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« on: November 13, 2023, 14:25 »
Nice!
So I've also made my own Stock GPT, yours has been trained well. I'm glad to see someone else sharing theirs, as I was tempted to publish mine.
One thing I did with mine was to offer three different titles. If I'm uploading 30 similar clips, I'll repeat the description and keywords, but give 3 or 4 variations on the title. It's a good way to get some variety, but also to pick a favourite if you want options for a series.
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« on: June 19, 2023, 04:33 »
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« on: June 19, 2023, 03:49 »
Sorry if this has been asked, I did look on the forum:
I am eligible for the Adobe creative cloud code and have been trying for the last couple of weeks to redeem my code. Every time I click the link within Adobe stock, I am hit with the following message on adobepartneroffer.com
"We are experiencing a network outage which is impacting your partner offer. We do not have an estimated timeline for resolution yet, but it's being treated with the highest priority.
Our sincerest apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. Please check back soon."
In July my previous Adobe code expires and I'll get charged, so I am eager to renew this.
Any help please!
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« on: June 16, 2023, 17:28 »
Wait for the photos to go up online and then DMCA them with the host. You own the copyright and they've not paid, so they can potentially have their website taken down for copyright infringement.
Further to that, if they do go online, you can send a second invoice for copyright infringement. Using a copyrighted photo without paying incurs a fine.
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« on: April 12, 2023, 12:51 »
Opt out? I just got $85... My footage isn't going to change the world, nor is it going to slow anything down if I opted out. I'll take the money thanks
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« on: March 18, 2023, 08:39 »
Are you suggesting that Shutterstock doesn't have a dartboard they use to pick the rejection reason, with treble 20 being the only 'accepted' area? 
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« on: February 14, 2023, 04:38 »
Changing refresh rate from 60 to 90 will do nothing if you're shooting in 25/50fps. The refresh rate needs to be divisible by the frame rate. You can alleviate it by changing the shutter speed, but 1/60 or 1/30 are your only real options if you are shooting at 30fps.
The discolouration on the screen is thanks to the polarising filter on the phone. Sometimes it's because there's a removable screen protector, which you should take off.
Personally, I'd get a green background and track/overlay whatever it is you're looking to shoot. The screen will never look that great if you're trying to showcase something on there.
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« on: January 13, 2023, 11:32 »
January is probably the worst month for the majority of creators. I anticipate not selling as much this time every year.
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« on: December 11, 2022, 06:57 »
I dunno.. It's quite refreshing to not have to delete "background, blue, green, red, color" from the auto generated SS keywords.
It's worth me saying that these keywords are based off a very brief description. If you were to describe the scene better, then you might get better targeted keywords. My aim is to use this to supplement my keywording to find ones I hadn't thought of.
I don't understand. You're going to have to delete keywords from the ones ChatGPT provides as well (coffee, snacks, water, dresses etc.) and then add more of your own to make it more relevant. In the SS keyworder, you have to select from the keywords it provides and then add some of your own. It's essentially the same process, only ChatGPT requires you to go to its site, think up a good prompt that describes your image (maybe two or more times to make it accurate) and then go through the keywording process. Maybe I'm missing something here but the latter process feels more time consuming?
I don't use the SS keyword tool these days. Used to, but I found the words weren't good enough to reach further out to buyers using related but indirect keywords. For example, a wind turbine would also have; energy crisis, cost of living, energy bills, power cut etc. I always tag P5 stock stuff first because the CSV can be exported from there to copy to the other sites. P5 also deletes duplicate keywords, so I input my own and then copy the GPT tags into my P5 list and submit that. I'll end up with a mixed list without any duplicates then. It might be time consuming to combine writing my own and using the GPT, but I want to get my images and videos keyworded properly to make money.
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« on: December 10, 2022, 15:54 »
Quite simply, Pond5 took their (unfair) cut. That's how stock agencies make their money. You have to take this into account when setting your prices on P5.
You're priced quite cheap for footage in my opinion. $50 absolute minimum on P5 and I price my footage on how rare/unique the content is.
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« on: December 09, 2022, 08:14 »
To be perfectly honest, you could get better keywords in 5 minutes using the SS keyword tool or Imstockr because the ChatGPT keywords are terribly generic and don't really describe a lot of what's in your image.
