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How much can you make with microstock sites?
laryn — Fri, 11/06/2009 - 08:14
Most people who are considering whether or not to upload to microstock sites are curious how much money can be made by doing so. (There are other reasons, too, but this is a biggie). The short answer is that it depends on how much time and energy you put into it, and it depends on the quality of your images. The top earners can make hundreds of dollars per day, but most people will not achieve that. For an overview of my experience, see below. I update the stats about once every month or two so you can get a sense of what I have earned -- without devoting a ton of time to it, to be honest.
Microstock's Fotolia Acquires Wilogo Designer' Site - paidContent:UK
laryn — Mon, 03/19/2012 - 05:18
Microstock's Fotolia Acquires Wilogo Designer' Site
paidContent:UK
Microstock photo repository Fotolia is expanding within its crowdsourced-creativity segment by acquiring Wilogo, a site through which startups find graphic artists to design company logos. Fotolia lets photographers sell royalty-free photos to re-users ...
Microstock's Fotolia Acquires Wilogo Designer' Site - paidContent.org
laryn — Mon, 03/19/2012 - 05:09
Microstock's Fotolia Acquires Wilogo Designer' Site
paidContent.org
Microstock photo repository Fotolia is expanding within its crowdsourced-creativity segment by acquiring Wilogo, a site through which startups find graphic artists to design company logos. Fotolia lets photographers sell royalty-free photos to re-users ...
Sony Ericsson sues Clearwire over logo - CNET (blog)
laryn — Tue, 01/18/2011 - 19:06
Sony Ericsson sues Clearwire over logo
CNET (blog)
It honestly resembles something purchased from a microstock site... A company investing millions into a WiMax infrastructure could afford a proper designer ...
Blogger Template Designer moves onto Blogger in Draft - TechShout! (blog)
laryn — Wed, 03/17/2010 - 09:15
Template designer for Blogger announced - MyADSL
laryn — Fri, 03/12/2010 - 08:25
Pixmac sponsors Haiti fundraiser: Pictures of Hope from the Heart for Haiti Collection
laryn — Sat, 01/30/2010 - 16:06
Kudos to the team at Pixmac and to all contributing photographers who participate in this plan to donate images and commissions towards Haiti earthquake relief:
Pixmac Contributing Photographers will donate 100% of their commissions and Pixmac will donate 100% of Pixmac commissions for these same images to the following emergency support and relief agencies in support of the Haiti Relief Efforts beginning Sunday Feb 14, 2010 - Wednesday Feb 17, 2010.
7 tips for selling your photos - Macworld
laryn — Fri, 09/25/2009 - 15:01
MacWorld has seven tips for would-be microstockers (see below). It's always helpful to read other people's summaries of the things that they find important. This is a decent list of basics.
- Understand how it works: "...Selling stock photos is not easy money. It will take time to build up a decent sized portfolio (at least 100 pictures) before you see any sizable return..."
- Think like a designer: "...Designers want photographs with ample amounts of uncluttered negative space so make sure you leave room for a headline or other text..." [Click the title above for more]
Selling Logos at iStock
laryn — Wed, 09/23/2009 - 10:02
iStock just announced that they will be selling logos soon. An excerpt from the press release is below, but first here are a few reactions (the reaction from designers is overwhelmingly negative):
Digital Arts
The scheme has provoked furious debate on iStock's forum and elsewhere, as designers have protested at what they see as a cheapening of what can be a complex and in-depth process...Read the full article.
Upload new images regularly
laryn — Sat, 08/22/2009 - 16:27
If you want a constant (and constantly growing) revenue stream from microstock--upload new images regularly. Many of the sites sort images in a number of views from newest to oldest by default, so that designers who are regulars can find the fresh photos and vector images quickly. This means that the more new images you keep in front of them, the more likely sales will be. As well, the more images that you have in your library, the more statistically likely they are to show up in keyword searches.
