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iStockPhoto.com / Re: March downloads are up
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So, looks like my "I am getting almost the same amount each month" spell is broken for sure - My revenue is 1/3 less now.
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iStockPhoto.com / Re: March downloads are up« on: Today at 01:22 »
So, looks like my "I am getting almost the same amount each month" spell is broken for sure - My revenue is 1/3 less now.
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Adobe Stock / Re: Why display only 100 pages?« on: Yesterday at 01:07 »Adobe stock only displays 100 maximum? Why? Probably because it is extremely unlikely that any customer will click through 100 pages when searching for an image and not just take one of the images from the 99 pages before. I doubt most customers make it past page 3... or even 1. 3
Shutterstock.com / Re: Contributor Fund Entry« on: April 07, 2024, 05:18 »I got a big for bigstock adjustment Apr 5 also. I opted out as soon as I was able to last year. I checked again and they opted me back in. So much for transparency and all that. I opted back out again. I wonder how long that will last. This made me look it up in my account, but I am still opted out. Doesn't seem to mean anything either way. Both Bigstock and Shutterstock seem to use our images for data training regardless of whether we opted in or our. 4
Shutterstock.com / Re: Contributor Fund Entry« on: April 06, 2024, 01:35 »
I just noticed that on April 5th I also got a big chunk of money at once on Bigstock ("big" at least for Bigstock, where I don't really make any money worth mentioning at all ) - even though I have data training disabled there too, just like on Shutterstock.
Looks like they really don't care and will use your images for AI training either way. 5
Shutterstock.com / Re: nothing for contributer fund?« on: March 28, 2024, 03:10 »Received $60.97 for the Contributor fund today. I didn't get anything today, but I got contributor fund money from SS in January - Even though I am also opted out of Data licensing and always have been ever since the option was available... 6
Canva / Re: Canva acquired Affinity« on: March 26, 2024, 12:27 »My guess is it will become subscription based. While I think it's well possible that they will go that route, they would risk losing the only real advantage Affinity really has over Adobe. The only reason why I ever even looked into Affinity was that it was not subscription based. 7
iStockPhoto.com / Re: February 2024 statements - how did you do?« on: March 18, 2024, 16:27 »From iStock? About $0, but I don't have an account there, so that could be it The statement usually comes in by the 20th. Often it's earlier, but the 20th ist the official date. I do not know where the info is from, I just remember that that's the date I have read on their website at some point. Thought it might have been their forum, but it looks like iStock followed Shutterstock's lead and took down their forum? 8
Adobe Stock / Re: what comes after "1 year ago"?« on: March 15, 2024, 01:42 »It has not been fixed, since if you tick "Exclude Generative AI", you still get tons of AI pictures As said before, I think you are still confusing what this issue is about. 9
Adobe Stock / Re: what comes after "1 year ago"?« on: March 14, 2024, 12:20 »
Just bringing this up again in case it got forgotten, as it hasn't been fixed.
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Dreamstime.com / Re: $100 payout minimum sucks!!!« on: March 08, 2024, 04:16 »
I haven't written them, but I have seen statements by them in their forum, here is a direct quote: "We cannot accommodate requests of $50 for the simple reason this would increase the payment requests volume considerably." I have no idea why in 2024 some companies still claim an online payment process cannot be automated. Of course it is possible, other agencies can do it after all, I just think they don't want to. I know of people who say they have not been able to reach minimum payout for years. And in the meantime Dreamstime gets to keep that money, can invest it and gets interests. It's probably part of the business mode. 11
Adobe Stock / Re: Is uploading 200 images on the same subject at one time acceptable?« on: March 06, 2024, 07:41 »
I have my doubts that it is a good practice to upload 200 images of the same subject at all, regardless of whether you upload them at the same time or not.
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Adobe Stock / Re: what comes after "1 year ago"?« on: March 05, 2024, 03:06 »It's so funny that some people here complain that AI low range things gets stuck in queue. No one in this thread is complaining about images being stuck in queue? We are complaining about a bug, about wrong display times. The images that are shown as "submitted a year ago", were not submitted a year ago. 13
Adobe Stock / Re: what comes after "1 year ago"?« on: March 04, 2024, 14:39 »is it one decade ago? No Mat. It is also happening to me and it only started today. And I always submit my files the same day I upload them. Yesterday the files showed in my "to be reviewed" tab as submitted 2 months ago and suddenly today it says "submitted a year ago." I did not upload these files a year ago, they did not even exist a year ago. Everything that I submitted longer than 4 days ago suddenly shows as "submitted last month", even though it was between 5-21 days yesterday. Everything that was submitted more than a month ago and has not been reviewed yet is showing as "submitted a year ago". 14
Adobe Stock / Re: Review of AI generated photos are fast now, but many rejection« on: March 04, 2024, 08:55 »
So, it's just me? Now that's worrying me even more.
I just double checked, actually everything I submitted more than 5 days ago is displayed incorrectly, with a month to a year added to the time. 15
Adobe Stock / Re: Review of AI generated photos are fast now, but many rejection« on: March 04, 2024, 08:01 »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 Thank you, but that wasn't what I meant. I mean, I have files I submitted 3 weeks ago, but suddenly they show as "submitted over a month ago" and files I submitted 2 months ago that show as "submitted over a year ago". The times are worng. 16
Adobe Stock / Re: Max, can you help? (incorrect info about review process)« on: March 04, 2024, 07:56 »
I am not sure where you have read "files are processed in the order they arrive" . Maybe as a statement from contributors? But certainly never anything official.
