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« on: December 10, 2024, 17:54 »
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The people from pond support have been fired!
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your evidence for this claim? Uncle pete says he received support yesterday!
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« on: December 08, 2024, 20:42 »
ai will continue to increase, but won't eliminate other images for specific niches & SS will succumb to the ai memes --- goals - continue to add metadata to 15K+ images from last 5 years
- continue to add 500+ images to agencies each month
- lead a group tour of xmas markets on the rhine or danube in Nov
- continue to lead tours to Turkey & the Balkans with many photo opportunities - next year i'll take groups to Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria & Trkiye
- organize other discounted river cruises that offer multiple locations over a short period of time
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« on: December 08, 2024, 13:59 »
So, what do I see. Lately, many files are not uploaded via FTP. Pond5 has disabled its support, now all requests go to shutterstock support, which does not respond....
you must be a victim of a vast conspiracy -- i've had no problem uploading, reviews in a day or so (>90% accepted) & support from pond answers my questions
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« on: December 07, 2024, 13:39 »
..... I strongly bet that the Flux Model will improve further enormously, because it's licensed now by Elon Musk / X.
sure - just look how he's improved twitter!
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« on: November 29, 2024, 15:12 »
Sorry I was distracted by cheap unrealistic mugs. Nice link, I didn't know I could do that https://pete-klinger.pixels.com/shop/coffee+mugs
Seems that review times are still random and not systematic. Someone else wrote me that their videos, some are reviewed, some have been weeks, and something new, got reviewed in days, while the old ones are sitting.
I don't have any theory or answer, except it's random, but the fact is, they are varied and unpredictable.
You have your own private stalker who follows your accounts. They started here for one message and didn't post anything again for 7 years. Now you're getting reviews, advice on what you should write here and they monitor your microstock. I think you should avoid and ignore anyone who is following you, don't answer or reply to taunts or unwanted attention. That's my advice.
Review times are better now, I'm seeing faster reviews lately.
and bring some order here & report to the moderator when criticism of ideas become personal attacks; posting details of another person's portfolio are never acceptable - made worse when the anonymous person won't post links to their own portfolio
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« on: November 29, 2024, 15:03 »
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As I said, fact that someone can't see something isn't the fact that those information are not there. If you know where to look.
Otherwise I wouldn't be able to see a fact or two about you.
And I stand behind what I said dear Uncle Pete.
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Or should I ask you do we here speak about files (and their upload/rejection stats) that you created or about files uploaded on account that you represent here ?
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Or to be more precise, other agency ?
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And luckily for you I decided to stop here with exposing more information. 
Have fun with your attempt to become all knowing mega star of this forum.
As far as I'm concerned you are nothing but a arrogant small person and I find that any continuation of conversation with you is waste of time.
P.S. If you case that can't find your upload/rejection stats - you have 22% rejections of all uploaded files.
posting other folks' details is a violation of forum rules and basic decency. your personal attacks are contemptible and have been reported. criticize the ideas, not the person
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« on: November 28, 2024, 18:09 »
i had a rear view of a hippo last week - resubmitted & accepted. rejected as "needs mature warning"
previously medieval battle scenes or pictures of sword fights or knights in armor (no blood in either) as "mature content"
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« on: November 25, 2024, 14:14 »
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Over all, the collection grew 32% between the end of April 2024 and today, but the genAI portion of the collection grew 82% versus the human-made portion grew 6.1%.
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do we have actual numbers in each case? 6% of a very large number can be much greater than 82% of a much smaller number
thanks! those are amzing numbers
Adobe Stock growth Apr 30 - Nov 21 2024; roughly 7 months
total collection: 139,801,939 (576,474,125 up from 436,672,186) - up 32%
genAI: 117,178,564 (181,469,399 up from 64,290,835) - up 82%
human made: 22,623,375 (395,004,726 up from 372,381,351) - up 6.1%
human made asset types
photos growth 9,936,406 (228,291,001 up from 218,354,595) - up 4.5%
videos shrunk 3,202,090 (15,884,530 down from 19,086,620) - down 16.8%
illos growth 1,990,088 (33,691,112 up from 31,701,024) - up 6.3%
genAI asset types
photos 49,408,590 (71,313,378 up from 21,904,788) - up 126%
illos 65,134,599 (106,056,450 up from 40,921,851) - up 59%
videos 846,305 (1,237,747 up from 391,442) - up 116%
th anks! those are amazing numbers
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« on: November 25, 2024, 14:12 »
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I agree and ...
3.How does one develop their own style with AI so that their art doesn't look like the work of 10 million other AI artists?
4.If I have an idea before anyone else, how can I avoid having it copied since copying with AI is so easy?
3.How does one develop their own style with photography so that their art doesn't look like the work of 10 million other photographers?
4.If I have an idea before anyone else, how can I avoid having it copied since copying
is so easy?
just look at all the complaints here about being copied & people won't post their portfolios links for that fear (as if there are so many copyists here as opposed to those copying from MS sites)
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« on: November 23, 2024, 12:50 »
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Over all, the collection grew 32% between the end of April 2024 and today, but the genAI portion of the collection grew 82% versus the human-made portion grew 6.1%.
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do we have actual numbers in each case? 6% of a very large number can be much greater than 82% of a much smaller number
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« on: November 20, 2024, 15:49 »
The new contributors are faced not only with an upload limit of 50 but have also wait for months.
The old experienced ones have currently to wait just for some days.
