Yes. Invited. I don't personally know how the process works. But I assume that if Adobe finds your work to be well above average, they will contact you.
You earn $5 for each of your assets that were accepted to be available for free. You will not earn any further revenue from that image. Assets are nominated once a year. You may or may not have images nominated. It might be one image, it might be a couple hundred. You then accept or deny your nominated assets to be considered to have them available for free. If they are accepted, you will receive $5 for each asset accepted. You might not want to have your asset made available for free. For example, if one of your nominated assets is a popular seller, you might make for than $5 from that asset going forward. So you would not OK it for further consideration.
In any event, the nomination process is over for this year.
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