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« on: December 15, 2021, 02:58 »
Oh, what have I done...I use Mac OS Sierra and I was so stupid to press the update button on Xpiks. After installing the new version of Xpiks my computer said that it can't run on my MAC. How do I get the previous version back? Xpiks was the only FTP uploader I used. Can anyone help please? I can't update my MAC Book Pro. It is already getting slower and slower.
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« on: December 14, 2021, 03:18 »
The similarity checks did get totally strict lately, beyond reasonable the way I see it. The way I avoid problems is to never submit anything even remotely related, say two pictures of two completely different cats (hey, it's till a cat! Similar!) in the same batch. Seems to work nicely, although it obviously slow things down a lot.
I submit the first cat, wait for it to be approved, and only then submit the second cat.
Yes, that's how I do it too. That works, but it indeed does take time.
Thank you very, very much. That helps. Good idea. It really slows things down. I don't have that problem with other agencies and never ever took similar photos. Only one vertical version and one horizontal version but in my case the last 2 images of corn and autumn leaves were completely different. I have written to SS yesterday that they care costing me money and that this nonsense has to stop. I was soooooooooo angry. Now I have to make a separate folder just for SS. Great. But thank you for letting me know that that works. I was worried that their AI will remember it even if I wait for one year to upload the next image. I have seen so many images being so similar that I couldn't even see the difference straight away. I do understand that they don't want that. Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. Very much appreciated.
Well, that is astonishing but on the other hand I watched a training video from SS years ago and they said to make a vertical version for the magazines and a horizontal one for the websites. That's why I was very astonished that the vertical version of my corn image was rejected and it's not even identical to the horizontal version. I am still speechless and really angry.
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« on: December 14, 2021, 03:16 »
The similarity checks did get totally strict lately, beyond reasonable the way I see it. The way I avoid problems is to never submit anything even remotely related, say two pictures of two completely different cats (hey, it's till a cat! Similar!) in the same batch. Seems to work nicely, although it obviously slow things down a lot.
I submit the first cat, wait for it to be approved, and only then submit the second cat.
Yes, that's how I do it too. That works, but it indeed does take time.
Thank you very, very much. That helps. Good idea. It really slows things down. I don't have that problem with other agencies and never ever took similar photos. Only one vertical version and one horizontal version but in my case the last 2 images of corn and autumn leaves were completely different. I have written to SS yesterday that they care costing me money and that this nonsense has to stop. I was soooooooooo angry. Now I have to make a separate folder just for SS. Great. But thank you for letting me know that that works. I was worried that their AI will remember it even if I wait for one year to upload the next image. I have seen so many images being so similar that I couldn't even see the difference straight away. I do understand that they don't want that. Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. Very much appreciated.
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« on: December 13, 2021, 12:23 »
Is anyone looking at images in SS? I just got again a rejection for similar. One is a background and the other photos falls in the food category. That's two completely different categories. One image is a autumn leaves background and the other photo is a food photo with cookies and autumn leaves. How do I avoid these rejections? Now I have nearly every time rejections. A vertical version of a food photo showed opened corn with leaves and a horizontal photo showed completely closed corn with leaves. The vertical version was rejected for being similar. They are not similar. SS itself had once said that we should make a vertical version for magazines and a horizontal version for websites. However, both images are different. Only the background is the same. Do I wait and upload both rejected images in a month or two or what do I do? They are costing me money. This can't go on like this. No other agency does that not even Bigstock who are also obsessed with similar photos. I have never ever put up similar photos like other people have. Is there anything we can do about it? Is it worth it writing to SS?
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« on: December 07, 2021, 09:29 »
I received yesterday 26 cents on SS for a video. First I didn't even realise that it is a video. My photo has the same thumbnail. When I received an email from SS telling me that the video went one level up I realised it's the video that got bought and not the photo. 26 cents for a video - seriously?
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« on: December 06, 2021, 09:10 »
but i produce 50 MP pictures and it a shame to downsize them to 20 or less.
In my view, this is the wrong approach! You get between $0.10 and $0.20 for most downloads, and with the revenue you worry about the generous buyer only getting a 20 MP photo? How many downloads do you need to even begin to recoup the cost of an equimpment that allows 50MP?
From a financial point of view, I think you need to rethink!
That's my answer too. Just downsize and move on. Giving away 50MP images for a dime is not going to make more than giving away 10MP images for a dime. And if the 10MP images come from that 50MP camera (what the heck is that?) and you are downsizing, you'll have almost no rejections for focus, pixelation, grain, soft or any of the other absurd rejections from the SS Bots.
I totally agree. I said that yesterday that for 10 cents they only deserve to get images taken with a mobile phone.
