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General Stock Discussion / Re: Experience with Vecteezy?
« on: March 17, 2024, 05:59 »
Strange how they sell 1000 licenses for 5 USD and pay you 14 USD for those 1000 licenses, looks hot deal for them, lol
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Experience with Vecteezy?« on: March 17, 2024, 05:59 »
Strange how they sell 1000 licenses for 5 USD and pay you 14 USD for those 1000 licenses, looks hot deal for them, lol
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Adobe Stock / Re: Does Adobe have any contact info for contributors?« on: March 16, 2024, 23:07 »We do not provide specific, detailed custom rejection responses as that would extend the wait time for moderation far beyond what it is now. I suggest you post a sample of content you feel was rejected in error here for impartial feedback from the MSG community. It's hard to see our own work through impartial eyes, you may get some feedback that you hadn't thought of before. What is the conception here? 3
123RF / Re: 123RF sales stopped.« on: February 27, 2024, 10:24 »Is that every 5 years? Will 123 be in business in 5 years?Hi there!No No, that is for every month and in accordance of the monthly income and portfolio mentioned above. Ofcourse not every portfolio can make such amounts. 4
123RF / Re: 123RF sales stopped.« on: February 26, 2024, 11:11 »Hi there!No If you do not need additional $100-$200 than do not submit. 5
General Stock Discussion / Re: Anyone having success with Dreamstime in 2024?« on: February 26, 2024, 01:46 »"Dreamstime makes it extremely easy to upload." +1 Yes, uploading 10 files is "extremely easy" anywhere, try 100, 1000 will cost you hours while same quantity are uploaded in Adobe in minutes. Dreamstime has a vintage submission system suitable for retired people who have all the time in the world. Nevertheless it is sympathetic agency and I hope it will be around for many years. 6
General Stock Discussion / Re: As more people start generating own AI images, will our sales go down?« on: February 25, 2024, 08:41 »You are assuming that every customer wants to spend time playing and learning ai. Agree, just to add one more detail on Ai generated process. It gives us many "superstar" images just in coincidence on many factors all together in the proper moment and prompt, then this great image will be available in the stock agency for cents. You may not reach such a great photo for hours of prompting while one professional who work this will have it routinely in the working process. 7
Shutterstock.com / Re: Is Shutterstock dead?« on: February 19, 2024, 07:58 »Yes some are making more in Adobe stock because AI is permitted but the AI models are evolving so fast that in no times customer will no longer need to look into a library. Not a second. They will generate what they want and with tons of option, styles etc. Video will take only a little longer to follow that path but as we saw with SORA just a few days ago it is arriving faster than I thought. Will be as easy as to type and search into a library with Ai images. The advantage in library is that all there is a curated collection for which someone spend his time to generate, select the best and edit, then on second level curated from the agency side. I wouldn't bet on Ai generation over curated Ai collection, but who am I to tell, for example Shutterstock bet on Ai tool exclusively and they are recently "extremely successful" 8
General Stock Discussion / Re: Open AI Sora text to video - unbelievable new AI video tool« on: February 17, 2024, 09:28 »Everybody has mobile phones with excellent image and video quality. True, but maybe about one percent of all buyers cares about this, the average microstock client needs "a picture to sell the story" no matter super-duper camera, mobile phone, Ai or whatever. Ai photos are very successful and popular, this will happen with the video too, just watch..The content is much more valuable than the quality. 9
General - Stock Video / Re: Freepik Wants My Videos For A Price« on: February 16, 2024, 17:04 »I see this wrong logic from time to time in discussions. No, no one buyer will search for your image on other agency to buy it cheaper. Even if he want it's almost impossible to find it in the search straight away, as a whole this does not work. Selling in many agencies will only extend your income and competition between them and from there better commissions to the contributors. I'm in this business from 2007 and I'm full-time and I have experienced view on all this. I only point on the fact that is not profitable to reject license posabilities. Not about free images, of course I'll never support this option. 10
General - Stock Video / Re: Freepik Wants My Videos For A Price« on: February 16, 2024, 07:56 »
I see this wrong logic from time to time in discussions. No, no one buyer will search for your image on other agency to buy it cheaper. Even if he want it's almost impossible to find it in the search straight away, as a whole this does not work. Selling in many agencies will only extend your income and competition between them and from there better commissions to the contributors. I'm in this business from 2007 and I'm full-time and I have experienced view on all this.
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Alamy.com / Re: Alamy Stockimo« on: January 31, 2024, 15:14 »
Accept AI images instead, much more promising..
