Eyeballs are what makes the world go around. Specifically, the more eyeballs you can get onto your work, the better chance you have of selling that work, especially when it comes to stock content, like the kind I have in my iStockphoto.com portfolio. So, for the last several months I’ve been working on a new style portfolio display site. It’s meant to give you, the buyer, an alternate method of looking through my work, and then purchasing said work. For […]
Scams abound online. Sure, we all know the old Nigerian ones ( I didn’t know I had so many relatives there! ). Or simple fake email Paypal phishing ploys ( you’d think they’d at least spell correctly in those). Sometimes, however, you have to scratch your head and wonder. I’m talking about a current site out there that would appear, by the site name and the content within, to be associated with iStockphoto, licensing stock images. I’ll put a screen […]
With the holiday season fast approaching, I’ve already profiled some of the new royalty free content that is appearing in my portfolio at iStockphoto. Today, here’s a look at another part of my Holiday2012 series – these new images feature a young female adult in winter clothing, on a blue starry background with lots of copyspace, laying in the snow, and also some with the ever popular white card, which is easy to use for advertisements and articles. Thanks for […]
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.
With my stock image work, sometimes I like to plan ahead. The leaves aren’t always going to be turning orange at the right time. The Valentine candy isn’t always in stores. And the Christmas season decorations aren’t up all year long. That’s why I spent some time shooting fresh, new images last holiday season for this year’s advertising and editorial image needs. I spotlit one of these series a few weeks ago, here. Today, we’re looking at another series – […]
Back on September 5th, iStockphoto revealed their new checkout process, which allows buyers to simply add content to a shopping cart, and then quickly check out with a credit card, instead of using a pre-paid credit plan. Yesterday, they added a great piece of interface functionality to the site.
Forgive the silence ’round these parts, but over this last weekend, I traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina for an excellent iStockphoto “mini-lypse” ( a weekend of stock shooting ), put together by Eric at VegaBlue Studios. I might preview some of of the resulting images here next week, but if you’re in a spooky mood, you can always check out my facebook business page for a looky now. Speaking of spooky, today’s portfolio update takes a look at some new […]
Charlie Brown: We’ve got ANOTHER holiday to worry about. It seems Thanksgiving Day is upon us. Sally Brown: I haven’t even finished eating all of my Halloween candy.
As I detailed last week, iStockphoto announced a new purchase and checkout workflow for your stock content licensing needs. Well, the new software went into effect last night. Let’s take a look.
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.
