Judging by how it's going for you,I'd say things are picking up a little.

I still don't know how the month ended,on January 21st the last time I checked it was terrible.

I think that in any case I will end the month with a similar result to last year in January,perhaps if all goes well a 10-30% increase in the number of sales,I don't know but this is what I expect.

for sure,if the result is negative compared to last January,I will be out of action for another week.

I'll know in 2 days! 

Quote from: Injustice for all on January 27, 2025, 07:25

Trump also denies citizenship to children born in the US to immigrants,which goes against the US Constitution,I think he forgot that the USA exists because of immigrants.

Not from all immigrants, but only from illegal immigrants.

a child born in USA is American,according to the USA constitution.

it is illegal,and in my opinion Trump risks impeachment and subsequent removal from the presidency if he continues to rewrite the constitution as he pleases.

Quote from: Injustice for all on January 26, 2025, 08:01

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Trump is right about one thing in my opinion,we must invest more in the defense system,more in the military industry.
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but trump wants to have the US ABANDON NATO and other treaties we have while appointing incompetent cabinet positions &getting rid of generals who disagree with him

true,Trump's policy is destructive for international relations that have been built with effort in the last century.

his policy focusing on the United States as if it were the master of the world is wrong,The United States is the most militarily powerful country in the world,but it cannot fight the world alone,he would do well to remember this.

Trump also denies citizenship to children born in the US to immigrants,which goes against the US Constitution,I think he forgot that the USA exists because of immigrants.

he is simply a criminal who pardoned himself and is surrounding himself with other criminals,and together they are carrying out criminal acts in broad daylight.

Quote from: Injustice for all on January 26, 2025, 06:45

Quote from: stoker2014 on January 25, 2025, 07:58

Quote from: Injustice for all on January 25, 2025, 06:10

furthermore,he accused Zelensky of having wanted this war,and that it should not have resisted against a militarily stronger country like Russia,and that he instead would have made this war end easily.

You've got something mixed up. I don't remember Trump saying that.
But even if he said something like that before the elections, there is nothing wrong with that. The main thing is that he speaks as the President of the United States.

the news is from Fox News on January 23rd.

Trump met with Zelensky in Paris in December,and criticized Zelensky for resisting Russia at the start of the invasion instead of making a deal.

he said clearly: "not even Zelensky should have allowed this to happen.He is no angel."

and Trump then continued:"Zelensky decided to fight but he was going against a much larger entity and he shouldn't have done it."

then Trump recognized Ukraine's courage anyway and then said: "Zelensky has now had enough and is ready for peace".

Trump's only real interest is that the United States no longer spends money on this war,and he is willing to end this war even if it means reaching agreements that are unfavorable for Ukraine.

in my opinion Trump is not suitable to be president of the United States,because he is mainly a businessman and thinks too much like a businessman.

the desire to leave the WHO and the Paris climate pact are a further demonstration of this.

Trump is willing to turn the world into gruyere cheese if necessary,that is,full of holes,it is willing to drill even into the center of the earth if necessary to boost the economy,regardless of the environmental consequences.

I think Harris would have been a better choice.

This is purely your personal interpretation of what Trump actually said and what he thought. Trump uses general phrases, without specifics. They can be interpreted in any way.
I don't care at all what Trump says, I will judge him only by his real actions and real policies.

maybe we should create the Trump vocabulary!    (of course I'm joking stoker2014)

you have your ideas,you agree with Trump's policies,I respect you the same,I don't agree,but you are free to have all the ideas you want,and support whoever you think is best.

I could say something...i will not say something...

As for Ukraine I cannot understand why someone from Ukraine would support Putins bootlicker.

I do hope it forces Europe to stick together more, Ukraine needs a lot more help and support.

it is already doing it,but the problem is that in Europe we have many different points of view.

However,Italians,Germans,French,Dutch and many other countries are on the same wavelength,and we know how important it is to make Russia and the world understand that war against a sovereign nation is an act that we are not willing to tolerate.

Trump is right about one thing in my opinion,we must invest more in the defense system,more in the military industry.

EU is still very controversial,there are many countries that do not use the euro even if they are in the EU,this in my opinion is wrong to begin with.

then there is Kosovo which has adopted the euro even though it is not yet an official part of the EU,and Spain which condemns the existence of Kosovo,while the majority of Europe approves.

The EU is still full of divergences and contradictions,but we can say that at least the beating heart of the EU is there.

Quote from: Injustice for all on January 25, 2025, 06:10

furthermore,he accused Zelensky of having wanted this war,and that it should not have resisted against a militarily stronger country like Russia,and that he instead would have made this war end easily.

