Tag Archives: help

Taking Part in Deactivation Day? picWorkflow can help.

By bobbigmac | Published: January 21, 2013
[Translate] This week I’ve been getting a lot of requests for help from people deactivating their images/portfolios on iStock as part of Deactivation Day as a result of iStock’s crazy Google-drive partnership ripoff. I only have a tiny portfolio on iStock (52 images) because their submission process is such an inefficient time-sink anyway but will [...]
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picWorkflow Video Tutorial Guide

By bobbigmac | Published: September 6, 2012
[Translate] A guide to using picWorkflow to manage your stock photos and illustrations, including importing, managing metadata, purchasing photo retouching and exporting images to microstock agencies. Tweet
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Understanding Microstock in a Mature Industry

By bobbigmac | Published: October 21, 2011
[Translate] Everyone lately seems to be talking about dropping RPIs and the increased efforts to be a successful microstock photographer. Well I recently put together this presentation for StockInRussia microstock conference (It was a fantastic event, if you weren’t there, you really missed out), so I thought I’d screencast it (ended up with a full [...]
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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 [...]
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Contributor APIs with the new picNiche Agency-Kit

By bobbigmac | Published: May 26, 2010
[Translate] A few months ago, I outlined the issues faced by agencies and contributors when trying to improve the way the submission process works in my post: Microstock agencies: Help me to help you!. Since then I’ve taken the time to design and build a platform for adding a contributor API to any agency. I [...]
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picNiche Toolbar Tips & FAQs

By bobbigmac | Published: May 4, 2010
[Translate] The picNiche toolbars have quite a lot of functionality for microstock contributors and image buyers, and because of the wide variety of tools available, it can be overwhelming to newcomers. I figured I’d add a few tricks & tips to help ensure the picNiche tools are helping you out as much as they can, [...]
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Help!! Improve picNiche with the toolbar survey

By bobbigmac | Published: March 17, 2010
[Translate] It’s been almost a year since I released the first version of the picNiche microstock contributor toolbar. I’m delighted that it’s been such a big success so far, and am almost ready to release a lot of extra stuff to go with it: but I need your help. Building, bug-fixing, supporting, and updating the [...]
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Microstock agencies: Help me to help you!

By bobbigmac | Published: January 20, 2010
[Translate] As development progresses for the picNiche contributor toolbar, which reads basic earnings/portfolio data from the various microstock agencies, I face a dilemma, and I need your help to resolve it I regularly receive requests to retrieve more information from the microstock agency websites, the most common are for data to generate detailed RPI (return [...]
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