Have to say, i dont upload to SS anymore since mid of last year, subscription sales of 0.10$ as regular commission is far too low.
long live AS, SS can go offline

I stopped uploading to SS when they cut the subs rate to 10 cents back in June of 2020 and have no plans to resume - just not worth the minimal effort required to upload images even though they are already processed and keyworded.  AS, DT, Alamy and Canva are about the only ones I bother with nowadays.

Elon Musk may tweet my photo's without any credit any day. It will bring a lot of attention to your portfolio for free. But just him and any other person with millions of followers. Don't really see the downside here, only the upside.

Are you serious?  The obvious downside is that nobody is going to pay for your image if they can get it for free.  With no attribution, potential buyers won't know who you are and certainly won't bother to look you up.  By broadcasting it free to millions of people it could be argued it was in the public domain and nobody would have to pay for it, ever.  So no downside at all unless you actually wanted to make some money.  Now if he posted a low-resolution image with a link to your portfolio that would be good advertising, otherwise nothing but negatives.

Some agencies used to (maybe still do?) offer to make your images available for free with the idea that the increased exposure will lead to more sales.  I never signed up for any of those so not sure how they worked out but I suspect the only people who made money out of those deals were the agencies.  Adobe has a free section too but at least they pay you for the deal so it is a way to get something out of less-productive images.

Musk is a dangerous psychopath with way too much power.  He (and his ilk) provides a prime example of why we need to dramatically increases taxes on the richest people so they can't destroy civil society.

Wow, that's impressive!  Never had one close to that on SS.  Good to know it's still possible.

I had the best month in a long time and payment has already hit Paypal

Woo hoo, I see it!  Some incentive to keep uploading.  Thanks Adobe!

How do you get Alamy to do it?  I remember them asking me once but I declined so I could do it myself, but now I don't think it's worth the effort so would rather have Alamy do it but can't figure out how to get them do that.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

I've qualified for this in the past but never used it - either my computer wasn't up to speed or it was too much trouble to bother.  I didn't submit anything during 2021 so could't qualify for 2022.  Last year I decided to submit some images just to qualify for this program so I can see how different the current version of PS is compared to my old CS4 version - which still works as long as I don't update my computer too much.  Was glad to see this continued and hope to try it out one of these days.  Adobe is the only agency that is increasing sales lately and therefore the only one really worth contributing to ATM.

I had some of those too on Dec. 28th after I told them I wanted out of all these sales to China.  At least for these they split the commissions three ways so I netted at least a penny.  Had one for 11 cents where I got three!  How exciting!  Don't know where I can possibly spend all those pennies!  Could earn more looking for dropped change in a parking lot.

These, like the earlier ones to China, were supposedly for editorial use even though they were not at all editorial-type images.  My guess is that someone in China is using all these extremely cheap images to develop a database for resale and they probably are making a lot of money off our essentially purloined images.  I can't believe anybody would still be submitting to Alamy with this kind of return.  I stopped a couple of years ago.  Every time I think it might be fun to process and submit some more of the images that are collecting dust on my hard drive something like this happens and I realize yet again that, no, it just isn't worth the effort when I could be doing something productive like petting my cats instead.  At least the cats are happy.

I appreciate all your candid commentary, but saying that someone who doesn't want to be photographed in public is a "snowflake" or is "overly sensitive" is unfair. Nowadays people are afraid of stalkers or what someone might do with their photograph on social media.  Obviously photographing people in public with a big camera is creepy, and your dialog with the person who objected shows that you are part of the problem - you got defensive and responded in a negative way.  The problem is with you - you should have apologized for disturbing them and moved on, period.  It doesn't matter if they are in the background, blurry or will be cropped out later, if it makes them uncomfortable - even if you are legally entitled to do it - then apologize and go on your way.  Wouldn't you wonder if someone was walking around taking pictures of you?

Why on Earth would you use a tilt-shift lens to take a picture at a flea market?  Any possible problems with perspective in such an image could be corrected easily in PS.  It looks like you have Canon gear.  When I go out and don't want to attract attention I use one of their pancake lenses - the 24 MM would be as good or better than your tilt-shift lens and much less likely to ignite someone's ire.  If you have a full-frame camera and can't use those then a small wide-angle lens should do.  My guess is the person thought you might be law enforcement or something like that - maybe they were selling stolen goods and didn't want anyone to provide documentation.

I don't know where you're learning your vocabulary, but "woke" and "snowflake" are terms I associate with right-wing nutcases where I live.  I would read some better sources and then maybe you won't have such a negative view of people who don't want to be stalked in public.

How can we opt out of distribution sales to China?  I want out of that but can't see how.  I've written an e-mail to Alamy but am not holding my breath that that will work.

Coincidence

Quote from: sgoodwin4813 on September 10, 2022, 21:14

I've never been able to embed metadata in PNGs in PS and don't use LR.  Maybe some day.

You embed metadate in PNGs in PS the same way you do it for jpgs.
Open your png, click on File -> File info, fill out the form that pops up with yout metadata and then go to File -> Save as copy and select png in the drop down menu below the name field. Do not use the export feature to save the image, that will remove the metadata.

Maybe it is a version issue.  All of my PNGs are made from JPEGs that already have the metadata included.  When I save them as PNGs the metadata does not get included.  Canva used to let you upload the JPEG versions so they could extract the metadata - that was a nice way to do it.  I am still using PS4 so maybe that was changed in later versions.