This story looks at three major segments of the stock photo market and analyzes where digitally created images are likely to have their greatest impact in the near future and why.
This begins a series of stories on the potentials for using digitally created images as stock. I am convinced that it is currently possible to get better reproduction results from digitally created images than from film. Learn why.
Dynamic Graphics (DGUSA), a division of Creatas, has moved their Clipper and Designers Club Royalty Free brands to an online site called Liquidlibrary.com. Customers get at least 150 images a month for a $125 subscription price.
This issue contains stories on Sales Growth at Workbookstock, Image State fiscal 2002 Financial Results showing significant losses, a new browser software called Fotoshowpro that will help photographers set up their own searchable web sites, and more.
This story examines the issues related to reproduction of digitally created images and explains why the quality is so much better from files that are much smaller than the accepted standard for drum scans of film. This fact offers some significant creative options.
This story outlines useful online resources for photographers who are trying to get started in digital still photography. It also provides resources for those already be shooting digital who have questions.
One major advantage of digital capture is the ability to easily store caption and keyword information with the image and to use this info to locate, track and market images. This story discusses workflow issues related to this process.
This issue contains a New Selling Stock Survey, story on how the Economic Climate is likely to affect our industry, RF Rights Standardization, Tight of Loose Editing, National Geographic Goes Online, several short articles on RF, Creatas Worldwide Network, PACA Name Change, favorable court ruling in Massachusetts, AD Industry Projections for 2003, Protecting Your Property, analysis of The Big Players and more.
Selling Stock is launching a new survey to assess stock income trends from the photographer's point of view, and to hopefully draw some conclusions for the future from this data. We urge all stock photographers to respond to this simple survey.
This article on 11 of the world's largest stock agencies was written by Pat Hunt and first published in the Picture Magazine in New York. Pat surveyed these companies and sumarized and reviewed their responses. Pat is a Stock and Marketing Consultant, former owner of Light Sources Stock in Massachusetts and currently VP, Sales at Index Stock Images.