Microstock Diaries

• Yuri Arcurs launches PeopleImages.com the Ultimate Direct Sales Website
• 10 Ways to Spot a Dodgy Microstock Agency
• Depositphotos Review
• Shutterstock
• Microstock Expo Videos Online

My Stock Photography

• Stockify May 17 Fotolia, Shutterstock, ImageBrief…
• KKR annuncia un investimento su Fotolia
• ImageBrief launches in the US with a presence at New York Photo Festival
• Perfect Photo Suite 6.1 on Sale Now! Save $100!
• Stockify May 9 Stockfresh, CEPIC, 123RF…

MicrostockInsider

• March 2012 Microstock Update
• Fotolia New Commission Rates
• Introducing PicWorkflow
• Changes to iStockphoto Royalty Structure
• Looking Back, Looking Forward

Microstock Group Blog

• Image Search Engine Optimization for Photographers
• 2011 Microstock Industry Survey – First Look
• iStockphoto 2012: Semi-Annual Analysis
• Licensing Images In Today’s Market
• MicrostockExpo Checklist

Nil to Mil

• Moving on … NiltoMil will soon close.
• The Australian Open week
• Can you still make “passive income” from microstock photography?
• SEO, stock and keywording – raw data
• Time to reflect …

Stock Photo Secrets

• Fotolia recieves $150 million in investment equity
• Set of manual tools free stock photo from Shutterstock
• Outdoor Themed Emblem with Axe and Ribbon free vector
• Shutterstock announces IPO
• Morning smoke from factories free stock photo

Microstock Infos

• Shutterstock Files Registration Statement for Proposed Initial Public Offering
• The Olympic Games belongs to humanity, not corporate lawyers
• PhotoSpin Unveils New Site Design
• KKR announces growth investment in Fotolia
• Bigstock Announces Partnership with Freelancers Union

StockPhotoTalk

• Martin Ellerbeck and Jake Hellbach on Pond5
• sʇuǝɯʇsǝʌuı ʞɔoʇsoɹɔıɯ ǝɹoldxǝ s’ɔʌ
• Jonathan Klein on Getty Images and Crowdsourcing
• Corbis CEO Gary Shenk on the Music Licensing Business
• Facebook Really Goes IPO

About the Image

• CEPIC Congress 2012 - Open - Photos and Reports Uploading Now
• Fotolia Lands $150 million growth equity investment
• Corbis Offers Two New Stock Photo Collections
• Reuters Photographer Recounts Covert Op With The President
• Getty Images Upgrade The Watermark!

Selling Graphics

• How to pass iStockphoto Logo Design Application Quiz [1]
• Free Forrst invite [5]
• Are you a graphic artist looking for work? Try drawing / taking photos for microstocks - seasonal work, a second income or full-time work
• Free Dribbble invite [21]
• Microstock file formats for uploading vector illustrations [10]

About Microstock

• Istock Photo of the week – 30 May
• iStock Featured Artist- 30 May
• iStock free photo – 30 May
• Shutterstock free images – 25 May
• iStock free photo – 23 May

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Microstock Travel Photography

• Microstock Earnings January 2011 (ENG/ITA)
• Microstock Earnings December 2010 (ENG/ITA)
• Microstock Earnings November 2010 (ENG/ITA)
• Microstock Earnings October 2010 (ENG/ITA)
• Total Revenue per Images, Main Sites, October 2010

BuyMicroStock

• ClipDealer
• DepositPhotos
• All About Royalty Free Stock Images
• Smart Search on Microstock Images
• Credit System Vs Subscription Plans

Photo Buyer Guide

• Dreamstime Introduces Weekly Subscription
• 10% Discount at iStockphoto
• iStockphoto Announced Editorial Use License
• Save Up To 20% on iStockphoto Vetta
• 10 mln of Images at Dreamstime and Other News in Monthly Report on December 1, 2010

Microstock Links

The MicroStock Blog

• Time to upgrade my gear
• A look back at 2011
• Let’s talk about RevoStock
• Trying out Fotolia
• Falling out of love…

Yuri Arcurs

• The Yuri Arcurs Photography Boot Camp 2012 has ended!
• The Boot Camp Participants have been selected!
• If you like traveling, photography and learning from the best, read this!
• Yuri Arcurs Photography is looking for new staff members!
• 10% discount off the Yuri Arcurs SteadyPod!

