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« on: September 17, 2022, 13:37 »
on a tiny test of 7 images, i found 3 hits. i chose images i thought likely to have been used, no time to test several thousands more
i kept getting
'The top result has 96% similarity with the searched image'
but no images show - does that mean the image was used, but few if any like it?
877
« on: September 16, 2022, 12:50 »
on noise rejection, i upsize in ai giga, then reduce & it's usually accepted. SS is anal about sky noise that others accept. sometimes applying a mild blur to sky will be accepted
878
« on: September 16, 2022, 12:48 »
and in the 19th century photography itself was forecast to doom fine art - instead we got impressionism, expressionism, cubism,etc, etc - as geologists say, shift happens
880
« on: September 13, 2022, 13:29 »
I've never been able to embed metadata in PNGs in PS and don't use LR. Maybe some day.
You embed metadate in PNGs in PS the same way you do it for jpgs.
Open your png, click on File -> File info, fill out the form that pops up with yout metadata and then go to File -> Save as copy and select png in the drop down menu below the name field. Do not use the export feature to save the image, that will remove the metadata.
Maybe it is a version issue. All of my PNGs are made from JPEGs that already have the metadata included. When I save them as PNGs the metadata does not get included. Canva used to let you upload the JPEG versions so they could extract the metadata - that was a nice way to do it. I am still using PS4 so maybe that was changed in later versions.
My feeling is there is a "quality issue" with the reviewer. Again, my entire batch was rejected for quality and the exact same images were all accepted at multiple other agencies. This anomaly is only somewhat recent in the last 4-6 batch submissions. For now I will hit the brakes on submitting anything to AS.
same here - previously approved isolations on white rejected when sent as PNG
881
« on: September 13, 2022, 13:27 »
And like it or not, SS is leading the pack by a sizeable margin.
Maybe for you, but not according to the poll on the right. For me SS was always by far the leader but over the past few years they have been eclipsed by Canva - last year I made less than a third on SS than I did on Canva. So far this year SS is third after Canva and Adobe. If it holds up it will be the first time ever for Adobe to beat SS but I expect that will continue going forward.
as has been discussed recently, the poll is based on a small sample - for many of us SS outferforms AS by a factor of 2-3
882
« on: September 13, 2022, 13:19 »
Why all this negative criticism of Russia? Don't you people know your history? And don't you know what has been going on in Ukraine these past couple of years? Do your research and don't believe anything you read in the press, and particularly the American press.
Yeah, "do your research"! 
I see this feeling of superiority way too often, from people who think they know better, when in fact they don't realize how effective in shaping their beliefs is the troll farm from Sankt Petersburg!
at the same time tucker carlson on fox and MAGA followers in general are still supporting putin's atrocities On Aug. 29 Tucker Carlson of Fox News attacked President Bidens policy on Ukraine, asserting among other things: By any actual reality-based measure, Vladimir Putin is not losing the war in Ukraine. He is winning the war in Ukraine. Carlson went on, by the way, to assert that Biden is supporting Ukraine only because he wants to destroy the West.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/opinion/ukraine-deflates-maga-macho-myths.html
883
« on: September 13, 2022, 13:13 »
Don't want to make a new thread just because of this: Anyone else can already see their August earnings on Canva? Because mine say I've earned $0.03 (plus the individual sales I could see before) in August and there is absolutely no way this can be correct. 
my subscription August earnings held steady at about $125
884
« on: September 09, 2022, 13:04 »
Two accounts and they are noticing the same images uploaded to both. You won't last long.
right, and OP is confusing 'uploaded' with accepted/rejected
885
« on: September 08, 2022, 13:35 »
^ It is that type of rejection that sure sounds like it is a machine interpretation. I'm guessing the reviewers have tools to give them "hints" on why an image may or may not be rejected. I am guessing some reviewers take the "hints" as the final ruling to keep their review rate as high as possible.
