MicrostockGroup

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General Stock Discussion / Never mind

« on: November 16, 2023, 21:53 »

Microstockgroup's history linked me to my answer after posting.

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General Stock Discussion / Adobe AI file submission as Photo or illustration?

« on: November 10, 2023, 02:00 »

When submitting to Adobe you are given two choices for file type.
When submitting photo realistic AI, should you submit as a photo or illustration?
Do you think this is a sticking point that could get an image refused?

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General Stock Discussion / What aspect ratio sells best for you?

« on: October 27, 2023, 01:16 »

Guess I've previously been myopic in only uploading 16 X 9 stills and video. Since many sales are to social media blogs, I've started to upload more vertical assets. What aspect ratio sells best for you?

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General Stock Discussion / Shutterstock rejecting video for noise fix?

« on: August 08, 2023, 08:01 »

One of Shutterstock's typical rejections is for noise. I can usually fix stills by tweaking detail and structure. Are there similar fixes when submitting video? (I don't have photoshop, just iMovie and Lightroom.) Thanks.

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General Stock Discussion / Picfair ending free stock accounts will Adobe and Shutterstock do the same?

« on: July 07, 2023, 05:05 »

Received an email from Picfair stating they were doing away with their free "Lite" plan and that portfolios would no longer be viewable without the purchase of a paid "Pro" account. I've never sold a single image on Picfair so closing the account is not an issue, but I'm worried Adobe and Shutterstock will follow this example.

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General Stock Discussion / Shutterstock suddenly accepting everything I throw at it.

« on: June 20, 2023, 19:29 »

Something unusual is happening over at Shutterstock. I usually have a depressing amount of rejections after a long wait. Today they are accepting my usual type of photos, but accepting EVERYTHING and the review time is nearly instantaneous.

I'm wondering if maybe so many contributors have pulled their portfolios, that the servers are emptying to a level where robot reviews automatically kick in to a less critical review? Is this a possibility?

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General Stock Discussion / Influencer making $5 million / month using AI chatbot

« on: May 13, 2023, 16:25 »

Today I read the future and it is not stock photography! A young female influencer is using GPT-4 API tech to create an AI chatbot. Her subscribers pay $1/ minute to talk to it. She is now on target to make $5 million a month! (Got to wonder what her costs are, but still... ) Time for all us old dudes to create fake female personas so other old dudes will pay to talk to our AI creations. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/influencers-ai-clone-girlfriend-1-121319554.html

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General - Top Sites / Deleted

« on: April 11, 2023, 06:18 »

(Found my answer in an earlier post.)

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General Stock Discussion / AI which still have free trials & which stock agencies accept them?

« on: March 30, 2023, 23:10 »

MidJourney pulled the plug on free trials today.
Who still has the best free or trial version?

Also, which stock agencies are accepting AI?

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General Stock Discussion / Spectacular Single Shutterstock Still Sale!

« on: February 28, 2023, 17:47 »

Joined Shutterstock in April 2019. Lately they've rejected more submissions than ever before. And my sales for this month were the lowest in almost two years. But then today this:

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General - Top Sites / Do you submit to stock agencies with hashtags?

« on: April 11, 2022, 18:20 »

Hashtags are useful for promotion on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Youtube, but is there any benefit to using them when submitting to the stock agencies?

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Off Topic / Suspension of sales to Russia

« on: March 16, 2022, 03:49 »

Would you recommend stock agencies stop selling to buyers in Russia?