regarding the Stock-Panel...

[Fritz_H]

Hi,

This is not about an issue about the Affinity-Products but just sharing my observation regarding Stock-Image Collections.

to cut it short: at the majority of them the search-result is very language-dependent.

I found that only big commercial providers like Getty Images etc. are able to provide similar search results regardless of the language used.
(= they use proper key-wording.   "Wasser" = "water")

Back to the Stock-Panel of Affinity-Products:
only pixabay provides very similar search results: (hits and images)

unsplash is horrible:

Pexels is somehow mixed: similar number of hits (not shown below) , same keywords (Ocean, Sea..) but completely different images:

Take this as a gentle reminder/heads-up since I noticed that the Affinity-Family/Community is very international :-)
 

kind regards
Fritz

[R C-R]

12 minutes ago, Fritz_H said:

Back to the Stock-Panel of Affinity-Products ...

Apologies if you already know this, but as with similar features built into several other apps not developed by Serif, the functionality of that panel relies on the individual SDK's provided to developers by each of those three stock sources, so the hits users get from searches is not something Serif can control.

Also, there have been a lot of reports since the beginning of the year that searching Pexels through the Affinity panel is not working (either no hits or no connection). Is it working for you?

[Fritz_H]

13 minutes ago, R C-R said:

...so the hits users get from searches is not something Serif can control.

...that´s why I started my posting with "This is not about an issue about the Affinity-Products..."

Those postings regarding "Pexels not working" triggered/reminded me to write this.

Since the search-results vary a lot, the user-experience and the user-satisfaction
of using the Stock-Panel may vary too - depending on the language used.

As I already wrote: take it as a reminder - esp. since the search-result is not in the hands of Serif.

PS: no, the Pexel-Panel does not work for me; the pexels-WebPages does work = they are online.
perhaps they changed the Data-Interface...

Fritz

[Alfred]

3 hours ago, Fritz_H said:

PS: no, the Pexel-Panel does not work for me; the pexels-WebPages does work = they are online.
perhaps they changed the Data-Interface...

Yet another good reason to avoid Pexels! 

[Fritz_H]

Update:
Pexels is working again - but only in english.   
(Info: Pexels is a german company...) 

    

Work in progress?

(Pexels-WebPage works in both languages.)

kind regards
Fritz