Wondering if Mat Hayward can answer this - I understand that you can only share what Adobe permits you to but I hope they are in a sharing mood...

I keep running out of the 20MB of space on Adobe Creative Cloud - partly due to Photoshop's bias for saving large layered PS images online as its default mode. With a 62MP camera, layered files are huge. It's quite slow and tricky to actually download and then permanently delete what's there when I get the "storage is full" warning. I can't even open files right now to see if they are worth keeping so I am slowly downloading them one by one to a hard drive.

I was ready to pony up for the extra space online but here's the message I got:

"How to upgrade your storage plan if you purchased it with a redemption code
If you purchased your plan from a retailer or an Adobe reseller, you would have received a redemption code.

Additional storage isn't currently available for plans purchased with a redemption code. However, this facility may become available soon. Meanwhile, to add storage, you can purchase a plan with higher storage capacity." [emphasis mine] 

Kinda makes that first sentence, "How to upgrade..." misleading.

So, basically I can't upgrade my storage. Instead, I need to pay for LR which I already have and don't even use (I use Lrc). I don't need a full TB of storage either but the way Creative Cloud is working these days, I have no choice since so much must be done in the Creative Cloud space and 20MB isn't enough. So, I'm happy to pay for 1TB of storage even if I just use a fraction of it, but I resent having to purchase a product I already have in order to get it.
 
Why does Adobe give us the bonus and then discourage us from paying the difference to get an upgraded product? We all worked hard to earn that bonus and it just seems like a slap in the face.


I'm already annoyed that my images have been used to train AI without my permission and rather than being compensated for such use, I was compensated based on the size of my portfolio and this past year's sales. Maybe the former would have earned me less, but I don't know and I feel Adobe isn't keeping track of how our images are used, so getting this message from Creative Cloud when I was already disillusioned was most unappreciated.

I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask about this, since "this facility may become available soon." It's to Adobe's financial advantage so what is the holdup?

So, Mat, can you try pestering the folks at Adobe for a date when it'll be available, please? Thanks.

I'll be even more disillusioned if I pay for LR and then Adobe does the right thing and just lets us upgrade from our redemption code purchase.

Pixsy found one of my images (with the dreamstime watermarks still on it) for sale on https://www.emaze.com  Thought others might want to check if their work has been stolen too.

Do you submit to Offset?
If so, what has your experience been? Is it worth approaching them? What type of images do you shoot for them?
Thanks for sharing any info.

I've read about good sales and high prices for images licensed via Stockimo, Alamy's mobile phone app, but despite reinstalling it and dealing with support directly, I can't get the app to work on my iPhone 4S, so I decided to download the Fotolia Instant app and it's a breeze. Uploading a few pix to give it a try, see what they accept, but wondering if anyone here has photos in either (or both) collections and how sales are?

Would welcome any feedback on either of the two in terms of acceptance, sales volume and pricing, anything else you are willing to share. Thanks much.

Can you upload video that way too or is that separate?

(Am upgrading to an iPhone 6 soon so hoping I can get both apps to work then)

Just uploaded a couple of new pieces and got an email within minutes that one was "Curated" It's currently the first one on the Discover Curated Art page here http://crated.com/search/curated?ref=fp_rb_secondary_copy

Also found out they only charge $14 for shipping within the US even on several framed prints. Just had a fine art gallery opening last night and wish I'd realized their wholesale prices and great shipping deal on framed prints!

Went from BMY to WMY on SS from Sept to Oct, so nice to be posting some good news! Seem to be selling more fine art these days so maybe that's where I should channel my energy for a while.

Very excited to have licensed this photo of Woods Hole Massachusetts on Cape Cod - a great small town - to Smithsonian Magazine for this month's cover article on America's best small towns. It was printed half page in the print edition (They sent me a couple of comps - the photo editor is a great guy). You can see it online here: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/20-best-small-towns-to-visit-in-2014-180950173/

What I love about licensing my RM images directly - both via queries to publishers and, with this one and others, directly from my site, is not only getting far more than a small commission, but also dealing with people who really want my image. I saw this moody photo as more personal work than stock, so it's especially gratifying to see it in print in a top magazine.

I licensed 2 more images to a calendar company this month too - and found another of mine (via Alamy - it hasn't shown up yet) on the cover of a 2015 Calendar. The travel images I have on the micros sell well for me, but I'm glad I've kept my best as RM.

Anyway, I'm just really happy with how this image turned out and wanted to share it with you all.  Excellent article too.  I've added some more places to my bucket list.

