Tag Archives: workflow

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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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
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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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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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Questions about Stock Photo Keywording and Captioning

By bobbigmac | Published: October 28, 2011
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. Question […]
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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 […]
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Improve Your Microstock Earnings: Attend a Conference

By bobbigmac | Published: September 14, 2011
It’s a very exciting season for me, and for Microstock this autumn. I’m speaking at both STOCKinRUSSIA and MicrostockExpo, so I figured I’d let you know a little about each conference, and what I’ll be presenting about at both: STOCKinRUSSIA – Moscow – (30 Sept-01 Oct, 2011) STOCKinRUSSIA has an excellent programme of photographers and […]
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Three awesome years of picNiche-ing

By bobbigmac | Published: August 24, 2011
Well a couple of months behind schedule on this post (been working like crazy on picWorkflow lately), but picNiche was three-years old on June ’11 and I just wanted to give myself a little pat on the back and share some stats for the last 3 years: Almost half a million picNiche queries Around 5000 […]
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TOP 10 Tips for New Microstock Photographers

By bobbigmac | Published: March 1, 2011
If you’re new to stock photography in general, or even if you’re a seasoned traditional-stock veteran and looking to move into selling your images through microstock photography agencies, there are a few simple tips your really should keep in mind as you start. There are many who will tell you you’re already too late to […]
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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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