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« on: April 01, 2025, 18:47 »
Olympic, olympics are trademarked by the IOC so you should remove them.
Apart from that, maybe you could add in amphitheatre seeing as you have both UK and American spellings of theatre/theater.
+100 thank you for giving a great answer! Replies like this make this site a great place for all microstockers!
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« on: March 29, 2025, 09:23 »
Thank you for the article. I am teaching a class tomorrow will add that to the link list.
I anyway warn people about the scammers and that earning money from stock is a slow and steady process.
"earning money from stock is a slow and steady process" for me more like slow and not a steady process lol!
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« on: March 29, 2025, 09:21 »
Awesome vids! You are really producing some nice work!
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« on: March 19, 2025, 18:06 »
Does anyone know when the current Photoshop Beta (with it's apparently amazing auto-isolation tools) will become the production version?
FYI What's New In Photoshop Beta (April 2024) In September, Adobe officially rolled Generative Fill out of beta and into the production version, making it available to all Photoshop users.
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« on: March 10, 2025, 18:28 »
Good information!
Just that there really isn't a full proof category to ensure sales. The niche is critical for a lot of us. For example, Yuri is a people (Lifestyles) shooter and use to make millions were I shoot people and lucky to have enough money to eat at McDonald's.
So other variables like your skill in taking the pic and processing it plus the administrative work (i.e., descriptions, key wording and uploading) play into the equation. For me I have shot simple backgrounds since 2011 and made some decent money but I wouldn't recommend my type of images to the new contributors today.
Additionally, why does one image where you have many similar out sell them by tenfold? Was it uploaded at the right time? Did it sell immediately? Nobody has ever figured this one that I know and if they did they sure didn't tell us lol!
Just interesting to try to figure out this crazy business we are in.
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« on: February 28, 2025, 08:01 »
Amazing work! Thanks for sharing! 
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« on: February 24, 2025, 10:22 »
@Tom. If you're still experimenting with lighting, I thought I would add a summary of my section on lighting.
Backlighting adds light to the back and casts shadows in the front, and can flood the image with light. This is used for: adding halos to objects, shooting high-key images, rising steam or transparent glassware. Side lighting, either slightly to the front or slightly behind, is used to highlight food from the side and casts shadows on the other side. This is used to capture shadows and highlights necessary for a dynamic photo. Your image will look three dimensional and, therefore, more authentic and appealing. This is the most popular for food photographers because it works for many layouts.
If you photograph food from the front, it will look smooth. There will be no shadows to capture beautiful textures and no highlights to accentuate the natural contrasts of your subject. Your image will look two-dimensional and unappealing, and should be avoided.
It takes a while to master all of this, so keep practising and experimenting.
All over lighting works for stock photography but has its limitations for food photography. Premium food photography buyers buy images for magazine covers, cookbooks, social media advertising, web banners, blog hero headers, wall art, and even billboards, and need delicious looking food. Textures, highlights and shadows makes your food look 3-dimensional, authentic and therefor more delicious.
thank you so much Annie!
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« on: February 21, 2025, 07:43 »
wow! Thank you Annie! Amazing! Thanks
Tom
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« on: February 20, 2025, 21:10 »
Just did a quick skim on Annie's book and I love the visuals! My biggest complaint of many restaurants is lack of images of their food items in their menus.
I will be showing my age but I like the story board templates and what each color means! Within minutes I learned that I am over lighting my food pics thus making them look like plastic.
Also all the folks comments on this string have been very positive and helpful- you all have great talent and will to help others.
Off to try new tip from you book on some fine salmon salmon. Thanks Annie!
Thank you Tom!!
Are you using natural light?
When I was first accepted by The Picture Pantry, I changed over from studio lighting to natural light because I knew the premium food photography industry prefers natural light. And now when I compare my old stock photos to my new ones, there is such a huge difference. Of course, working with natural light has a lot of challenges, but I found it was worth every moment of my time learning and exploring this new dimension.
Good luck! I can't wait to see the salmon!
My first round--used lighting from large windows and one white board to splash a little bit on the back part of the image.
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« on: February 20, 2025, 14:18 »
Just did a quick skim on Annie's book and I love the visuals! My biggest complaint of many restaurants is lack of images of their food items in their menus.
I will be showing my age but I like the story board templates and what each color means! Within minutes I learned that I am over lighting my food pics thus making them look like plastic.
Also all the folks comments on this string have been very positive and helpful- you all have great talent and will to help others.
Off to try new tip from you book on some fine salmon salmon. Thanks Annie!
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« on: February 19, 2025, 09:01 »
Annie, why do you keep changing your accounts? Who are you running and hiding from?
Obviously this is all because of me. 
