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Adobe Stock / Re: The end for original content creators. Adobe officially allows use of img2img
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Adobe Stock / Re: The end for original content creators. Adobe officially allows use of img2img« on: May 09, 2024, 13:18 »
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Adobe Stock / Re: The end for original content creators. Adobe officially allows use of img2img« on: May 09, 2024, 03:39 »
I completely sympathize with OP, copycats are despicable but Adobe's reaction is outrageous. Img2img is way worse than using names in prompts. Creating a whole portfolio so blatantly based on someone else's should be an immediate ban.
Some years ago I found part of my portfolio available for download in hi-res on one of those russian sites. I notified Adobe support since the files still had their Adobe ID numbers. Their response was similar to the one given to OP - how could I be sure the files were downloaded from Adobe. It was like talking to a brick wall...These days they don't even bother to answer. The fact that you have to go through Discord to escalate speaks for itself. Soon they'll go the Shutterstock way and cut all communication channels 3
Envato / Re: Envato acquired by Shutterstock« on: May 05, 2024, 11:23 »
Of all the acquisitions over the years has any actually seen growth after the fact? It's like they're buying agencies only to stifle them slowly. Shutterstock stopped innovating a long time ago and focused solely on putting more and more weight on the camel's back. One of these days it's going to be the final straw, fellow camels
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Is Shutterstock dead?« on: February 19, 2024, 06:24 »Sales were lower than average in January which is expected for that time of the year. February though has been completely abysmal so far. It's like they flipped off the switch for big sales. So you're not alone I don't think reporting delays make sense in Shutterstock's business model 20K clips - 280$ so far in February, last year around this time in February it was 3000$+ whats going on? Video sales make the bulk of my earnings but big licences are completely gone. My biggest sale in february is for 12$... Maybe they are trying to shift clients for video from SS to Pond5. It wouldn't make any sense but who knows what grandiose strategy they have in mind 5
Shutterstock.com / Re: Is Shutterstock dead?« on: February 18, 2024, 06:34 »
Sales were lower than average in January which is expected for that time of the year. February though has been completely abysmal so far. It's like they flipped off the switch for big sales. So you're not alone
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock steals sales. Control purchase« on: February 12, 2024, 03:24 »
The hunch I developed about SS over the years is that they basically give you a "salary" based on your portfolio quality, size and current uploads. Most of the sales are real but they would hide or add fictitious sales in order to keep you in the tier you've been attributed to. So many times my monthly sales would be below average and then several big sales would make things right. Or I'd be having a great run of sales for 3/4 of the month to then completely dry up and again finish around average. You really can't ignore this pattern after spending over almost 15 years with them.
The right way to test SS would be to have some sort of contributor association which would hire an external agency to perform the role of hidden random customer and then share the results so the association could actually confront SS in case of fraud. Otherwise we're only driving ourselves crazy with conspiracy theories and meanwhile SS are laughing all the way to the bank 7
Adobe Stock / Re: Genuine illustrations marked as AI« on: February 09, 2024, 07:02 »
A month later the images are still mistagged. I never got an answer from support either. Looks like things are on complete autopilot these days
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Adobe Stock / Re: Am I human« on: January 17, 2024, 13:14 »
Agree, this is starting to become annoying. First the site regularly logs you out so you have to log in again and again with confirmation emails. Then you have to check(or not) the AI box when filling the metadata. After that on submission you have two more AI disclaimer boxes and now as the cherry on the top this captcha, wth?
