Big news this morning as creative application giant Adobe announced their new stock content service, which comes handily integrated into Adobe CC programs and which sources images from the Fotolia database.
Every now and then, I like to take a break from image work and do a little scripting. I see a lot of buyer and contributor confusion over all the changes coming to iStockphoto, so I put together this calculator in javascript.
iStockphoto made an announcement to contributors today, and it’s sure to make some buyers happy, some buyers angry, most, if not all, contributors angry, and pretty much everyone confused. You can read the announcement here: http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=362716
There’s a cool new web based design tool on the block, and it’s called Canva! This Australia based website gives beginning through advanced designers a way to design online without using complex desktop tools, combining stock photography and other elements to come up with an end product without going overboard on cost.
Happy summer to you! I’ve been off on vacation for a few weeks, so it’s been kind of quiet around here. When I started going through the huge stack of mail upon our return, I found this month’s issue of Popular Photography, and there in the upper corner of the cover was one of my stock images.
When “microstock” was born, it came about because of a frustration with the traditional stock houses and their tight membership. From free sharing between designers, a combination of pricing and sales increases brought the industry to a place where contributors could earn a living with some hard work. Now, photographers are experiencing the opposite with some agencies – case in point, a recent move by Fotolia that has many contributors declaring May 1 (today) as “D-Day”.
Several days ago, Getty Images announced that it was making a large portion of the creative work it represents “free” for certain “non-commercial” websites to use. While many bloggers applauded the move on Twitter, most photographers across the internet decried the move, despite Getty’s comment to the contrary. What should you know about this move and why should it matter to you, as a contributor or as a stock image user?
iStockphoto came out with some new advertising today, and unfortunately, most of it is misleading, and confusing to buyers. Let’s take a quick look at some marketing claims.
At it’s base, licensing stock photography would seem to be simple, at least from the photographer’s point of view. You shoot, you upload to an agency (or your own site), and an end-user licenses the work. Unfortunately, as we have seen lately, industry behemoth, Getty Images, keeps coming up with new “initiatives” to try and squeeze every cent they can from their contributor’s work, even when the contributor clearly doesn’t want to be a part of such schemes.
Let’s get the important news out of the way first. On Friday, February 8th, I was given notice by Getty Images that they were terminating our “relationship” and my account at iStockphoto would be closed in 30 days. Well, that was a great way to end the week, eh? What ?!? Yes, honestly I was surprised and caught off guard as well. As one of the top 5 contributors at iStockphoto, having been there since August of 2004, with over […]
