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.
On Friday, iStockphoto issued a contributor update, wherein they announced the near completion of a new stock image licensing workflow, one which will allows payments directly from a credit card: This week we have an early peek for iStock contributors into some upcoming site news: soon iStock customers will be able to pay for file downloads directly with their credit card, without first having to purchase credits.
Once in a while, on the iStockphoto forums, a buyer will post questioning whether it is within the license restrictions to crop, tint or otherwise modify a stock image they have purchased. Certainly, in the case of iStockphoto at least, the answer is “Yes! Please do as you need to fit your project!”…
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.
Some credit costs per image appear to have slightly increased overnight at iStockphoto.com. Some photo collections and a video collection were affected. In addition, a few prices went down. See the new prices in blue text, below.
As I wrote the other day, I’ve just moved my site and blog to my seanlockephotography.com domain. Of course, I’ll spend a while tweaking and adding things, so I wanted to introduce something I created this week. The iStockSearcher widget.
Learn about the new iStock referral system and what the referral code does.
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.