Exactly. The software makes suggestions, the lazy reviewers, just click "reject" if the machine says so, it must be. Other reviewers have a brain cell and actually look. SS is paying for machine assisted reviews and some reviewers are doing the company a disservice by relying on that....
i've long had those types of rejections, usually because the horizon is off, but sometimes, like yours, where it was intentional. not sure it's an AI, this is also a major reason for WS rejects - such as a row of columns where closer ones are slanted compared to a more distant correctly horizontal building
886
« on: September 05, 2022, 12:39 »
Just opened my pixify/shopify store - comments/suggestions appreciated.
http://cascoly.photography
Topics include:
Elements of design
Vintage art
Maps
Victorian fashion
Military
Nature
Travel
Videos
Your license agreement requires credit. Is that gonna to work for advertisers/licensees? Was the license language Pixify boilerplate or is it custom to your account?
missed this earlier -- i've updated license to request not require credit and simplified overall based on suggestions from Jo Ann and others
887
« on: September 04, 2022, 11:46 »
I think it should at least be an optout for selling images to russia when shutterstock dont seem to have any problens selling.
Or maybe all images bought in russia going directly to aid Ukraine.
If shitterstock were around during WW2 they'd have been selling to Joseph Goebbels
as did many US companies in the 1930s and WWII
Coca-Cola Company.
Coca-Cola played both American and German sides during World War II, but in 1941, the German side ran out of sugary syrup to make the soft drink. So Coca-Colas German division invented Fanta to continue to sell Coca-Cola brands in the Germany without breaking any restrictions or an embargo.
Kodak.
The German branch of Kodak used Jewish slave labor from concentration camps but continued to produce film stock for the Axis Powers during the War.
Chase Bank.
Chase Bank was one of many around the world that continued to work with Nazi during World War II. They also froze the assets of many European Jewish customers as a common practice to cooperate with the Third Reich.
Ford.
Believe it or not, Henry Ford was an anti-Semite and was awarded a Nazi medal, designed for distinguished foreigners in 1938. Ford continued to sell and make cars with Russian slave labor for American and Germans during World War II.
IBM.
General Electric.
GE partnered with German manufacturing firm Krupp to help build Hitlers army and used Jewish slave labor to build gas chambers during World War II and the Holocaust. The U.S. Government fined GE for working with the *, but the American company continued to profit off of the War. It was estimated that GE made $1.5 million in 1936 alone from working with Krupp and the *.
Random House.
Bertelsmann A.G. is a Random Houses parent company and they continued to publish Nazi propaganda and Adolf Hitlers writings during World War II.
Standard Oil.
The oil company was one of the very few that could produce tetraethyl lead gas to fuel the German military, so they were another American company that played both sides during the War.
https://www.phactual.com/8-american-companies-that-worked-with-the-*-during-world-war-ii/
A stupid piece of whataboutism no one gives a crap what happened 80 years ago
just putting shutterstock in perspective, based on your comment. there are many much larger companies still doing business with russia https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-businesses-still-in-russia-ukraine-sbarro-hard-rock-cafe-mcdonalds-starbucks-koch/
888
« on: September 03, 2022, 13:10 »
from today's NYTimes An A.I.-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize. Artists Arent Happy. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/technology/ai-artificial-intelligence-artists.htmlControversy over new art-making technologies is nothing new. Many painters recoiled at the invention of the camera, which they saw as a debasement of human artistry. (Charles Baudelaire, the 19th-century French poet and art critic, called photography arts most mortal enemy.) In the 20th century, digital editing tools and computer-assisted design programs were similarly dismissed by purists for requiring too little skill of their human collaborators.
889
« on: September 03, 2022, 13:09 »
I think your examples show something about how the AI works and the limitations it has.
It does not really understand what a mountain biker oder a meadow or a naval battle is. It creates images from the description with the help of the images it has available or was trained with. And for mountain bikers that will be mostly fotos and for 19. century naval battles it will be mainly fotos of oil paintings.
Therefor, when asked to create a picture of a 19. century battle, it looks like an oil painting. And as the AI does not understand what a naval battle is, it fails to show the battle aspect of the oil paintings it uses and we get just two ships sailing after each other.