Also can't confirm this. I have been an Adobe contribut for many years. My oldest image waiting to be review was submitted 3 months ago.
same here, on adobe over 15 yrs - long waits for most images, including AI
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« on: November 20, 2024, 15:42 »
My current curiosity is why the groups of photos of one particular raptor in both my account and my husband's are sitting waiting after all the others were reviewed. My only thought is caption and keywords .... The raptor in question is a Harris Hawk. (Not applying conspiracy, I just find it curious)
I've seen similar, same subject, same keywords, same sizes. Some went through, one sat for six months. I'm still going to be promoting my "it's random" theory  But in my heart I'd like to believe that there's actually some system in the background, that's the way AS wants these to be processed and reviewed.
We could be looking at a Quantum Mechanics theory of Microstock intake? 🤯
Can anyone accept that some things are indeterministicthat they just happen, and there is not a darned thing anyone can do to figure out why?
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." -Wittgenstein and again, as geologists say, "shift happens"
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« on: November 19, 2024, 15:53 »
... Over the last few years I have culled my agencies down considerably and now there are 4. It wouldn't take much incentive to do something I thought I'd never do and go exclusive with Adobe.
of course, you have to remove all your images on other sites, not just stop uploading
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« on: November 19, 2024, 15:50 »
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if nothing else, it's a friendly community for exchanging ideas. i maintain a list of everyone's social media & websites
Good additional benefit.
Maybe I should have asked, do I link to my collections? Post photo of the week. Spam the heck out of Twitter and Bluesky, or how? I just can't imagine that creators are buyers or that someone will just "discover" my images, because they are on some social media group.
all up to you -- various options - --- there are groups that favorite & comment each other's work on FAA giving them better search position, eg https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=9058994your when you post anything it links to your images automatically. you can also add external links to your profile desc - stock sites, website, blog, etc active folk post one image a day to X (other less often), etc, then retweet other links of those participating - most use #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt so it's easy to, find others once you get going, it only takes a small amount of time
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« on: November 18, 2024, 16:54 »
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Your situation is almost mirror image of mine. Similar port size, October BME on IS, etc.
Keep improving is definitely right approach. My only comment is to never prioritize quantity over quality. In my opinion it is better to have lean, high end, unique port of 2000 images than 20.000 full of similars, low technical quality etc.
i also had a good Oct so it must be an algorithm change
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« on: November 18, 2024, 16:52 »
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Another best guess and more likely is different review teams and tracks, for different kinds of content, because reviewers would need to know their specific kind of content and couldn't be expected to know all the details about everything.
you forgot the reviewers who know nothing about anything
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« on: November 18, 2024, 16:50 »
some of the posters have rec'd PM from buyers. my sales have remained the same, altho some of the sales are from images i've promoted but beware the post hoc ergo proper hoc fallacy
if nothing else, it's a friendly community for exchanging ideas. i maintain a list of everyone's social media & websites
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« on: November 18, 2024, 16:44 »
anybody have any png sale yet on deposit?
anybody have any sales yet on deposit!?
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« on: November 15, 2024, 13:48 »
actually i really encourage folk to do daily searches to see their place in a basically meaningless 'statistic' - the more time they spend there means less time creating images to compete with mine
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« on: November 15, 2024, 13:41 »
There must have been an algo change. It's not possible that for over a year I've been in the 200-400 range EVERY SINGLE week, and now just in 2 week times I got kicked into positions 700-800. Last year September and October were my all-time best months. This year October earnings were 40% lower than October year before.
nice to know someone knows what MUST be happening ! might there possibly be other explanations? if it's an algo change where are the folk who benefit? why do we only hear from those who think the marketplace is designed to thwart them! a drop in earnings could mean there's more competition
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« on: November 12, 2024, 15:43 »
Question:
a customer likes one of my files and uses it as a base file, for instance as a style file. He creates 10 more images with my base file style and downloads 10 files.
Do I get 10 sales?
And is the compensation the same as if 10 normal images had been downloaded?
how is that different from downloading a normal image and making 10 versions? (assuming buyer is not re-selling the images)
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« on: November 11, 2024, 13:50 »
This just means your image or video was rejected.
All rejected images go to the "Data licensing" cataloge, regardless of whether you opted in or out. If you opted out it just means your content won't be used for data licensing (or so Shutterstock claims), but it's still ends up in the cataloge, apparently only visible to you.
It also means that you cannot "fix" mistakes the content was rejected for and resubmit, because you will be told it was already approved. In my opinion that's done on purpose, because Shutterstock is trying to push you to accept data licensing as that'S the only future for Microstock companies.
SS still rejects for - altered editorial (often incorrectly)
- ai generated (when not)
- translation needed (for ancient scripts!)
- 'quality issues'
- Non-Licensable Content (but may be accepted if re-submitted)
for the falsely accused ai, i've rec'd a case # from support which lets me re-submit - other type go back to same reviewing corps who rarely re-consider
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« on: October 29, 2024, 14:08 »
i started using visualmind.ai
Are you using the paid service or is this free? My attempts with chatGTP have not been too accurate
ChatGPT requires you to enter a descriptions - VM takes the image & generates title, description and tags. for simitars they actually write different descriptions. they're able to recognize many features - eg rhine river based on a caste picture. Even translates from Greek name on floor mosaics. you can also prepend/append text or tags (eg country or city where it's not obvious, or byline for SS editorial) error rate about 1-2% there's a small number of free submits you can try, but the credits only cost about 2-3 cents/image. i just bought 2000 credits for euro 30
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« on: October 28, 2024, 13:42 »
.... Isn't this the usual for SS though? New code, untested and it's unleashed on us.
that's become standard for many IT org - users have become alpha testers because companies don't do even simple regression testing (ie, checking that a change in one function doesn't break something elsewhere). wirestock is notorious for this -- then blaming the user without even checking bug reports
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