I dunno.. It's quite refreshing to not have to delete "background, blue, green, red, color" from the auto generated SS keywords. It's worth me saying that these keywords are based off a very brief description. If you were to describe the scene better, then you might get better targeted keywords. My aim is to use this to supplement my keywording to find ones I hadn't thought of.
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« on: December 08, 2022, 15:25 »
Don't forget to tell it to rank them in some sort of order.
These machine learning programs are pretty amazing - but if everyone uses them, everyone will have the same keywords - which the machine learning programs will see and the circle will be complete.
And the same problem with the suggested keywords from the agencies and their AI version of what buyers want.
ChatGPT AI, I'm going to try it. Then take the best words and keep them and remove some of the less useful ones, in my opinion, because... Less Is More.  More related and more specific that is.
there've been several articles on chatGPT in the ny times & i was about to try it later today
the keyword idea is great
chatGPT performs well when I pass its results thru a plagiarism checker
it's helping me set up background info for my africa blogs so i can concentrate on our actual safari
heres what i got for "explain geology of Ngorongoro Crater"
The Ngorongoro Crater is a large, inactive, and unfilled volcanic caldera located in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the Arusha Region of Tanzania. The caldera was formed by the collapse of the volcano that created the crater about two to three million years ago. The walls of the crater are steep, rising 610 meters (2,000 feet) from the crater floor, and the floor of the crater is about 260 square kilometers (100 square miles) in area. The crater is home to a wide variety of animals, including lions, hyenas, elephants, and zebras. The unique geology of the Ngorongoro Crater, along with its abundance of wildlife, has made it a popular tourist destination.
It's worth saying that you can use ChatGPT to generate topics to talk about. Ask it to create ten blog titles about a subject and you can then ask it to write a blog post ABOUT whatever number title you like the look of. On a more technical level, it'll correct your programming code in any language, correct copy VERY professionally and write out scripts, code or programmes on any subject in the blink of an eye. Oh and if the code it gives you runs an error, tell it and it'll understand the mistake and correct itself! I don't want to sound like I'm going too extreme here, but I think that soon the internet will be referred to as Pre ChatGpt and Post ChatGPT - this tool is about to change the internet and how we use it.
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« on: December 08, 2022, 11:25 »
With all the worry about AI images ruining the industry, I just wanted to say that the new ChatGPT AI is actually really good at returning keywords with text based prompts. "Give me 40 comma separated, one and two word keywords to describe a combine harvester in a field during the summer."harvester, combine, field, summer, agriculture, farm, crop, harvest, machinery, technology, efficiency, productivity, work, labor, farmer, wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, soybeans, rice, sunflowers, canola, sorghum, alfalfa, grasses, fieldwork, combine harvester, harvesting, agribusiness, mechanization, threshing, separating, collecting, gathering, storing, processing, agriculture industry, rural, countryside."Give me 40 comma separated, one and two word keywords to describe an office meeting with men and women discussing business."office, meeting, business, men, women, discussion, collaboration, teamwork, decision-making, strategy, planning, brainstorming, presenting, sharing, listening, feedback, productivity, professionalism, corporate, executive, management, leadership, communication, negotiation, networking, brainstorming, whiteboard, conference table, laptops, smartphones, papers, pens, coffee, water, snacks, suits, ties, dresses, heels, business casual, office environment, meetings culture, office politics.It's free (for now) and slow at times, due to the popularity. Everyone seems to be using it as their new personal work assistant and I wondered if it could be used to keyword for me. I know there are tools out there, but the results resonate so much better with me and feel like they've been pulled from stock sites. Thoughts? You can try it yourself at https://chat.openai.com/
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« on: December 06, 2022, 11:57 »
I think you're looking at the dashboard view of your earnings rather than the earnings summary. On the left hand side of your screen, the home icon is highlighted. The monthly view is on the earnings tab, which is the dollar logo. What does this link look like to you? https://submit.shutterstock.com/en/earnings
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« on: October 19, 2022, 09:25 »
I have first had experience of making the mistake of exporting in Adobe RGB and having to correct this frustrating mistake.
The answer is that only a couple of sites do accept the format, but I know for a fact that Adobe themselves do not. HOWEVER, stock sites which don't support it will still show the image with the colour profile when it's for sale, but then sell it without...
If you upload an Adobe RGB image to a site which doesn't support it, a buyer will receive an image without the profile and the final image will look horrendous. I've had a couple of buyers contact me directly to say that the image they purchased online looks nothing like what they received.
