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Earnings from Microstock in October 2011

Another great month! I have now easily beaten the $1200 barrier and ended the month with sales of $1262.67,beating last months record by a cool $200. Most of the sites did well,with Shutterstock setting its own record with $451 and iStock maintaining a steady performance of over $200 in the past 3 months. [...]

Dreamstime adds two new license types

I noticed this week that the image submission form on Dreamstime now has two new checkboxes in the “Rights Management”area at the foot of the page. I have recommended not clicking on the “Sell Rights”  checkbox as that requires you to remove all copies of the sold image from every other location –hard [...]

Steam trains as stock images

There are many scenic steam railways around the country,but getting a good image of a train is a matter of being in the right place at the right time as the land surrounding the line is usually private. The Western Maryland Railroad has solved that by offering Photographer’s days three times a year –[...]

Isignstock –worth considering as your next stock site

Readers of my eBook,Getting Started in Stock,have probably started by uploading images to the top 4-6 sites,and are slowly getting their work processes honed to perfection! The obvious question is –which site shall I upload to next? This is a difficult decision,because the effort involved in uploading may not be [...]

Shutterstock adds Sets

Shutterstock has developed a capability for contributors to group their images into a set (very similar to collections in Lightroom) in a new area called “Catalog Manager”. It is available from the main contributors page. Once you are in catalog manager,you can filter your images by a keyword,and then drag the selected images [...]

How to create a calendar on Zazzle

As I mentioned in an earlier post,I created a new 2012 Kauai calendar and put it up for sale on Zazzle about a month ago. Four sales so far! I also noticed that the choice of calendars for Kauai is not great and the others are priced higher than mine,and so I’m planning [...]

Sales of stock photos in September 2011

The summer lull has definitely passed,and September turned in the best month to date in terms of earnings. Shutterstock roared ahead with a personal best on that site of $415,beating a previous high of $386 set back in April. The sales of the cat images as enhanced downloads certainly helped –all told [...]