may sound silly, but I don't want to waste the disk space. My "C drive" available space is a bit on the slim side.

Does anyone know when the current Photoshop Beta (with it's apparently amazing auto-isolation tools) will become the production version?

So their stock price exhibited a "reset" in the same way that contributors exhibit a yearly reset....poetic justice in a way.

If removed and appearing in the "uploaded files not accepted" list, do they appear deep down in the list based on date, or do they appear as new rejections?
For example, if they decide to "unaccept" a file submitted five years ago. Does the rejection appear five years back in the list or does it show up as the latest "rejection"?

Wouldn't it be interesting if there was more innovation in pricing? For example, what if a site allowed you to go to a variable pricing model where-in say the contributor had the option to let an AI optimize the price of each asset so both the contributor and the agency would generate the most revenue?

How about the contributor could set a price floor, but the site could "optimize up" the price. In other words the site could raise the price to make the most money for both the seller as well as the site itself.

Regarding SS, I wonder how much of the variation in sales and income is regional. Maybe SS $$$ have virtually collapsed in the US, but may be doing fine in other parts of the world?...maybe where they spend their advertising dollars?

Careful.  The batch system at istock is not advantageous.  When you submit a batch of say five photos only one of those photos will appear in search results.  The rest will only be shown as similar images at the bottom of the main image page.  Sales will suffer.  Best to submit in as small batches as possible, perhaps only one photo per batch.

Not sure what you mean by this? Do you mean if the "five photos" have the same subject and keywords"? I have submitted batches of editorial photos, but they are of different subjects.

How and when did you receive a 1099 from Paypal? I have not seen one yet (in US). Is it possible you have to reach a certain dollar amount payout before Paypal issues a 1099?

I successfully downloaded mine. Seems correct.

May I ask if you used your Adobe ID to retrieve your info (I used my Adobe ID and was not successful as noted above)?

Quote from: wds on January 22, 2025, 14:39

Has anyone tried to obtain 2024 1099 forms yet? (not sure if they are available).

I tried the same process I used one year ago (for the 2023 tax form, link:https://236230.invoiceinfo.com/get1099.html) but I got a message: "EIN/TIN/SSN does not match Vendor Number - Please Retry (0)."

I hadn't tried as I just assumed they wouldn't be there yet. But after reading your note I did and was successful in getting the 2024 1099

As I had noted last year, for my "vendor number" I have to put in a leading zero as it's too few digits (4).

The whole settup is terrible - it should be linked from the contributor account interface not some random web page. And when last year I couldn't access it, I never got a reply to my request for support (I figured out the leading zero on my own).

Hmmm. I keep getting the error "EIN/TIN/SSN does not match Vendor Number - Please Retry (0)." Joanne, where exactly did you put in a "leading zero"? I tried putting it in front of my vendor number and I still get an error: "EIN/TIN/SSN does not match Vendor Number - Please Retry (0)."       

All my info matches the info on last years 1099.

Quote from: Injustice for all on January 17, 2025, 15:49

my current plan expires February 19th.

the year before,my plan expired in April,I requested the code in advance in 2024 in February,and for 2 months I had 2 identical plans that were going on their own,with even double the generative credits available because they were running 2 identical plans at the same time,the old one which expired in April 2024 and the new one which expired in February 2025.

so no,from my experience it is possible that 2 identical plans with different deadlines are running at the same time.

now I don't know if they updated this or what,everything is possible,also because now each plan has a set number of generative credits.

However,I wait until the last day of the current plan that is still valid before requesting the new one.

If your plan expires in October,it's probably best to redeem the new one a couple of months before at least.

Of course,it would be useful to know if these free codes have an expiration date and what it is,because for example I could also think about taking a break and maybe starting again in a few months and requesting the new plan when I need it,but it is not known whether they must be requested in 6 months or a year or when.

This is very clear, and this is exactly what I experienced. And so did mike123.

It can be confusing. Reading the post with the Adobe explanation insert may have jogged my memory a bit. I think what may have happened in my case last year is that the name/designation of the so called "Photography Plan" changed in some way which therefore triggered the Adobe plan management software to "think" that the new code was for a different style of "Photography" plan than my (at that time) current "Photography Plan" and that triggered it to set up a parallel plan (it thought the plans were different, even though they were both the "Photography Plan"). Very confusing. I think I will call up support before I redeem to get this years view.

What is the recommended time that we take advantage of the offer? Last year I waited till my current subscription was close to running out and I ran into a bunch of issues (which were resolved after a lot of back and forth with Adobe support....I don't want to go through that again).

So specifically, if we still have many months before our current subscription expires, is it okay if we take advantage of the offer immediately (assuming the new plan would begin when our current plan expires, not earlier), or should we wait till we near the expiration of our current plan?

Thanks.

I still have this question: My current plan extends until October 2025. If I redeem my code immediately, will it automatically extend until October 2026?...or is it better I wait till the October deadline approaches? (I waited last year and had all kinds of problems....specifically, instead of extending the plan, it started a second new plan subscription.)

Let's hope so. The "race to the bottom" has gotten everyone (contributors and agencies) in trouble.