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the experience of contributing to sutterstock is more comfortable.
By @Worker404
Shutterstock is a trash because of their rates.
Do every three words cost you a quarter of a dollar?
By @Worker404
And that's even more than you earn per single asset sale on Shutterstock.
I am not talking about the acceptance rates of the images, I am talking about the experience of publishing the image itself.
By @Worker404
And I am not talking about the acceptance rate, I am talking about the pay rate per single asset. It's a few times bigger on Adobe Stock.
Generally, I understand the point of your message. But be honest with yourself: do you contribute because of "comfort of publishing" or because you want to earn money? I have self-esteem and appreciate my time, and I am not ready to sell an asset for $0,1 rate.
Also I don't consider the submission process on Adobe Stock "uncomfortable" in any way. Yes, even the keyword tool.
I do NOT definitely agree with your statement about Shutterstock, because I do not contribute to that agency.
By @Jill_C
fine, so, they have a thing called: keywordtool.
This tool finds many images similar to your uploaded image. You can select more than one image and then the keywords for these images will appear to you. You can extract the keywords that you like from these images.
Instead of spending a quarter of an hour on a photo, it may cost you only four minutes.
Let's be serious, if this feature existed in adobe stock, wouldn't it save you a lot and use it?
Excuse me, the picture does not show whether you are a man or a woman,
By @Worker404
Jill is a female first name. That's something that you should really pay attention to. Google would have brought you many Jill's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill
The word "man" in comments like that is an extra word that is said in any Exclamation situation and has nothing to do with whether the person in front of you is a man or not.
By @Worker404
The word "man" as you used it is a filler word that does not make much sense. You may have a tick to close all sentences with "man" in spoken English, but in written English it's bad style.
Two minutes!
How many keywords do you write on average man?
By @Worker404
For image series, the keywords do not differ a lot.
By @Jill_Cand I have never heard of a single instance of anyone being in contact with a Moderator. Moderators do not make business or policy decisions on behalf of Adobe,
This is not good at all. I don’t know why they are closed or do not want to improve the platform. As for myself, in most cases I cannot see the portfolio.
Also most of the second sellers pictures don't show up for me.
This is what I mean by all the criticism of opinions, that you agree that there are problems that you want to fix, and yet if someone talks about them, you may contradict him.
My point is that reaching out to Moderators, even if there was a way to do that, is pointless. Moderators are hired to do one thing - review assets. They do not determine Adobe Stock's strategy or R&D priorities.
By @Jill_C
I do not mean the supervisors who review the photos, I mean the site supervisors. A platform like this was certainly not created by a group of people who review the photos. There is a team that is “supposed” to have developed this platform.
Also, don't you agree on even one point?
- You may not suffer from the problem of rejecting images using artificial intelligence, but you certainly found the matter to be more severe in the forum. Every short time you find a post with the same idea to which you can respond with the same response.
-Also, this keyword tool will save a lot. You can find licensed images for regular use that are similar to your images and extract keywords from them.
I think at least you agree with me on these two points, or what?
The Shutterstock experience is hundreds of times better than the Adobe Stock experience, which is full of glitches
By @Oranuus
Why do I have less sales and earn less per sale with Shutterstock, if the experience is a hundred times better?
Yes, they have a fancy interface with bells and whistles, but at the end it's only my earnings that count. For what good is it, when I know that I sold an asset to South-Africa for 10 cents, if simultaneously I sold 5 assets on Adobe stock for an average earning of 70 cents, but I do not know where the assets went?
The only thing that lets me stay with Shutterstock is that I sell different assets on Shutterstock than here.
First, more customization for the portfolio: The Portfolio in Adobe needs more customization, and you must add at least two lines to describe yourself and the work that you do, or make it possible to display a way to communicate with you. The problem with this step is that Adobe will not want you to communicate with someone outside the site because it will lose the percentage of profit, so we move to the second point.
By @Worker404
The whole paragraph is irrelevant, since there is Behance. Discover the network for yourself. There is an option to link your Adobe Stock acc there, and vice versa - you are able to link your Behance profile on Adobe Stock. And there are direct messages on Behance.
