Nothing wrong with Trump winning. People are tired of politicians who promise things and never deliver. People are tried of politicians who are easily bribed by lobbyist groups and help their rich friends get richer.

Trump winning is a shot in the arm for America. He just may be the best candidate in this entire election.

The rich gambling hustler who inherited wealth and bullied his way through life is not the honest deliverer of promises you believe him to be. He may not be a bribed politician because he is the one bribing them. He cares nothing for Jesus, the Constitution nor poor people. He has always put wealth as the marker of success and will only help his rich friends get richer. He cares nothing for you and probably would mock you as a microstock photographer.

Meanwhile, he tricks you into believing that Mexicans, Muslims and young Black Americans tired of being treated like beasts are the cause of your problems.

He threatens people in America and worldwide with violence and war, but probably cannot shoot a gun or take down an attacker without paid bodyguards. He says he is tough, but he cancelled his speech in Chicago because he was afraid. He is a bully and all bullies are weak. I grew up being bullied and I always fought them. He sounds like them and he acts like them. He has no honor and hides his white supremacist ideals and history with the KKK behind the guise of "not being tied to political correctness."

He is the worst option and the only shot in the arm you presume he is, will be from the bullets of riots and civil war he threatens upon the Americans. He makes immigrant and Muslim children in this country fear for their safety as parents of other children cheer USA! USA! as a he mocks them. If you were an immigrant or Muslim, you would understand. In fact, after he foments the riots and civil war, you will have no nation left. He and the Republicans not only want riots, but they want to destroy the government. You will then emigrate to other countries and be rejected like you reject them. Most likely, you will flee to Norway, Sweden, Denmark or another country with universal healthcare and pensions (which Republicans hate). You might even be so bold to discriminate against native born Black and brown skinned Swedes in your new refugee camp.

Nevertheless, if you and all the other worshipers of this false god get your way, I hope that a Black Muslim doctor and a Mexican immigrant nurse attend to your wounds for the chaos that will envelope this nation because this man's arrogance. 

May God save us all from this madness.

Manage Licenses
http://www.dreamstime.com/extended_license.php

Whew. It's a little convoluted, but I'm glad DT makes it easy for us to opt-out. I never get ELs, but I'm glad to join the protest and have opted out of ELs.

How many images did you have online when you started to make $100 per month at 123RF (excluding EL sales)?

I make about $68/month with 6,000 illustrations. I'm not one of the best out there. So that is kind of low.

I just received this email and immediately said to myself:

"Well that is nice, but I hope this doesn't mean contributors need to take a pay cut for it!"

Over the next six months, we are investing heavily in upgrading the technology that powers Shutterstock�s infrastructure, website, and mobile apps, to deliver improved functionality and a better overall user experience.

This work will soon become noticeable to you through small changes on our site and apps throughout 2016, and the schedule has been designed to minimise any possible disruptions, as we work to address some of the issues you have been seeing and update your user experience.

This is just the beginning of some exciting improvements being made and, as always, please email our support team with any questions and suggestions you have, or if you do seem to be having any issues. We are looking forward to offering you the best possible contributor experience.

We will be updating our forum on a regular basis throughout this period, so please do check there for the most recent updates. For any major upgrades we will be sending out email communications to everyone.

Thank you for being part of the community.

Sincerely,

Paul Brennan
VP, Content Operations

Any illustrators out here having 100% rejections, even though you have typically had 100% acceptance in the past? Demanding releases from drawings of still life and people that you make up? 

BRAVO! 

I received e-mail this morning from someone in "Contributor Success" about a customer request for an enhanced license for one of my images (for $22).

The "issue" is that I have opted out and they were offering to process the sale with my permission.

I told them I was very sorry, but no. My answer, in part, with a link to this thread, was:

"I realize you don�t set policy on contributor royalties at Shutterstock, but  I opted out of Enhanced Licenses this week after Shutterstock cut enhanced license royalties for contributors.