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Adobe Stock / Re: I can't find my approved images on Adobestock« on: January 26, 2024, 02:06 »Good day everyone, The approved are sorted by most recent uploaded first, not recent reviewed/accepted. 13
General Stock Discussion / Re: MASSIVE ACTION NEEDED - we are closing stock accounts of image thieves« on: January 24, 2024, 16:06 »But... did you generate your images with AI yourself? (it seems to be). If the case, you don't own any copyright and you should not even complain. In this case he have the rights to sell those images, the other no. A big difference. 14
Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Stock Review Time« on: January 24, 2024, 10:12 »Adobe Stock reviews are ULTRA fast! Kudos to the editors... absolutely amazing work! You talk about regular content or AI ? 15
Adobe Stock / Re: Adobe Rejections for Possibly not declaring Generative AI« on: January 20, 2024, 08:35 »A few days ago, 100% of my photos accepted. Today, one more time, 100% acceptation... It is rare to see such positive and encouraging posts in this forum. Keep on rockin!!! 16
Adobe Stock / Re: Do Adobestock have more stringent moderators or rules on AI submitted content?« on: January 15, 2024, 00:24 »am sure Getty/istock will take ai once their legal team has found a way to make it work for them. After releasing Midjourney V6 they already lag behind on every level of AI generated image. 17
Adobe Stock / Re: I don't know why, but I feel happier when I sell AI generated photos than« on: January 13, 2024, 23:44 »
Why the final client have the right to use the image? Because the designer gives them.
Why the designer have the right to use the image? Because the stock agency gives them. Why the stock agency have the right to sale the image? Because the stock stock photographer gives them. Why the stock stock photographer have the right to sale the image? Because the AI image generator gives them. Why the AI image generator owner have the right to sale the image? Because they have created this tool. Why they have created this tool? Because they are smart and because we can not escape of the future and AI revolution. 18
Adobe Stock / Re: 9 Million+ AI generated photos - Stock Photography coming to end« on: January 12, 2024, 16:10 »
This discussion is very reminiscent of comparing the film image to the first steps of digital. The difference is that the quality in AI images develops 10 times faster and here we don't just have pixels, but compositions, light and everything else.
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Adobe Stock / Re: I see many $1.40 royalty per photo sale this year. Anybody noticed too?« on: January 12, 2024, 12:22 »Im seeing quite a few. Adobe is kicking SSs @ss to the curb. By not allowing external AI content they punish themselves. Adobe just do the right things in accordance to the new reality. 20
Adobe Stock / Re: Do Adobestock have more stringent moderators or rules on AI submitted content?« on: January 09, 2024, 22:26 »I've hit a bit of a snag with my AI-generated content. Lately, about 75% of my stuff is getting the thumbs down, even though I'm using the same tools and upscaler as always. I get that Adobestock is all about top-notch images, and that's 100% the way is SHOULD be. But this sudden drop in acceptance in 2024 feels like a seismic change. Something's definitely up. There is a filter and they can filter non AI stuff if preferred. 21
Adobe Stock / Re: Review time« on: January 08, 2024, 07:55 »I think it will become really difficult for actual photo amateurs to improve their photo skills by uploading to stock agencies. Just to clarify "Real commercial photography" will be back as domain of professional photographers. 22
Adobe Stock / Re: Review time« on: January 08, 2024, 07:08 »
AI generated photos sells now absolutely successful, the clients do not care from what source the image come as long as it will "sell the story".
In the near future the final client will have the option to create the desired AI images much easy and fast than now, but nothing can replace the successful image proven in the search engine with many sales, so I think there is a space for search in real photos or AI photos or to generate personal image. We'll see, but one thing is sure very soon the real images will be a very tiny part of all stock photo base. No one can stop this, lol 23
Adobe Stock / Re: Review time« on: January 08, 2024, 04:28 »I find my weekly upload of 25 images are reviewed in 1 week - However the last 2 weeks every single image has been rejected due to quality which is ridiculous as they are no different in quality from my other 8000 approved images and I have never had more than 1 or 2 rejections each week historically......will see what happened this week! Yes, but not that soon. 24
General Stock Discussion / Re: adobe massive batch rejections? (actual photos + gen ai)« on: December 26, 2023, 10:37 »
Good looking images. Better use Topaz Gigapixel for upscaling.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: adobe massive batch rejections? (actual photos + gen ai)« on: December 19, 2023, 04:14 »
To me this topic is useless in the forum if there is no discussion on the particular problem with the problematic examples, it looks like personal problem between contributor and Adobe, but not professional. I can't believe in this, by my experience Adobe do it's job professional. But maybe there is some private case and better contact Mat or Adobe directly, if you don't want to share your images, something I understand.
About the AI quality, the agencies evaluate the quality based on the current state of the technology, just like istock in 2002 for example with the image sensor quality compared to the film photography, this is normal. |
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