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General Stock Discussion / Re: New Payoneer 3% Fee withdrawal to european bank account« on: January 17, 2024, 10:39 »Hi Sounds interesting. Which fx broker in particular? 10
Adobe Stock / Re: Genuine illustrations marked as AI« on: January 09, 2024, 05:33 »
Managed to find around 20 illustrations, jpeg and pngs and reported them to support. I also found some of the AI generated photos I submitted are somehow accepted as illustrations. What a mess
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Adobe Stock / Re: Genuine illustrations marked as AI« on: January 08, 2024, 11:45 »If you are referring to this, it means "adobe illustrator". Not reffering to this at all. 12
Adobe Stock / Re: Genuine illustrations marked as AI« on: January 08, 2024, 09:15 »Same case. But u have to report each image id. i do not want to check all these thousands. So i let it be.My port is not so big and this is definitely going to affect my sales so I'll try to find them all. Some files are submitted before Adobe started to accept AI content and are marked as AI post-factum so it's undoubtedly a bug on their side. Or maybe it's on purpose and it's their way to fill the AI collection with niche quality content 13
Adobe Stock / Genuine illustrations marked as AI« on: January 08, 2024, 08:38 »
While preparing a new batch of submissions I just noticed a lot of my recent illustrations are marked as Generated with AI . I have a small number of photos generated with AI which are marked accordingly but have never created or submitted AI illustrations. This is a really low blow and I urge every fellow illustrator to check their portfolios for this. I'll contact support immediately but I'd love to hear from Mat Hayward about this
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General Stock Discussion / Re: New Payoneer 3% Fee withdrawal to european bank account« on: January 03, 2024, 09:09 »
I just canceled my account. They were already worse than paypal before that change. It's about time Shutterstock and Adobe introduced some new payment processors. It's not 2010 anymore
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Shutterstock.com / Re: New files don't sell« on: November 16, 2023, 06:10 »True but I got some large single sales the second half of the month which kind of softened the impactThere was a very sharp decline in sales for me beginning of this month. Very unusual for this time of the year. Must be another search engine tweak or the cumulative effect of their clueless management 16
Shutterstock.com / Re: New files don't sell« on: November 15, 2023, 10:31 »
There was a very sharp decline in sales for me beginning of this month. Very unusual for this time of the year. Must be another search engine tweak or the cumulative effect of their clueless management
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Adobe Stock / Re: Account blocked - another story« on: November 02, 2023, 12:28 »
To resume your statement: You don't know but maybe, probably, not entirely sure something something but then you don't even want to know and finally you don't know because only the OP can know. Why did you even bother with this drivel? 18
Adobe Stock / Re: Account blocked - another story« on: September 24, 2023, 07:28 »This is ridiculous, what's the purpose of the whole procedure if they didn't even make a point what was wrong or even if you were in the wrong at all. Just a random slap on the wrist and it will probably cost you thousands. For giggles... 19
Adobe Stock / Re: Account blocked - another story« on: September 20, 2023, 09:18 »
These bans are becoming alarmingly common now. The whole procedure seems arbitrary, especially considering some of these contributors have a long, spotless history with the agency. Myself I started finally working with AI after a long hesitation and now apparently I'm putting my whole portfolio at risk because having a proven track record means nothing and inadvertently tresspassing some deliberately vague guidelines could be the end of it. Click that checkbox, put your head on the chopping block and hope the axe won't come down
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Adobe Stock / Re: Account blocked - I need help please« on: September 14, 2023, 07:12 »Additional? I'd argue that sinking in the search would have far greater impact on your income than a month or two without pay.3 week block could be several thousand dollars. But in any case it is nearly one month income missing. 21
Adobe Stock / Re: Big credit but no sale. Has this happened to anyone else?« on: September 13, 2023, 03:26 »
I usually check my sales only and completely missed this. 300$+ here. Pretty nice if real but would also want to know what it comes from
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Shutterstock.com / Re: No Payment« on: September 07, 2023, 14:56 »
I received the notification mail that my payment has been calculated an hour after I received the actual payment
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Adobe Stock / Re: "Adobe Staff Worry Their AI Could Kill the Jobs of Their Own Customers" -Petapix« on: August 02, 2023, 04:46 »
Talking about cutting the branch you're sitting on. But others are doing it too so let's hurry and cut it off before the others
I can only imagine the smoke coming out of their ears trying to figure this one out 24
General - Stock Video / Re: How is AdobeStock video sales these days?« on: July 25, 2023, 03:27 »
A lot of 2.8$, 5.32$ and 8.4$ sales these days. Overall volume is larger and 28$ sales have become a rarity but also had a 70$ sale last month. Now I can proudly say I have witnessed a unicorn
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Adobe Stock / Re: 9 Million+ AI generated photos - Stock Photography coming to end« on: June 14, 2023, 06:41 »Personally I find the quirks and imperfections very interesting. It feels like the ai is striking back and making it their own as opposed to the prompters creation. I'm sure it takes certain amount of talent to find and push the "generate" button but to make the debate shorter just take a look of what these people did before their AI content. There's an abyss between before and after Almost everything looks very similar, like it's gone through the same "art" filter. These images share at least half of their prompts. UHD, 8K, HDR, Trending on Artstation, High definition, Ultra detailed etc... |
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