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I've been using Topaz AI for noise reduction / sharpening for more than a year now and super pleased. However, I've noticed that iStockphoto have rejected whole batches of commercial and editorials. See screenshot below.

I went to find out why and from November 2024 they changed their policy. See link here:

https://contributors.gettyimages.com/article/10847

In summary:

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If you want to make significant changes to your content, either separately or in addition to work youve done under the Retouching Requirements, follow these rules (Modification):
Do not apply Modification to your content with generative AI tools (only use traditional, non-generative AI tools).
Do not add location keywords, titles or descriptions more specific than Region/State/County if you modify recognizable, named, or famous locations.
Do not alter a models body shape to make them look thinner or larger than they are in real life. Find out more.

NOTE: Under these Modification Requirements, without using generative AI tools, you can:
Retouch more than 10% of the images total pixels.
Add new elements you own the copyright for, including creating composites.
Retouch your models more extensively.

Had no issues at any other agency. Frustrating, might just stop uploading to iStock anyway for what they pay and now further hurdles of creating two separate batches.


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Dear Colleagues,

I've just published an exclusive interview with Daniele Carrer, expert in selecting and restoring historical footage to license as stock. Some useful tips if you have some old clips lying around gathering real and digital dust.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2024/11/22/historical-footage-modern-profits-daniele-carrers-inspiring-story/

Alex

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Dear Colleagues,

Even though my earnings are nothing to brag about this month I'm happy to share with you a story about how a colleague managed to recover some monies from a stolen account at Adobe Stock. Also some news about PhotoCase shutting down after some 20+ years in business.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2024/08/30/august-2024-brutally-honest-earnings-report-copyright-theft-special/

Alex

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...and Potentially Earn

Dear Colleagues,

This topic is highly relevant due to the abudance of copyright theft going on. Curious if anybody on here has had any success in earning compensation for copyright infrigements using third-party copyright infrigement companies.

I've just published this blog post on 5 tools that are currently being used by an Alamy-exclusive contributor who appears to be having more success at earning from infrigements than actually earning from licensing his images. Which begs me to ask whether chasing thieves may be a viable business model.

Here's the link to the blog post:

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2024/08/01/photo-justice-top-5-tools-for-stock-photographers-to-combat-infringement-and-potentially-earn/

Alex

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Dear human Colleagues,

As AI technology continues to advance, its understandable for us stock photographers and videographers to feel somewhat concerned about its potential disruptions to our revenue streams. We can just keep doing the same old and hope that it just blows over (which it wont) or we may adopt strategies to protect our livelihoods.

I've published five such strategies that you may wish to start adopting right away lets get started!

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2024/03/07/future-proofing-creativity-5-strategies-for-stock-photographers-videographers-in-the-age-of-ai/

Alex

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Dear Colleagues,

Just published this post on the new EU AI Act that will soon be coming into force and specifically for us, how it will impact AI-generated stock content.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2024/01/26/new-eu-ai-act-and-its-impact-on-ai-generated-stock-content/

Alex

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Dear Colleagues,

I've just published my comprehensive year-end stock summary on the blog as well as on YouTube (41 mins long).

Hope you enjoy watching/reading as much as I have compiling these reports. Overall it's been a difficult year but I remain optimistic about certain segments of the stock industry.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2024/01/03/2023-year-end-review-good-bad-and-ugly/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct_O0CtxICM&feature=youtu.be

All the best - Alex

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Dear Colleagues,

Ive just published an interview with Veteran Travel Microstocker, Dmitry Rukhlenko on my blog that I'm happy to share with you. Great tips for beginners, as well as veterans.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/10/22/interview-with-dmitry-ruklenko-veteran-travel-microstocker-with-675000-in-earnings/

If you want to be a photographer, first leave home Steve McCurry

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Dear colleagues,

If you're doing commissioned / client work there are many reasons why you should also upload the content to stock sites to earn an extra income. I'll discuss my top-10 best selling assets from client shoots.

Would be interesting to hear from you whether you also earn from content gathered during a client/commissioned shoot and whether those have (double)earned you as stock.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/09/18/earning-stock-income-from-commissioned-work-a-case-study-with-my-top-10-best-sellers/

Alex


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Dear colleagues,

I've carefully put together a detailed workflow analysis, including forecast earnings from a recent drone/DSLR shoot I did overlooking a busy highway junction in Portugal.

