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Messages - hatman12
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« on: August 14, 2022, 22:06 »
I use the file info service in photoshop. Unlike Bridge it keeps words in priority order and allows a template to be saved so that all info can be applied to images from a particular shoot. I don't use Lightroom so can't comment on that.
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« on: July 01, 2021, 17:30 »
$420 added to my account today. Thank you very much Mat and Adobe.
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« on: June 08, 2021, 04:46 »
I'm happy to participate with the full allocation of files accepted by Adobe. My experience of Adobe over the last few years is that they have been one of the fairest and most professional of agencies. I'm happy to go with their judgement.
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« on: March 23, 2021, 20:29 »
Worst month ever. I don't even bother to look anymore.
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« on: January 29, 2021, 03:07 »
Same here. Didn't receive payment and no apparent notification that tax form had expired.
Tax update on web site currently not working.
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« on: May 17, 2020, 22:10 »
May 18 here in the Far East. Still no payment received. It just gets later and later each month.
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« on: May 16, 2020, 16:22 »
They give customers maximum quality at an affordable price. In addition, they give the option that if it is not in their agency you can acquire it in another agency, after the appropriate commission, also, while you browse their website you generate views of their Google advertising. Quite simply, to say that this agency is temporary is to say a lot. Actually, they can't go unless. They can only grow month by month. If collaborators turn their backs on mass, they will last a year on the market. The situation has to occur that all its collaborators close the accounts. They have more open websites, they work more things besides photographs and vectors. To deny them affiliation by large agencies is to blind them to the market. Not only do they benefit from users who do not buy from them through third-party commission but from advertising, but they guide them where the sale that escapes their portfolio is. Presumably and it is simply a conjecture, mere speculation, theory. All this, with modern, close marketing, extreme quality and a new international record, have hired a theoretically eminence, a recognized winner in other companies, a star in the sector for its new international expansion. In addition, with external collaborations, which facilitate the vision of the portfolio if you collaborate as an ambassador for your agency, promoting your agency on social networks or websites. They succeed a lot, month by month. Your collaborators earn money. And apparently a lot of money. Of course, not everyone enters the agency, they are very demanding.
True exercise of faith in what they pay you, I suppose. But, that it is temporary, I don't think so. They are monopolizing the market and it seems that their progressive rise has no ceiling.
Excellent analysis.
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« on: May 14, 2020, 23:24 »
Perhaps they are showing the actual sales, and the adjustment will come as the PayPal payment.
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« on: May 14, 2020, 00:10 »
Gets later and later every month.
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« on: April 22, 2020, 05:57 »
Terrible, unfortunately. Lowest month since I went non-exclusive six years ago.
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« on: April 16, 2020, 19:46 »
Does the 'double earnings' apply to March or from April (ie paid in May)?
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« on: April 16, 2020, 19:16 »
Okay payment just received into PayPal. No email from Canva, and no 'extra' payment.
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« on: April 16, 2020, 19:14 »
April 17 here in the Far East. No payment for March yet.
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« on: January 04, 2020, 05:26 »
When I first went non-exclusive a few years ago I could reliably make about $100 a month at BigStock. However over the past couple of years sales have declined, declined, declined and I'll be lucky if I now reach $10 in a month instead of $100.
Clearly this isn't worth the time and effort, so I've decided to stop uploading.
Perhaps others here have a different experience, but for my portfolio I clearly have to take decisions.
Good luck to anyone still active there.
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« on: January 02, 2020, 22:33 »
I see that the subs numbers have been added today. An improvement, but unfortunately credit sales seem to be falling faster. I imagine this trend will continue if they have a plan to covert credit customers to subs. My subs numbers are disappointing and looks like this:
July 30 $5.84
Aug 53 $10.11
Sept 41 $9.10
Oct 64 $17.44
November $30.26
Edging upwards but nowhere near sufficient to offset the drop in credit sales.