I just applied to depositphotos in late December, was accepted and starting to get some sub sales on my initial images. I thought it made sense to give them a try since you can upload your portfolio at once via FTP and it sounds like they take care of categories for you. All my images have the ITPC data in them so I'm figuring it should be easy and was about to do that when I read a thread by someone new to dreamstime, who was cautioned not to upload all at once as it could make their portfolio sink all at once.

I have a small micro portfolio so would probably only be uploading 200 photos at once (the number some of you may upload in a week, I know).

Would appreciate your advice. Obviously a large upload via FTP will save me a lot of time and get me a decent size port there fast, but it'll be useless if it all sinks. I appreciate any thoughts/advice. Thanks! 

FAA and the other POD sites are not stock however most of us are using them to sell our stock photos and as a result most of us are interested in how others are doing there. Stocksy isn't microstock and Alamy is midstock but we are all interested in how they are doing and they have been added to the "microstock" poll results.

IMHO I think the best way not to muddy the waters here would be to add FAA, Zazzle, redbubble, and Cafepress to the poll results as separate entities so people don't throw in those earnings along with self-hosted and the like, which will skew results.  Since the point of the poll and the accompanying monthly threads is to get a sense of how the outlets which we all use or are considering using to sell our work are doing, what's the harm in adding those outlets? Some of us are already mentioning them in the monthly threads, so why not add them to the Poll results?

I know the final decision is up to Leaf but why not give him some input here? Look forward to hearing people's thoughts.

With the holidays coming it might be encouraging to see the results!

After voting for Phil's lovely Venetian portfolio, I'm hoping for a similar favor.

I'm in a contest on Fine Art America to get one of my photos into a TV commercial. I need to actively solicit 250 votes before the judges will even look at it. So it is social media followed by a jury. I've got 139 votes so far, so still quite a way to go - and I need to get a cushion since apparently last year some contestants repealed their votes at the last minute to hurt the competition. Craziness! I've lost about 30 votes along the way so far   Anyway, it would be great to have my work in the commercial and featured prominently on the site. So, if you like my photo, please vote for it and share the link on FB and twitter too if you don't mind. I know some of you are viral marketing geniuses and I can certainly use the help. Thanks so much!

I really appreciate your support. And if you're on twitter (I'm @campyphotos) please retweet.

You need to either be signed in to FAA or signed in to FB. Best to do that before you hit the link. (If you're not on either, you can also sign up as an art lover on FAA but that's a lot more work than I'd expect).

Here's the voting link for my photo:http://t.co/Afxolk0d4A  Thanks again!

Hope you are enjoying some sunshine this week - yay summer!

(My FAA prices are more than micro, but certainly far less what they'd go for in a gallery - but no, they are not microstock.  In fact, selling those prints is different than selling "stock" since they aren't licensed, you actually provide the buyer with a tangible product. But I think that FAA and other POD sites like it are a good outlet for our work and certainly the type of site and sales many of us are interested in. Anyway, if you like my photo and don't mind my asking for your help, please vote for it. Thanks! 

I recently received an email from the ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers) concerning a petition by the Copyright Alliance which I believe is of concern to all of us.

Here's a relevant excerpt:

"Many major brands are advertising on websites that are dedicated to distributing creative works illegally. The Copyright Alliance (of which ASMP is a member organization) has launched an online petition to tell these brands that they should stop advertising on these sites. Sign the petition here: http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50260/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9402

It takes less than a minute to sign the petition and let advertisers know that they should not be aiding these sites.

The Copyright Alliance Site http://copyrightalliance.org/resources  also has other great resources for photographers as does the ASMP site https://asmp.org/

Thanks!

I didn't see anything in the last month re: how either of these sites are doing - other than the polls and was wondering whether either of them was worth uploading to?

I got an invite from Pocketstock today and see the last discussion in September was that they'd started some bidding deal and that no one had made a cent yet. They piqued my interst with the earn 40% if you sign up in the next week deal, and I'm buried with other work right now, but could get some stuff up to lock it in. I've actually been concentrating on traditional stock lately and was considering dropping all micros except Shutterstock, Dreamstime and iStock and ramping up my uploads on those three. Do you think it's worthwhile to sign up with Pocketstock or is it dead in the water?

I've seen a lot of discussions about Veer and it looks like they are active on the boards here. I see they are way down in the low earners though - I'm guessing that's their micro site since their macro site is well established - for those of you on there do you think it's worth the trouble to upload - and do you have a chance to get into the regular collection if you start out in the micro?

Hope it's okay I combined these into one instead of jumping in to two old discussions.

Appreciate any advice. Thanks! 

-Marianne