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Travel/Nature sells ok on most  sites if you can have good , different nature travel pictures that are well caption with good info for the user/reader.

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General - Top Sites / Re: Getty Rewards Program
« on: November 30, 2020, 14:14 »
This new plan sounds like one of our great government plans. As the Government says  " We are here to Help "

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I have never had any problems getting payment from Canstock. Sells are slow but I do get sells most weeks.

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Alamy.com / Re: Anyone still getting big sales on Alamy?
« on: November 26, 2020, 14:45 »
I just got two last week , one for $ 80 and the other for $ 200....I get in that range most months.

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Jo Ann if it is for one year that is a lot better. I did not hear that. Well we can change the rules of the game for one year. I still put my price point at $ 6 bucks.

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This might be fun...lets have a guessing game . how much do you think Adobe paid the stock house's for free images. I have not heard if that paid price is for lifetime but for the purpose of this game lets say it is for lifetime for Adobe to giveaway. I guess six dollars an image which would be $420,000 for 70,000 images. What is your guess ?

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A commercial on TV said "free-free-free-free-free".... everyone loses with free. If free images are resold , everyone loses. It is a numbers game. The more free images out there stolen or not the less likely you will sell your not so free images. 

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Here is my guess....you may never get the real numbers but I will give it a guess. I would guess it is $100 dollars to $ 1 on the money that Adobe makes on the cloud software. For ever $ 100 dollars they earn on cloud software they earn $ 1 dollar on stock photos. They really are and have always been a cloud software company. Maybe someone knows the real numbers of Software to stock photos. With giving away 100 good images a day stock photos can't be the end game. If Adobe makes it 100 images a day images why not just go unlimited images a day ?

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Adobe Stock / Re: Expanding Editorial?
« on: October 17, 2020, 11:19 »
Maybe they will make Editorial's free.....New Expanding

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I wonder if there is any Federal money or Federal incentive to Adobe with this program ?

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If only I were Joe Biden's son Hunter. I would not need to work in photos. I would get millions from China and the Ukraine for doing nothing and having no knowledge/expertise of anything. Just my last name Biden.... But I am not a Biden and I need future image creation and fair pay..... 

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I just went on the Adobe Free section. I went through about 1000 images... 99% of these images are model/people images. Very good model/people images. If you shot models I would guess your sales will go to zero in the future. It will be interesting to see if Adobe adds more diversity to this collection with different types of images. One of the big contributors was  Rawpixel.com. I do not know this photo house but very heavy on the typical stock model picture. Typical but very good images. 
 

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I'm guessing a lot less than the paying users who will now turn into free users.

That seems like the only reasonable thing to assume.

After all, if just by signing up at Adobe one can get 100 x 30 = 3,000 free photos per month x 12 = 36,000 free photos per year

Why on earth would one even bother looking at the other images that are not free???

Geez.
  Why would anyone buy images on Shutterstock, Istock or any of the other sites when they can get over 30,000 free images a year on Adobe. This will hurt/damage image makers. It will grow the Adobe business.  ....

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To all on this forum. Who is a competitor to Photoshop software. Is their any ? 

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Matt thanks, a fair answer. I do hope they lower the 100 a day...

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Matt I do have a question. Why did Adobe choice 100 free downloads a day. That seems excessive to me. For free not to hurt stock contributors the 100 free images a day seems a lot. If someone wanted to create a free image collection they could conceivably get 36,400 images a year. In my opinion maybe 5 free images a day would be a better number. Then I am just an image maker and not the owner of Adobe. I do own some Wall Street stock in Adobe which has made some money for me....maybe this will get the Wall street Adobe stock growing....A full glass if you look at it in the right light.     

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Clearly everyone's work will not be free. But if I read correctly at 100 download images a day for free it will effect many of the sellers work. I guess it will help photoshop users as they can get images off the cloud for free. That is a great deal in creating work on Photoshop. (Free)  Sounds like a good deal for Photoshop and maybe not so good for stock image creators. 

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Free....many years ago I put an image on Can Stock as a free image. it stayed free for nearly a year. I guess I could of ask them to take it down. It was a picture of a football on fire. I think it was given away to the tune of 15,000 times. I never got any more sales by having a free picture on Can Stock. Then Can Stock is third tier at best. I really think free dose not work. If free worked the hookers down by the dock would give it away free. Good luck Adobe....

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I like this question. As I have not figured out yet what sells best. These two pictures I posted on stock about the same time which would be around 15 years ago. If you ask my neither one is really a good photo but with said the Octopus has made me on 12 different sites a total of $ 6000 dollars and the leopard skin has made me $25,000 total. I have a lot of photos that I think are good and have made very little money. i guess it is just all about luck and timing.   

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Pond5 / Re: Pond 5 for still photo sales?
« on: September 30, 2020, 16:03 »
I love the PONDS upload because of the ease. I have a few thousand images and maybe sell 3-5 images a year. Not sure why I keep uploading . I guess I am hopping for a miracle . The videos do sell on PONDS just almost no sales for stills.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Fine Arts America.
« on: September 20, 2020, 12:23 »
I have been on FA for about four years. I  made back my yearly subscription cost the first two years. I stopped paying the subscription fee the next two years and they keep my images online and they keep selling them.  Making around 60 bucks a year with 1800 images. I could not upload new images without renewing the subscription. I just renewed it about three weeks ago and started uploading new items. We will see how this years goes. 

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Interesting but "about us" needs a lot more details ? Is this a type of Photo Union ? What are we signing up for ? Are you starting a new stock site ? How do you gain fair value for coalition members ?

The Stock Coalition is an industry body representing talented global photographers, illustrators, videographers, animators and other artists who contribute their work to agencies for distribution. Collectively, our work has been licensed millions of times by companies and individuals around the world.
Our goal is to ensure fair value and compensation for our collective creative works and to support agencies with strategies that align with these goals.
Our organization has had to form rapidly in response to one agency unilaterally changing their compensation agreement with contributors without any warning or consultation with catastrophic implications on the earnings for these contributors.
We have built a competent core management team to steer our organization and a constitution and full list of goals will be prepared in due course.

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Alamy.com / Re: Alamy "discoverablity" revisited
« on: August 01, 2020, 17:44 »
It is clearly worth the time to do the super words. I just made a $200 sell Friday. I wish I could make that everyday, but I do get 2-5 sells a month on Alamy. Very fair stock site...

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Adobe Stock / Re: Aldobe stock earnings. Woohoo!!!!
« on: July 29, 2020, 11:55 »
Adobe, I forgot to tell this story....Happened last week in Austin. They did have a small BLM riot and the rioters had guns also. As I understand it one of the rioters had their AK-47 with them and put five rounds into a car in the Austin traffic. The car owner was not shot but did come out of his car and put one shot/round into the head of the AK-47 rioter. Sounds like the car owner will be no billed.   As he was just a Texan protecting his family..The Texas Way...

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Adobe Stock / Re: Aldobe stock earnings. Woohoo!!!!
« on: July 29, 2020, 11:32 »
Since everyone is talking about America and world affairs. Isn't Adobe located in San Jose ,CA. I think they have had a lot of Un-Peaceful riots and protesters in the last six weeks or so.  I wonder how that has effected Adobe. Maybe it is time for Adobe to move to Texas. We all carry guns in Texas and we keep the peace. Funny how that works. I think San Jose has around 13 percent personal income tax. Texas has no income tax. Adobe you need to move to Texas....low taxes, low poverty and low crime.

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