Also the meadow looks really awful. It looks like an amalgam from various meadow pictures, but not like any meadow you would meet in reality. You see some colored blops, which are supposed to be flowers, but you cannot really recognize any specific flower or any blade of grass. The foreground is also conveniently out of focus, so that the AI does not have to create the details of the meadow. Not that the parts in focus look much better.
The mountain biker seems to just ride through the meadow, without any path or trail. Yet between the wheels and through the lower parts of the hind wheel, there appears a brown patch, indicating that the mountain biker was generated from pictures with a different background.
agreed - none of these are ready for prime time - current status of these AI recalls Samuel Johnson's quip "Sir, [deleted sexist comment] like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."asking for roman legion attacking a city wall came close - showed a few roman soldiers attacking, and had the wall, but quality of the soldiers was low. probably need to refine the ask One thing is clear - better results when people not the main subject, which means models are safe for now Fort now, there's more potential for changing the images into illustrations - here's a rough edit for long view of climbers near summit of an himalyan peak
890
« on: September 03, 2022, 12:34 »
I think it should at least be an optout for selling images to russia when shutterstock dont seem to have any problens selling.
Or maybe all images bought in russia going directly to aid Ukraine.
If shitterstock were around during WW2 they'd have been selling to Joseph Goebbels
as did many US companies in the 1930s and WWII Coca-Cola Company. Coca-Cola played both American and German sides during World War II, but in 1941, the German side ran out of sugary syrup to make the soft drink. So Coca-Colas German division invented Fanta to continue to sell Coca-Cola brands in the Germany without breaking any restrictions or an embargo. Kodak. The German branch of Kodak used Jewish slave labor from concentration camps but continued to produce film stock for the Axis Powers during the War. Chase Bank. Chase Bank was one of many around the world that continued to work with Nazi during World War II. They also froze the assets of many European Jewish customers as a common practice to cooperate with the Third Reich. Ford. Believe it or not, Henry Ford was an anti-Semite and was awarded a Nazi medal, designed for distinguished foreigners in 1938. Ford continued to sell and make cars with Russian slave labor for American and Germans during World War II. IBM. General Electric. GE partnered with German manufacturing firm Krupp to help build Hitlers army and used Jewish slave labor to build gas chambers during World War II and the Holocaust. The U.S. Government fined GE for working with the *, but the American company continued to profit off of the War. It was estimated that GE made $1.5 million in 1936 alone from working with Krupp and the *. Random House. Bertelsmann A.G. is a Random Houses parent company and they continued to publish Nazi propaganda and Adolf Hitlers writings during World War II. Standard Oil. The oil company was one of the very few that could produce tetraethyl lead gas to fuel the German military, so they were another American company that played both sides during the War. https://www.phactual.com/8-american-companies-that-worked-with-the-*-during-world-war-ii/
891
« on: September 02, 2022, 18:55 »
just started today - here are the results of my first session long view of climbers near summit of an himalyan peak .png) mountain biker riding through an alpine meadow with mountains in the background .png) rock climber silhouette on steep rock face .png) 19th century naval battle .png) misfires: hms victory' ship-of-the-line at naval battle of trafalgar --> showed only the ship, docked roman legion attacking a city wall -- 2 soldiers, but too close
892
« on: September 02, 2022, 18:30 »
i have no clue about all this ai,
but for me it looks like results are generated (stolen)
from existing keyworded work - without consent, compensation and regard of copyright
no way a cgi can have the idea of dof, light etc
have you watched any movies or tv lately? cgi easily does lighting, etc what's new here is creating an image de novo from just a description, and not using any existing image. each pic starts as a random mix of pixels machine learning trains on images, but what's produced isn't derivative
893
« on: September 01, 2022, 12:32 »
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894
« on: August 31, 2022, 15:01 »
39.44Shopify (paid yaerly) By law I need to collect VAT if sales happen in Spain. It does not have this option in the basic account+ Pixify 39$ (without videos) with video it would be 99$+ SEO Optimizer 30$ Free Trust Badge Free +Outfy 15$ This are the ones I was looking for.
basic shopify + pixify as $29 x 2 and is all i'm starting with. - what other apps were you considering?
thanks - i wasn't considering video costs, but agree that certainly makes a difference. a minor point is additional SEO optimizer likely isn't necessary as google analytics, tags & indexing can be done within shopify
895
« on: August 31, 2022, 12:57 »
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896
« on: August 31, 2022, 12:45 »
Thank you very much. Yes I was making a quick calculation Shopify + Pixify plus other compliments and it quickly turned to 120$ every month. too much for me. I think that Photodeck looks better for me at the moment but with a good amount of sales Shopify might be well worth it if a better SEO brings a higher number of high RM sales.