Ellen Boughn

• When does ‘finished’ mean ‘final’?
• Technically Speaking-Reasons Photos are Rejected
• Where have all the photos gone?
• Photographers are lousy editors
• STUCK! Creative sink holes

John Lund

• Creating Stock Photos: Weakness Into Strength
• Tigers, Business And Key Words
• A Classic Butler Stock Photo...With A Twist
• Getting Your Stock Images Distributed
• The Secret Of Successful Stock Photographers

Photopreneur

• Organize a Pop Up Studio for Your Photography Business
• Watermarking Presents Photographers with Difficult Dilemmas
• 7 Steps to Your First Paying Photo Job
• To Sell Prints on Demand, First Create the Demand
• As Fotolia Buys Wilogo, Does Spec Work Beat Microstock?

Rasmuss Rasmussen dot com

• Final Prophecy Update and Finishing Things
• Into the Deepest Dungeon
• Presenting: Save or Die
• D&D Campaign: Sundering Wrath
• Norkol Campaign – First Session Recap

Thoughts of a Bohemian

• Techno Cash
• To sum it all

core[pics]

• General Practitioner’s Practice
• Behind the Scenes At the Doctors
• Rowing Tryptich
• Celebrating new years eve
• At the library

Microstock Experiment

• Q1/Q2 microstock results
• April 2011 earnings
• March 2011 earnings
• February 2011 earnings
• January 2011 earnings

Josh Hodge Photography

Fotolia

• Fotolia’s exciting new partnership with KKR
• Fotolia’ s Adobe plugin is now compatible with CS6
• AP Images now distributes Fotolia images
• fotoliaLAB’s “Me, Myself & I” art exhibition
• Fotolia acquires crowdsourcing design community Wilogo.com

Shutterstock

• How to Make a Great Footage Sequence Using Images
• Going to London and Beyond for Contributor Success
• Shutterstock Files for Proposed IPO
• What Our Improved Search System Means for Contributors
• Introducing Shutterstock’s New Look

123rf

• 123RF Really Fantastic Sweepstakes - May 2012
• *NEW* Submission Guideline : JPEG Images / Vector Illustrations for Logo
• Creative Insights #10 - Celebrating Mother's Day
• 123RF May 2012 Photo Manipulation: Flower Power
• Top Downloaded Images of April 2012

Bigstock

• Selling Your Stock at SXSW
• What are “Smart Filters” and Why Should I Use Them?
• Lighting Basics for Portrait Photographers
• The Bridge to Bigstock
• 10 Tips to Shoot Better Stock

Panthermedia

Pixmac

• Vector blueprints for car lettering
• Valentine’s Day inspiration in pictures
• Catalin Petolea: Shooting full time while enjoying mountain trips!
• Shout it out loud! Pixmac can now accept Vector files from contributors
• Check out August’s Winner and Entries for Graphics.com’s Pixmac Design Challenge

Polyooks

• Polylooks reveals Brits’ photo sharing habits
• Capturing summer
• Polylooks launches Slideshare resource
• Top microstock photographer Andres Rodriguez contributes to Polylooks
• Polylooks and Zoonar look for 200,000 new images

Stockfresh

• Stockfresh keeps growing!
• One Million Images
• March status report
• Holiday wishes
• The industry bomb

Yaymicro

• 20 Free Facebook Cover Images
• Image Gallery – New Images
• Chinese New Year
• Color Search – The Yay Way
• Free Valentine Wallpaper

Cutcaster

• FTP Server is down for Maintenance
• What is a stock photo and how can I use a photo I find legally?
• Cutcaster Celebrates 1 Million Images, Quality over Quantity
• Fall in Love with our new Valentine’s day images
• Interested in working with Cutcaster’s API to add images to your business

Crestock

• Friday Fun - Not-a-Colouring Contest II
• Upload System Availability – June 15-21
• We've Moved! (Our Blog)
• Friday Fun Contest - Spot the Differences III
• MacBook Air for travel photographers

