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Faster Submissions with the Microstock Submission Assistant

By bobbigmac | Published: November 8, 2012

Releasing the first version of the picWorkflow Microstock Submission Assistant to make submitting images to your microstock agencies faster. Give it a go, and tell me what is the priority to be added next to make this tool totally awesome 🙂 Install now for Firefox. Edit 11-Feb-2013… Now also available for Chrome. Tweet

Posted in Featured, News | Also tagged assistant, distribution, efficient, helper, microstock, pushing, quick, quicker, scripts, stock photography, submission, technology, toolbar, tools, workflow | 10 Comments

Welcome to 2012 – picNiche State of the Union

By bobbigmac | Published: December 31, 2011

Here we are heading into 2012, and with picNiche heading for 4 full years it’s looking like an exciting one to come 🙂 To mark the new year, I figured it would be a good time to talk a bit about what makes up the entire suite of ‘picNiche’ now, to brag a bit about […]

Posted in News | Also tagged 2011, 2012, agency, benefits, change, coming soon, events, features, improvements, microstock, new, new year, news, photographers, photos, picNiche, picworkflow, services, stock, stock photography, upcoming, workflow, year | Leave a comment

Caption and Keyword your Microstock Images from 20 cents

By bobbigmac | Published: October 6, 2011

Do you hate taking the time to fill out your title and description fields for microstock submissions??? I know I do! 🙂 I’m delighted to announce that you can now have your photo and illustration title and description fields expertly filled out on picWorkflow for just 20 US cents! All titles and descriptions are validated […]

Posted in Featured | Also tagged caption, captioning, cost-effective, describe, description, keywording, microstock, picworkflow, preparation, preparing, relevance, submission, time-saving, title, titles, upload, workflow | Leave a comment

Do microstock agencies violate photographer’s DMCA copyright?

By bobbigmac | Published: September 6, 2011

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 contact […]

Posted in Microstock, Research | Also tagged agency, analysis, copyright, copyright law, digital millenium copyright act, dmca, dreamstime, fotolia, information, information society, infosoc, istock, law, legal, metadata, microstock, observations, shutterstock, violation | 20 Comments

Where do Independent Microstockers Submit?

By bobbigmac | Published: June 30, 2011

Just a quick post today to take a look at some stats from picWorkflow on which Microstock agencies are commonly used (and in what proportion) by microstock photographers. (using Google Docs interactive charts so if the spaces below are blank, wait a few seconds and refresh) First up… the share of all picWorkflow accounts which […]

Posted in Research | Also tagged agency, analysis, contributors, istock, microstock, microstockers, photography, proportion, research, share, statistics, stats, stock photography, submission, submitters, transfers, upload | 7 Comments

Keywording API for Organisations & Resellers

By bobbigmac | Published: February 16, 2011

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 agencies, […]

Posted in Microstock, News, SEO | Also tagged 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

Promote your Microstock Portfolio with picWorkflow Widgets

By bobbigmac | Published: February 1, 2011

The first set of portfolio promotion tools for picWorkflow members has just been launched. You can now easily create your own customisable ajax widgets for your blog (wordpress, blogger, typepad, etc etc all supported) or any other website. The picWorkflow widgets are designed to attract visitors on your website to your images and to present […]

Posted in News, Tips | Also tagged ajax, api, blogging, control, display, gadget, javascript, marketing, microstock, photography, picNiche, picworkflow, portfolio, portfolio widget, promote, promotion, sales, search, seo, stock photography, widget, workflow | 4 Comments

Pixmac offers a ‘New Deal’ for Microstock Photographers

By bobbigmac | Published: January 3, 2011

After a pretty dismal showing from most microstock agencies during 2010, today the relative newcomer Pixmac has revised its contributor aggreement significantly. It’s built up a best-of-all-worlds policy which will really help them stand out from the crowd of relatively new agencies in the long term, and makes guarantees to photographers which I’m hoping will […]

Posted in Microstock, News | Also tagged agency news, business, commissions, earnings, fair, improvement, info, information, microstock, news, openness, pixmac, share, vita valka | 3 Comments

The Big Guide to Improve Microstock Workflow

By bobbigmac | Published: October 31, 2010

A few times a week I receive questions from microstock photographers who have discovered the picNiche toolbar, wondering about how they can make the whole microstock process better. As an experienced computer user (and coder) there are a lot of things I often take for granted about ‘the microstock workflow’, which others sometimes miss or […]

Posted in Featured, Microstock, Tips | Also tagged analysis, contributor, ideas, information, list, market, microstock, photography, photos, picNiche, planning, process, production, sales, statistics, stats, stock, topics, workflow, working | 12 Comments

Shafted by latest iStock changes? What Now?

By bobbigmac | Published: September 9, 2010

The latest round of changes at iStock represent a loss for most contributors there. Both for Exclusive and Non-Exclusive contributors. The new royalty figures for next year show a clear bias in favour of those contributors who are making the most money for iStock, with cuts for people with smaller or non-exclusive portfolios. These changes […]

Posted in Microstock, Tips | Also tagged advice, change, changes, earnings, easy, exclusive, info, istock, istockphoto, keywording tips, list, many, multiple, non-exclusive, policy, shafted, tips, workflow | 10 Comments