Perhaps this analysis will be useful for your own business and/or if you're interested in getting into drone photography/videography.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/08/25/detailed-workflow-breakdown-on-highway-drone-shoot/

Alex

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Dear colleagues,

I've just published this blog post on a trend that I potentially see occurring soon (hope I'm not giving these agency decision-makers any ideas):

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During the past six months, most notably, Wirestock and Picfair have dropped their respective statuses as free to upload stock agencies in what is a potentially significant trend for contributors. In this blog post Ill discuss whether this business model will become more commonplace and if it may present itself as a threat to contributors income in a time when were already experiencing diminishing returns coupled with rising inflation. Or perhaps, this fee will be an opportunity!

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/07/13/will-contributors-soon-have-to-pay-microstock-agencies-to-host-their-content/

Alex

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Dear fellow Humans,

I've just published special edition of the monthly report where, on top of discussing my monthly earnings and restoring and licensing old prints from my dads collection, Ill be delving deep in discussing the latest AI craze and whether it may soon pose a threat to Stock contributor incomes.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/05/31/may-2023-brutally-honest-earnings-report-special-ai-edition/

All the best - Alex

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Dear Stock Colleagues,

It's that time of the month when I'm pleased to share with you my detailed monthly earnings report for March 2023:

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/03/31/march-2023-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

All the best,

Alex

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Keen to share this useful tip.

Was looking for some images back from 5+ years ago and found out that you can download a high-resolution copy from your own DP port instead of digging through backup drives archives.


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Greetings from Rio and happy to share my first detailed monthly report of the year where, as usual, Ill be focusing on my overall earnings for the month and other industry-related news, including news on uploading a portion of my images for free as an experiment, a legal complaint via Alamy and another nasty street photography episode (illustrated by AI). Lets get started!

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2023/01/31/january-2023-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

Hope you're having a great start to the year.

Alex


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Dear Stock Colleagues,

I've published a comprehensive review of my stock business in 2022, while providing a glimpse forward to 2023 with some realistic goals.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/12/31/2022-year-end-review-good-bad-and-ugly/

All the best and happy new year - Alex


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Dear Colleagues,

Happy to share with you my November 2022 detailed monthly report focusing on my overall earnings for the month, including a new book cover sale making it four months in a row! Ill also discuss why Ive decided to re-start uploading to Robert Harding. Lastly, Ill tell my side of the story of a recent unpleasant encounter as a humble street photographer. Lets get started!

Hope you had a good month.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/11/30/november-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

Alex

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General Stock Discussion / Anybody on TikTok and is it worth it?
« on: November 10, 2022, 07:19 »
Trying out for the first time and created two clips.

TikTok is apparently all the hype now with Gen Z, so may be a good way to reach out, even to promote POD for instance or talk about the photo industry developments like AI.

Or perhaps just a giant waste of time, not sure yet but willing to experiment. Anybody having success?

Wrote a blog post on it which shamelessly includes a link to my channel on there.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/11/09/tiktok-is-it-worth-uploading-content/

I'll give it 6 months promoting my travel photos/videos and if that fails I'll put on my dancing shoes! :D

All the best - Alex

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Dear colleagues,

Happy to share with you my results for the major agencies since 2017.

As you'll see, the future looks bleak for images in micros (at least for me) if I don't change my ways...

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/10/18/comparing-earnings-stats-since-2017-at-largest-microstock-agencies/

Alex

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Dear Microstock Colleagues,

Happy to share with you my August 2022 earnings report including highlights.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/08/31/august-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

Hope you had a successful August as you also gear up towards the business-end of the year.

Alex

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Dear Microstock Colleagues,

Happy to share with you my July 2022 earnings report.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/07/31/july-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report/

Hope you had a good month.

Best regards,

Alex

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Hey all, quick update here on my stock business! Ive recently invested on a tilt-shift lens, more precisely a Samyang 24mm f3.5 T-S Lens Tilt & Shift ED AS UMC Manual Focus Nikon Fit and in this blog post Ill outline why I thought it was a good decision and perhaps its a niche piece of gear that youll also consider investing.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/07/12/why-i-just-invested-on-a-24mm-tilt-shift-lens/

Alex

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Dear Stock Colleagues,

Welcome to the May 2022 detailed monthly report where, as usual, Ill focus on all my stock earnings for the month. Overall, its been a busy May particularly with loads of drone content produced and knowledge acquired which I'm happy to share.

https://brutallyhonestmicrostock.com/2022/05/31/may-2022-brutally-honest-earnings-report-special-drone-edition-continued/

Alex

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