For editorial I am sure SS is still a great place. And I doubt Adobe is interested in doing editorial seriously, so in that field their only real competition is Getty. And Getty doesn't take editorial video.

But commercial is different.

Would Adobe mess up their upload system like this? They would probably beta test it on experienced producers to make it fit their workflow.

The old SS would have done that too.

They said in their last financial interview their focus for growing the business was not stock sales, but data sales, especially licensing for ai training.

So we will see when we get the next exciting news that helps ss grow their data business.

"They said in their last financial interview their focus for growing the business was not stock sales, but data sales, especially licensing for ai training."

Not sure what that means.

If I understand the submission requirements for generative AI submissions:

 1. If I have a model released image and I use the GenAI tools in photoshop to extend the background, I should not mark the image as Generative AI?

 2. If I have say a model released image with a model on a white background (or in any environment for that matter) and I use GenAI tools in Photoshop to totally create/replace an environment (e.g.: room, outdoors) around the model.
     I would submit the image with a model release but I should or should not mark it as GenAI?

Thanks

Adobe are taking over a month to review images now or at least for me, I remember they took a few days!

yes, it's frustrating! I guess that's an indicator of the deluge of AI submissions,  either that or non-AI submissions have been given a much much lower priority on the queue

I can't say I disagree with most of the sentiment and logic in this thread. At the same time, I've seen almost no impact to my sales yet. Given the seemingly very high quality of many of the AI images with "people" and other appealing commercial subjects, I am a bit confused by this.

Would love to know, my code for Photoshop ran out. Now working with PS Elements 22. usable, but I miss the shiny new ai tools.

And no, I am too stingy, I pay for lightroom every month, don't want to add more.

Doesn't your LR monthly fee also include PS?

The different agencies have different requirements. Some don't want people in the photo, some don't want photos without people. It's kind of weird. The best thing to do is to look at the individual agency's requirements.

Regarding AI images. I guess they may represent say 10% of the entire collection at Adobe numerically? However, I would venture to guess that "subjectwise" they could potentially be more of a threat than that 10% number suggests since in the AI world, having complex images with "models" and "sets" (e.g. business office, medical office) is a lot easier vs. "real world" photos where the photog would have to get actual models and actual "sets" or locations like offices etc.. Therefore I would expect the "10%" number to be misleading (no "snapshot" images with very low sales potential). In other words, there should be more of a sales impact than 10% might suggest. Having said all that, I haven't seen the impact sales-wise that this scenario would suggest.

I am made an awful lot of assumptions in my statements above. Does anyone care to comment?

If you use "remove background" in PS does the image get tagged as AI and therefore create problems if you submit as Stock?

I saw noticeable improvement, but people still look like illustrations and not photos

And this number of 9 million has crossed 18 million by today viz. in approx 4 months

So is that about 10% of the collection?

So is the claim that you will not be able to process RAW or you will be able to but it will be slower because it won't use the GPU?

Thanks both!

One option is to use "collections" in Lightroom?