Quote from: zeljkok on April 17, 2025, 16:24

Quote from: TortoiseProductions on April 17, 2025, 15:18

I'd say you might be right on the checksum if we hadn't tested with a resubmit removing only "harris" from the keywords. They didn't get reviewed until both "harris" and "harris hawk" were removed from keywords and title - all done within the submit page. The original images still have those intact and the other 3 sites we submit to accepted them in November without delay.

And yeah, the transparency is killing me. If they're going to threaten account disabling for submitting the wrong things too many times, at least let us clearly know was is wrong with an image. Looking back at my rejects I appreciated knowing what they considered artifacts or noise or out of focus. Now it's just "quality issues". 

Right.  They could have database of "We have too many of these" keywords.   (I.e "food", "flower", ..... "hawk").   Then AI cross-referencing pushes you to bottom of the pile.  Bottom line - we don't know, and it's likely changing from day to day.

btw - now that Photo is finally in, you can always go and edit keywords and stick "Hawk" back in ;=)

"Hawk" wasn't the issue. "Harris" was. How do I know? The regular hawk images were approved right away.

Quote from: zeljkok on April 16, 2025, 05:26

Quote from: TortoiseProductions on April 15, 2025, 16:37

Well... after waiting... hmmm... over 4 months these images were finally reviewed. The solution? Deleting them from the queue and resubmitting without the word "Harris" in the title or keywords. So now our "Hawk (Parabuteu unicinctus)" images can finally start selling. Hopefully people looking for images for the Harris Hawk will look it up by the latin name. 

That might not be the reason.  I have theory that Adobe AI preprocessing assigns "quality" checksum, that determines order in review queue.  If file is simply re-submitted without any modifications, AI detects that, checksum remains unchanged and consequently file remains in black hole.  By modifying some of your keywords you introduced brand new content, as far as (dumb) AI goes.  It was word "Hawk" in your case, but it could have been something else.   

We can only guess. Bottom line is - this is ridiculous game of cat and mouse.  On the other side of the fence are developers thinking about algorithms that "will keep these pesky contributors that upload all kinds of trash" in control.  On the other side are us, contributors, trying to figure counter measures to "fool dumb AI and stupid developer algorithms".    IMHO this is senseless, and has nothing to do with quality or consistency.

Only thing that really bothers me is lack of transparency.  "It might take up to 8 weeks". This is inaccurate bs.  "Not accepted for quality reasons".  Even bigger bs.  Why don't they just say what is going on.  We would grumble, but at least we'd know what to do and what not to do.  It would save them some time too.

I'd say you might be right on the checksum if we hadn't tested with a resubmit removing only "harris" from the keywords. They didn't get reviewed until both "harris" and "harris hawk" were removed from keywords and title - all done within the submit page. The original images still have those intact and the other 3 sites we submit to accepted them in November without delay.

And yeah, the transparency is killing me. If they're going to threaten account disabling for submitting the wrong things too many times, at least let us clearly know was is wrong with an image. Looking back at my rejects I appreciated knowing what they considered artifacts or noise or out of focus. Now it's just "quality issues". 

Quote from: TortoiseProductions on November 19, 2024, 17:47
My current curiosity is why the groups of photos of one particular raptor in both my account and my husband's are sitting waiting after all the others were reviewed. My only thought is caption and keywords .... The raptor in question is a Harris Hawk. (Not applying conspiracy, I just find it curious)

Well... after waiting... hmmm... over 4 months these images were finally reviewed. The solution? Deleting them from the queue and resubmitting without the word "Harris" in the title or keywords. So now our "Hawk (Parabuteu unicinctus)" images can finally start selling. Hopefully people looking for images for the Harris Hawk will look it up by the latin name. 

Quote from: Eco on April 15, 2025, 07:13
I am lucky that only twelve of my images removed thus far (portfolio of 7400 images). I was, however, annoyed that one of the removed images was one of my all-time bestsellers. I searched for this image on the main Adobe page and find it still online, but not under my name.

It was stolen by "Designpics" and here is the image:

https://stock.adobe.com/za/images/greyhounds-at-full-speed-during-a-race/609179796

I looked through this portfolio of 100 pages and find many more of my images. Obviously a portfolio of stolen images. Those of you searching for removed images and find them still online, make sure they are under your name and not stolen.

I haven't found any of mine or my husband's yet, but I can believe the stolen accusation. That's a LOT of variety of images and styles for one person. Oh, and yeah, the duplicate culling? It's not working that well...

Quote from: pancaketom on April 14, 2025, 22:19

Quote from: TortoiseProductions on April 14, 2025, 22:09

Quote from: synthetick on April 14, 2025, 07:08
For anyone who has had files removed and can't work out why, please can you check to see if they were duplicates? Do you still have the same files in your portfolio, with file numbers that are different to the ones that have been moved to the Not Accepted tab?

