I�m yet to see minimum or maximum value in my port. My sales are not consistent, my month to month graph looks like a rollercoaster, so I can�t really predict my next month sales. (800-4,000 weekly rank)

Bestsellers are usually about 50% of my sales. When they suddenly die, my sales go down drastically. Doing better new variations of my bestsellers doesn�t bring me sales for some reason?

Yes, new content is not promoted and takes up to 6 months to take off.  Some images get a random sale after sitting on the shelf for more than a year.

Images being featured might or might not lead to good sales.

My customers don�t go for very unique images that I love. At times it�s my ugliest images that sell instead of my proudest ones that I spent  days working on (I quit doing that)

Blvdone posted some good on point advice. Thank you to everyone for sharing their experience. It motivates me to keep going, through I�m not uploading as much as I use to. Now, one image per day is my goal.

Good week so far after a bad week.

Impressive ! And your graph is so steady! (Mine is totally up and down)
With those downloads, it�s not a surprise that you are in 1000 weekly. Congratulations!

Are $0.31 sales are normal now?
I�m getting them on regular bases now.

Boy, I absolutely love my iPad Pro and paint a lot on it. (It�s so much more intuitive than PC with Wacom Pen and I�ve been using Wacom since 1997 full time for work) However,  If you ever tried to paint holding an iPad , it gets heavy fast, so I�ll be up for buying a lighter version. I use it a lot! (Now sitting outside on a patio) I�m so done with PC - and have a monster work-station with server at home, but just so tired of office.

My new iPhone pro has an amazing quality video, definitely well worth an upgrade, since I take on average 3 hours of video per week

That said, I love my technology toys and it�s a passion for me.

commercial can be an add for new Breaking Bad 🤣🤣🤣  I�ll watch that! It�s definitely not an add for Christmas or Birthday gift for IPad - it should appeal to moms

My best week after 2 months of tanked sales. Fingers crossed that it will continue to improve!
Mother�s Day images for me didn�t do well.

(One day last year I woke up to a client buying several $26 licenses! That was fantastic, but happened only once.)

Adobe Is The Worst!!! I had one single image where I used an element of another image that was clear of copyright and they deleted my whole folder including all of my video!!! I had a handful of images and would have been happy to delete them all but nooooo no response, just evil........FACT

So it�s possible for Adobe to take a swift action? Why that wasn�t done in Neo Leos�s case then, but it was done in yours? Seems subjective� Do you know who from Adobe decides is it infringement or not?

This is terrible. It�s so obvious that someone is copying your portfolio. If that will go on, I agree that creative artists will leave Adobe after the same situation will happen to them and they will get tired of slowly generating original ideas that are then quickly copied by other contributors. Profits will get diluted, frustration will grow.

It�s up to Adobe to make an educated decision if similarities are accidental (2 pink flamingos in the same pose) or if similarities are intentional (usually if intentional similarities are greater than 60% it�s an infringement) � and there is no question that your whole portfolio is intentionally being copied. Adobe�s response is quite disappointing and telling.

Unfortunately, I saw similar situation with CafePress in 2010 - they also allowed copying of popular images.  CafePress market got flooded with similar images, creative artists got upset and left. Without new ideas from creative artists, CafePress stock tanked� tanked and never recovered

Adobe has a long standing creative brand to protect. I hope it will choose a right path.

Pete, of course you do have a point. There are much broader professions that someone can apply themselves in to: accounting and ip comes to mind. It never was photography or arts

Agree with Cobalt that new content takes time to sell, for me it�s usually 2-4 months. I rarely sell freshly uploaded images, and if it sells once, it usually never sells again (?) so I upload and forget about them. I finally have 29 pages!!! 3710 weekly - going up a bit. My weekly changes daily and it seems that it reflects yesterday, not today sales. (My sales sucked today, but yesterday was better)

Well, we might be going down, but Adobe itself is still selling well. Otherwise our ranking would go up even if our sales are slowing down.

So we simply don't have the right content for what buyers are looking for right now.

I did upload quite a bit of summer content, but I think it arrived too late and just like with people I have no footsteps in the summer algos.

Next year will be better.

I do have spring and summer seasonal content, so I can�t use that excuse. This Monday is even worse, I think if portal is on the downward, then it�s shown less. What�s interesting is that my images that are selling usually well, stopped selling but images that never sold are now selling, but are one hit wonders.

I wonder if algorithms changed?

PS: for example I have older traditional photograph that I�ve made to png that use to  sell every day, it�s timeless, not seasonal - now it stopped. My seasonal best seller also stopped

It�s strange that from this thread we are all going downwards. Did I miss anyone? Anyone is selling well?

As for the art form dying, true, but the demand for oil paintings is hardly enough for anyone to want to go into that for a living. As a side interest of hobby, sure. Some demand for stock images, won't support anyone's life or equipment investment in the future. Also that won't keep the stock photo agencies in business as they would be selling an obsolete product.

Think of being a blacksmith as a trade? There's still a need, but hardly enough commercial demand. All that's left are specialists and the last trade artisans.

He-he, try to find a good blacksmith! Huge demand! Horses need shoes every 8 weeks. Best have 2 people working for them and do several horses at the same time. 200-250 horses per week in rain, freeze, or heat.

Friend of mine in her 50s decided to take art classes from Stanford, started to paint and now has several exhibitions and galleries rep her. She is an amazing salesman. My guess she makes $20k per year from oil paintings.

Sorry Pete to debunk your post, to each their own, Stock is fast, but painting is slow. I painted for many years, it�s the same principle as in Stock: only 20% of what you produce sells, where to store other 80% of large paintings? Not for me anymore, but it was fun and there are still droves of people who would love to make extra cash with art. Art will never die, it�s therapeutic and romantic. It weathered centuries 😉

Don�t give up hopes for your flowers, just because my flowers don�t sell the best. May be your flowers will become bestsellers! Obviously there are flowers that sell great!

I have already passed my total income from april 2023, so perhaps i should not complain.

But the extreme drop after good high is always depressing.

How many years you�ve been contributing to Adobe and how many pages you have?

PS: yes, the swings are quite wild lately. I�m more than 60% down in April