digital photography
Digital Photography Market Set To Reach $82.5 Billion By 2016 - OfficialWire (press release)
laryn — Thu, 05/17/2012 - 13:18
Digital Photography Market Set To Reach $82.5 Billion By 2016
OfficialWire (press release)
Even fewer would have predicted the rise of the microstock photography market and the proliferation and growth in Internet photo sharing sites. While the impact on the photo processing market could have been predicted, many were surprised by how ...
For Photographers, the Image of a Shrinking Path - New York Times
laryn — Mon, 03/29/2010 - 17:00
...“When we began, stock photography or licensed images, preshot images being licensed, was perceived as the armpit of the photo industry,” said Jonathan Klein, the chief executive of Getty Images who helped found the agency in 1995. “No self-respecting art director or creative director would use a preshot image, because it wasn’t original, it hadn’t been commissioned by them, it wasn’t their creativity.”
Digital Photography - San Francisco Chronicle
laryn — Thu, 09/03/2009 - 15:50
Digital Photography
San Francisco Chronicle
Some of the comments on my story gave more examples of how the use of "microstock" photography (for more on that, go to the end of this post) is spreading. ...
Sell Vector Images at Shutterstock, Dreamstime, iStock
laryn — Wed, 09/02/2009 - 00:26
Shutterstock, Dreamstime, and iStock allow you to sell your vector illustrations on their site in the same manner as the digital photography. This means you can create imagery in Adobe Illustrator, Freehand, Xara Xtreme, or Inkscape (free download). You earn money for every download from their subscriber base, with additional incentives for referring buyers or sellers to the site.
This sample image is one of my most popular vector images on Shutterstock, from a series on road signs I made. I drew it in Illustrator and saved it as an EPS.
