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Spring Cleaning my Microstock Portfolio
[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 [...]
Posted in Microstock, Tips | Also tagged editing, illustration, images, info, information, microstock, photography, portfolio, quality, selection, selection process, spring cleaning, trim, trimming | 7 Comments
Questions about Stock Photo Keywording and Captioning
[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 | Also tagged captioning, flexible, image keywords, image metadata, inexpensive, information, keywording, microstock, photo captioning, photo captions, photo keywording, photo keywords, picworkflow, quality, relevance, relevant, workflow | 2 Comments
Do microstock agencies violate photographer’s DMCA copyright?
[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 [...]
Posted in Microstock, Research | Also tagged agencies, agency, analysis, copyright, copyright law, digital millenium copyright act, dmca, dreamstime, fotolia, information, information society, infosoc, istock, law, legal, microstock, observations, shutterstock, violation | 18 Comments
Improvements, changes and good things on picWorkflow
[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 [...]
Posted in Microstock, News, Tips | Also tagged additions, benefits, changes, features, help, images, improvements, info, keywording, lightroom, list, 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
[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 [...]
Posted in Microstock, News, SEO | Also tagged agencies, agency, api, image keywording, image keywords, image processing, keywording, keywording api, keywording service, keywords, marketing, mechanical turk, metadata management, microstock, photo keywording, photo keywords, process, processing, production, search, service, stock photo, stock photography, workflow | 1 Comment
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