For me files were never reviewed in the order they arrived. I have images waiting to be reviewed that were submitted 2 months ago, while images that were submitted 3 weeks ago have been reviewed. And it has always been like this for me - now with AI images flooding the queue and the insane review times it just has become more extreme and therefore more noticable. But even before it used to be like this and single files were always sorted out - For me for example it was usually images of objects isolated on white. Even though I submitted them in a batch with images of the same category (commercial, photos), the others were always reviewed 1-2 days earlier than the ones with objects isolated on white. My guess was always that whenever a reviewer was unsure about whether he/she should approve the image, the image would either go to a different group of (maybe more experienced?) reviewers, or it was maybe thrown back into the pot, because the reviewer simply didn't want to deal with it and then the waiting time for that image to be reviewed was reset. Not sure my explanation makes sense. 17
General Photography Discussion / Re: Should AI images be offered cheaper and authentic photos more expensive?« on: March 04, 2024, 05:48 »Hell no. It is a lot easier and much faster to take a good series of pictures and videos with a camera than to do stuff with ai. You keep saying that. May I ask why - If that is indeed so - you keep adding thousands and thousands of AI image to your Adobe port? Wouldn't it be much easier and faster to just take real photos, according to yourself? Why do the extra work? 18
Adobe Stock / Re: Review of AI generated photos are fast now, but many rejection« on: March 04, 2024, 04:44 »
Anyone else's review times are screwed up now? Today, in my to-be-reviewed tab, my oldest illustration now say "submitted over a year ago" and my oldest photo "submitted over 2 months ago".
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General Photography Discussion / Re: Should AI images be offered cheaper and authentic photos more expensive?« on: March 04, 2024, 04:30 »
From the cotributors point of view it makes sense, but from the customer's point of view it doesn't make sense. For them only the end result matters. They want an image that suits there need and it doens't matter to them how much work the image was to the contributor.
Even now different photos take so much more work. I have photos in my port that took me literally 5 seconds to shoot, and photos where I spent lots of money on props and easily 20 minutes setting up the scene, one hour taking the photo (especially with pets that you can't just place easily like you want and often have to try over and over again till you get what you want) and 20 minutes post-processing. Yet both images are sold for the same price. It doesn't really matter to the customer. If you want to be paid per time/effort, then microstock, where everything is offered at the same price, isn't the best business model for that to begin with. It's not like assignment jobs, where a customer tells you what he/she wants and you say "This will take me x hours and therefore I will charge you X amount of money". 20
General Stock Discussion / Re: Anyone having success with Dreamstime in 2024?« on: March 04, 2024, 01:04 »DT doesnt use the description or subject from meta data For me it does. I have embedded titel, description and keywords in my metadata and all I have to do with Dreamstime is select the category. That's why I do not understand why people here say the upload process was compilcated. It was even easier when they auto-detected the categoeries, all you had to do was click on submit, but unfortunately that does not work anymore. 21
Adobe Stock / Re: What's your weekly ranking and how many images?« on: March 02, 2024, 10:37 »Down 100 spots since Monday. I feel depressed now. But nobody here ranked higher than me in photos? My main thing is stock videos. I thought most here were doing better than me in stock photos. I don't sell videos on Adobe Stock because I'm Pond5 Exclusive only for videos. Rank 1080 here. I think most of the contributors with ranks between 0-500 are probably not individual contributors anyways, but mass production companies with employees like Africa Studio and you will not find them posting here. 22
Adobe Stock / Re: 2023 Adobe Stock contributor bonus plan details« on: February 27, 2024, 01:32 »Mat, will the double plan-issue be resolved or is getting two plans and cancelling one the permanent solution here? Just asking to know whether I should wait with redeeming the code. Thanks Mat! 23
Adobe Stock / Re: What's your weekly ranking and how many images?« on: February 26, 2024, 08:42 »
You do not have a rank when your ranking is higher than a certain number. I think it was 40.000.
I still do not really understanding how ranking works. I have a slightly worse weekly ranking than blvdone, but more downloads, so download number does not seem to be the (only) factor. Maybe revenue? 24
Adobe Stock / Re: 2023 Adobe Stock contributor bonus plan details« on: February 25, 2024, 14:43 »Mat, will the double plan-issue be resolved or is getting two plans and cancelling one the permanent solution here? Just asking to know whether I should wait with redeeming the code. I seem to have worded my question poorly, as this wasn't what I was asking. I would like to know whether I should hold off redeeming the code to avoid this problem alltogether and whether Adobe has any plans to fix it in the future. If the problem will still occur in a month, because no one is bothering to find a fix, then it makes no difference. If Adobe plans to fix it, then I'd rather wait instead of going down the frustrating customer support route. 25
General Stock Discussion / Re: Adobestock review-How many files do you have currently waiting?« on: February 25, 2024, 02:16 »My illustrations are accepted at times overnight, other times in 4 days. It's 4 days now for my re-submited illustrations, still no review, and also still no review for the illustrations that have been waiting for over 2 months, I guess Adobe just hates me. |
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