Maybe I'm missing something, but how can we check? I don't record the ID numbers Adobe assigns to files and there's no way that I know of to check back on what files I've uploaded after they've gone through the review process.

I've dug through the 2 my husband got rejected and notice there is one image in each batch uploaded (1 batch of 6 uploaded 9.20, the other batch of 8 uploaded 4.19) that is missing from his portfolio. Is it possible an image got double tapped while uploading? Possible, maybe, but at this late date there's no way I could know for sure without having a accept/reject list from those dates.

At least for the files that I have noticed were removed with duplicates, if you find the file in the rejected list ( https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/uploads/rejected ) - sadly you need to look at them all to find which ones were removed via audit because obviously it would be too hard to let us search by rejection date or tell us which images were removed when they send us the letter.

mine were listed as rejected for "audit removal: incompatible with terms" - note the image id # and then go and search for the image in the whole database or more easily in your own port and if you can find it see if the image # is different.

All of the files my husband and I have had rejected as "incompatible" are still in our portfolios with different file IDs. We have been lucky that it's only been 8 files. I really feel for the people who have had hundreds tagged as incompatible.

Quote from: synthetick on April 14, 2025, 07:08
For anyone who has had files removed and can't work out why, please can you check to see if they were duplicates? Do you still have the same files in your portfolio, with file numbers that are different to the ones that have been moved to the Not Accepted tab?

Maybe I'm missing something, but how can we check? I don't record the ID numbers Adobe assigns to files and there's no way that I know of to check back on what files I've uploaded after they've gone through the review process.

I've dug through the 2 my husband got rejected and notice there is one image in each batch uploaded (1 batch of 6 uploaded 9.20, the other batch of 8 uploaded 4.19) that is missing from his portfolio. Is it possible an image got double tapped while uploading? Possible, maybe, but at this late date there's no way I could know for sure without having a accept/reject list from those dates.

Quote from: synthetick on April 13, 2025, 03:16

Quote from: RalfLiebhold on April 12, 2025, 18:13
Hello Adobe,

why don't you openly say that you're not interested in us contributors anymore?
What's with this pathetic, pointless communication?

I am very disappointed.

As a tech company, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Incidentally, I am also (was) a customer of Adobe products.

It appears that this was removed because it is a duplicate of a file in your portfolio with a different file number. Please can you check?

If the files are being removed because they are duplicates, it's Adobe that has duplicated them, not me. I am VERY careful about not re-uploading images. One might slip through once in a while, but not a full series (as was tagged as "incompatible" today). And, if images are being tagged as being duplicates, use THAT as a rejection, not this vague "incompatible" crap.

Edit: After digging further I've found that there were 8 images in the series. 4 are gone from my portfolio - like I never uploaded them at all, when I know I did. But they are not the 4 marked as "incompatible" in the rejects OR the 4 that are in my portfolio. The ones marked "incompatible" and the ones still in my portfolio are the SAME images.

I count myself lucky that I haven't had hundreds of images hit by this, but the whole "incompatible" thing just pisses me off because - how can I as a contributor LEARN what NOT to submit if the rejection reason is so vague?? If they said "similar" I probably would have shrugged, said "It's possible." and moved on (knowing that my ideas of similar can vary widely from that of others - ESPECIALLY when it comes to the wildlife photos which I specialize in).

The just wasn't a rabbit hole I wanted to dive into this weekend....

Quote from: synthetick on April 13, 2025, 00:11
On Discord there have been several instances of people complaining about images that have been removed, but I have found that the exact same images are still online in their portfolios with different file numbers. So for anyone wondering why a file has been removed please check your portfolio and see if you have a duplicate of it still online.

That seems to be the case for the 2 I've "lost" and the 2 my husband has "lost". All for "Incompatible". The only one of the 4 that I can maybe (sorta, kinda) agree with is this one for the gore rule. The other one of mine was a baby skunk in the grass and my husband's were of 1) 3 wolves standing in a snowy field and 2) 2 wolves walking across a river

So ...

Anyone remember when they got their 1099's last year? I'm going to be traveling the first week in March and because corporate taxes are due on the 17th of March I need to get them soon. The online electronic form is not working for me - same as others my EIN doesn't match the vendor number even when I copy both directly from the W9 form Adobe has and my member number.

Thanks

Quote from: stoker2014 on November 27, 2024, 18:49
TortoiseProductions, You shouldn't take pictures, but shoot at jackals, wolves and dogs!

Booo..... 👎

Quote from: PigsInSpace on November 27, 2024, 17:20
How do you get these shots and not get eaten yourself!

Captive wolves. 70-200 mm lens - this one was taken at 125mm

My husband and I know these wolves pretty well. I could tell you about the time one of the pack offered him a leg off the deer.

Wow. I've been uploading wolves at deer carcasses to SS since 2017 and this is the first time they've been rejected with the note "Need to be marked as mature content".

