This is all Uncle Pete fault for starting thread too early 

Yes we have the guilty 

BTW I have a HUGE amount of refunds too... 

Yes it's not completely clear the timing and the way in wich numbers are calculated, by the way in general terms it's useful to understand your own trend
Sorry I don't remember how to attach the screenshot, I'm actually number 2980 this week with 31 downloads (around 27 USD, but it doesn't count for position.... I think)

It is a total game over for all stock producer. This will no longer exist in 5 years at most.

I'm not agree.
It's this market model that is collapsing, smart companies will find new models to survive

About the images and video self production, you seems to forget that they will cost money: probably not less than thew money for stock subscriptions. And after the money you have to know how to manage the AI tools.

It will be of course quite simple to get a tomato, a senior man happy on the beach, and billions of simple images.
But there will always need to illustrate concept, feelings, ideas.

And you need to know what to produce more than a tool that produce anything

Have you seen this?
https://openai.com/sora

That's really devastating... much more than midjourney for photographers in my opinion

I suggest Adobe also make the price the same for HD and 4K video (for non-subscription sales). This will lead to more 4k sales and creator income.
At the very least, we will see whether the buyer even needs 4K. But the fact that the buyer is bad at buying 4K means that the price for 4K is high for the buyer.
Initially, the price for video was formed on the market; previously there was only HD. The advent of 4K should not lead to higher prices for video.

A genius of marketplace 
Why are you here writing in the forum? You should be really rich with your innovative ideas 

Read the story again, i create rare illustrations, calligraphic names and words, some may need a single download, some may need a large volume, like wedding cards shop, t-shirt store, name necklaces, etc. (I sold batches before i joind Adobe Stock) So, what seems to have happened is that when a subscriber downloads multiple files from my account, my account get blocked for irregular sales activity.

Abdo I'm sure you're telling the truth and I have no reasons not to believe your story, but series sales always happened to many contributors, and I have them from time to time: 5, 10, up to 20 images of same series (subject or style), so it's not unusual at all, and I cannot believe that this is treated as "irregular sales". The reason have to be something different.

By the way it's really bad not to receive details about this: in this way it's impossible to answer and prove the innocence. I'm sorry, Adobe should absolutely improve this side of relations with contributors. I hope I will not fall in the same situation one day

Yes, it's hard to clearly understand the border between referring to real place or to use a name as a general term.

@MatHayward I have some example: after your update of AI submission rules I review my portfolio, found and changed few images that in the title refer to amazon forest. In my mind that was a way to describe the place in general term as a big forest, because the images are absolutely not related to the real amazon forest but... but now I'm in trouble to catch in my portfolio if I have some other images with generic reference to an environment like the "amazon forest".

So I have two questions:
First, can you better define if and what is accettable as a reference for real places in general terms? I think "Amazon forest" could be a good example

Second question: is it ok to CHANGE title and/or keywords of previously accepted images, or is it mandatory to delete them from portfolio if the title/keyword break the rules?

Thanks

I have no doubt that at the rate artificial intelligence is advancing, stock photography has a maximum of two years left to live. Right now the smart thing to do is to sell all the lenses, equipment and cameras on ebay before it is too late and they become worthless junk.

This is the same thought of 99% of photographers years ago, at the time when digital photography grew up.
It's simply a description of how to NOT adapt yourself to change YOUR world, while the world around is changing without your consent

Quote from: kubeslaw on October 25, 2023, 14:58

Come on, Mat! I really appreciate your presence here and I am grateful for all the insights you provide. However, when it comes to review process, the way you act is just ridiculous. Instead of admitting that there is a problem with random rejections (not to mention months of waiting for any decision), you keep pretending that everything is fine. It doesn't matter what the quality of 13 images discussed here is. It is a general problem that affects, as far as I can see, all the members of this forum, even the most professional ones.

Fair enough. Thank you for your feedback.

-Mat Hayward

I really like the way and the time Mat takes to help, thanks Mat.
I can also understand Mat that you speak as an official voice from Adobe and you absolutely cannot say anything about your company, this is totally understandable.
Unfortunately I can confirm that the review process is still an issue: is it completely impossible to understand the reasons why some images are accepted and others aren't.

As many others said, I see some batches approved and others refused: entire batches.
The problem is not the rejections of one, two or ten images, rejections can always have good reasons: the problem is that the process seems completely random, and at the end it seems only a question of luck... images of the same kinds, with same postproduction, accepted and rejected for incomprehensible reasons...very frustrating, after one month of waiting for review.
I think you understand the point, and I think you're working on it.
Please fix it, because it's hard to contribute this way (and for someone it's also an open door to multiple spam resend of same images for second review!).
Thanks for your work

It's no big secret sauce but to keep it simple I made a template

This is interesting!
May I ask you more details about this? How a template can be adapted to many different images (or clips)?
Is it necessary to have the pay version or it can also be done with the free chatGPT?
Thanks

I tested the free chatGPT version for some jobs to add it in my workflow.
In general terms, if you are looking for specific answers, the time to write down your needs and to check the answers is longer than to do it by yourself.

Keywording: I tried to use the free version asking for creating keyword list, and also to order the list by relevance (useful for Adobe), but of course you have good result only if you describe in detail the image you want to tag. And writing down a detailed description takes more time than thinking about the keyword by yourself.

What to shoot: I've also tried to have some suggestions about "what to shoot"; I found answers always very generic and at the end useless. Sure, you can focus your questions: but, as for keywording, if you want to be specific, the time to write down and describe what you are looking for is longer than the time you would spent to think about a subject.

After my tests my conclusion is that ChatGPT can be useful for very automatic and/or repetitive jobs: for example, to tag hundred of images. But for one, or short series, of image, is useless. You can gain some idea about single terms of course, but it takes time.

BUT
There is something interesting (and useful!) about the use of this automation: it gives you the time to think different.
I see a good comparison with the time when the "non linear" movie editing overtook the analogic scissors cut of the celluloid filmstrip.
Well, in that case the movie editor saw suddenly disappearing the time to think where to cut and how to assemble, because the computer can do the same in an instant.
Editors was in a big worry: there will be no time to think about creativity!!

...But now, several years after, we can see the results: the coputers are a big help, a big tool, but they have not deleted the editor job at all.

Quote from: derby on October 11, 2023, 02:49

I can't see anymore the "mission" option in my dashboard, so it seems that I was approved for only few days for previous missions, but now I'm out...
What?? 

Oh, that's strange. Since I did not take part in any of the last missions I thought there was no specific reason why I should get new missions, but others wouldn't, so I thought everyone had them.
Don't you have a new "missions" tab in your dashboard? It's in the black top line.

Yes I had the "mission" tab last week, but now it's disappeared... I was also curious to know the new missions, but actually I cannot see the tab anymore