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Microstock 2011 – an Infographic in Review

By bobbigmac | Published: December 28, 2011

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Posted in Microstock | 11 Comments

Spring Cleaning my Microstock Portfolio

By bobbigmac | Published: December 6, 2011

[Translate] It’s been almost 2 years since I last uploaded new images for stock, and in that time there have been a few agencies emerge where I see real opportunities for new sales and a better reach. Though I’d love to get back to shooting/illustrating more, I know it’s just not feasible at the moment [...]

Also posted in Tips | Tagged editing, illustration, images, info, information, metadata, microstock, photography, portfolio, quality, selection, selection process, spring cleaning, trim, trimming | 6 Comments

Questions about Stock Photo Keywording and Captioning

By bobbigmac | Published: October 28, 2011

[Translate] I received a couple of questions today from a potential picWorkflow photo keywording customer, and I figured since I’ve been seeing similar questions coming in from search engines, that I’d post the question and my response here for anyone else who may be interested in the keywording or photo captioning service to see too. [...]

Posted in Microstock | Tagged captioning, flexible, image keywords, image metadata, inexpensive, information, keywording, metadata, microstock, photo captioning, photo captions, photo keywording, photo keywords, picworkflow, quality, relevance, relevant, workflow | 2 Comments

Improve Your Microstock Earnings: Attend a Conference

By bobbigmac | Published: September 14, 2011

[Translate] It’s a very exciting season for me, and for Microstock this autumn. I’m speaking at both STOCKinRUSSIA and MicrostockExpo, so I figured I’d let you know a little about each conference, and what I’ll be presenting about at both: STOCKinRUSSIA – Moscow – (30 Sept-01 Oct, 2011) STOCKinRUSSIA has an excellent programme of photographers [...]

Posted in Microstock | Tagged conference, events, experts, industry, knowledge, microstockexpo, presentation, sharing, talk, workflow | 3 Comments

Do microstock agencies violate photographer’s DMCA copyright?

By bobbigmac | Published: September 6, 2011

[Translate] I started writing this blog post after following up on Dreamstime’s excellent new DMCA-violation reporting tool they added to their system. I went and read the DMCA and followed up by reading various interpretations of the clauses within it, and subsequently drafted this post and sent out to every microstock agency I have a [...]

Also posted in Research | Tagged agencies, agency, analysis, copyright, copyright law, digital millenium copyright act, dmca, dreamstime, fotolia, information, information society, infosoc, istock, law, legal, metadata, microstock, observations, shutterstock, violation | 15 Comments

TOP 10 Tips for New Microstock Photographers

By bobbigmac | Published: March 1, 2011

[Translate] If you’re new to stock photography in general, or even if you’re a seasoned traditional-stock veteran and looking to move into selling your images through microstock photography agencies, there are a few simple tips your really should keep in mind as you start. There are many who will tell you you’re already too late [...]

Also posted in Tips | Tagged advice, beginner, beginners, microstock, microstock guide, newbie, newbies, noobs, photo, photography, photography tips, sell images, sell photos, stock photography, stock photos, success, tips, tutorial, whiners, whining, workflow | 4 Comments

TOP 1000 Stock Photo Buyer’s Searches – THE List

By bobbigmac | Published: February 23, 2011

[Translate] I’m finally getting a decent dataset together to answer the burning question: What are stock photo buyers searching for? Here are THE top 1000 searches made by stock photography buyers over the last 6 months to 2 years. This data, and whatever else I can gleam from the various datasets I have (around half [...]

Also posted in Featured, Research, Tips | Tagged analysis, buyers, ideas, image search, image searchers, images, increased sales, info, information, keywords, list, microstock, microstock buyers, opportunity, research, search photos, searches, searching photography, sell photos, selling images, selling microstock, selling photos, stock imagery, stock photography, topics, what image-buyers want | 30 Comments

Improvements, changes and good things on picWorkflow

By bobbigmac | Published: February 22, 2011

[Translate] Rather than focus on the recent big changes and additions to picWorkflow microstock photographer’s tools such as the image keywording service (which is becoming very popular), it’s api-based interface, the microstock export lightroom plugin, or the portfolio promotion tools… just a quick post today to highlight some of the recent smaller improvements to make [...]

Also posted in News, Tips | Tagged additions, benefits, changes, features, help, images, improvements, info, keywording, lightroom, list, metadata, microstock, microstock workflow, news, picworkflow, preparation, process, selling images, selling microstock, stock photography, stock photos, submission process, submissions, tools, workflow | 2 Comments

Keywording API for Organisations & Resellers

By bobbigmac | Published: February 16, 2011

[Translate] As we all know… for stock images, better keywords means more sales. Images can be indexed by the search engines, found and licensed by more image-buyers and so will generate higher RPIs and earn more money. To increase the quality of keywords applied to stock photographs and illustrations already available for sale on microstock [...]

Also posted in News, SEO | Tagged agencies, agency, api, image keywording, image keywords, image processing, keywording, keywording api, keywording service, keywords, marketing, mechanical turk, metadata, metadata management, microstock, photo keywording, photo keywords, process, processing, production, search, service, stock photo, stock photography, workflow | 1 Comment

FREE Microstock Distribution with picWorkflow

By bobbigmac | Published: February 8, 2011

[Translate] I’ve made some changes to the way picWorkflow works from today: At the start of every month anyone who has less than 40 free credits on their account will be automatically credited with 40 credits. These are perfect for distributing your microstock images for free and allow upto 40 uploads every month completely free [...]

Also posted in Featured, News | Tagged distribution, file uploading, free, free credits, free distribution, free uploads, image distribution, isyndica, microstock, microstock distribution, microstock upload service, photo distribution, picworkflow, picworkflow credits, promo, promo credits, uploading, uploads | 1 Comment

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