Quote from: erik trikowich on August 03, 2024, 15:36
Dreamstime says - we do not accept works made with the help of AI where there are realistic human faces. Ok! But suddenly I find an account in "Latest uploads", and not only, where there are a lot of works with realistic human faces.

Everything we submit to DT gets accepted almost instantly and, I'm sure, without any inspection at all. But it appears that someone does check the latest accepted files, because if they find [what they consider to be] non-compliant images, they will remove them eventually. It happened to me on two occasions (once with AI images, once with non-AI 3D renders) to have images rejected a couple of days after they were initially accepted, with the message "Refusal reason: This image was approved by accident and has to be removed". So it's most probable that the images you are talking about have already been removed.

Quote from: Andrej.S. on March 14, 2024, 12:43
I imagine already now how these guys then all will use AI to enhance their photos *lol*.

Funny thing is: as a wedding photographer, I use AI for more than 3 years ago for editing. There's a cloud based service that you train with your own Lightroom edits, and whenever you give it a new set of images, it uses that knowledge to edit them for you in your own style in a matter of minutes (instead of days, as it would be the case if I edited them myself) - with ~99% accuracy. So we, wedding photographers, use these kind of tools from long before Midjourney or ChatGPT were even born

The only way that I know of to get an official answer from Adobe is to submit the rejected assets to the channel rejection-reasons on their Discord. You can submit up to 3 rejected assets every month, and hopefully they pick them and discuss them in the live event. As an alternative, you can submit them to the community-feedback channel, and get input from other contributors. But this is just a guessing game, where others try to guess the reason why it may have been rejected by the reviewers, it does not equate to an official answer.

They announced this on Discord:
"Hello,
Vector uploads have been disabled temporarily. You may have seen a red banner warning about this on the contributor portal.
We are working on getting this situation fixed as soon as possible, but there is no ETA for vector uploads to be re-enabled at this moment."

Quote from: Uncle Pete on March 06, 2024, 20:47

Quote from: MZP on March 06, 2024, 12:51
Adobe Stock clearly state they give a boost in sales to its active contributors, meaning that if you upload 10 images a day for 20 days, you will get a boost over a contributor who uploads 200 images in one go and then stops uploading for the next 19 days.

Really, they say that? Where? What makes active? One a week, ten a week, ten a month...

Basically every chance they have when interacting with us, contributors, on forums or Discords. As to the second question, I always thought it's not about the numbers, but the action itself - as long as you keep submitting, you are considered an "active" contributor, no matter how many files. But since we don't know how their algorithms work, your guess is as good as mine.

I think you have a better chance of getting a fast response from the Adobe team if you post your question on Discord. They are very active there.

Depends on how wide/narrow is the acceptance of the word "subject" here. The real question is: how similar are the images? If you have 200 images with, say, the theme of healthcare, or financial sector, you should be ok with submitting them all at once, provided that they are not similar. (I can easily think of 200 different images depicting each of these topics.) On the other hand, if you have 200 images of a very specific subject, chances are they are too similar, and you are better of not sending all of them, not even in multiple batches.
Assuming you have images that are different enough, I would still send them in multiple batches spread over multiple days. Adobe Stock clearly state they give a boost in sales to its active contributors, meaning that if you upload 10 images a day for 20 days, you will get a boost over a contributor who uploads 200 images in one go and then stops uploading for the next 19 days.

Ah, got it now. In my case they show correctly. If it's a glitch, maybe it will go away soon.

Apparently some batches get into a black hole or somethnig, and never get evaluated. If a submission is older than 2 month, you better delete and resubmit those assets. At least that's what the guys from Adobe recommend on Discord. I also had few images that were 2 months old, but I just deleted them, without resubmitting, because I didn't like them anymore

Once you pass the 1000 mark, it becomes exact. No longer rounded

The end of yet another disappointing week

Quote from: Faustvasea on February 29, 2024, 20:41
That's a lot. Is that together with videos?

About 200 videos and about 300 vectors. The rest are images (both AI and non-AI)

May I ask how many files you got?
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Just shy of 19,900

197 downloads = position 1,250 (blvdone)
112 downloads = position 2,560 (me)

So 85 downloads less puts me 1,310 positions lower

It's true, it updates once a day. I think it reflects your position in the respective week (Mon-Sun), not in the last 7 calendar days. And I base this assumption on the fact that on Monday morning, until you get your first download, the weekly ranking will not be displayed at all. After your first download occurs, it just resumes Sunday's ranking, and then updates during the day.
LE: And this behaviour only occurs on Monday, no other day. Though it's strange and confusing that they chose to take last week's ranking as the starting point in the new week, instead of reseting it in the first day.