Vivozoom

• How to avoid the dreaded dunce cap
• Life is a journey
• Summer Vacation with vivozoom
• SUN-sational !!!!!
• GOOOAAAAALLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LookStat

• Site Update: Back Online
• Site Down for Maintenance
• Lifestyle Shoot Tips: iPads in your living room, E-Readers in your bedroom.
• iStock Search Analysis – Ethnicity & Downloads
• iStock Search Analysis – Ethnicity

picNiche

• Filesize and Resolution of Images Distributed for Microstock
• How Many Images on the Internet?
• Upload Speeds for 47 Microstock Agencies
• Welcome to 2012 – picNiche State of the Union
• Microstock 2011 – an Infographic in Review

ProStockMaster

• Canon 5D MKIII DSLR comes to the market
• ProStockMaster 2.0.3 for Mac and Windows helps selling photos online
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3, Mac / Windows – $69.95 @bhphoto, Today only
• New release: ProStockMaster v2.0.2 for Mac OS X
• NEW: ProStockMaster 2.0 Beta for Windows

Fotos verkaufen

• Photocentric Day auf dem CEPIC in London
• Neue Rights-Managed Lizenzen bei Panthermedia
• Neue deutsche Stockfotografie-Foren
• UPDATE 4. Mai 2012: Pictrs mit neuen Funktionen: Lightroom Plugin, Passfotos & Schwarz-Weiß-Funktion
• Wilogo wird Teil der Fotolia-Familie

Fotos kaufen

• Millionen Fotolia-Bilder jetzt bei AP Images zu haben
• Die neue Bildagentur-WG – Panthermedia & Glow Images ziehen zusammen!
• Pitopias Food-Portal nimmt zu…
• Pond5 schenkt Ihnen 50 NEUE Stockmedien!
• Getty Images und Lonely Planet gehen auf gemeinsame Reise

Alltag eines Fotoproduzenten

• Für wen eignet sich eine eigene Bildagentur?
• Hotel Fotolia – Neuer Stockfoto-Workshop in Berlin
• Das Henne-Ei-Problem neuer Bildagenturen aus zwei Sichtweisen
• Warum Fotos kaufen? Abgrenzung von Microstock- zu Gratis-Angeboten
• Test und Verlosung des Ringblitz-Adapters Roundflash

Micro-Stock

• Umsatzentwicklung Fotoverkäufe
• Depositphotos Aktion für Fotografen mit großen Portfolios
• Gewinnspiel: Neuauflage “Stockfotografie” von R.Kneschke zu gewinnen
• Gold Status bei Fotolia erreicht!
• Microstock Meister Yuri Arcurs stellt sein neues Studio vor

Nebuto

• SolidWorks
• The Third & The Seventh by Alex Roman – 2
• offizelle V-Ray Architetur – Demo von 2009
• PhysX Plugin für 3d Max
• 3D Schriften trifft auf Photoshop.

picturetom

• Jürgen Klopp exklusiv bei Getty Images
• Interview mit dem Getty CEO über aktuelle Urbeberrechtsverletzungen
• Lonely Planet und Getty Images gehen neue exklusive Partnerschaft ein
• Urheberrecht: Die Fronten
• Kreative wenden sich gegen ‘Umsonstkultur’ und Piratenpartei

Fotolia

• KKR investiert dreistelligen Millionenbetrag in Fotolia
• FOTOLIA-AKADEMIE: FOTOWORKSHOP HOTEL FOTOLIA 2012
• Impressionen aus dem fotoliaLAB: “Me, Myself and I”
• AP Images startet Distribution lizenzfreier Bilder von Fotolia
• Tutorial: Photoshop Quick Tipp – einfache Pinselspitzen selbst erstellen!

