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Shutterstock.com / Re: nothing for contributer fund?
« on: Yesterday at 03:10 »
Received $60.97 for the Contributor fund today.
I'm not complaining about the extra money, but my choice actually looked like this:

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...

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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.

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From iStock? About $0, but I don't have an account there, so that could be it ;)

Ah yes and I have friends who say the same about Shutterstock.  8)  👍  We're all our own boss and free to do as we think.

No statement for me yet.

Yes, I was surprised as it's Monday the 18th and about the right time for processing.

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?

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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.

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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 »

Has anyone written to them and asked them to consider lowering it?


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.

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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.

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Adobe Stock / Re: what comes after "1 year ago"?
« on: March 04, 2024, 14:39 »
is it one decade ago?

This is an indicator that you uploaded a file but didn't submit it. The date reflected in the review page is based on the upload date.

-Mat

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".

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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.  :o

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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.

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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.

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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.

At least for me.

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?

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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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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".


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   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.

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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.

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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.

Quoting myself to bring this up again, since I didn't see a reply.

For now, I recommend contacting customer service via adobe.com for assistance. They should be able to provide you with a replacement code that will extend your current subscription.

thank you,

Mat Hayward

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.

My expectation is for a fix to be in place. If you can wait, please do so.

Thanks,

Mat

Thanks Mat!

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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?

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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.

Quoting myself to bring this up again, since I didn't see a reply.

For now, I recommend contacting customer service via adobe.com for assistance. They should be able to provide you with a replacement code that will extend your current subscription.

thank you,

Mat Hayward

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.

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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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One question I have is that why would people sell AI images on stock agencies because if I understand correctly AI images can not be copyrighted?


No, I think you misunderstood something. There was just a ruling in the US where the copyright office denied copyright to some AI created comic. But the US is not the world - despite what some people think - it's just like 4% of the world population and whatever a judge decides in the US, has no consequences to the rest of the world.
Other countries made different decisions or no decisions about the issue at all.

https://www.technollama.co.uk/chinese-court-declares-that-ai-generated-image-has-copyright

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Adobe Stock / Re: 2023 Adobe Stock contributor bonus plan details
« on: February 22, 2024, 12:34 »
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.

Quoting myself to bring this up again, since I didn't see a reply.

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Might be worth trying, many people reporting illustrations being accepted within hours.

I tried it yesterday. At least 24 hours later it's still not reviewed.

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DepositPhotos / Re: no payment
« on: February 21, 2024, 05:36 »
Anyone was able to get payment sucessfully by now?

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