Quote from: cobalt on April 01, 2024, 10:51

Whow, very impressive!!!

Single artist, or team production/family if I may ask?

Congratulations on all the hard work.

I find it encouraging that many people have good rankings as a single artist.

Gives me hope I can still rebuild a full time income from stock.

Thanks� Just me, no one else or any help or use of AI.

yes really impressive!
and how long have you been a contributor in Adobe Stock? and how much content do you have in your portfolio if I may ask?

if you make AI content you would sell a lot of it because you have excellent exposure,so it is much more likely that you will sell everything and therefore also AI.

However,I understand you,this AI content is a double-edged sword,on the one hand it is better to make it but on the other it can result in a waste of time,it is certainly better to make real content.

"AI content can certainly be sold but in my opinion it cannot represent the basis of a portfolio,only real content can make the difference."

What about ai that looks completely real?

it is always content labeled with AI,it can seem as real as you want but it is always AI 

but for now it's fine,we are still in a phase where AI content is new and there are still many empty spaces,but I believe that in a year it will already be different.

in any case it can always be an addition to the real contents,but certainly not the basis.

Quote from: Injustice for all on March 29, 2024, 11:30

after a strong Monday the rest of the week was pretty bad,not even an Easter sale

I don't know if you noticed but there are 1,076,612 results for "Easter" AI only,already a million AI contents for Easter.

this is why I am not particularly convinced that investing a lot of time in AI content is a good idea in the long term,for now yes,but I think in a year at most I don't think I will produce any more AI content,then clearly I will see,it depends on the results,but with this mass production so fast,I believe that the real difference can only be made with real contents at the end of the day.

Well, it's not as if the competition is getting smaller.

Yes, the majority of AI images are currently still garbage because it takes a lot of time to find good generators and diffusion models.
But the bar is definitely getting higher. Many former classic photo bestsellers from 5 to 10 years ago have been overtaken by exceptionally good AI images.

My strategy is looking for niches right from the start. Popular subjects are pure luck or one have to create extremely creative concepts, which would have little competition.

Easter, for example, is brutal.
You won't stand a chance with standard motifs. You have to combine Easter with other themes. Vacations, online shopping, promotional offers for workshops, fashion, lifestyle, etc.

In other words, what a creative director would have photoshopped manually from standard stock material in the past.

And you have to build up a very balanced portfolio with many themes.
Otherwise one have no chance nowdays.

yes and no the same

certainly,Easter is like photographing tomatoes,a very busy topic(there are 900,178 AI tomatoes and 4,627,028 real tomatoes)

a balanced portfolio is certainly fine,but it is better to specialize in one thing as a basis,while you can also do something else,if you succeed it is always better.

looking for niches is a winning strategy,we agree on this.

after a strong Monday the rest of the week was pretty bad,not even an Easter sale

I don't know if you noticed but there are 1,076,612 results for "Easter" AI only,already a million AI contents for Easter.

this is why I am not particularly convinced that investing a lot of time in AI content is a good idea in the long term,for now yes,but I think in a year at most I don't think I will produce any more AI content,then clearly I will see,it depends on the results,but with this mass production so fast,I believe that the real difference can only be made with real contents at the end of the day.

Currently pos 2780

Thank you for explaining how unpublishing works. Now I do it every day.

Will probably also downgrade midjourney to the 30 dollar plan next month and then toggle between intensive use months and relaxed use months.

I still find it very difficult to get what I want from any of the ais I am using. Which perhaps is a good thing, if I struggle so will many customers.

I see you're having a good week too,if you had continued these years you could have lived on microstocks by now!

Today,I reached the second best month in terms of sales numbers,my approval rate for AI content also rises to 90%

look like the average earnings for contributors on Adobe Stock is rising too,given that we continue to slowly earn more but more or less remain in the same positions,it means that the general average is rising.

AI outputs are incomplete images,if you look at them in general they may look ok,but if you look at them in detail they won't.

all AI outputs have chromatic aberrations to begin with,then if you see them up to 100% they may not be noticeable,but they are there,and which are obviously just defects in the rendering.

but then it's not just this,they lack details,and often if we waste a little time we can create better images with more details.

in general I believe that trying to create something which if seen at 100% is appreciable is the general rule,there are very few AI outputs that are fine as they are,abstract ones of course can also be fine as they are.

I try to see the AI ​​outputs as a basis for the final image,a starting point,the combination of Photoshop generative fill and expand,plus photo editing and more can certainly lead to results in which the purchase of the image becomes extremely convenient for the customer who will never be able to generate anything similar just with a prompt.

