I don’t know whether it is holiday season buyers looking for an undiscovered treasure, or the iStockphoto Best Match sort algorithm pushing new files up a bit, but I’ve had quite a few first sales of both new and old images this week. Low downloaded images can help give your business a boost from uniqueness – at least for a while. Here’s a look at some images that people are licensing for the first time.
Sites on the web sometimes go down for maintenance, planned or not, much to everyone’s chagrin. If you need to access iStock to get a comp (thumbnail for rough work) when the site is down, try using Google images, constrained to iStockphoto.
Yesterday, in the iStockphoto forums, iStock announced release of a new plugin for Photoshop that allows searching and licensing of imagery, directly in Photoshop and several other applicatins. We’ve partnered with Adobe to create the iStock Plug-in for their Creative Suite. Adobe CS users can use the plug-in to browse and download iStock directly from Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
Using “nobody” and “anonymous” as keywords at iStockphoto.
Buyers, there’s a new Greasemonkey script in town, and this one is right up your alley when it comes to ease of use of iStockphoto’s lightbox functionality.
A quick look at the iStockphoto seasonal search page.
New search filter option on iStockphoto.
The Best Match Slider comes and goes.
iStockphoto Best Match sorting changes need tweaking.
New features and new bugs in the iStock search update.
