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« on: March 14, 2024, 03:06 »
In my opinion, all AI images need to be edited, at times quite heavy. I use Photoshop with healing brush then Lightroom. Most of the images are too small, so youll have to upscale them with Topaz or Photoshop. For me, it takes faster to edit my photos, but I dont take enough of photos to make a difference in stock.
I pay $60 per month for MJ with stealth option, through still I cough some of my files out in search.
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« on: March 14, 2024, 01:10 »
Cobalt, you are so kind. Thank you. Glad to read that your videos selling well!
Faustvasea, dont think it will work on the laptop, not enough memory. I would suggest Midjourney or Firefly. Both turn key, however, dont expect to generate something worth uploading right away - there is a learning curve for quality that sells. Plus from what Ive read so far, images that do sell usually go through post production.
The best thing is no limit to try recreate your ideas! I love it. If my photography was selling as well as my AI, I would stick with photography.
my computer is a work station with dual processor Zion 64gb Ram Nvidia 4070 graphics card with 24 gb of video memory
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« on: March 12, 2024, 22:17 »
1700 this week with 53 downloads per day (14 of various images, the rest is my one bestseller) and about 3k images
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« on: March 09, 2024, 19:21 »
255 dl 1430 rank
Pretty much the same downloads, earnings and position this week as a previous one, but not nearly as good as in January and early February. I had a Valentine best seller that dried up, Easter sold about only 10 times so far
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« on: March 06, 2024, 20:00 »
Slow start this week. It's depressing.
Mystery solved: accounts can share a rank!
If 10 people had the same number of sales, of course. But not 10,000 people having the same number of sales at this level. Maybe at the very bottom, it's possible 10,000 contributors share a rank with 0 sale.
That's true, but people with 0 sales do not get a rank. Look on Monday morning, just after Midnight. No sales, No rank.
Can you tell how many total contributors Adobe has?
Not really. We don't know anything about artist account numbers either. But if mine is 13-14 years old and 205931477 and yours in new, subtract and see how many new users since 2010. There are all kinds of pitfalls in trying to estimate how many users. Active users or dormant people who once uploaded, or DOA accounts of people who signed up and never upload or had any images accepted.
205 million?  JoAnn's ID number is so low that Adobe software doesn't recognize her sometimes. Not enough digits.
Here's a number that might be of interest? In 2018 on Shutterstock, there were 17,877 artists who had 1,000 or more images. But SS said how many millions of contributors they had signed up.
I can't give a good answer, but I think what you would want to know is, how many active users and "active" would be our definition. Should we say, uploaded 20 images in 2023, or 100, or  That's pretty minimal and that's your competition. That and up. All of this is difficult to understand or define with any accuracy. That's why there are so many guesses and assumptions on the forum. We just don't know, and they (Adobe) aren't telling.
Good Luck, your main concern, and I don't mean this in a smart ass manner, you should be looking at what you produce and upload and your sales, and worried less about how images are ranked in a search, or how many images your competition has, or who or how many others are doing the same thing. Unlike many other businesses, knowing your competition in stock, isn't really useful for making yourself better or more money. Knowing what sells, yes of course, but not who or how many?
Your most important knowledge and information should be, how to make good and useful images that buyers want to download. And maybe as you move along, what is a waste of time, shooting, uploading and editing, because there's not enough demand?
Im just curious, the only thing that I worry about are copycats. I think hard to come up with unique ideas and its disappointing to see them ripped off, including word for word descriptions, etc.
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« on: March 06, 2024, 11:02 »
If I remember correctly I started with Fotolia/Adobe sometime around 2013/14. I used to upload a lot to begin with but I've learned volume isn't necessarily king. Quality, quality, quality is my mantra now so I try to avoid volume for the sake of it. I'd rather submit 10 good images a month than 100 average. I love what I do so I feel very lucky in that sense!
Are you not afraid to be featured on top sellers list by uploading only best images that will sell? After copycats, I started to delude my portfolio.
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« on: March 06, 2024, 10:38 »
Slow start this week. It's depressing.
Mystery solved: accounts can share a rank!
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« on: March 06, 2024, 10:28 »
Just wondering if people with a higher acceptance ratio find their images higher up the algorithm?
Just a thought
Its not a higher acceptance rate, but your weekly standings score that pushes your images to clients.
Weekly Standings mean nothing. They are only for our own information.
Where did you get this information, that they are artist or image rank?
Because after a successful week all of the sudden old images that I never sold before are somehow visible in searches and get sales. What changes? Definitely not my acceptance rate. If not successful ranking, what do you think it is then? Do you know how Adobe decides whose images to show in searches? One of my new Easter bunnies image with 1 sale is on page 3 now. So search is not only based on sales of that particular image or keywords/title -
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« on: March 05, 2024, 21:45 »
Here's what I think is the lowest position is, which could be thousands of people. No downloads will show - - - at the beginning of the week.
Can you tell how many total contributors Adobe has?
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« on: March 05, 2024, 21:44 »
Highest position = 97 (last 12 months), annual low of around 900 and currently 337 but improving still. A steady avg of around 400. Lifetime Rank 494. 20k images sole trader.
Very impressive! How many years did it take to upload 20k of images? Traditional photos or AI?
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« on: March 04, 2024, 20:07 »
Be interesting to state ranking and earnings
Some people did, did I miss you sharing it as well?
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« on: March 04, 2024, 19:52 »
I will check my screenshots from the happy days. That would be really interesting, if you get into the top 1000 the ranking is real?
dec 26 pos 253, dec 28 pos 263
I dont know why I cannot upload my screenshots? I keep getting an error message.
