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« on: February 26, 2025, 12:43 »
My digital art website is well visited, now. As anticipated, now I'm building the POD gallery - having fun with the mockups - making experience with personal styles but without pushing at the moment. On my blog https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog/ some news 
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« on: February 20, 2025, 16:19 »
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« on: January 15, 2025, 13:59 »
I received the letter too and gave my date to Alamy, even if the request is ridiculous, as they have all my data anyway. If you follow the link in the email (" If you need further guidance, read more about how we work with Collecting Societies...") you get your explanation: it is a secondary copyright income from no profit societies. I'm in this scheme already, and every year I receive extra income, not a lot but nice 
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« on: January 06, 2025, 03:36 »
FAA does the work, I get the money.
The pocket change, dear Uncle Pete.
Good luck, in a positive way, with your self hosted projects. I wish you continued success.
thank you ❤️
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« on: January 05, 2025, 11:46 »
I can understand the enjoyment from creating your own site, but in terms of the business case, one word comes to mind - Symbiostock. That is one for the older readers here...
Steve
PS - I'm a great believer in a two-pronged approach. You need to enable the "passing trade" of people just searching for a particular image and mine pops up on Google search and they buy it from Pictorem, say. Then you can have a more focused site with your favorite images that you promote on social media and Etsy is suiting me well there. After all, $1500 in profit in December is a fair measure of success.
Yes, I know Simbiostock, I was there the last times, when Leo was not in charge anymore My grounds are quite dissimilar. I know you as successful and I respect you, but I'm interested actually in a different approach.
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« on: January 05, 2025, 08:19 »
I think we can
Yes, we can. Made my own POD website as well  .
Congratulations! 
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« on: January 05, 2025, 04:58 »
FAA does the work, I get the money.
The pocket change, dear Uncle Pete.
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« on: January 04, 2025, 15:57 »
I think it would be more effective to sell this on eBay. 
Unfortunately Ebay is no more was used to be two years ago. I made a lot of good bargain there. But now they manage your money directly and not in a way I like (pointless delays, misunderstanding, useless bureaucracy and so on...) I think that the microstock business is currently in its sunset phase and finding valid alternatives is the only way to stay afloat 
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« on: January 04, 2025, 07:30 »
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« on: December 09, 2024, 07:24 »
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« on: August 31, 2024, 17:07 »
advice everyone should digest if they want enjoy seafood.
🤣 🤣 🤣
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« on: August 31, 2024, 05:02 »
Thank you Luisa,it's always a pleasure to read those who for reporting the facts honestly.
il pecorino al tartufo vende perchè è buono!
It's true that content that you don't expect often sells more,if you see what my third best-seller on Adobe is,you wouldn't believe it!
I agree with eliminating agencies that don't perform good,as Dreamstime,which have always behaved well,but unfortunately they sell little,the only thing that DT should change is the minimum payout,because 100usd is too much,they know it but they don't do anything about it.
I still have the port on Shutterstock but I no longer upload,because it has become a waste of time like small agencies.
I became exclusive with Adobe,without an exclusivity program,after I broke up with Istock.
Sooner or later I will publish the emails received from Istock here,so perhaps many will realize what Getty/Istock actually is.
In my opinion,working with too many agencies today only results in a waste of time,because whether you want it or not,in the end they absorb your time and are just a distraction.
In my opinion,the future of microstock is with Adobe!
Hi, thank you for reading and yes, probably Adobe at the moment is the best. Concordo anche sul pecorino al tartufo, è proprio buono (anche il Prosecco)
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« on: August 31, 2024, 04:59 »
That is very good and concise write-up Luisa; enjoyed reading it.
Some great art there too; "Fearsome Strange Underworlds" really speaks to me
Hi zeljkok, thank you for reading and for the nice words, happy you liked my Inferno. I see wonderful pictures on your pages too, I envy your world travels!
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« on: August 30, 2024, 10:27 »
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« on: February 17, 2024, 05:39 »
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« on: January 19, 2024, 14:12 »
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« on: January 07, 2024, 05:58 »
I am getting a lot less 99 cents sales and a lot more sales around 1.04 - 1.28.
You are suggesting these may be a replacement for the 3.30 sales?
I don't know, at least with me the sales volume fits the 99 cents pattern.
So, I will try to be positive and assume Adobe is getting more money in some way.
I agree, I have a similar pattern 
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« on: January 03, 2024, 05:07 »
2023/2022
I focused on Adobe, where I only had 1300 files and did not upload for 10 years.
I added around 2300 files and my income increased over 900% year on year. Reached a weekly rank of 253 for a brief moment, now back down to 1040.
Basically from next to nothing to months with several hundred and one month over 1800 dollars with 2-3k files.
This year I want to make a big push for video. And also try to „activate“ istock with normal photos and videos.
Will still submit every day to Adobe and try to round out my port with themes that I have simply never offered.
