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« on: May 12, 2023, 06:07 »
My catalog is also there. I would like it removed. I do not use Wirestock.
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« on: April 24, 2023, 14:57 »
I gave up uploading to 123 last year. If they stopped taking videos and they rarely sell anyway - I'm wondering if I should remove them. These days dead galleries look like questionable data set distributions waiting to happen.
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« on: April 18, 2023, 10:49 »
The free section of midjourney does not include commercial use. The paid version does.
And how much do you have to pay for the paid version?
https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/plans
Did they end the free plan or just a temporary halt? I never signed up.
Don't know. I'm waiting for Firefly's inclusion in Photoshop.
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« on: April 18, 2023, 10:18 »
The free section of midjourney does not include commercial use. The paid version does.
And how much do you have to pay for the paid version?
https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/plans
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« on: April 18, 2023, 07:21 »
The free section of midjourney does not include commercial use. The paid version does.
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« on: March 29, 2023, 16:35 »
A create an (AI) image button will soon be omnipresent in all creative apps and search engines. At stock photo sites rows of "created just for you" images will be peppered into search results. AI wont fit all needs but it will impact/reduce image sales quite a lot.
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« on: March 24, 2023, 17:18 »
Midjourney vs Firefly. Which is better?
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« on: March 24, 2023, 16:58 »
NFT is non fungible token. They are traded on the Ethereum blockchain. You can make them with a minting program like mintable. If you do be sure to click the box where you keep the copyright and the box about getting a percentage if its resold. You'll need a crypto-wallet.. and there will be trading fees. Good luck with all that... I stay away from it.
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« on: March 15, 2023, 19:55 »
The issue is Getty's controlled vocabulary, which iStock uses.
There is a process for requesting additions to the vocabulary, but even in the past that was a slow thing to get done. Again, in the past, you could put in an unknown (to the CV) keyword and it would permit it although a search had to be done in quotes for it to be found. I recently started uploading to iStock again and found that accepted images with unknown terms (place names in my case as in yours) had those terms flagged:
"Keyword in red is not found. Click for suggestions, remove, or recommend a new keyword."
I had used DeepMeta to disambiguate keywords into CV-speak and while it allowed me to upload with an unknown term, there were no useful suggestions and I didn't want to go through the process of adding hundreds of placenames.
So general location information - such as California or Oregon or or Haystack Rock or Pacific Northwest - were OK but not Arch Cape, Hug Point or other town or attraction names.
If you have stamina and time, request addition of the keywords to the CV. If not, put in state names or anything else that is already there (Deep Meta will let you know up front what you can use because you can't change anything after acceptance yourself - that'd be another support ticket)
I think it's mad, but it's been mad for so long that I wouldn't expect changes in my lifetime 
Getty's controlled vocabulary is deeply flawed. Almost governmental in its stupidity. Kinda shocking they don't realize it.
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« on: March 03, 2023, 06:09 »
Jesus what a mean thread 
The man is about 80 years old. Let's not use this forum to pick on elders.
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« on: February 23, 2023, 11:47 »
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« on: February 22, 2023, 21:36 »
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« on: January 25, 2023, 19:36 »
AI eventually will replace the photographer, the contributor and the agency. And the customer will get his/her images for free. It is matter of time.
You can already download millions (billions?) of files for free legally from many different platforms.
Why do agencies still exist?
Companies with legal departments (like Disney - ABC) require employees and contributors (often graphic designers or journalists) to have releases / permission for everything including downloaded visual content. The unusual high royalty at Shutterstock is probably Shutterstock charging for the inconvenience of having their licensing terms expanded and re-written.
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« on: January 17, 2023, 15:21 »
Seems like a quick way to get your portfolio re-posted and resold by others around the world. I hope Alexandre does a reverse image search in a year or so to see where his shots have traveled.
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« on: January 07, 2023, 12:16 »
Tony Northrup says AI will eventually replace 95% of stock photography. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VRbt8GufeYI think he's half right. Editorial will remain and video will endure. When the technology is perfected synthesized photo realistic images will work for many users. AI replacing cameras is much like drum machines replacing drums. Cameras and drums will live on.. but making money with them will get harder.
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« on: December 07, 2022, 07:58 »
Skip the silly dashboard and bookmark the earnings summary page.
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« on: November 30, 2022, 08:18 »
Sales are 79% less than 2016. It's a steady path to nothing.
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« on: October 20, 2022, 22:44 »
I do not submit to ClipDealer yet thousands of my shots are there. Who are they partners with?
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« on: August 28, 2022, 14:30 »
Just opened my pixify/shopify store - comments/suggestions appreciated.
http://cascoly.photography
Topics include:
Elements of design
Vintage art
Maps
Victorian fashion
Military
Nature
Travel
Videos
Your license agreement requires credit. Is that gonna to work for advertisers/licensees? Was the license language Pixify boilerplate or is it custom to your account?
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« on: August 18, 2022, 06:19 »
I opted out immediately, but that was for future uploads - can't find how to opt out for the 10.000 previous uploads?
Go to manage content and open the accepted folder. You should see a opt out button for existing content. Then check back later and manually edit/change the shots that failed to change.
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« on: August 16, 2022, 15:42 »
I have a few hundred object isolations in my portfolio so I did a couple of tests. The PNG renditions from my photoshop/raw files yielded tiff sized results. I had to reduce image size a bit to get them below 45 megs. Reworked jpeg results were far smaller - about 5 megs. Is higher res/less compression a selling point for the PNGs? If so will 45 megs remain the limit?
Overall it would take quite a bit of effort to rework a few hundred files. (I tend to polish as I go.) I'm wondering if it will be worth the time. If so.. I'd like to get started.
In Photoshop when you save as PNG, it should give you the options of "large", "medium" or "small" file size at the expense of the time it takes to encode the image. My understanding is PNGs use lossless compression for all three file size options (look it up to be sure).
I tried those buttons. The resulting file sizes were the same. Odd.
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« on: August 16, 2022, 12:00 »
I have a few hundred object isolations in my portfolio so I did a couple of tests. The PNG renditions from my photoshop/raw files yielded tiff sized results. I had to reduce image size a bit to get them below 45 megs. Reworked jpeg results were far smaller - about 5 megs. Is higher res/less compression a selling point for the PNGs? If so will 45 megs remain the limit?
Overall it would take quite a bit of effort to rework a few hundred files. (I tend to polish as I go.) I'm wondering if it will be worth the time. If so.. I'd like to get started.
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