If I am not wrong, all illustrations which had sales between 1 and 4 in the last 12 month have been selected to be 'valid' for the free collection.

Those selected images will be reviewed and if some of those will be selected, you will get $5 for each selected image. The selected images will then be free to download for 1 year at Adobe Stock.

This year I had 800 foto sales so far with and RPD of $0,294...
- 1 sale for $21
- about 25 sales (on demand) in the range $1-$3
- about 750 sales in the range of $0,10-$0,50 (603 sales for $0,10)

Only 15 video sales are not enough to give stable numbers, RPD of $8,62
- Numbers were; $3,12 - $9,38 - $1,53 - $11,85 - $7,43 - $8,85 - $1,25 - $2,36 - $5,09 - $26,85 - $1,40 - $23,58 - $0,80 - $5,85 - $19,98

Sidenote: with the same video portfolio I had only in June on IStock: 28 Video sales for $204,56 (RPD $7,31)

Are any of you guys experienced massive buyout and refunds after some time? In last 1-2 months I've sold video clips for over $2k at Dreamstime. All of them were refunded of course with their crappy automated message. I bet that all those files will land on some pirate site. This month started the same. Someone with stolen credit card "buiyng" and massive downloading clips.

I had this "sales and refund" with videos at the start of the year, somewhere around February and had a discussion with the support.
At the end they said "If someone uses stolen credit cards, they have downloaded the files but they are of course not allowed to use the videos."... ridiculous and useless as a contributor.

Anybody having the similar lower sales on Adobe Stock during previous 3 weeks like me?

Yes, i had the same low numbers on AS during the last 3-4 weeks - about 50-70% of the 'normal' sales.

Got the paypal email about the Canva payment just 10 minutes ago

Hello Evaristo,

Thank you for the detailed answer. You obviously have a deeper understanding of neural networks than I do - I've only been working on programming them for about a year in my own environment (without Tensorflow or Keras).

Short answer to your questions: Yes, I train the networks exclusively with my own photos that don't require rights clearance or of which I have the rights clearance - it's just hard to add a few thousand reference photos as attachments when uploading

The website is a great example and I am familiar with the GAN networks - but my own NN environment is not yet that far advanced.

I'll wait and see how things develop with the "AI images" on the stock market - something should happen very soon, because I think the topic is becoming very acute.

For the creation of such images, I don't want to be dependent on another system later on, so that I don't have to ask for permission - hence the programming of my own environment.

Translated with DeepL.com

If the images are created by referencing other images, you may have a copyright issue.  Be sure to do a reverse image search to check for visible similarities.

Thanks, a good idea to do a reverse search to see if there are similar images.

The AI creates images from my very own images database and the results are a mathematical mixture of parameters of that images, extracted and transported via a neural network to a new created image.

Hello together,

I am currently facing the question of how I should upload images generated by an AI to AdobeStock?

Brief background:
I program neural networks myself without external libraries and without external image data. These generate stylized images (see examples below).
(This is not that very nice Dall e 2-AI, it is completely my own)

Are such images photo or illustration?
Do I need a model release and where should I get it from, since there is no model?
Or a property release? I would then have to have my computer sign it...

What do you think?

And before I get into trouble, I thought I'd throw this question out there.

I would be interested in your opinion and of course an official statement, how Adobe would like it :-)

Michael

@Dave:
I can only speak for myself here, but Pond5 has slumped to near zero for me in the last 6 months, at about 2,000 videos and my videos are not as good quality as yours :-)
In mid 2021 the performance was Ok and in 2022 (January to April) it was only 4 video sales for $20.12.

By the way, ShutterStock is looking just as dismal with videos, but AdobeStock has picked up slightly with videos and IStock is much better than mid 2021.

@Wilm:
If you take a closer look you see 3 bars at march and only two bars at the rest of the graphics.
So March shows 2020,2021,2022 and all the other month 2020 and 2021.

Was it "custom" not "subscription"? I get 38� subscriptions but have had a (small) handful of the 33� custom royalties since the announcement of Creative Cloud Express

Hello Jo Ann,
it looked like this in my report (see attached image)

Actually I didn't find if a sale is subscription or custom in the german interface.

Today I had a 0,33 image sale (ID 290229907) while being at Level 2.
As Mat's link showed ( https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/royalty-details.html ), the minimum amount on level 2 should be 0.36 - or have I missed another point here?

I don't want to complain about $0.03, but I would like to understand how this comes about :-)

I had the same experience, all 8 videos (first uploaded 3, then 5 which both disappeared when submitting) are online now and in the reviewed and portfolio section.
(It took about 5 days for the videos to become visible and reviewed)

Seems to be safe to upload, you just don't see them in the "to review" section.