Especially illustrations, every illustration sale is a sale I never would have had.
I really hope I can activate istock. My old port is still my largest port.
eta: now 1670...hm, need more stuff for spring
Congrats! Using cleverness and skill you deserve your success. Excellent job in 2024 !!!
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« on: December 09, 2023, 11:22 »
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« on: November 29, 2023, 07:36 »
I was pretty curious to test at Runway https://runwayml.com/ a new creative tool to AI-generate a video directly from a prompt, an image + prompt, or simply with brush strokes over an image to specify motion.
The two last posts on my blog https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog are dedicated to my attempts.
I enjoyed the ride and I think the last result is not bad at all.
What version are you using? I see free and three more.
just the free one
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« on: November 27, 2023, 14:24 »
Machine Learning, AI that creates images does not use the original images, it's not making a composite or taking bits and pieces of our images to make new images. The machine is trained to create new images, from what it has learned. At least that's the way AI like Dall-E and Midjourney work.
The original images are never accessed again when someone asks for a new composition. So the whole, "I should get paid, every time my image is used again." is not logical, as all images of that type, style or whatever else, were used only once, but no images are specifically ever used again. AI is making a new image.
I see the decision to use or not as anyone's individual choice. I have fun making some cartoons or basic illustrations. And that's just as needed, now and then. Personally I'm not going to depend on AI for anything, and I like taking real photos. Hopefully people who pay for using images that I create will feel the same.
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« on: November 27, 2023, 13:04 »
I was pretty curious to test at Runway https://runwayml.com/ a new creative tool to AI-generate a video directly from a prompt, an image + prompt, or simply with brush strokes over an image to specify motion.  The two last posts on my blog https://luisafumi-digitalart.com/blog are dedicated to my attempts. I enjoyed the ride and I think the last result is not bad at all.
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« on: November 02, 2023, 12:24 »
"the sales rate is almost negligible" says it all. Plus, $300 a year for hosting?
Hi Uncle Pete!
the point is, through the agencies I sell pretty well; thus my "almost negligible" (compared to that) is enough to pay for the hosting and leaves me something for a cup of coffee too ;-)
Not to mention that my huuuge options come in very handy to develop and test my customers' websites before delivering them, and to host there a few E-mail accounts for friends and relatives.
Thus all in all, though paradoxically, it's still convenient - or at least no waste :-)
And in case anyone else or you think I'm being at all critical, I admire your effort and the work that went into the site, making it function as it should, and wish you continued success.
❤️
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« on: November 02, 2023, 05:20 »
I never tried licensing microstock on my own but I licensed full priced stock back in the day to magazines & web designers who'd find me via searches. These days, however, I usually only license photos to clients with whom I already have a relationship, such as local magazines & various calendar companies I work with.
Even when I licensed stock regularly to non-clients, while they sometimes found my work via Google, they mostly found it because Photoshelter (my site host since 2008) hosted the URLs of thousands of photographers and search was built into both individual websites and also art directors could go to Photoshelter directly and search all keyworded images that all the photographers' sites they hosted had available to license. So I had that working for me ... the effort to market on my own would have been daunting.
It's a shame that it's no longer viable because Photoshelter has easy stock & print pricing & ecommerce built in, and even lets you do image packages. It's still worthwhile since it also provides unlimited storage of RAW, PSD, etc, excellent organization & search, client sharing tools, private galleries, and numerous templates so even this 65-year-old grandma can build & change my site with ease.
I never had the volume I'd need to make licensing microstock worthwhile but IMHO, even when the market was strong, it only ever made sense to license full priced stock because I could provide unique RM images that weren't on other sites. Today, the microstock model has mostly supplanted RM. My only licenses these days are to clients with whom I already have a relationship, done via private (hidden) galleries set up each of them, a far cry from random Google searches.
Hard to believe how much has changed in 15 years.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
P.S. I love that you are making antique looking images like the books and some Halloween images with the latest AI tech. Beautiful stuff! Great idea licensing as image packs too.
Thank you for sharing your story, I found it quite interesting! IMHO images like yours are way too beautiful, classy and soulful to be wasted on the microstock market amid those billions of 'click-and-upload' hasty amateurish snapshots. I agree that licensing them individually to people you know and respect is the right way of selling them. Yes, I'd like to expand the notion of licensing my images as bundles. Thank you for your kind words!
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« on: November 01, 2023, 13:03 »
"the sales rate is almost negligible" says it all. Plus, $300 a year for hosting?
Hi Uncle Pete! the point is, through the agencies I sell pretty well; thus my "almost negligible" (compared to that) is enough to pay for the hosting and leaves me something for a cup of coffee too ;-) Not to mention that my huuuge options come in very handy to develop and test my customers' websites before delivering them, and to host there a few E-mail accounts for friends and relatives. Thus all in all, though paradoxically, it's still convenient - or at least no waste :-)
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