Here's the app store https://apps.shopify.com/
Here's an overview of selling stock photos on Shopify https://www.shopify.com/sell/photography
basic shopify + pixify as $29 x 2 and is all i'm starting with. - what other apps were you considering?
897
« on: August 29, 2022, 11:12 »
... Specially as I need RM because I am RF exclusive so selling as RF is not an option for me. ..
where are you exclusive? most agencies don't stop you from running your own site
898
« on: August 28, 2022, 18:59 »
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My suggestion is, if you have the ability to include several photos, then I highly recommend that. I know that is moving away from what we are used to on microstock agencies, but compare it to say, FAA and such. For example, you may want to show your photo in a frame on a wall. (Mockups are available for that).
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thanks for the quick response! pixify doesnt have that option currently pixify is digital only, so i link to FAA for prints, etc I wanted to post my alternative to Shopify above in case it helped others find quick alternative websites. When I set up my husband's shopify account, I found it very time-consuming. All I want at the moment, is something that is quick and easy to set up, the licensing and payment provisions are all ready taken care of, and I just have a shop plus a place for my blogs.
Shopify is great! But to me its like buying a new whiz-bang smart TV with a huge amount of features, but when you get the new remote - there's about 200 buttons and you think, all I want are my old 6 buttons to navigate
that's why i hadn't previously considered etsy or shopify. (zazzle & FAA pose similar problems) - the power of pixify is ability to upload batches of images and create product pages for the entire batch with 1 click. pixify extracts the details for each image.
899
« on: August 28, 2022, 18:50 »
I did a quick look-around and here are a few things I noticed. Good luck with the site.
I can't see the image dimensions in pixels (or if it's there, I couldn't find it). To know if an image is large enough for certain projects, that information is important (and provided by all the agencies)
It's nice that you can zoom in to see details, but it's a rather hidden feature. I just clicked to see what would happen and then I did get a zoomed in view with a minus-magnifying-glass cursor showing I could zoom out. (Mac OS 12.5.1, Chrome). It would be nice to have a visual cue that zoom is possible.
The license is quite different from a typical agency license in a number of ways. The requirement for credit was noted above, but it also says you can't use more than 20 of your images in one project. Not sure how important that is, but the overall tone of the license is such that I'd be worried I'd inadvertently mess up and violate it. Most people will be honest, and those that aren't probably won't read the license or worry about violating the rules anyway. I'd simplify/streamline it.
Images aren't marked as editorial or commercial use - as a buyer, I'd like to know which is which.
The advertising in the license was very distracting. I assume it's because the license is in another part of your blog/history site which carries ads, but I think it'd be better for the license to be on the pixfy part of the site and ad-free. Shutterstock ads showed up multiple times, so clicking on that takes me away to license someone else's images.
I tried clicking on keywords underneath an image to see if they'd do a new search on that keyword - they don't, but that'd be a nice thing to have IMO.
If you have zoomed in on an image and then click on one of the drop-down menus at the top, the menu goes behind the zoomed-in image. You can select the half-seen menu item (if it's on the side, and it works), but most menus are completely obscured.
thanks for some great comments - several of the items are limits of shopify or pixify, so i'll pass them on to the pixify developers eg, one thing i cant do is make keywords clickable, tho i agree that would be great add
900
« on: August 28, 2022, 14:14 »
Just opened my pixify/shopify store - comments/suggestions appreciated. http://cascoly.photography Topics include: Elements of design Vintage art Maps Victorian fashion Military Nature Travel Videos
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