It would be nice if we managed to compile our rankings and try to make a sense out of it. I have attached my current ranking. But I also agree that it is more relevant towards the end of the week. Thet is why I am also giving last week's stats

At the end of last week, these were my numbers:
Weekly Rank 3,010
Weekly Downloads/Revenue 154/$119
Portfolio Size 19.500 assets (mostly images, AI and non-AI; only ~200 videos and ~300 vectors)

Mine is also frustratingly low, at 3,720 currently (way lower than my ATH of 977). Weekly ranking does not take revenue into account, but the number of sold assets in the respective time frame. I don't think it accounts for the number of assets in your portfolio, just the number of sales.

Just redeemed the All Apps code, it extended my current plan with a year, no overlapping here. Thanks a lot Mat and Adobe!

Quote from: cascoly on January 19, 2024, 18:40
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/19/technology/artificial-intelligence-image-generators-faces-quiz.html

can you at least make 50%? (i got only 2 of 10 correct)

6 / 10. It's pretty scary, given that I know what clues to look for in a face to distinguish Ai from real photos. I guess that someone who has no experience with generating images with AI is much more likely to be fooled.

Yes, also Stable Diffusion and Photoshop can do the same thing (inpainting and generative fill). But in DALL-E you don't need to paint / mark the area you need to change, you just tell it "make his hat red" or "make him look to the camera"

In my experience:
- Stable Diffusion can be the same level of realism as Midjourney, but you need to use a good model, you can't rely on the standard ones. There are tons of free models available that give perfect results. It's free, it's private (since you generate on your own computer), and as long as you have a decent GPU, it's really fast.
- DALL-E beats Midjourney in almost every aspect (except realism). For everything other than photorealistic images, it's my first choice. And it has the huge advantage that you can ask it to adjust the generated images (no need for inpainting or using generative fill, just prompt in ChatGPT what needs to be changed). But it's painfully slow, it fails quite often, and it's limited to 50 generations per 3 hours (but given the frequent fails you get way less than this)
- I tried Firefly, but wasn't satisfied with the results so I gave up. I'm waiting for the next update to give it another go

Quote from: Asthebelltolls on December 09, 2023, 13:48
I'm still waiting for answers despite getting a PP email that I received payment that never arrived....Still showing $0.

Does it appear as On Hold? If so, the PP app has instructions to follow to release the money

Every Saturday I request a payment, and the money appear in my PayPal account the next Saturday. So in my case it takes exactly 7 days. The only exception was about 2 weeks ago, when the payment arrived after 14 days, instead of 7. So don't worry, you will have them in your PayPal account soon.

I think what MadMax meant to say was that doubling your portfolio doesn't necessarily mean doubling your income. Which is true – there's no direct correlation between the size of your port and your income. You could double your income with just a couple of AI-gen images, just as well as you could 10x your portfolio and never see a significant improvement in sales.

On the other hand the more images you have, the more chances of making money, of course. But on the condition that you offer content that is varied and sellable. Adding 2000 images of exactly the same subject, probably won't do you any good in terms of sales. Also, adding 2000 images on a topic that the buyers are not interested in, will probably produce the same effect. On the other hand, adding 2000 images of varied content, that are beautifully done and free of errors (like missing or extra limbs) and appeal to buyers' needs, you could see your sales grow nicely and steadily.

But all of the above also apply to non-AI generated images. So there's nothing new here.

Indeed, it's way more efficient to produce AI-generated images than real photos or illustrations. So by generating with AI, you will see your income grow faster than by going the old fashioned way. Except – you are not alone in this. There are a legion of other contributors that are doing exactly same thing: generate images with AI and submit at the same pace as you. So probably the competition stays the same. And this brings us back to the topic of quality and desirability of the images we produce. I think this should be our main focus – even if nowadays all of us are able to produce 1000 images a week (with AI) versus 1000 images a year (which was the case before AI).

Quote from: blvdone on November 20, 2023, 15:55
Thanks!!  Just got my 2nd higher price AI photo sale at $3.30 just now!!

You will see double digits, for sure. Maybe not very often, but they are so nice to see. I'm still waiting for a triple digits single gen-AI sale...