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Stock Performer Giveaway!

By bobbigmac | Published: January 4, 2013
With picWorkflow I’ve spent a LOT of time trying to come up with a viable, and reliable stats/analytics service for microstock and I’ve come to a conclusion… it’s damned near impossible to do well. Keeping up with changes in the agency pages, and collecting/collating all your image data into a usable form which offers real […]
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GeoStockPhoto: The Marketplace for Geotagged Photos

By bobbigmac | Published: November 13, 2012
Introducing a new and interesting agency to the stock photo community today: GeoStockPhoto. Geotagging isn’t all that new (flickr have been doing it for a decade), but using geo-tags (latitude and longitude embedded in each file) to help image-buyers find and purchase images certainly is. It’s something I hear from designers quite often that they’d […]
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Filesize and Resolution of Images Distributed for Microstock

By bobbigmac | Published: May 17, 2012
Just a quick reference post to share some charts showing the most common file sizes and resolutions of images (photos and illustrations) distributed by Microstock contributors through picWorkflow. File sizes of JPEG images distributed to microstock agencies Interesting to see that 80% of files are 10meg or less, and on a steep curve. Whereas the […]
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How Many Images on the Internet?

By bobbigmac | Published: May 2, 2012
A pretty thorough estimate of the number of unique images (photos and illustrations) on the entire internet, broken down by source. Most of the larger estimates are accurate to within a billion or so, the smaller ones to within about 25%, where figures are exact they’ve been retrieved somewhere between Oct 2011 and April 2012. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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StockPhotoFeeds.com RSS Feeds and Free Stock Photo Finder Firefox Addon

By bobbigmac | Published: August 24, 2010
Today I’m launching my latest picNiche-related project: StockPhotoFeeds.com StockPhotoFeeds has two main services: The ability to subscribe to RSS feeds of image-searches across 5 microstock agencies and on SXC.hu free stock photo library. A firefox addon to search among hundreds of millions of free images across over 200 websites. It’s taken a lot of research […]
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Science Themed Stock Photo Ideas To Shoot

By bobbigmac | Published: July 15, 2010
I saw this great post on Photopreneur about Science topics being an untapped Niche in Stock Photography. There are some excellent suggestions on what to shoot for microstock and traditional stock photography, but I wondered what else might be highly relevant, and would give a good RPI (return-per-image) for the photographs or illustrations created. I’ve […]
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes – Stock Photography over Time

By bobbigmac | Published: October 29, 2009
I’ve added a very cool new feature to the picNiche rating system today. I’ve been waiting to add this one for months but didn’t have quite enough raw data to make it worthwhile until now. It’s a little more complex than usual so I figured it would be useful to highlight the key points, and […]
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