The highest that I noticed was 800. (I have to click something specific for my rank to show - lifetime or weekly - at times I cant make it to appear, even in the same week. Maybe its a bug) This website doesnt accept.jpeg, but only accepts.jpg It also accepts png even they are in larger format. I actually have to go to photoshop to convert the file - a pain.
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« on: March 03, 2024, 22:03 »
Just wondering if people with a higher acceptance ratio find their images higher up the algorithm?
Just a thought
Its not a higher acceptance rate, but your weekly standings score that pushes your images to clients.
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« on: March 03, 2024, 21:59 »
I hear Etsy's algorithm dings listings that get viewed but not purchased. That's why so many Etsy Youtubers do not reveal their storefronts in their "Look at Me! I made $50K on Etsy!" videos.
Perhaps that's a correct way of thinking, and who knows if some agencies have the same policy.
I know someone who makes a lot of money on Etsy, but on actual physical goods. She just bought a house with her Etsy income.
Not sure if people make money on stock photos on Etsy?
Had a etsy store, never sold anything. Don't even know what you even can sell on there.
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« on: March 03, 2024, 10:46 »
Awesome earnings!
😻wow!!!!!
Thanks  Secret is taking lots of pictures of bananas
And that is no joke! 🤣 Italian artist Maurizio Cattelans controversial art piece, Comedian, made headlines back in 2019 after being sold for $120,000, a hefty price for a piece that is, quite literally, just a banana and a strip of duct tape.
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« on: March 03, 2024, 10:28 »
Awesome earnings:
SuperPhoto, 😻wow!!!!! My brain is blown in several ways: congratulations on 1st place! Your number is so large that I cant even compute it 🤣 Your earning are higher than your downloads? and lastly, did you photoshopped this screenshot or created it with AI? 😉
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« on: March 03, 2024, 10:27 »
1700 today for weekly with 29 pages. (Cant find where is my file count?)
My downloads are getting higher than my earnings, not many sales than one dollar.
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« on: March 03, 2024, 10:05 »
Lately I have 100% approval, but my AI photos hit the road block, sitting there for more than a month already
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« on: March 02, 2024, 20:50 »
Lots of .37 and now even .36 here. (Thats how my days been looking. More downloads, but less $)
Most of my best sellers mostly got sold for .37 cents, I assumed those are from external links and that re-sale website gets a cut?
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« on: February 23, 2024, 21:29 »
@cobalt
I wish I had your wisdom and a level head, but hope its not too late 🤣 Seems that Adobe doesnt give information easy, I like puzzles, hope to figure this one out as well.
From my limited experience, I can share that a couple of my images are on the first page of search with 5 million results. They sit there and sell poorly. My bestseller is on page 7 and outsells them 6 times over per month. It doesnt move up to better pages. How it is possible, I dont understand. It sells always for 0.37 so may be its from the link outside and Adobe doesnt count it? (but they fade to nothing in about 6 months, thats disappointing for passive income ) I also have a couple images in Featured searches and they also sell poorly compared to bestsellers.
I cant pin point what exactly will sell: I create 5 different images on a subject that I know will sell, but which image will take off - I cant predict. Many times my perfect favorite images didnt sell at all and I spent days painting them. I have only one AI image that became a bestseller (heavily edited) Im yet to repeat that again, but Im trying! Ah, and I make more $ now than when my account was featured on top sellers list.
Its all quite confusing. I would sure would love to see ports that keep on selling the same images for years and years. Its nice to know that they exist
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« on: February 23, 2024, 21:04 »
So there is roughly only 4000 accounts that have more weekly downloads than us?
That does not take into account what people are buying, if you are the only one with the images that the buyer has wanted then that makes you #1 ... its comparing apples to oranges. If that was 4000 buyers for those 4000 images then that makes everyone #1
🤣🤣🤣 omg, yet another confusing algorithm! Nothing like no growth prospect to kill a motivation! Thank you for taking time to clarify.
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« on: February 23, 2024, 09:34 »
Weekly ranking does not take revenue into account, but the number of sold assets in the respective time frame. I don't think it accounts for the number of assets in your portfolio, just the number of sales.
So there is roughly only 4000 accounts that have more weekly downloads than us? Thats concerning: Ive been working quite hard towards my goal of 200-300 downloads per week, (Im still not there, some weeks are 150) From reading various blogs, I thought its achievable, yet only 4000 other accounts in whole world have more uploads? And how many people contribute to Adobe? Must be millions? That probably puts us in 5-10% top percentage of contributors? (And some contributors been working for years) So there is only a small opportunity for growth, unless the bell curve is really steep ? (Most of My best sellers are hand painted)
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« on: February 22, 2024, 22:27 »
illustrations are accepted in 4 days.
Photo is about 2-4 weeks
I have max 40 images waiting. I upload 5-15 images per day, depending if they are hand painted on iPad or AI
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« on: February 22, 2024, 22:07 »
Its disheartening to see that there is no response. I kind off gave up and my image is not 3D, but painted on iPad.
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« on: February 22, 2024, 22:03 »
Thank you, I will 😀 its interesting that only 1-2 images from series are selling usually, so I definitely can upload non selling images ( that are very similar to selling ones ) to other sites.
You don't have exclusivity with Adobe, why won't you want to sell your bestselling content on others sites?
Think that you produce a product, and you only sell it in 1 city, that doesn't mean that potential buyers will go to another city to buy it...
All stock sites have subscribed members that buy only form that site (usually), sell your best images on all sites to earn as much as possible..
Wont that dilute my sales of my bestsellers? (And what other agencies do you recommend?)
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