So, I'm in a dilemma. When I edit video (basics: brightness, saturation, contrast), save it and then check how it looks video appears different if I watch it in different software.

For example, with VLC player video looks less saturated and contrast than with windows media player. So I went and checked previews of some videos that I uploaded to pond5 an FT and they look more like as in VLC player (less saturated, etc...). Then I did another test, put my videos on USB and view them on TV and they look way too much over-saturated and contrast.

So, which one is like, real thing? I don't want to over do saturations and other stuff....

A picture is worth a thousand words

Take your best month and your worst month/2 and you're in the average. Where's the problem?

Quote from: angelawaye on July 28, 2017, 21:58

Jo Ann, did it make a difference?
I disabled the EL on SS and I feel like I was punished (my theory) ... I love how FT lets you set the EL.

I can't be sure, but I think it did. The high value SODs (versus those for a few dollars or a few cents) had disappeared completely - but other people were seeing declines in those, so you can't be sure.

The day after I turned ELs back on, I got a $66 SOD and two (rather lowball) ELs! I realized this wasn't going to be a daily occurrence - and it hasn't been, sadly - but I have seen a few high-value SODs each month since then. The theory that lowering EL prices would increase volume is bollocks - as everyone knew it was when SS made the change - but I decided I was willing to put up with those $17 and $19 royalties for ELs to try (for a year) and see if the SODs  returned.

I think a decent agency would be fully transparent about what happens if you opt out of various items, but I don't expect SS to do that, so I figured a 12 month experiment would give me enough of a guide that I could then decide whether to leave ELs turned on or not. If ELs are few and far between, access to SODs would make the overall deal a good one for contributors.

Since the change I definately got more ELs than before.

Stop whining already and just quit. We got it by now. MS is dead, your earnings are down 50% and new files don't sell.

Yes.

SS pretty good thanks to two EL's, one yesterday, one today. Without those, it would be OK, not good, but not bad either. Compared to last july I made 3 times more, but last july was extremly bad.

FT another disastrous month. I'm making less with more photos and silver rank compared to, when I was bronze and had less photos.

Canva pretty good, not best month, but not bad either

Photodune BME thanks two 2 EL's

Other low earning sites as usual. Low earnings

Photodune/Dashboard/Settings/Tax information

So buyer bought EL's from you before the weekend and then again wanted to buy them today from SS?

So, I went to todayis20.com and uploaded all *.txt reports from January till June. And my all total downloads show 835 sales. Then I went to ESP page and my total "year to date" downloads show 557 sales. So it's about 300 sales short.

Treaty with US or AU? Also, as the other user said, there is no tax section on their page.

It's not incorrect, envato is australian based, so 30% is probably right amount. I checked yesterday. I'm also paying 30% at Canva, which is also *.au based.

For some reason, the page on that link will not open for me. It's just loading endlessly. I use google chrome.

If I login here https://elements-contributors.envato.com/ and then go Earnings report on the top right corner nothjing happens. And all other links are dead too, for example payout method...

And if I put the link https://elements-contributors.envato.com/account/earnings/2017-05 directly into my browser, I'm getting thrown to contributor agreement. This site is completely broken.