I guess I finally hit a squeamish reviewer at SS. I had a few of the wolf on carcass images rejected a while back on DT but I it was hit and miss (1 or 2 images out of a group of 10)

*shrug*

My current curiosity is why the groups of photos of one particular raptor in both my account and my husband's are sitting waiting after all the others were reviewed. My only thought is caption and keywords .... The raptor in question is a Harris Hawk. (Not applying conspiracy, I just find it curious)

Quote from: TortoiseProductions on January 31, 2024, 22:35
MARCH? Well that's BS as some of us are required to have our taxes FILED by March 15th.

Update: Got my husband's. I have yet to receive an email regarding mine. If I use his link and log into my account, I get the empty box.

In truth I'm not sure why I care - my accountant doesn't seem to care if we have the 1099s or not. Must be my being anal with documents showing through.

And yes, it all gets lumped into one amount like Sean said.

Edit: I've figured it out. Apparently my husband is the main person for Tortoise Productions (really? Is that why his title is VP?) and the dollar amount on the 1099 is for his earnings, my earnings and both of our earnings from Pond - or at least the amount is "close" to what I have recorded for last year. Within 5 dollars or so...

MARCH? Well that's BS as some of us are required to have our taxes FILED by March 15th.

Quote from: Mona on February 25, 2023, 05:34
If the person, who has my 1099 from Dreamstime, happens to see this: Could you, please, send it to me? I file as a S-Corp and that's due March 15th and apparently Dreamstime is not making this happen.

Mona Makela Photography LLC
P.O. Box 4383
Santa Fe, NM 87502

Thanks!

The problem is there's no knowing if anything with your name on it is actually correct. I conversed with the person who received my 1099 (she sleuthed the name) and her address was right, my name was right, the TIN number and dollar amount didn't match either one of us. I'm dropping my S Corp taxes off with my accountant on Monday and hoping for the best even though I don't have a 1099 from Dreamstime.
Adobe sent it correctly.
Shutterstock provided it electronically.
Getty provided it electronically.
Dreamstime .... wrong info and now a no show. Here's hoping they get their act together at some point. (Yeah, yeah, I know - I'll receive the 1099 on the 16th of March)

Oh it's a big cock up. I was alerted by another DT member about a week ago that they had received a 1099 with my husband's name (we both have accounts). The TIN wasn't that of our company - or hers for that matter. She didn't divulge the $ amount but I'm guessing it was wildly off. Today I received 2 1099s from DT - one with my husband's account name on it, the other with my account name on it. 2 different names and 2 different TINs/SS #s. I didn't bother checking $ amounts cause I already know the 1099 is invalid and I'll end up destroying them.

Hopefully no one will be badly affected by this breach and we'll all get our 1099s in a timely manner. The clock is ticking for us S Corporations - tax due date for us is March 15th!

As for the person commenting they thought DT didn't send out tax info for under $600, I believe they are required to send one out for any amount - no matter how small.

I usually don't mind extra payments - but I don't like how this "Contributor Fund" is being done. That said: Keep an eye on your totals ... their math is little off, at least in my case.

On my husband's account it's just the opposite: .61+1.84+1.64 = $4.09 in my world of math, not $4.10 like in theirs.

Oh good. I've been freaking out for a few hours thinking someone hacked my account - wasn't seeing any info here, on Facebook or Twitter from SS and isitdownrightnow.com was reporting everything being AOK.

I know - breathe - work on more images - breathe....

(and the zero amount is probably cause you had a payout in the past few days)
- Holly K.

I just had two images of Grey Wolves feeding at a White-tail Deer Carcass (uploaded in 2018) removed. Apparently blood and gore - however natural - is offensive now.

And I have no recourse to argue it.

Your loss Dreamstime - the other 2 sites that have them will get the benefits I guess.
- Holly K.

Anyone else having trouble logging in to Bigstock today? I have been getting a "406 Not Acceptable" error all morning.

I'm not getting any response from anyone on the Shutterstock forums and no response to either "chat' with Bigstock or emailing support.

Thanks - HK

5 minutes later - Nevermind - just started working again

Has anyone else had this happen? I've been on Dreamstime for 11 years and dutifully entering descriptive, non-spam titles. I also track sales quite obsessively using said titles to find the images in my database. Every once in a while, on Dreamstime only, I'll not be able to find a image in the database. Eventually I discover the reason is because someone at Dreamstime has changed the title. Usually the change isn't anything dramatic or terrible, but it stills irks me that someone has the authority to change a title without ever telling me it was being done!

An example from today:
Original title: Baby Black Bear (Ursus americanus) Against Grey
Changed title: Baby Black Bear Grey Backgrd

I searched both here and on Dreamstime's forums and found no one else has complained about this, so maybe it's just me. But the above change was made on an image in my husband's account and title changes happen in my own account just as often.

Anyone?

Thanks - Holly