Microstock Photography
6 Understanding the Microstock Revolution It should be no big surprise, then, that the major stock libraries could command subst ...
A confl uence of three events has led not to the extinction of tradi- tional stock image libraries (which, to be fair, cannot be ...
8 Understanding the Microstock Revolution FIGURE 1.5 The Internet has been key in transforming stock photography; this image is ...
FIGURE 1.6 An early screen capture of iStockphoto circa April 2000, shortly after its launch. MICROSTOCK IS BORN 9 ...
10 Understanding the Microstock Revolution publishing company.... As an independent stock photographer I wanted to re-invent the ...
that the traditional libraries have, in my view, been too slow to react to the new market reality, as outlined above. However, t ...
12 Understanding the Microstock Revolution There will likely always be a need for traditional licensed images, particularly wher ...
How to Make Dollars from Cents The unique selling point of the microstocks is their low pricing. This, in turn, means that the c ...
14 How to Make Dollars from Cents they full-time professionals, keen amateurs, or casual snappers). The problem is that the micr ...
My main purpose with this book is to fast track you to success with the microstocks. Learn from the experience of myself and oth ...
16 How to Make Dollars from Cents shop CS2 (noise reduction, perspective correction, copyright logo removal). That one shot has ...
FIGURE 2.3 The Dreamstime credit purchase page from my account, January 2007. SALES MODELS: THE CHOICES 17 ...
18 How to Make Dollars from Cents the custom order tool available for packages of more than 160 credits. Alternatively, you can ...
of user loyalty through its active online forums that are not too aggressively policed. Part of Shutterstock’s success seems to ...
20 How to Make Dollars from Cents FIGURE 2.4 Shutterstock’s subscription purchase plan page from mid-2007. ...
FIGURE 2.5 Screen capture of Fotolia’s image licensing and pricing. SUMMARY Apart from the “big four,” there are a number of oth ...
22 How to Make Dollars from Cents FIGURE 2.6 iStockphoto’s credit page. © iStockphoto 2007 ...
sells. Here we briefl y consider the other pros and cons for the current four leading microstocks. All stock photo images sold a ...
24 How to Make Dollars from Cents extends the number of copies, such as a print run, from 500,000 to 2,500,000; the “W-EL” exten ...
pretence at being a math genius), this is not too bad. Shutterstock is one of the top “must subscribe to” libraries, in my view— ...
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