Hello Matt and people.
In Fotolia's statistics on views, are the views of the two sites, Adobe and Fotolia?
Thank you

No, the view statistics on Fotolia are only referencing Fotolia views. We do not have a view tracker in Adobe Stock at this time.

-Mat

Quote from: Mir on May 22, 2018, 08:31

Does account syncing influence sales in some way?

Yes,
if not synced, your files won't appear at Adobe site.

No, this is not true. All accepted files uploaded to Fotolia are automatically online at Adobe Stock and all content uploaded via Adobe Stock that is approved is automatically online at Fotolia.

Syncing your account does not impact your sales or search visibility. I was only asking out of curiosity.

I've noted all of your comments. I consider the feedback in this forum to be one of the most valuable and effective tools I have in communicating the needs of contributors all around the world to the Management team at Adobe Stock. While I can't always respond in detail to each post, please note that I am reading your comments and referencing them whenever I can in an effort to drive change to improve the experience for contributors.

Thank you very much!

Mat

In a recent shoot, I just bought a new camera (Nikon D3400) and accidentally hit the button to adjust the exposure for one of the programmable modes. Also I just started out with photos and previously was doing video with a SONY. I look through the eyepiece, and it was a bright sunny day, so I did not notice that the exposure was being darkened quite a lot, until I did an image review, which I do after about 25 or 30 photos.

so my question is... if the exposure is adjusted by the camera using the manual function to adjust it, and it is quite dark, will there be any artifacting from software correction? the images have already been corrected. they look a little strange.

If you aren't already shooting RAW, I highly recommend you start as soon as possible. It's always best to get your exposure correct in camera of course. For those of us that don't get it right all the time, shooting RAW gives you quite a bit of flexibility in adjustment for exposure and white balance when necessary. I can be off by a full stop and adjust in my RAW conversion using Lightroom with no noticeable effect on the quality of the image.

I would also recommend you practice shooting in manual mode to take complete control over the exposure of your images. It takes time, practice and studying to get it down but once you do it will become like second nature for you and you won't have to worry about the camera settings having a negative impact on the quality of your work.

Good luck!

Mat

Quote from: MatHayward on May 15, 2018, 10:19

Are you using ftp or the contributor portal drag and drop?

Ive tried both options with the same results. No matter what I do, certain images cannot be submitted (despite them meeting all the technical requirements.)

Please send a ticket to support via the portal and I'll take a look.

-Mat

Thanks for the reply, Matt. By the way, when I'm uploading to Adobe Stock, I'm still experiencing those technical issues where some of my images will not make it through the portal. I'd say roughly half of the images I try and upload don't make it through. Trying multiple times and on different days doesn't seem to make a difference. It's hard to build up a decent sized portfolio on Adobe Stock when so many images cannot be submitted.

Are you using ftp or the contributor portal drag and drop?

Thank you for your response!

So this MR should do the job for Pond, shutterstock, adobe stock, istock? (attachment)

I can confirm it will work for Adobe Stock! 

The zip pack was excepted as is. Apparently no problem on my end. I still think that unloading thing has a small bug. 

In the zipped folder the artboard doesn't need to be 15MP (only the JPG does).

-Mat

Mat, I have a payment that's been pending since Apr 1, and now I have about $75 in sales I can't request payment. There haven't been any large sales that should hold anything up. I couldn't find any contact info anywhere on the site.

Should I go to the Fotolia site to get help? And speaking of which, will these two ever be merged?

Generally payments are made within a week of the request. There can be delays from time to time, I apologize for any you may have encountered. If any of you are still waiting for a payment request submitted on or before April 1, please create a support ticket in the Contributor Portal and I'll look into it for you asap.

I'm working in Paris this week so my response time is going to be different than normal but I am checking emails and support tickets and will respond as quickly as possible.

Thanks,

-Mat

If I had to delete a video clip from Fotolia will it automatically delete from Adobe Stock?

Thanks for the advice.

Yes, your portfolio is the same at both sites.

Mat

Mat thanks a lot for your answer,
Beyond the important time spent prioritizing keywords I wonder about the relevance of the system. We know that the first keyword "weighs" the heaviest and that the 7th has practically no more impact in the search engine. This means that for a given theme, for example a family on the beach, all contributors, if they do their job well, will use the same or almost the same keywords.
At present with tens of millions of images covering the most popular themes and the growing number of new images arriving every month how the buyer can find what he is looking for without spending a crazy time looking through pages of images.
Not prioritizing keywords may allow more creativity in the search by allowing the buyer to choose from 20 or 30 keywords.
What do you think?

We have a very strong team dedicated specifically to search. I appreciate the feedback and will be sure to share it with the team.

-Mat

I appreciate the feedback. The workflow I described it what I have found works best for me personally. It certainly isn't for everyone.

There is another option that will save you some time if all the keywords in the series are to be the same. I recommend you change the order on one file then click the "Paste Keywords" button in the upper right corner. Copy the entire list of keywords and paste them into the remaining files. You can do this by either pasting into the top box and clicking the tab key to distribute them or within the paste keywords section.

-Mat

Hi Mat,
An improvement that would change the life of the poor contributor entering his images on AS, the possibility on Lightroom (I think 95% of photographers work on it) to choose the order of keywords, alphabetical or by order of entry.

It would be revolutionary and would save incredible time.

I know it doesn't depend on Adobe Stock directly but since Lightroom is an Adobe creation I guess the developers have to cross paths at the coffee machine from time to time

I don't think it's very complicated to put this system back in place already existed on an oldest version of Bridge (another Adobe production)

I've asked the LR team about this very thing in the past. A big part of the appeal to LR is the organizational features. Removing alphabetized keywords would disrupt that feature and make it less organized for use beyond stock keywording.

In my personal workflow, all of my RAW conversions are handled in LR. For the sake of organization I use one main library and add one or two keywords to describe the shoot so I can find the images at a later date in Lightroom.

Once my conversions are done and I have exported my JPG files to my hard drive I then open the JPG files in Bridge and add my stock keywords there. Through Bridge, the keywords stay in the correct order and my LR library isn't overwhelmed with thousands of keywords that don't apply to the organization of the library.

I then use the drag and drop feature at Adobe Stock to upload. If you haven't tried drag and drop uploads for a while, I recommend you give it a fresh look in the Adobe Stock Contributor Portal. It takes an unlimited number of files and is pretty dang fast.

I understand your requests for either changing LR to keep the order of keywords as you have added them or to remove the relevance weight in the Adobe Stock search. I don't anticipate either of these changes taking place any time soon. My best advice is to update your workflow to simplify the process. My way might not be the best way, I would be interested to learn what others are doing. What I've described is simply the best way that I have found to make it work for me.

Thanks for the feedback,

Mat

Is there a way to conveniently set new thumbnails for footage files on the Abobe contributor site?

Not yet. This is one of the most requested features and I've communicated it to the development team loud and clear. Hopefully it will happen but I don't know when that would be.

Thanks for the suggestion,

Mat