You've got something mixed up. I don't remember Trump saying that.
But even if he said something like that before the elections, there is nothing wrong with that. The main thing is that he speaks as the President of the United States.

the news is from Fox News on January 23rd.

Trump met with Zelensky in Paris in December,and criticized Zelensky for resisting Russia at the start of the invasion instead of making a deal.

he said clearly: "not even Zelensky should have allowed this to happen.He is no angel."

and Trump then continued:"Zelensky decided to fight but he was going against a much larger entity and he shouldn't have done it."

then Trump recognized Ukraine's courage anyway and then said: "Zelensky has now had enough and is ready for peace".

Trump's only real interest is that the United States no longer spends money on this war,and he is willing to end this war even if it means reaching agreements that are unfavorable for Ukraine.

in my opinion Trump is not suitable to be president of the United States,because he is mainly a businessman and thinks too much like a businessman.

the desire to leave the WHO and the Paris climate pact are a further demonstration of this.

Trump is willing to turn the world into gruyere cheese if necessary,that is,full of holes,it is willing to drill even into the center of the earth if necessary to boost the economy,regardless of the environmental consequences.

I think Harris would have been a better choice.

Quote from: cobalt on January 23, 2025, 15:36

I think he is totally stressed out trying to do stock as a full time income.

But this is not the right business for everyone. For many it is best to keep stock as a part time side hustle while the main business is something else.

Then grow stock slowly over 10 years.

One small tip about making it in this dying business. AI is not the way as a Western person. AI can be made by anyone wherever they're from. It's just prompting and curating. The people that can do that are in the millions and they have the resources and the time. Worse is that any income that is generated by it will exceed much more then we in the western world will value it. Your dollar is way less then a dollar for someone like say in India.
What they can't do however (generally speaking) is travel and make actual photos of those places they make with AI. Even though that actual photography is overly satuarated as well, it's still less competitive then the AI market.
The AI market is just a no go if you want to get ahead. You can't seriously think you will do a better job then the other millions of people that have time and resources on their hands. And when some in these countries have a little success with AI, it will ignite a whole bunch of newbies trying as well. Lost cause, stick with real photography.

not necessarily,this is a common mistake,thinking that everyone makes AI and therefore it is better to dedicate ourselves to real content.

depends on what.

I have AI content that has sold more in a month than old best-seller content in years,and AI content that I have never sold and will probably never sell.

those with production skills developed over time can seize the opportunity to create AI content that the mass of AI producers cannot do.

It depends on what kind of AI content you produce and what kind of real content you produce.

Producing quality,original,sellable AI content is more difficult than it might seem.

my best-selling AI content is content that required a week of work and a lot of patience.

Quote from: cobalt on January 23, 2025, 10:50

To me it often sounds like you believe your account is being "held back intentionally" by Adobe.

But i am probably misunderstanding.

No, you are not misunderstanding.
This guy either praises Adobe all the way or accusing them to put a limit to his downloads. He is quite tiring if you ask me. One day Adobe is the best agency ever and he has all these plans how to grow his sales and the next day when things don't succeed it's because Adobe has this evil plan putting a ceiling on his sales. I would diagnose him as manic depressive but I am not a psychiatrist.
The term cry-baby comes into mind as well.

you're just a hopeless inflated balloon, shame on you! 

and don't put words in people's mouths that they haven't said.

you're just a poor scoundrel who judges a priori without understanding anything,without respect.

anyway ok,you've already won the superhero of the year 2025 award,now you can relax,there are no other prizes to win! 

ok,I wanted to take a break from all the microstock,but I see that it is better to make some clarifications.

@Cobalt

Somebody?somebody who? 

I have never written:"somebody is personally out to get you or holding your port back"

I've never said it,I don't think so,and it's certainly not like that.

I gave you the example of Istock to make you understand that the problem is not my contents.

I am aware that I cannot earn 10x more than I earn,but I should still earn at least 2-3x more than I earn at this point in the journey with my current portfolio.

@Cascoly

the problem is not so much the age but more money condition,but certainly if I was 10 years younger I had more time to put the situation right,starting a business before the age of 40 is certainly better,I think you agree with me.

the chances of an identical result to the previous year in the first 20 days of January are not impossible,but it is as if they were,if you take into account the quantity of files in the Adobe library and the high number of contributors,so we can consider the probabilities impossible.

yes,I very much agree with the fact that it is very difficult to improve if you don't continue to upload,especially today.

