Milleflore, commercial use and reselling is not the same. At the end of article you linked, they say selling templates is allowed only if they are linked back to Canva.

I'm having one of my top month this year.

Enjoy it while it lasts, I certainly did.

Thank you Lina for your new try to force Adobe to clear the situation and give information about these cases. But do not expect them answering here. They will NOT. They hide themselves back doors like big Mafia bosses do/did.

I am not expecting anything anymore, I just summarized it because For Real asked me for other issues and I guess I needed to vent out my frustrations. I don't have time or energy anymore to search for answers, stolen images, stolen ideas etc. I am just sick and tired and disappointed because I really loved to work for microstock and now I feel forced to move on. That's all.

We can safely predict that the night follows day, without having to wait for the dark. 

Such a large collection of good quality free assets is rather likely to deter buyers from buying more stuff, instead of stimulating them to buy more.
That's because nothing beats free, especially when the quality is sufficient for the purpose.

So when your work is offered for free, even if you got your precious $5, you will kill potential sales not necessarily from you, but rather from your fellow contributors who are competing in the same category.
In return, their free stuff will kill your sales in other categories, very likely beyond your precious $5.

The bigger this collection becomes, the bigger the losses will be for the contributor's community.

Too bad that many of us are wearing horse blinders, seeing only a narrow and individual short-term interest, instead of seeing how fast we are cutting the branch we all are sitting on!

Absolutely. Very well said. I was also surprised how unwilling are many contributors to see what's going on, not just about free images, but other issues as well.

Most of you who are posting "5$ is better than nothing", I don't think you are seeing bigger picture. With appearance of free sites, prices are constantly dropping, buyers are getting broader rights with standard licenses and so on. With more high quality free pictures of any kind, there will be less need to pay subscription to microstock sites, prices will drop even more etc. Plus, contributors are already moving on or becoming demotivated, so nice and original images are hard to find on some stock sites and buyers who need something special will search somewhere else.

I am designer, just couple years ago most of my clients had some subscription to microstock. These days most of them think there is no need to have subscription because there is great choice of free images. Even if they can't find exactly what they want, they will stay with free rather than buying images. Just my 2 cents.

There are still many countries where Creative Cloud and Adobe Stock is available only through resellers and only for teams and enterprises: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/products/creativecloud/cc/pdfs/cc-availability-matrix.pdf

If it is any consolation for you, @arapix, your country and other new markets were geoblocked before and couldn't buy individual online subscription at all. Other options are very expensive and probably nobody was buying images from AS anyway, there are other stock sites which are not geoblocking any country. So this is baby step forward, I guess? My country is one of new markets too, it was done very quietly, no advertising, no promotion emails, nothing. I found out that we can now buy software online, because someone posted it in one of Facebook groups, otherwise I wouldn't know. I am graphic designer, one of potential buyers btw. I don't know, it is like they still don't want us to buy their online subscription.

I just don't understand why in AS "Call for content" often is local food, traditions, national heritage etc. What's point of shooting local images if these images are not available in countries where someone could be interested in buying them?
 

Lina, I am sorry to ear your case. Probably you need to be in the same "page" as them.

Anyway just let you know that you can import psd files into Affinity and also convert to be open in photoshop.
There are tutorials around internet and youtube that can help you with that.

Oh! One other thing... Affinity is now 27,99�/lifetime but you can try it for free too.
Maybe you can see if this can work for you.

Thank you for trying to help! I have Affinity Photo and Designer. Great software, only bad thing is that Affinity Photo doesn't support smart objects, at least it didn't last time I checked.

I am working mostly in InDesign. As far as I know, Affinity Publisher is still not on same level as InDesign and I am afraid to even think of all issues that could happen in conversion. And yes, I have to be on same page with my client so I can't work in other software and make conversions all the time.

It's OK, at least Adobe graciously allowed us to buy web subscription from beginning of this year, until now in my country we had only option to buy "For Teams" version which is expensive as hell (around 550$ for single app/year).

Actually you can if you choose to. My long time graphic designer friend dropped Adobe for Affinity and loves the savings. He introduced my wife to Affinity and she too loves the savings and they both still design.

As mentioned above I dropped Premiere for Da Vinci. The program does more than I need or even what I am capable of in editing and the monthly/annual savings is noted.

My biggest clients have CC subscription, we are sending files to each other all the time. So I really can't.

Leremy, is Canva also offering extended license for unlimited sales, so buyers can resell images and earn money from them while artist gets peanuts? I don't think so.

So, if downloads are unlimited, how will it be calculated per one sold image? How will AS know how many images buyer is planning to download?

This brouhaha makes me glad I mostly shoot critters.

Not a single wild burro I've ever photographed has come back to complain that I didn't call him/her a wild donkey.   

You could be surprised. I was contacted once because of plant, someone insisted that I change the plant name or he will ask Shutterstock to remove my image. I refused,  image was still there when I deactivated my account last year.

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@whosvegas, you can contact Paypal support and ask them not to do conversion. I have card number of my bank account connected with PP, did that and it works great. I am not sure is it possible if you have bank account directly connected with PP but worth to try.

Just been through this all with PP again.

God I hate that company, they refuse to let me withdraw dollars (I am in the UK). Can't add a USD account, cant withdraw in dollars to a GBP account and let the other institution do the conversion.

Oh well... I am sorry to hear that. It's awful that these companies are allowed to do whatever they want.