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Adobe Launches Stock Contributor Site, Updates Lightroom, ACR
20 September 2016
Adobe has launched a public beta of its Stock Contribute Site, a new platform for selling photos, illustrations, videos and other creative work. At the same time, the company released updates to Lightroom CC 2015.7 and Lightroom 6.7 to publish to the site, as well as an update to Adobe Camera Raw 9.7.
STOCK CONTRIBUTE SITE
The Stock Contribute Site provides a marketplace for you to sell your work to millions of buyers, Adobe said in introducing the new service.
During the public beta, which began today, you can upload images directly from the new versions of Lightroom and Bridge CC released today. Not all features are active in the beta yet but auto-keywording is.
Auto-keywording leverages innovative machine learning technology to automatically generate the first five keywords of each image you submit. When you upload an image, Adobe's algorithm analyze it, generating keywords from top images similar to yours. Those keywords are reordered by relevancy and displayed for you to review, edit and reorder.
Requirements
To contribute you must have an Adobe ID (but you don't need to be a Creative Cloud subscriber) and you must be at least 18 years old and the sole owner of every file you upload for sale. If your content contains recognizable persons or private property, you also need to attach a signed release, Adobe said.
Images should be uploaded as JPEGs only with a minimum resolution of 4 megapixels and a maximum of 68 megapixels with a maximum file size of 30 megabytes.
Licenses
Standard, Enhanced and Extended licenses are offered to buyers.
The Standard license grants rights for up to 500,000 print runs with no expiration date and images can be used online, in press releases or as magazine editorial, print advertising, slide shows for broadcast or presentation and decorative use including framed images for personal use.
Enhanced licenses remove the 500,000 copy restriction.
Extended Licenses provide unlimited impressions/print runs and the ability to create products like coffee mugs and T-shirts for resale.
See Adobe Stock license information for complete details.
Payment
When someone purchases your content, you earn a 33 percent commission for photos and vector art and a 35 percent commission for videos based on the price of the asset. Payment is made via Paypal or Skrill when you have reached at least $50/€50 in royalties.
See the Contributor FAQ and the Stock Contributor Help page for more information.
LIGHTROOM
In a Lightroom Journal post, Sharad Mangalick announced the availability of Lightroom CC 2015.7 and Lightroom 6.7 "to provide additional camera raw support and lens profile support, and to address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Lightroom." The updates also include compatibility fixes for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and require Mac OS S 10.10 or greater.
The updates also enable:
- Publishing to the Adobe Stock Contributor Site
- Dragging images directly to the All Synced Photographs collection in the Catalog panel to access them across your devices
- Smart previews for faster performance in the Develop module for all images whether online or not
New camera support includes the Apple iPad Pro 9.7 (WiFi and cellular), Apple iPhone 6s Plus/6s/7/7 Plus/SE, Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (except dual pixel raw functionality), Casio EX-ZR4000 (EX-ZR5000), GoPro HERO5 Black, Hasselblad H6D-100c, Nikon D3400, Panasonic G8 (G80, G81, G85) and Panasonic LX9 (LX10, LX15).
New lens support includes optics from Apple, Canon, Leica, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh and Sony.
Tethered shooting is now supported on the Nikon D5 and D500.
Bug fixes include:
- Selected Published Folder or Collection is not deselected if a folder is selected
- Adjustment brush stops working after deleting photo
- Collections with counts greater than 5 digits are truncated
- Exporting with a watermark changes white point.
- White Balance Loupe displays incorrect RGB values
- Error message about not being able to import photos when in fact the issue is due to the destination folder is read only
- Fuji E X2 file imported as DNG is unreadable "The File Appears to be unsupported or damaged"
- Keyword suggestion for a word having &(ampersand) is incorrect
- Vignette correction for Zeiss Batis 25mm f2 too aggressive
- Improved performance when using the Temperature and Tint slides for adjusting White Balance
- Fixed issue where Panorama merge failed when using source files from a Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246)
- Fixed issue where the Sigma 10-20mm f3.5 EX DC HSM lens for Pentax mount was not being auto recognized
CAMERA RAW
In a separate Lightroom Journal post, Sharad Mangalick announced the availability of Camera Raw 9.7 "to provide additional camera Raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Camera Raw. This release also brings support for pressure sensitive tablets to Camera Raw."
Pressure sensitive tablets like Wacom's and the Surface Pro can now adjust Flow with changes in pen pressure when using the Local Adjustment Brush. The erase mode is also now supported.
New camera support includes the Apple iPad Pro 9.7 (WiFi and cellular), Apple iPhone 6s Plus/6s/7/7 Plus/SE, Canon EOS 5D Mark IV (except dual pixel raw functionality), Casio EX-ZR4000 (EX-ZR5000), GoPro HERO5 Black, Hasselblad H6D-100c, Nikon D3400, Panasonic G8 (G80, G81, G85) and Panasonic LX9 (LX10, LX15).
New lens support includes optics from Apple, Canon, Leica, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh and Sony.
Bug fixes include:
- Fixed issue where Panorama merge failed when using source files from a Leica M Monochrom (Typ 246)
- Vignette correction for Zeiss Batis 25mm f2 too aggressive
- Fixed issue where the Sigma 10-20mm f3.5 EX DC HSM lens for Pentax mount was not being auto recognized
- Fixed bug that resulted in an abnormal exit of the Camera Raw plug-in. Please note that this issue occurred intermittently and only when using Adobe After Effects CC on macOS
- Improved performance when using the Temperature and Tint slides for adjusting White Balance
- Improved the legibility of Text Labels in the User Interface