Ah, I see what you're saying.  There's a difference between this:
https://stock.adobe.com/search?creator_id=205335036
and this:
https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/205335036/seanlockephotography

I have the first bookmarked so that's what I always use.  The second is what you get when you click a contributor's name.  Yes, a search should always have the same interface available.

In other words, the site is useless for buyers. Now I know where my sales are. Thank you Sean.

That's not what I meant either. I can imagine a buyer buying several images from the same contributor if more images are put in front of him like in a set/ lightbox (e.g. food).

Once I already searched for some of my images and I lost my patience and left the site for this reason. I thought they need more time to fix the site but..........it doesn't matter any more.

Hi Mat and many thanks for being here with us when needed.

I see that everyone here is very content of how things are going. I don't want to shoot the messenger but as you asked for feedback, I have to ask two questions:

1. Why do we need an auto-keywording tool when most contributors already have their metadata on file at the moment of upload? If I remember correctly, there was an announcement in the past that AS/FT reads the metadata even from video files.
Auto-keywording failed even for the mighty Go0gle, so why waste time with something not needed?
Also, the upload process on FT was already one of the fastest of all agencies and upload never ever failed in the past like it does on AS.

2. My second is probably off topic but if we are talking about time invested in enhancing features, I have to ask this:

FT was my bestseller till mid last year but after AS overtook the agency, sales are dropping slowly but continuously, sinking to 30% earnings in 2017 compared to 2016.
It could be just me but I still want to ask, is it worth to further upload to an agency that became one of the low earners (despite the poll on the right).

What is Adobe doing in this regard?

Lots of great questions, sorry I've been slow to respond. I've been traveling a bit this week. I'll try to answer everyone as best I can starting with you @Dodie.

"Why do we need auto-keywording?"

-It's an added feature. Particularly helpful to new contributors that don't have a firm grasp on keyword strategy yet. If you are embedding your keywords into the metadata of your files, the system won't generate auto-keywords for you so there will be no impact on your work flow of any kind. However, if you are stumped on how to keyword an image, give it a try. The system is "learning" and seems to get better every time I try it. It could end up you submit images to Adobe Stock first with no keywords then copy and paste the auto-keywords into your metadata for other uploads. I'm just sayin...


#2  "FT was my bestseller till mid last year but after AS overtook the agency, sales are dropping slowly but continuously, sinking to 30% earnings in 2017 compared to 2016.
It could be just me but I still want to ask, is it worth to further upload to an agency that became one of the low earners (despite the poll on the right)."

I can't speak to your specific results. In my contributor account I am finding that my year over year monthly sales are increasing for the most part. Are you consistently uploading new content? That is the best way to ensure your portfolio stays near the top of the search results I have found. Adobe is working very hard to market Adobe Stock and as far as I can tell, we are increasing in volume at a rapid pace. There is strong potential to earn good revenue...it's entirely up to you to produce the content to take advantage of the opportunity.

Good luck!

Mat

Ah, I see what you're saying.  There's a difference between this:
https://stock.adobe.com/search?creator_id=205335036
and this:
https://stock.adobe.com/contributor/205335036/seanlockephotography

I have the first bookmarked so that's what I always use.  The second is what you get when you click a contributor's name.  Yes, a search should always have the same interface available.

That is interesting. Thanks for sharing the two links. I'll look into this asap.

-Mat

Cheers, Mat.  I'm sure it's just some UI oversight.

Thanks for the answer Mat.
I hope they can fix the difference between the two portfolio layouts mentioned above too.

You are welcome Dodie.

I heard back from the development team and learned that the sorting discrepancy between portfolio layouts you pointed out is on their list and should be updated at some point in the future. I don't have a date but did learn it's on the list.

Thank you,

-Mat

I've just given up on uploading via the Adobe interface and gone back to Fotolia. Two issues arise from my workflow:

1. Only the first part of the filename is visible. Where clips are visually similar I need to see the whole filename to identify which clip is which.

2. I enter keywords by cutting and pasting from Lightroom, which arranges them alphabetically. This is not a problem for any other agency than FT/Adobe which requires them in priority order. In the Adobe upload interface I can only move one keyword at a time so reordering is difficult and time consuming. At least with the  FT upload interface I can select several separate keywords and move them all to the top in one operation.

For the moment at least I will stick with the FT upload interface.

I asked on the other thread but as I know you are reading this one a question for Mat. As an emerald contributor how do I  raise my file prices using the adobe interface?

This is great I've been a fan of Fotolia for 10 years with thousands of images. I see the port in my adobe account....but the uploader just does not seem to be working. I can't see my files uploaded and I can't keyword them because they do not upload. I'm uploading the correct file types. I provided an image of my screen. Kind of at a lose....does anyone know how to upload to adobe?

since most of us already have keywords in the IPTC, a better use for autokeywording would be to suggest ADDITIONAL keywords

but a MUCH more useful tool would be auto-categorizing, which is currently the slowest part of submitting (still faster than many sites)

The auto-category feature you described is in place and works very well. Check it out!

-Mat

While submitting an image today I've noticed that the free section is turned on.
I had turned it off previously and it was off by default.
I've checked my previous files and it seems it was turned on for some time.
I am not sure how this happened.

How do we tell if this is turned on? especially for past images that might have been submitted that way?

While submitting an image today I've noticed that the free section is turned on.
I had turned it off previously and it was off by default.
I've checked my previous files and it seems it was turned on for some time.
I am not sure how this happened.

Default is "yes" for free section, it always was that way. It resets to "yes" each time. First thing I do when uploading is : select all images, turn off free images, deselect all.

If I remember correctly, only rejected images go to the free section if this option is set to "yes".

If you upload via Adobe Stock, there is no free section and any rejected images will not go to Fotolia's free section (although I thought that was removed anyway, but I'm not sure about that)

http://www.microstockgroup.com/fotolia-com/adobe-stock-free-section/msg475291/#msg475291