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Good contributers leaving!

On May 26th Shutterstock suddenly gave its contributors a 6 day notice that they would cut their earning by 60%. They sent an unclear, haphazard communication (with one correction mail hours later) on how they would screw over the very people who make the content you love.

Buyers : Please take your business to Adobestock, their fair payouts mean you'll always have beautiful up to date images
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Screwing over contributors

On May 26th Shutterstock suddenly gave its contributors a 6-day notice that they would cut their earning by 60%. They sent an unclear, haphazard communication (with one correction mail hours later) on how they would screw over the very people who make the content you love.

Buyers: Please take your business to Alamy, or else Adobestock, their fair payouts mean you'll always have beautiful up-to-date images.

Contributors: Disable your portfolio on 1st Jun and send a mail to Adobe telling that you've done so. Ensure you spread the word.
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Stiffing the middle man

You thought getting paid 25 cents was bad. Just wait. SS just warned us in 6 days weโ€™ll be getting compensated even less. Stating โ€œShutterstock aims to provide customers with competitive plans and pricing, while fairly compensating our contributors for the time and talent invested in the production of their work.โ€ So now, making less than 25 cents and image is fair? For the sometimes hours of work I put into projects. This is absurd! Horrible excuse to insanely profit off of the ones make them all the money.
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Terrible rip off Company

Terrible rip off Company. They don't have the best library and They have just cut commisions in half to their contributors. Will now buy from Adobe stock

Not able to choose colors for search

Im not able to choose color during search for images, while on site this option is available

Do not update

Latest update youโ€™re not able to save to your collections. Upon clicking the heart icon to save to your collection the app seems to be loading your collections forever. Super frustrating

Its ok if ur a pro I guess

It wont let me edit the pics, Iโ€™d rather get an app that lets me edit right when I download it, too many hoops to jump to get something simple done.

Cannot log in

As a previous one star reviewer commented. All hell breaks loose if you dare to forget the password. Unacceptable/404 etc. I cannot even start a new account. Something is seriously wrong with the security on this site. Really unhappy!

Hardly works

Always telling me try again later.

My go to for images!

Itโ€™s easy to love this app for the diversity and quality. Using it is easy. My graphic artist for my company swears by it.

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