Panthermedia

Zoonar

• Vektorgrafiken erstellen und bei der Bildagentur Zoonar einspielen
• Spektakuläre Tierfotos. Die besten Fotos von wilden Tieren. Präsentiert von Zoonar
• Pilzfotos – Hilfe bei der Bestimmung von Pilzarten
• Fantastische Portraitfotografie – Bildagentur Zoonar präsentiert neue Premium-Portraitfotos
• Digitale Doppelgänger: Anleitung für das Composing

Pitopia

• Fort Knox auf der A5
• Wer hat an der Uhr gedreht …?
• Wie aus Uschi Milla Rose Sunshine wurde …
• Zahnarztersatz
• Bankenkrise – Ein Neujahrsgruß

Wir empfehlen

Photocase

• Teilen macht Spaß. Neue Share-Optionen
• Neues aus dem Photocase Maschinenraum
• Sag Hallo zur neuen Startseite
• Fotografen erzählen etwas über ihre Fotos: DOUBLE TROUBLE von nicolasberlin und phoenixie
• Update: Fabsn aka “The Bollywood Moviestar” verschenkt ein Plakat

Bigstock Deutschland

• Fotoausrüstung A und O: Heimstudio für kleine Geldbeutel
• Schlagwörter: 7 Tipps zur Auswahl von Schlagwörtern
• Neue Preise – Neue Kommissionen für Bigstock Anbieter
• 5 Tipps, um Ihre Bilder besser zu verkaufen
• Optimale Lichtverhältnisse für Portrait Fotografen

un Italiano su iStock

• My iStock Garden is moving
• Sei interessato al microstock?
• Il prossimo step? All’avventura…
• Posing – parte 2
• Lightroom 4: le novità per gli iStocker

MyStockPhoto - Italiano

• Fotolia presenta la sesta creazione Ten Collection con Neopen
• AP Images diventa distributore di contenuti Fotolia royalty-free
• Resta in gioco! Partecipa all’evento Viscom Regional Roma
• Appuntamento del mese con gli artisti della TEN Collection Fotolia
• Il portale di immagini Royalty Free leader in Germania arriva in Italia con un archivio di oltre 15 milioni di fotografie e 1000 immagini in regalo

Corsivo.net

• La rivoluzione dei microstock
• Gli aspetti legali della fotografia
• Cosa sono i microstock
• I principali microstock
• Il manuale dei microstock

Fotolia Blog Italia

• Hot News: KKR annuncia un investimento in Fotolia
• Il plugin Fotolia per Adobe Creative Suite è ora compatibile con la versione CS6!
• Scarica ORA il PSD di Neopen!
• TEN Collection -24 ore al PSD di Neopen.
• Ten Collection – 3 giorni al download gratuito della sesta creazione in formato PSD di Neopen!

Vaclavek

• Ludmila Hamplová, Leoš Kyša: Proč jsou muži trapní
• Jaký tablet pro děti
• Miroslav Žamboch: Živí a mrtví + soutěž o 2 knihy
• Problém s exportem do EPS 10 při použití gradientu a Clipping Mask
• Chyba Save for web u Adobe Illustrator CS5

Mikrofotobanky

• Mikrofotobanky: novinky v dubnu 2012
• Mikrofotobanky: novinky v březnu 2012
• Mikrofotobanky: novinky v únoru 2012
• Přehled předplatného pro grafiky
• Mikrofotobanky: novinky v lednu 2012

Fotobanka

• Valdštejnské slavnosti 2012
• Recesistický 1.Máj
• Mezinárodní den tance 2012
• Barista roku 2012
• Odemykání Jizery 2012

Fotobanky.cz

• PhotoStock - nástroj pro editaci klíčových slov fotek / ilustrací
• Výdělky fotobankéřů za rok 2011
• Výsledky fotobankového průzkumu 2011
• Jak dostanu peníze z fotobanky na svůj účet?
• Dribbble pozvánka

Banki Zdjęć

• Średni dzienny dochód ze sprzedaży zdjęć online
• Microstock 2011
• Majowa promocja Panthermedia
• Photogenica – bank zdjęć Royalty Free
• Microstock wypunktowany – Grudzień 2010

Forum Fotografów Stockowych

• News Feed w Alamy
• Shutterstock wchodzi na giełdę
• Video w Alamy
• Nowa inwestycja 150 milionów dolarów w rozwój serwisu Fotolia
• APARAT FOTOGRAFICZNY CANON 550D + obiektywy i dodatki