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I've used it on Instagram images and it's hard to see. I can see it, because I know what the unaltered image looks like, but I doubt anyone else does. It's free, so maybe worth checking out.

I live near a lake. A really big one. And if you stuck it in England, it would stretch from the Channel to the Scottish border. Lake Michigan in her varied moods. She's no joke, I speak from the experience of crossing her on a 25 foot sloop and getting caught in a squall.

I thought you folks might be interested in this. Doubtful you can use it for stock, because it causes visible artifacts, but for images you post on social media, it might be a good idea.

Jamie Windsor over on your side of the pond has a really good video on this, if you're interested.

I don’t visit this forum very often. I just popped in to see what’s going on and whoa. The OP is a classic example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Not working with Fetch right now.

Billboards don't need higher resolution than what comes out of even a 16 megapixel camera. Back in my photo researcher days at a stock agency in Chicago, we had a large suburban hospital that regularly licensed images for billboards. They requested 35mm transparencies. Billboards aren't high resolution, but in general you can't get close enough to see that.

2021 $45.13 Opted into distribution in July, no novel use. 2022 $53.80 No novel use. In fact I opted out of that first chance I could I think.

No, because I link to the image on Alamy. I put recent sales on LinkedIn. I have a fair number of connections who are stock image users.

I've seen other people say that about zooms and sales, but I get a fair number of sales from zooms. I also get out of the blue sales. But I also get a fair number of unique zooms where the viewer doesn't zoom anything from anyone else. I do a fair amount of promotion on social media, so that might have something to do with it.

If you look at the percentage difference, it’s huge. There is something going on, it could be a number of things. My sales were humming along at a respectable clip and have suddenly drastically decreased. Zooms are way down. Is it something Alamy did or the current world conditions? Only folks who sell through multiple channels can answer that.

It’s a slow month for most, including Alamy. Views and sales are down drastically from the same period in April of last year. I took a quick look at All of Alamy from a year ago to compare to now.

My guess is that Alamy isn’t going to change their policy mainly due to the app. That said, I bought an iPhone 12 Pro Max a year ago. I was using a Canon G16 that I picked up on eBay as a carry around just in case camera. This is one of the few small sensor compacts that was on the old suitable cameras list and it generated several image sales. But, the iPhone simply has better image quality. Better dynamic range, better exposure metering and better color, even with the two cameras other than the main camera. The main camera has a sensor about the same size as the G16, the other two are smaller. Such is the power of computational photography. If a camera manufacturer came out with a compact with a sensor the size of the G16’s that featured computational photography, I think a fair number of photographers would buy it. I still prefer the haptics of a camera over a phone. And they’d have to put in a lidar sensor for portrait mode. I’ve now done a couple of paid headshots with the phone in that mode and the customers are very happy.

Well, this is weird. I was thinking of starting a separate topic, but then I saw this one. I'm having a sales spike, volume wise. I had one last August as well. I don't know why this would be.

All image in my portfolio are exclusive, but obviously this doesn’t make sense going forward. I haven’t waded through the comments, so I don’t know if anyone’s mentioned this, but you can have Alamy mark all your images non-exclusive, at least I assume so, since I had them mark all of mine exclusive. But since there is no benefit to this, I will start marketing these images through my Smugmug site in addition to Alamy.