In September I was riding down the highway and saw something I knew had microstock utility. I was a passenger and we were hauling a giant trailer, so I thought better of asking to pull over on the side of the interstate. I just rolled down the window and took as many photos as I could.

A few of the images had no motion blur, and to my delight, the one I uploaded sells weekly, which is strong for me. Special thanks to Adobe Photoshop�s Sky Replacement, which makes almost all outside photos look better and typically requires only minimal manual tweaking.

I got the email below from Alamy today. This only seems like a positive, but as a result I�m not sure why they�re asking rather than just demanding. Am I missing something?

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Would you like to increase your revenue from Collecting Society payments?

Alamy currently works with several Collecting Societies on your behalf to claim royalty payments on secondary uses of your images. We pay you 50% of commission of the funds awarded. You may have already received payments related to the work we do with ASCRL and other Collecting Societies. 

We now have the opportunity to apply for a greater share of the royalty payments, which you can benefit from by sharing your date of birth with us. This is a new administrative requirement of some of the funders, including ASCRL, who want this additional information so they can identify copyright owners more easily.

you forgot the reviewers who know nothing about anything

As someone who also knows nothing about anything I am deeply offended that you are insulting our kind. It is not our fault we�re morons!

Roughly $45 has appeared in my Adobe Stock balance and I can figure out why. It happened yesterday, well after the Firefly revenue we received weeks ago, and it doesn�t correlate to any sales.

I would reach out to Adobe, but after seeing other folks have their accounts blocked for weeks because Adobe wrongly decided they were fraudsters, I�ve thought better of it.

Anyone else have extra cash appear recently / know where it might have come from?

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I mostly take landscape and travel photos and I'm seeing in the AI ​​images places that don't exist, but in the description I read: Santorini, Tuscany, Paris, Dolomites, Normandy ...

Would you buy a travel guide with these photos of fake places?

As far as I'm concerned, I may have removed an electrical cable or a branch, I may have saturated the colors a bit, but the place is that.

Just as it can be dangerous to show perfect models that do not exist in reality.

I have also seen AI generated landscapes on AS. I don�t get the allure unless the sellers are trying to fool people. I�ve been to that place, I know it doesn�t look like that, although it�s somewhat closeish.

Unbelievably old thread alert!

Quote from: John W. on September 12, 2024, 02:50

Another thief;

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Aqeela_Image

I guess selling public domain images from the Department of Defense as your own is alright at Shutterstock for the last 4 years..

*. 2000 of them.  And 1 duck.

Further proof SS have no human review system any more.  If they did, any basic reviewer would have realised these images were NOT shot by that person with appropriate rights and permissions.

Making bank on that duck photo, I�m sure.

It took ten weeks, but I just had some images clear review, and to my pleasant surprise, one sold immediately.

They simply don't want non-AI, non-Editorial images.  Most likely they configured AI to alert human reviewer only if it "thinks" image is exceptional.  Otherwise it just sits in the queue;  eventually someone, maybe even AI, goes around and clears the backlog by rejecting for "Quality Reasons"

The question is why do they want real illustrative editorial images but not real regular images. The whole thing makes no sense.

If we soon discover cave paintings from the stone age as brand new images in the database, we know that the review is taking too long. I have uploaded a few new images when Ramses II was still going about his government business - they are still waiting for the review.

Ramses I�s image review policies were much more efficient. But then he sacrificed my sister to Ra. I�ve got mixed feelings since then.

Only if I can submit videos wearing extra fingers ala Mel Brooks.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mel-brooks-brings-extra-finger-to-hollywood-handprint-ceremony/

If AI photos are being approved faster, should I just fib and select the AI button? Or would hey know it was a lie since the people all have the right number of fingers?