Author Topic: What would it take to bring back this industry to the golden days? (Read 26952 times)

SpaceStockFootage · « **Reply #75 on:** September 09, 2017, 22:42 »

Quote from: Semmick Photo on September 08, 2017, 01:55

Lets stop innovation all together and go back to the days of taking a dump over a hole in the ground and bloodletting

Go back to last week?!

sooner_foto · « **Reply #76 on:** September 14, 2017, 12:03 »

These days you even have Abobe working against creatives with their free Adobe Spark. It eliminates the need for graphic designers and offers free photos and video to use. Nothing like a company screwing over its own customer base.

yoobeck · « **Reply #77 on:** September 14, 2017, 12:14 »

Well, P5 did it yesterday by introducing editing services. it's the new way. Cut in to what creatives are doing.

Minsc · « **Reply #78 on:** September 14, 2017, 13:38 »

Quote from: sooner_foto on September 14, 2017, 12:03

These days you even have Abobe working against creatives with their free Adobe Spark. It eliminates the need for graphic designers and offers free photos and video to use. Nothing like a company screwing over its own customer base.

I feel like we're just finding things to complain about right now. Spark is an experiment by Adobe to test adoption. If it becomes a useful tool for design, and they integrate Adobe Stock, people will complain about their search rankings.

Apple is going to release the iPhone 8 and iPhone X with a portrait mode that mimics studio lighting by using 3D mapping on your face. There's a number of companies using AI to design page layout. Google is using machine learning to create millions of bad drawings. It's only a matter of time before they get good at it and reduce reliance on creatives.

You can't fight progress. The only thing we can do is adapt.

namussi · « **Reply #79 on:** September 15, 2017, 04:16 »

Quote from: sooner_foto on September 14, 2017, 12:03

These days you even have Abobe working against creatives with their free Adobe Spark. It eliminates the need for graphic designers and offers free photos and video to use. Nothing like a company screwing over its own customer base.

Adobe is getting its retaliation in first.

Better to screw over your customers yourself, rather than letting a start-up or Apple steal them from you.

Red Dove · « **Reply #80 on:** September 15, 2017, 05:22 »

A modified DeLorean DMC-12

stockmarketer · « **Reply #81 on:** September 15, 2017, 05:45 »

Quote from: Brasilnut on August 25, 2017, 06:01

To go back to the "good old days", it will take WW3 and the eventual nuclear fallout which would wipe out 99% of the Earth's population.

Honestly, this is probably about the only way the golden days could return.

The only hopeful (for a small percentage of people) scenario would be a massive self-culling of contributors. Everyone's piece of the pie becomes so tiny that the vast majority of contributors realize the return on investment is nearly zero and they don't bother creating new content. This would have to be coupled with the big agencies realizing that more than half of their overall collections have never received a single sale and they drop this content. Those of us who remain could see our revenue start climbing again.

Though, thinking about the two scenarios, I think the nuclear war might be the one more likely to happen.

Pauws99 · « **Reply #82 on:** September 15, 2017, 07:07 »

Quote from: stockmarketer on September 15, 2017, 05:45

Quote from: Brasilnut on August 25, 2017, 06:01
To go back to the "good old days", it will take WW3 and the eventual nuclear fallout which would wipe out 99% of the Earth's population.

Honestly, this is probably about the only way the golden days could return.

The only hopeful (for a small percentage of people) scenario would be a massive self-culling of contributors. Everyone's piece of the pie becomes so tiny that the vast majority of contributors realize the return on investment is nearly zero and they don't bother creating new content. This would have to be coupled with the big agencies realizing that more than half of their overall collections have never received a single sale and they drop this content. Those of us who remain could see our revenue start climbing again.

Though, thinking about the two scenarios, I think the nuclear war might be the one more likely to happen.

I suspect the exponential growth of new content will slow but nowhere near enough to herald a new golden age as the cost of production is getting lower and more practical in poorer countries where the returns are relatively more attractive.