - 2 TB   
Graphics: MSI GeForce GTX 760 (2 GB)   
RAM: G.Skill Kit Extreme3 16 GB PC12800 Ripjaws X CAS10

Packed everything in the quietest case I could find, the CPU temperature is around 30 degrees, it's a joy to work and play (I upgraded like 10 days ago so I'm still surprised how fast it is, especially compared to my old computer) and you can barely hear the computer when it's on.

Anyway, if you're doing anything serious, an SSD and 16 GB of RAM is a must. And the strongest proc your money can buy. Cuda cores are a plus.

Visible edges?

It might be due to the zoom. 12 images makes you zoom out more and PS sometime doesn't render things properly if you're zoomed out beyond a certain point. Have you tried zooming in?

Just a guess.

How was it?

For me, a drop of ~20% compared to March '14. Shutterstock accounts for 73% of earnings.

I'm still waiting for PP (and IS subscription!) results... after those, I think the gap will be around -15% compared to last month. But I'll know that in around 3 weeks.

Still, I like the overall trend:

If somebody is inflating their scores, which seems like what is happening, I would just remove them from the poll altogether.

Hey everyone, how was your last month?

For me, a BME (and by a wide margin) of around +70% with a portfolio increase of only 5% in the last month (and around 20% compared to the previous BME).

Shutterstock killed it. No, really. 78.1% of earnings with the RPD of 0.84$.

I'm waiting for PP results, but I don't hope that they will amount to anything. But, who knows.

Also, since I've dropped BigStock and DP, I have replaced them with CanStockPhoto and PD. They are both very good substitutes - not even comparable to BigStock (manyfold increase) and better for my portfolio than DP.

Hey everyone,

I used an APS-C pentax camera since 2008 and I feel like it's time to upgrade to FF. I have been checking different options in the last couple of days, and it seems that the decision boils down to two cameras: either canon 6d or nikon d610.

What I plan to use the camera for? Ideally, it should be an "all around" shooter. I don't shoot sports, landscape or anything (except microstock) professionally, so I don't really benefit from high burst-rates and this that a specialist in the field might need. However, there are a couple of things I would like to focus on:

 - low light photography
 - native high dynamic range (without hdr)
 - realistic color representation (fidelity)

To explain the points. Low-light performance is important for me if I want to do street-photography at the night without using flash. I also plan to do a bit of astrophotography, so noise and color fidelity are pretty important (because I don't want to spend hours in post). Dynamic range is important to me just because I like the look of boosting the blacks and shadows, but keeping some of the detail in them. And it's always nice to avoid clipped highlights. Realistic color representation might be a more subjective criterion, but I'm looking for a more accurate representation of skin tones and, actually, all the colors that the sensor can capture.

I always shoot in raw, so I don't care about jpg performance, jpg noise reduction, jpg-based hdr's and things like that. In-camera effects are of no interest for me. If I want to do some post, I'll fire up photoshop. I care about native raw performance.

I don't plan on doing video, but you know, you never know. But it's not a priority by any means. So, based on this, which camera would you recommend? Would you scrap my suggestions and go with something else, like the Nikon Df (pretty!) or D800E (not that much more expensive than the d610)? Or maybe a Sony?

Let me know your thoughts. But please keep in mind that your criteria for choosing the "better" camera might not be the same criteria that I choose the "winner". 6d might be better in some cases, and d610 in other ones. This is not a nikon vs. canon pissing contest (I was a pentax user, so I'm really distanced from all that), so let's try to be polite towards each other and make some good recommendations! Fire away!

Yeah, that was my first thought, the only problem being that I don't speak the official language, so it's pretty difficult to do administrative stuff. But yeah, maybe someone at SS would know. It's not an SS-only issue, though, it concerns all the stock agencies that I contribute to.

SS an other sites should be dealing with this, not us, the contributors.

We found it, and that is enough. We get only around 30% royalty, it's time they did something other than spending millions for server upkeep, marketing and new office space.

Here's another freaky little possibility: Contributors could use this to game the system. Think about it. You buy one of these gigs, and ask the guy to send you 20 of your own images. If you're in the $0.38 tier that's $7.60. You can bump up your earnings using fiverr. Or at least accelerate your rise through the ranks. At $0.25 you'd break even on the $5 investment.

Obviously I'm not suggesting anyone do it. It would severely put your contributor status at risk of permanent banning. But there are some less-upstanding contributors out there. I wouldn't be surprised if some are doing exactly this.

Yeah, I think SS would consider it weird that one contributor is downloading so many of your images and ban the both of you.