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« on: December 06, 2021, 03:39 »
Adobe recently rejects images that were accepted by all agencies including SS and Alamy. What frustrates me is that they simply use technical issues as rejection reason. There weren't any technical issues. Can't they just say that they don't want a photo like that because they already have thousands of them. Why can't they just be honest? But Bigstock is in my opinion the biggest joke. They reject images for being similar when even the content is different. A straight on shot of a mug with marshmallows. All you can see is the mug with marshmallows. The other one is a top shot of a hot chocolate in the same mug. You can clearly see the hot chocolate and a few marshmallows. Both shot on white. They rejected the photo shot straight on for being similar. They totally lost the plot. Just recently the same but the photos were even more different from each other. However, when I started DT was brilliant for me. They clearly wrote explaining why they rejected a photo and what was wrong with it. They also were so honest to write that they have thousands of photos of this object and don't want another one. They even told me that I need to buy a better white background. I am glad that I started uploading to DT only at the beginning. SS rejected a photo for being out of focus that clearly wasn't out of focus and was accepted by Adobe and Alamy. I am really angry about that. It is an important photo, one that would sell. My advise is to upload to DT only until you get good enough to upload to other agencies. With the help of DT it shouldn't take long.
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« on: December 02, 2021, 05:24 »
You can choose usernames that aren't your actual name. They could have a business account and both work in a partnership. Lots of reasons. Unless there is another problem, for example using it to skirt excusivity or wildly different styles apart from those images (so one portfolio looks like theft) I would advise not worrying about it.
That's possible. One account is on iStock, the other one with the female name on SS.
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« on: November 30, 2021, 06:04 »
I have seen images on one website under a man's name and the same images on SS under a woman's name. Of course only the very best images they are and all often bought according to SS. How can two people with different genders, once it is a man and the other time a woman, have the copyright to the same images? Is one of them stealing images?
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« on: November 30, 2021, 02:39 »
What about shaking when you take videos with a mobile phone and without tripod? I only ever took 5 videos. Never managed to get into this. Always have photos in my head only. Do street photography photos sell? I never tried street photography. It's a total waste of time and money to take photos of food. Nearly 1 million photos of bread. Who needs another photo of bread?They seem to have thousands of photos of everything.
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« on: November 22, 2021, 04:42 »
I wonder if photographers who upload on free stock websites earn more money. Not that I want to support that but I have seen a Christmas background which was downloaded 180000 times. I wonder how often someone bought that person a coffee. Why do people upload thousands of images there if they don't earn 1 cent?
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« on: November 21, 2021, 01:28 »
Is it possible, that this sale is below $0.50, so that it gets rounded to $0 in the display on the main page?
Can you check your "Sales History" - there you will see the cent values too like $0,??
I had such a sale in July'21 where i got $0,25 which was shown as $0 on the main page
I just checked the sales history. Images where bought as editorial for $0.18.
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« on: November 21, 2021, 01:25 »
I just had another 2 sales where I got $0. I thought Alamy is macrostock. I might as well put up my images on free websites maybe someone will buy me a coffee and I will get more for my images than from the agencies.
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« on: November 17, 2021, 00:32 »
I have the same problem. Just had a photo rejected for being out of focus which all other agencies accepted. How do I avoid rejections for similar? I took a photo on a dark grey texture background and the same one on white so that they can cut it out. The one on white was rejected for being similar. Bigstock rejected 2 photos for being similar who are absolutely not similar at all. Do they even look at the photos? I was thinking of buying a new camera but what for? I already paid more into it than I get paid.
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« on: September 14, 2021, 06:26 »
I have just seen on Alamy that they have given away one of my photos for free. It says RF 0. Is that normal? Can that happen? It never happened to me so far. That's worse than iStock.
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« on: December 13, 2019, 07:29 »
I have uploaded two editorial images and each time I clicked on the Editorial Only box. One of the two images was rejected with the reason that I need to click the editorial box. I uploaded it again and made sure I did click the Editorial box and it was again rejected with the reason that I need to click the Editorial box. Is there a point uploading it again. My approval rating is simply dropping for nothing. SS accepted that photo. Should I write to them or just forget about it?
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« on: October 08, 2019, 07:40 »
Now they are really overdoing it. I made one image where the object is isolated on white and one image where the object is in snow and a snowball is next to it. Where is that similar? I had the image with snow and the snowball rejected for similar. I have never made similar images like others where I couldn't even see the difference in the photos unless I looked at it for 10 minutes.
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« on: January 03, 2019, 08:59 »
That is a super lazy excuse. They should investigate that no matter who reports it. They obviously don't value their contributors. What kind of a message do they send us? That thieves and criminals are also welcome. That they don't care as long as they make money. I am going to report that guy. No matter what the reply. We have to.
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« on: January 03, 2019, 08:34 »
Wouldn't it help if all of us who read this here on the microstock group write to Shutterstock and report this Alexiy Molochnik and others?
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« on: January 03, 2019, 08:20 »
Isn't there anything we can do about it? Who knows who took from whom?
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« on: December 31, 2018, 10:40 »
I have only uploaded a great and very rare photo from a mobile phone three times. They were never bought.
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« on: November 08, 2018, 05:14 »
Aren't they specialised in people photos and travel? I didn't manage to get in. I don't take people photos.
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« on: October 29, 2018, 12:54 »
I have photos pending for more than 5 months. Editorial even longer.
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« on: October 15, 2018, 05:29 »
:)It's in English language as well on that website.
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