Oh, I've done the same. On joining the Fotolia Dollar Photo Club option (DPC) I was sent a death threat to me and my family and quit this site for a while. You have some colorful posts but don't threaten folks like some of the past ones did. They are gone now but I know who they are and keep my guard up. This business has been a bumpy ride for sure but overall there are many good folks here!
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« on: February 18, 2025, 19:43 »
Having personally known Annie since 2011- I can say she is the real deal! Here setups are second to none (extremely detailed) and she has proven herself in this harsh business. I wish her best of success on this book that I am sure has a ton of knowledge and will make you hungry just looking at her food pics! Tom
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« on: February 18, 2025, 12:08 »
Sadly knowing all of this and we still submit images getting $.10 each while the employees are living the American dream and the owner sails the seas in his large yacht. I feel like I am nothing more than a cheap hooker on the street
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« on: February 17, 2025, 21:36 »
I bet they don't get reset to base salary every January.
You're right they get a pay raise each January instead of a reset like us --guessing around 5% to 10%. 
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« on: February 17, 2025, 12:38 »
FYI ---Shutterstock's salary ranges from $77385 in total compensation per year for a Marketing at the low-end to $434160 for a Product Designer at the high-end. They make almost what the microstock folks make that feed them the images!
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« on: February 14, 2025, 08:12 »
Just watched your video! Awesome! I will do some of your suggestions and hopefully make some bank like you're making 
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« on: February 04, 2025, 13:12 »
Biden and the Democrats stole money that was allocated to Ukraine!
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has clarified that of the approximately US$177 billion in aid approved by the US for Ukraine, the country has received about US$76 billion.
Quote: "When I hear both in the past and even now from the US that America has provided Ukraine with hundreds of billions [of dollars] (177, to be precise, based on what Congress approved), as the president of a nation at war, I can tell you weve received more than US$75 billion.
So, when people talk about US$177 billion or even US$200 billion, weve never received that. Were talking about tangible things because this aid didnt come as cash but rather as weapons, which amounted to about US$70 billion.
But when its said that Ukraine received US$200 billion to support the army during the war thats not true. I dont know where all that money went. Perhaps its true on paper with hundreds of different programmes I wont argue, and were immensely grateful for everything. But in reality, we received about US$76 billion. Its significant aid, but its not US$200 billion."
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/2/7496431/
Now that Musk has the financials the crap is going to hit the fan! A lot of corruption will be found!
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« on: February 01, 2025, 10:43 »
Congratulations on completely crashing and burning SS! I made $60 which is about 1/5 of what I made my first month in March of 2013.
You beat me sir! I made $46 this month. I cannot even afford to feed my cat now!
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« on: January 30, 2025, 13:34 »
I am not Chinese, but China is a country that has existed for millennia, long before many other nations even came into being. That alone suggests a depth of wisdom accumulated over time. As a society, they place great value on tradition, heritage, and education.
As for your statement: 'China finances all the world's terrorists, supports genocide, created COVID-19 as a weapon of mass destruction, and supplies fentanyl-based drugs to the EU and the US to kill millions of people of mobilization age' - that is a highly questionable claim to accept at face value. Neither I nor anyone outside the highest levels of government can ever fully know the absolute truth, so I will not engage in a discussion based on speculation.
FYI https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/china-based-chemical-manufacturing-companies-and-employees-indicted-alleged-fentanyl
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« on: January 30, 2025, 09:41 »
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« on: January 28, 2025, 11:26 »
I imputed my 1099-K in turbo tax (Home and business edition). Piece of cake. Some folks feel why bother to use the 1099-K form---One my buddies that is an IRS agent told me to make sure you include this form if you are over the threshold. I guess they hired additional folks to monitor this new requirement thus I didn't want to trigger an audit.
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« on: January 27, 2025, 18:54 »
I checked the 1099-K from PP, and it matches the earnings from mass payments made by my microstock companies to the cent. The only discrepancy comes from the 1099-MISC provided by Adobe, since they don't report payments but earnings.
Does anyone using TurboTax know where this 1099-K should be entered to avoid duplicates?
FYI https://www.irs.gov/businesses/what-to-do-with-form-1099-k
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« on: January 26, 2025, 11:29 »
FYI
Gig worker, freelancer, hobby seller and other self-employed You're considered a sole proprietor and should report Form 1099-K payment information on Schedule C (Form 1040), Profit or Loss from Business (Sole Proprietorship).Nov 20, 2024
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« on: January 26, 2025, 09:47 »
The IRS lowered the 1099K reporting threshold from $20K and 200 transactions to $5K and 200 transactions. Next year it lowers again to $600. Double reporting of income (1099 misc from agencies and 1099K from paypal) will be a problem for many this year.
I'm not sure how to address it on my tax form.. I'm seeing conflicting information currently.
Bingo! I would be so easy just to input your 1099K from paypal and not several 1099C's from the companies. But the 1099K might have errors. Total mess.
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