I uploaded about 40% more from January 2024 to January 20,2025,so a rather high percentage.

@Uncle Pete

I'm talking about number of sales,and thank you! 




At the moment,more than a break,I'm carrying out a kind of strike.

I haven't checked my Adobe Stock dashboard since January 21st,and I will check it again on January 31st.
both because I don't want to get depressed,and also because I want to take a break for a moment.

I can consider the November results acceptable,for the quantity and type of portfolio I have at the moment,but this is really the minimum I can accept,at this point in the journey,after almost 7 years of collaboration.

I will continue the strike until I see numbers similar to November again,then I will resume uploading.

I don't blame Adobe for this,but I think some things can be done better,I've noticed excessive discrepancies and I think it's time to review how content and sales are managed.

I am also more than sure that Adobe has already identified this problem,it can also be seen from the minimum requirements for the bonus contributor,from this choice I see that they have already identified this problem.

the point is to see if it is possible to do something or not,I don't know this,only the Adobe Stock team can know!

I can only hope to soon see results similar to November again and start working again. 

Quote from: Injustice for all on January 20, 2025, 17:28

...if I was still at least 40 years old....

I just turned 40 ! I have a lifetime of uploads ahead of me 

that's right,you're lucky! 

I started in microstock at 43 years old,almost seven years ago.

I've been taking photos since I was 13,I bought my first reflex,Yashica fx-3 s2000,it was the end of the 80s. 

ironic how at the time I could afford to buy all the equipment I wanted,and it was just a hobby,but today it has become very,very difficult to do anything.

again...today January 20,2025 I have the same exact number of sales as I had on January 20,2024.

it's completely demotivating,I uploaded 1935 new contents last year,if I also add to this the fact that old contents should sell more even without new uploads,all this is completely demotivating.

in all honesty it's just not possible to sell so little with the portfolio I have today,I'm certainly not saying that I should sell 10 times more,but at least 2-3 times more than I sell.

It's possible that this is my bad month,but February and March will tell the truth.

Adobe...waaakee uuupppp! 

Quote from: Injustice for all on January 15, 2025, 14:55

of course,I said tomato because writing �tomato� or �Roma� or �Italian style�makes no difference to me.

I have to index the content correctly then if someone uses AI content irresponsibly it is certainly not my fault because I wrote �Roma�.

I say Sydney and you bring up some obscure similar name that could cause a problem in two languages, when translated. Nice try. Can you do that for Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, San Francisco, and 98% of the other city names, mountain names, people and fake AI images, that shouldn't use real names or real name places in their keywords and identification? Probably not.

I don't care if you make AI or not, that's your choice. I choose not to, and maybe if you did photos, you wouldn't shoot what I enjoy and upload. All OK with me.

I'm looking for a little integrity in what people upload, especially when it's a false representation, of a real place. Or a picture of someone, that's not that person. You can't make a fake AI sports car and say it's a picture of a Ferrari, and shouldn't because... It's Not What you claim it is. That's dishonest, just as labeling a Roma tomato as a watermelon, when it's not.

Yeah, it would be terrible if people got confused between a Roma and the city Roma and couldn't tell the difference in under 5 seconds. Yet you defend outright fraud in labeling a fake AI image as a real place?   

I understand your concerns, and I partially share them,but i also know it's gone.

we now live in a dystopian world,because the innate need in human beings for something different,new,unreal world.

just look at tv shows,movies,among the most succesful there are several dystopian ones,which I also really appreciate.

AI text to image or video,are the perfect example of the need for something different,new,unreal.

I understand that you don't care in the slightest whether someone uses AI or not,you simply chose not to use them,and continue to do what you like best and do best,and in my opinion this is very nice of you because you value freedom.

but at the same time you try to cling to reality,real cities,real names,it is wrong for you to use the name of a real city and should not be used in the description or keywords.

I,however,think that there is a fundamental difference between using the name of a real person or the name of a city,location,country.

I use the keywords that are allowed,label the content as AI and simply do my job.

I don't defend fraud in labeling a fake image as real,in fact I label all my AI content as AI,but I still have to use the word "Rome" if I create a fictional Rome,how else should I define it?just city? 

I am simply aware that I now live in a dystopian world,and I try to adapt to survival in this world,if I create a fake Roma,I have to put the word Roma,otherwise my content won't be found,and this doesn't change the fact that other dystopian Romes are found,so what changes?

I understand your concerns and partly share,but I don't think that all this can be stopped,the human need to distort reality,which in this historical moment is very strong.