Firefly is better at interpreting prompts,even with simple prompts you can often create what you want.

yes,maybe I will use Midjourney again in the future,but not for now,I already have thousands of contents to work on in post production,for the moment I think it's enough!

the microstock earnings don't seem that bad to me,I see that there are contributors who earn more than 2000 usd a month and even more,of course it takes time to get to this point,but if you work with consistency in 10 years you can get there or even sooner,then it obviously depends on several factors.

of course if you live in the most expensive places in the world,2000 usd may be little,but in Europe most people don't earn 2000 usd (1850 euro) a month!

that is quite sneaky, thank you for pointing this out.

you think you are safe in stealth mode, then you still need to unpublish manually every single file.

I think I might start deleting completely

Can we delete completely??

eta: cannot find a delete button...

next question: do the files stay unpublished if I downgrade?

that would open the option of doing one month hardcore midjourney in stealth mode, next month downgrade to 10 dollars, then again one month in stealth mode etc...

as far as I know the only way to delete images from Midjourney is by reacting to the message in Discord with X symbol and images are deleted not even immediately but in 20 min 


Midjourney is designed to be public so I don't like it very much,you still have to bother a little if you want to make sure your content isn't visible somewhere.

yes Cobalt,once manually unpublished they remain so.

Quote from: Injustice for all on March 23, 2024, 09:00

Quote from: cobalt on March 23, 2024, 08:05

I am trying!! But I rarely upload more than 20 files a day. Maybe it will get better with midjourney, we will see.

Also started again with regular photos/videos.

I must diversify and also send content to other agencies. You never know what happens, perhaps ai will die next year if so many people are pushing content in.

Especially editorial should keep its value or might even go up in value.

Firefly is better in my opinion,Midjourney is better for some things,but the way it works with Discord is too annoying,not only do you have to use stealth mode,but then you would have to operate in a private server,with which you only have the Midjourney BOT,and you have to adjust the settings so that no one can access your server,and then all this is not enough,you also have to unpublish the images in the Midjourney feed,not just in Discord.

so while you do all this your images will still be seen by other users in the Midjourney feed not in the Discord feed.

before I started operating in this way,I discovered that someone was copying all my prompts,in Discord there are people who do just this,they follow the feeds and copy and paste the prompts...very annoying!

Could you please clarify? As far as I know - all images are stealth... what "midjourney" feed are you referring to?

Thanks!

stealth mode is not enough,is enough just for Discord feed,go to the Midjourney site,where you manage your subscription,there you have all your images that you can download in compressed folders,then select all the images and then select "unpublish"

Quote from: blvdone on March 23, 2024, 07:29

Quote from: cobalt on March 23, 2024, 06:44

pos 2940

probably not bad for a 4200 file port, but I was hoping for much better spring sales.

need many more files. now upped my midjourney contract to 60 dollars to enable stealth mode. and hopefully that will push me to do more with midjourney to get better at using it. i still don't feel really comfortable but it does make much better people than stable.

also trying to do more with firefly.

now have prompting costs around 100 dollars a month. but longterm it should be worth it.

Just triple your content and you'll get near 1,000th.  Not bad for 4,000 images.

Not really. Tripled/quadrupled/etc content does not necessarily correlate with increased sales. I.e., if you had 5,000 pictures of bananas, and went to 15,000 pictures of bananas, you probably wouldn't see an increase in sales, of course, unless, people went bananas for bananas...

Don't you ever dare to discuss my bananas!

anyway no,it's not like that,it depends on what photos of bananas they are,if they are all similar it's as you say,but if they are different 10,000 more photos of anything,even bananas always make a difference.

very interesting,thanks!

Quote from: Andrej.S. on March 21, 2024, 10:05

There is an upload guide for AI images on adobe's website.
It depends wether the images are hand drawn illustrations, 3d rendered stuff, etc. or if they contain photo realistic portraits,

Wasn't the rule with AI is that you had to always choose "illustration"?  Did that change recently?

no,it changed a long time ago.

yes,photo if look photorealistic,otherwise illustration.

now all this can also be subjective because often the line between a photo and an illustration is very thin.

a stupid example(like me,I'm a stupid example of a human being ):

a woman in the middle of a fantasy floral composition on a purple background,even if the woman seems real but placed in a fantasy or abstract context I consider it an illustration,while someone might consider it a photo because the woman seems real and the flowers too look real.

I only select photos if the AI ​​image really looks like a real photo,even if the subject seems real in a non-real context it is an illustration for me.

Quote from: Injustice for all on March 19, 2024, 08:05

PNG sell well.

JPEG contain less data than PNG and PNG would be preferable to JPEG if only PNG weren't so heavy and the maximum you can upload to Adobe is 45MB.

I have uploaded png files with 50 megapixels. None of them has more than 25 MB. It is true that the png files are about twice as memory intensive as the jpgs, but 45 MB is actually quite generous.

not in my case,I often have to resize the PNG to fit within 45MB