Quote from: dirkr on August 29, 2019, 04:24

Quote from: ShadySue on August 29, 2019, 04:12

<tangent> What does "I am long Adobe" mean? I'm guessing they are in favour of Adobe / have shares in Adobe, but I don't know that contstruct.

Stock market language...
"I'm long" means I'm buying or holding a position or general positive about a certain stock.
"short" is obviously the exact opposite.

Not quite

Short/shoring a share

"When an investor or speculator engages in a practice known as short selling, also called shorting a stock, he or she borrows shares of a company from an existing owner through his brokerage, sells those borrowed shares at the current market price, and pockets the cash."

It is basically a form of betting against a share.

1. Borrow the stock you want to bet against. ...
2. You immediately sell the shares you have borrowed. ...
3. You wait for the stock to fall and then buy the shares back at the new, lower price.
4. You return the shares to the brokerage you borrowed them from and pocket the difference.

Yup, that's short selling or shorting a share.
But when somebody says "I'm short on Shutterstock" that doesn't neccessary mean he engages in short selling, he may only have a negative outlook and doesn't recommend buying the shares.

Don't know if there is a better way, but if you sort your portfolio by date (on the dashboard) each page will show 100 items.
If you click on a photo, you will see some details, including upload date. So looking at the details of the last photo on the third page this will show you if you already have 300 images accepted this year (I guess that's what the question is about... )

Searching for my images in use today I stumbled across the following:

fineartamerica.com/featured/view-from-marshalls-beach-on-the-golden-dirkr.html?product=canvas-print

Scroll down on the page, there it says:

Artist's Description

View from Marshalls Beach on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, USA on a cloudless evening.Image provided by Shutterstock.
About Dirkr

Shutterstock is a leading global technology company offering a creative platform for high-quality assets, tools and services. The company licenses images, video, music, and editorial assets -- as well as custom content tailored to a brand�s needs. Shutterstock offers a variety of plans for individuals, teams, and enterprise customers as well as creative editing and collaboration capabilities. The Shutterstock portfolio of brands includes Bigstock, Offset, PremiumBeat, Rex Features and Shutterstock Custom.


Anybody heard of that before? What kind of license do they sell for that?

This link:

https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/shutterstock.html

shows their profile page on FAA, looks like they have close to 10.000 images on there...

If they are going bankrupt and the liquidator decides that this is a way to keep them alive, then yes, that may be legal.

I have no idea what's going on with Photocase (never was a contributor), but in insolvency cases it is quite common that open liabilities are cut.

"You can easily get paid images for as low as 0.27 per image on a subscription plan which you don't even want to pay for."
If it was a one time fee I would gladly pay up. But this is per month!

No, it's not.
With each of the big agencies (e.g. Shutterstock or Adobe Stock) subscription plans you pay monthly for your subscription as long as the plan runs.
You can buy only one month, so only one payment. Or you can buy a yearly plan, so 12 monthly payments.
With each of these plans you can download a given number of images per month. Those images come with an RF license, so you can use them permanently without further payments.
What Shutterstock shows me right now on their homepage (here in Germany, prices may differ for different locations) is e.g. a yearly plan for 750 images per month for �159 per month.
You get 9000 images for less then �2000.

Ok, thanks.
Will be interesting to see what kind of payment that leads to...

I think this is why our earnings going down, because of this new unlimited subscription

Quote from: dirkr on June 10, 2019, 10:57

So when you're all still selling, that means you chose to support their unlimited subscription model?
Because I asked to opt out of that with the result that my portfolio was removed...

So how do results of unlimited subscriptions look like? Has that started already?

But do you see something in the reporting? I.e. something other than the usual $0,35 (and rare $3,50) sales?

ExifTool can do that. You can write small scripts to manipulate anything within the IPTC / EXIF data and then run those on any number of images.
Needs some (little) programming skills, but then it is a powerful tool.

BackBlaze is USELESS IF YOU TRAVEL!

I spent 3 months getting a full 4TB of data backed up to BackBlaze. Thought I was in good shape...

Then I took our recent trip and discovered just how wrong I was!  Because the main disk at home is not traveling with me, it has not connected to the web for 30 days. BB just deletes the disk in that case. No chance to recover it. No chance to flag a disk as "keep it even if off the net for awhile."  Just gone.

I deleted my BackBlaze account. Totally useless piece of junk if you travel as I do.  I am out of the country roughly 3 months of each year.  Gone for more than 30 days at a time, and kiss your precious backup goodbye.

I will be home in a couple weeks, and then will search for some usable cloud backup that won't just delete a disk because its main computer is roaming...

Wow, that's hard.

I'm using Crashplan, don't know what they will do when your PC isn't online for longer time periods (well, they do send warnings after a few days, but I never had issues continuing the backup process after a few weeks). Maybe ask them what they will do if you're away for longer...

@swisschocolate: they do keep deleted files, if you want to (you can configure that) even forever. And they do keep versions of files, so you can go back to older versions of e.g. documents when you have overwritten something you want to get back.
I don't think you can connect only an external drive, as the backup process runs on the PC...

Go to Insights, My Statistics, select data type Earnings, select Display daily.

I have the same problem with bigstock, canstock and mostphotos at the moment.
Worse, on the desktop app canstock doesn't work any more (Yaymicro the same, but that's a non-issue, as they are absolutely dead).
I told them months ago, the told me to try some things like logout/login and even to change my password on canstock, but nothing worked.
I don't think they are still looking for a solution. A bit poor for a paid program...

It's not right that contributors don't know and can't find out what the royalty structure is when deciding whether or not to supply images to an agency.

All I can find on the Adobe Stock website (https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/royalty-details.html) is the statement: "The royalty rate for photo, illustrations, and vector content licensed on Adobe Stock is 33% of the amount paid by the customer for the content. "

There is no mention of any special deals where this rate is not honored.

So if (big if, we don't know yet what exactly was happening there) AS does indeed pay a lower rate, they would be breaking the contract.

I believe this position is based on the all time earnings.

On Fotolia, both the all time position and the weekly position were displayed. The one on Adobe is closer to my all time earning position.

You can select the timeframe (all time or weekly, for year or month no position is shown) on the drop down menu on the left of the screen.
I thinnk this is exactly the old Fotolia rank.