I can't stress enough not to do this unless you want unhappy customers and refunds.
I have submitted aRGB images to adobestock. I would hope they do the proper conversion if they sell the image with a different or no profile (in this case convert to sRGB). Hard to believe they just ignore color profiles.
I hope that's not the case.
I have had a look back based on what you're saying and I have made a mistake. I exported the images as ProPhoto, which I thought was the same as aRGB. My mistake - I haven't ever uploaded a photo as aRGB.
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« on: October 19, 2022, 05:28 »
EDIT: - See post below. I made a mistake and exported as ProPhoto, not aRGB. What I say below is incorrect.
I have first had experience of making the mistake of exporting in Adobe RGB and having to correct this frustrating mistake.
The answer is that only a couple of sites do accept the format, but I know for a fact that Adobe themselves do not. HOWEVER, stock sites which don't support it will still show the image with the colour profile when it's for sale, but then sell it without...
If you upload an Adobe RGB image to a site which doesn't support it, a buyer will receive an image without the profile and the final image will look horrendous. I've had a couple of buyers contact me directly to say that the image they purchased online looks nothing like what they received.
I can't stress enough not to do this unless you want unhappy customers and refunds.
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« on: September 23, 2022, 08:38 »
Great tool, not sure how I didn't spot this sooner in the forum. Would have much better keywords had I have known! 
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« on: September 21, 2022, 11:07 »
You will be wasting every penny of advertising if you did.
Your target audience would be a person or business which doesn't know about microstock, but that entity almost certainly has no requirement for it in their life if they haven't already used stock.
Plus anyone who doesn't know about microstock, probably doesn't know much about copyright and if they want a photo for their business or project they'll just use whatever comes from Google Images.
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« on: September 09, 2022, 07:06 »
Spoke to them a couple of times over the last year to ask why my batches were taking so long to review. They would probably still be there pending had I not have chased them.
Once they've confirmed they'll process them, it's a couple of weeks until they're reviewed.
Regarding payments. Never had them not pay and usually payments are sent out on the 25th of the month. You might need to check your payout settings to see if you have an email address set up, or if you've completed the tax forms.
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« on: August 30, 2022, 06:04 »
Yeah, because they're editorial and newsworthy clips, it's not about the quality in this case at all. Highly unlikely someone is going to have a cinema-grade camera in hand whilst an elephant is running rampage or a mob is beating people up over trainers.. These clips are purchased by news outlets to tell the story and if this is all that's available to back up the story then they'll buy it.
If you're ever in an unusual situation, whip your phone out and film it and get it on the stock sites as editorial ASAP and you too might bag a few hundred dollars for your quick thinking.
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« on: August 24, 2022, 06:32 »
Syndicated news stories are allowed to re-use the image content for no extra fee. Maybe you ran into that.
Thanks for clarifying, didn't know this.
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« on: August 24, 2022, 05:24 »
I spotted one of my images in a BBC property article, which seems to have captured a bit of international interest. I searched to see who else was running the same story and looks like it had caught the interest of a lot of news outlets around the world.
The issue I'm faced with is that quite a lot of the articles seem to have just copied/pasted the BBC and also use the image in their article. One website incorrectly credited the image and others just didn't bother saying the source.
The image is for sale across all the main agencies, but I've not had a single sale notification. The BBC purchased from iStock, so I'd not know the sales figure or what licence they purchased until next month. My worry is that next month I'm going to see just one or two sales for that image and know that everyone just grabbed the BBC image and ran with it.
So, I'm asking for those who get a lot of press coverage - is this just something you accept is a part of the editorial process or is it something you actively patrol and monitor?
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« on: July 06, 2022, 16:40 »
Twenty20 is shutting down at the end of July 2022
Got the email to say this, but funnily enough, quickly followed up by Envato saying they'll continue to honour my image portfolio.. I know it's the same company, but just a strange way to do things. You'd think they'd just say they're integrating the two businesses.
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« on: April 12, 2022, 09:10 »
Wow, someone's bored, 14 year old thread!
No kidding and there are many more for the same question, including polls.
The forum software does force old threads up to the top for new members which creates this time warp, or the Zombie threads?
My bet is that it's someone wondering the question and using the search function for a change.
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« on: April 12, 2022, 04:27 »
Six years worth of data, all agencies, for me it's November with September a close second.
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