December just published at $41.85
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« on: December 29, 2019, 19:11 »
Could 50 keywords be to many? Or if they are relevant its ok? I know that is the limit on the sites I use, like shutter stock, p5. But is that the best thing to have? All 50? Or could search results be better by some chance if you just had 10-15? Thanks
I remember years ago reading a report that too many keywords results in poor positioning in search, the theory being that the more keywords you have the less importance is assigned to each word. So if you have fifty, each word is only considered 'one-fiftieth importance' but if you have say fifteen each word is given 'one fifteenth'. Obviously this theory varies depending on each agency. But to me it made sense. These days I use the smallest number of keywords possible, sticking strictly to the most important aspects of the image.
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« on: December 03, 2019, 23:02 »
I see that the subs numbers have been added today. An improvement, but unfortunately credit sales seem to be falling faster. I imagine this trend will continue if they have a plan to covert credit customers to subs. My subs numbers are disappointing and looks like this:
July 30 $5.84
Aug 53 $10.11
Sept 41 $9.10
Oct 64 $17.44
November $30.26 Edging upwards but nowhere near sufficient to offset the drop in credit sales.
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« on: November 26, 2019, 21:34 »
Ken Rockwell recently did a Yosemite trip where he took several cameras and an iPhone 11 Pro. Naturally there are quality differences when viewed 100%, but at full screen size (24 inch monitor) I find it difficult to see any difference between the mega-pixel cameras and the iPhone. https://www.kenrockwell.com/trips/2019-10-yosemite/index.htm
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« on: November 03, 2019, 20:43 »
I see that the subs numbers have been added today. An improvement, but unfortunately credit sales seem to be falling faster. I imagine this trend will continue if they have a plan to covert credit customers to subs. My subs numbers are disappointing and looks like this:
July 30 $5.84
Aug 53 $10.11
Sept 41 $9.10
Oct 64 $17.44
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« on: October 24, 2019, 19:52 »
My peak month at Canva was about $900 and I was delighted with the effort I had made. That was a year ago. This month will be less than $200.
They said when they announced the istock deal that our work would 'continue to have priority in searches'. That was clearly not their intention or they changed their minds.
Now they are trying to convert customers to the subscription model, further eroding credit sales. My subs sales paid me $9 last month. Perhaps good for them, rubbish for me.
As others have said, they used us to help get the business going and now they are successful it appears they don't care about us any more.
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« on: October 24, 2019, 19:45 »
My sales have been declining ever since I became Emerald two years ago. Back then I could make $500 - $700 a month. This month will be about $200. Very disappointing.
As many people have said, the stock photo business isn't a big priority for Adobe - they see it as a convenient 'add-on' service that they can incorporate into their mainstream products.
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« on: October 17, 2019, 16:54 »
Worst month for earnings in several years. Hundreds of downloads at very small royalty rates of $0.10 or less. They are giving away our stuff for pennies. Insulting.
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« on: October 13, 2019, 03:15 »
Nice new sales page with thumbnails etc. Now I can see more clearly how they have totally scr*wed me on sales.....
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« on: October 03, 2019, 23:37 »
But if Windows does this and yes I have indexing on and I don't want to go through some project? How do I search metadata based on my already indexed hard drives?
open a folder eg /this pc/pictures and enter search term in upper right
This is the correct and excellent answer.
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« on: September 26, 2019, 22:41 »
Jo Ann Snover was correct two or three years ago when istock changed the subscription payments to 'percentage of whatever the client pays'. She correctly predicted that this would allow istock to offer massive discounts to customers and then pass on those discounts to contributors. That's exactly what has happened. And this is why RPD is declining (and will continue to decline).
In my case my monthly sales have remained fairly stable, but income has declined by about 40% over the past year. This is a direct reflection of the discounts being given to customers then passed on to contributors through reduced subscription payments.
Several years ago Getty support published a video reassuring contributors that 'this is not a race to the bottom'. In reality that is exactly what they have done. Their business model appears to be to give bigger and bigger discounts in order to retain customers - and that means lower and lower payments to contributors.
At the peak istock was the most successful microstock agency with gross revenues of about $400 million. Getty changed the model away from 'high volume' and destroyed the revenue stream which is now in the region of $200 million. So istock's gross revenue has dropped by half and now they reduce payments to contributors in a desperate attempt to maintain the customer base. Is it any wonder that for most contributors sales and income have dropped by a significant amount?
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