It is a shame - I�d like to offer the customer what they want - but I will not be party to the erosion of royalties owed to contributors. If you�d like to explain to Paul Brennan that I�d happily opt back in to Enhanced Licenses if Shutterstock comes up with something more reasonable for contributors, perhaps he�d reconsider?"

Quote from: Maui on January 29, 2016, 11:38

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on January 29, 2016, 09:49

Now, unity and beauty canopy cover things,

Sounds almost poetic 

Sounds a bit like Sarah Palin (with apologies to those outside the US - she's a part of this election's silly season)

You betcha! 

Article by Lee Torrens (sorry if it was already posted)

http://www.microstockdiaries.com/shutterstock-cuts-royalties.html

Quote from: Striving on January 19, 2016, 10:20

Quote from: leaf on January 19, 2016, 01:35

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on January 18, 2016, 17:22

For some reason if you change user name your old one still shows for threads you start. I think it always happened and I don't  know why?

Yep it's always been that way.  If you want yours changed, just let me know.

Oh, that's great. Thanks! I'll send you a message.

But now you need another new name

Yeah, that's right. Ugh. OK working on it...

For some reason if you change user name your old one still shows for threads you start. I think it always happened and I don't  know why?

Yeah, that needs to be fixed.

http://www.microstockdiaries.com/pond5-to-launch-contributor-friendly-unlimited-subscription.html

Jo Ann for Microstock Union president. 

I have never uploaded to Yay Micro, but I went to have a look at Yay Images to see what they were offering.

They don't offer unlimited downloads, but unlimited streaming for $9.99 a month. The streamed image appears to be hosted on their servers and you can link to it from your blog or other online use:

https://www.yayimages.com/support/13-support/26-what-is-streaming

Are there any limits on the size you can stream? If not, it doesn't take a genius to link to a huge size, do a screen grab and save the image...

The bigger worry, IMO, is the super-low pricing for downloads and the rather ambiguous license terms (such as whether you can use a regular license, not extended, to produce up to 100 products for sale):

https://www.yayimages.com/pricing?backUrl=%2Fterms

Note that you can get 1,000 downloads (with a standard RF license) plus unlimited streaming for $99 a month. I don't see any need to commit to a year to get that price. Contrast that with SS where a one month subscription for up to 750 images is $249. You could argue that the relatively tiny selection at Yay Micro would suggest a lower price.

However, these prices are even worse than they look because you can rollover unused downloads.

Yay's extended license pricing is even worse - you get 100 extended licenses (plus the 1,000 standard) for $499 a month! I'm not sure that anyone would ever buy this - how many buyers need 100 ELs?

https://www.yayimages.com/pro-plan

Note the contradiction between the chart and the text. The chart says 1,000 RF licenses and 100 extended. The text says 900 RF licenses and 100 extended. There is also the rather odd wording "If you are making a product in less than 100 copies, you do NOT need an extended license." This suggests that you can an extended license for a 100-run limit in the standard RF price.

They also say in the support section that you can download images instead of streaming them if the service you use doesn't permit hotlinking

https://www.yayimages.com/support/13-support/29-can-i-download-the-images

So do they make any effort to police this at all?

The other thing I noticed is that you don't see the pixel dimensions of any image when searching - if I'm looking for print uses vs. a blog, that's important information. Perhaps they are assuming that blogging and online uses are primary for them?

With the entry level $9.90 a month, a buyer gets one download and unlimited streaming. If the contributor gets 50 percent and a buyer downloads one image and streams 10, what are the royalties paid for the one download and each stream? I can't find those specifics on the site.

The contract may not require them to do it, but I'd think common decency requires that if they're shuttering Yay Micro, they should pay out any balances to those who wish to leave as a result. And as their payout threshold is in euros but the prices I'm seeing are in US dollars, what exchange rate do they use to convert?

Based on what I can see of Yay Images, I wouldn't contribute images. Trying to get market traction by undercutting other agencies on price seems like a non-starter - a variation of the Dollar Photo Club.