Before contesting the opinions, read them first and accept them.
By @Worker404
No, I do not have to accept them. Why should I? You could expect that people read what you have to say before contesting, but they surely do not accept them.
If you agree that you want amendments to these points as well, please add a vote for this post, or just copy it and try to suggest some of these ideas to the moderators if you are able to reach them, perhaps at least one point will be resolved.
By @Worker404
Upvoting your post does not make you earn a cent. Adobe does, for most of the posts, not read this forum. Sorry for that, but it is wasted effort. Nobody can reach out to the moderators except some employees of Adobe stock.
First, more customization for the portfolio: The Portfolio in Adobe needs more customization, and you must add at least two lines to describe yourself and the work that you do, or make it possible to display a way to communicate with you. The problem with this step is that Adobe will not want you to communicate with someone outside the site because it will lose the percentage of profit, so we move to the second point.
By @Worker404
As you correctly pointed out, Adobe does not want that, so it is pointless. As for "describing your work": buyers are not searching by profile, but they are searching the whole database. Your individual profile is of no use to them. You can connect a collection of your profile with Portfolio, and you can share your public profile with social media as you wish. I don't do that. I do not feel a need to do that. And I do not need to feel the need for anyone in the world to know more about my life. When I'm taking pictures for a customer, I get paid by them. That's all. I can promote my work independently of Adobe stock. That's much more profitable for me.
Secondly, it would be good to add the possibility of searching for images owned by a specific contrbutor, or searching for the contrbutor himself. Some people may prefer to buy specific businesses from a specific person, as in reality some buyers are more comfortable with merchants than other merchants. If the matter had been a failure, it would not have been implemented at sutterstock. This may increase the chance of people purchasing the content you produce. they can also add a button to follow specific contrbutors, so you get notifications when new assets come, It is not difficult.
By @Worker404
Again: customers do not search for your assets, they search for assets. When they find an asset that pleases them, there are tools to look for similar assets. That's much more profitable for you as a contributor and for Adobe. Using Shutterstock as an example of good sales is a joke. I do much more money and I have much more sales here on Adobe stock than I have on Shutterstock. So both, the amount and the numbers are more favourable for Adobe. And that even without all these whistles and bells. But it may be, that stock has the big advantage of being an integrated product to Creative Cloud. I agree, that advantage is unfair against the competition.
Third, cookie issues: Some issues related to cookies must be resolved which leads to your portfolio not appearing to you, but it appears to others normally.
The device on which you are logged in does not display your portfolio, but on other devices on which you are not logged in, it appears normally.
By @Worker404
That is more a region issue. In what region are you located? When I check my portfolio, it is the same as when other people look at my portfolio.
Fourth, the keyword tool: There is no doubt that the keywords provided by Adobe Stock are small when compared to those provided by shutterstock. You can notice the difference in the number of keywords and suggestions. The Adobe Stock team must work a little to improve the suggested keywords, and it would also be better Adding a tool that brings you images similar to your images and the keywords they contain, and you can choose the keywords that you like from them. The matter is applied in shutterstock and it is really successful. Man, imagine how much time you will save writing keywords and thinking about them.
By @Worker404
Agree, the keyword tool could do a better job.
Fifth: A comprehensive solution to the strange problems and complaints that appear regarding accepting images full of errors and rejecting good ones. We do not know the nature of the Adobe team’s view of the work and whether they examine all the images or judge all of them by some, but there is no doubt that the issue occurred to you or You are tired of the many posts complaining about the topic.
By @Worker404
No, the issue did not occur to me. But the issue surfaced when Adobe started accepting generative AI assets, and the moderators were not prepared for this. Most of the generative AI contributors throw anything against the wall, and see what sticks. It is rare that good assets get refused. I have seen here on the fora, during my years of presence may be three or four of such assets, where I simply could not explain, why the asset got refused. None of those was mine. My refusals are always for cause, even if I sometimes don't agree. I have some refusals for noise where I consider the noise level to be correct. But OK, I reduced the noise a little bit more and they passed. No harm done.
Generative AI assets that pass are very regularly scrap. I won't deny that. And I won't deny that contributors get confused with inconsistent refusals.
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