Tag Archives: help

Taking Part in Deactivation Day? picWorkflow can help.

By bobbigmac | Published: January 21, 2013
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 be […]
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picWorkflow Video Tutorial Guide

By bobbigmac | Published: September 6, 2012
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
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 90 […]
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Improvements, changes and good things on picWorkflow

By bobbigmac | Published: February 22, 2011
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 using […]
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Contributor APIs with the new picNiche Agency-Kit

By bobbigmac | Published: May 26, 2010
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 am […]
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picNiche Toolbar Tips & FAQs

By bobbigmac | Published: May 4, 2010
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, that […]
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Help!! Improve picNiche with the toolbar survey

By bobbigmac | Published: March 17, 2010
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 toolbar […]
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Microstock agencies: Help me to help you!

By bobbigmac | Published: January 20, 2010
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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