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BigStockPhoto has done some tweaking with their key-wording program when you upload your images. The new built in code will highlight words that my be copyrighted or have other issues. This will save you time for any keyword rejections you might get for the above reasons. Check it out. We now have an alert system in place for uploaders on the Uploaded Image Queue area that shows you if you have a potentially problematic word in your TITLE, DESCRIPTION or KEYWORD area. There are a couple hundred words that we are not allowed to use such as commercially trademarked names like "Scrabble" or "Kleenex". etc., as well as a some prohibited dirty words, and other trademarked names and items such as Ford automobiles or the Chrysler Building that we can have as Editorial if they are potentially newsworthy images, but that we cannot license as Standard License imagery. The new Problem Keyword Alert system is intended to simply make you aware of the potentially problem t

This is a little old, as I missed blogging about it. Alamy has updated their pricing to include smaller size formats. UPDATED: We have updated this blog post to include more details on Rights Managed uses, please see below We will shortly be offering 3 new file sizes for both RF and RM images on Alamy. Royalty Free (RF) images will be available at the following sizes and price points:- Up to 170 pixels: $5 / £5 / €5 Up to 280 pixels: $15 / £15 / €15 Up to 450 pixels: $49 / £39 / €49 Rights Managed (L or RP) images will be available as low resolution files for electronic use.. Electronic uses:- Corporate website (single placement / one design - duration up to 1 year) Editorial website (single placement / one design - duration up to 1 year) Electronic presentation (single placement / one design - duration up to 1 year) Promotional email (up to 10,000 recipients, single placement / one design) – duration 3 months) One web advertisement (single placement / one design) –

Alamy is offering a once in a life time opportunity to their members by entering your idea for the 40th earth-day poster. If selected your work will become a global icon and will be shown around the world. Read a word from the president of the company below. Dear Global Photographers, Earth Day Network www.earthday.net is seeking your help to create an official poster for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, an event that will reach over 1 billion people in more than 180 countries. In 1970, Earth Day brought 20 million people into the streets in a protest against industrial pollution and the impacts that unfettered industrialization had on our children and society. That effort launched of the modern environmental movement, a movement predicated on the health and well being of people and the sustainability of our incredible but fragile earth. Now Earth Day is the largest secular event in the world, bringing people of all ages into the environmental movement

Well the The3DStudio is trying to bring long term photographers to their site. They are offering a whopping 70% return on all your images with this program. If you opt out, you still keep the 60% return...the only catch is you have to agree to keep your images on their site for a minimum of 5 years. Also added are the last 100 customer search feature. Take a gander below. Member Loyalty Program open to all! When we originally launched our Member Loyalty Program (MLP) at the end of September we had originally required a certain number of products to be eligible but we quickly were told by all of you that loyalty shouldn’t be restricted to product counts. We couldn’t agree more and so we’ve opened the MLP to all members now that we’ve finally caught up with the initial rush of members. Earn 5% lifetime referral commissions Refer a friend or an enemy to The3dStudio.com and you can earn 5% of their sales for the rest of your life. Anyone can use the affiliate links in our referral pr

Here are some great shots I took at the Texas Renaissance Festival which is the largest renaissance festival in the United States. These images are not part of my stock collection, but several such images will be available coming soon as several of my sites. Check the side bar for a listing of where you may find such images. Enjoy

So I have finished the chart for October sales and I wish I had not seen it. October was horrible, I mean just flat out sad. For the year, it was well at the bottom. For example my favorite stock site Dreamstime , which still took first, was down around 75% for Sept alone. I sure hope this is not a sign of the busy shopping season ahead. Upside is I have a large batch of images that are being processed and should have another 200 images entered before the end of the year. So, here is the break down. Dreamstime ShutterStock BigStockPhoto

Some more great updates over at iSyndica as the strive to make their site even more of a one stop shop. A few months ago the launched a cool free feature that let you post your images, video, etc to several sites for advertising (facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.). There however was a issue that several photographers noted....a crappy water mark at the very bottom. Problem solved, iSyndica now lets you choose upload your own watermarks for this distrubution option. Also upgraded are several new reporting tools. Custom Watermarks! How Does It Work? Apply a custom watermark* to all your images, videos and illustrations and distribute them on Flickr, YouTube & more. Upload a .PNG file to our new watermark manager to create your own watermark and decide on the resolution of the image . Some of you prefer to send smaller images on public sites and this update lets you do just that. You will find all these options on the channel configuration screen. *Note that you will need a PLUS s

The 3d Studio added to major upgrades to give their costumers better support and to start competing better against other major stock photography players. You will now see and additional larger size available for images and very open ended extended license. 400 pixel size announced One of the most commonly requested items we get from customers is for a smaller image size so we are introducing a 400 pixel size starting with all images that are being added from November 2nd and on. The minimum (and suggested) price for this new “X-Small” size is $2.00 USD. This should prove to be a very popular size and will give The3dStudio.com an edge as we ramp up our Stock Image business since customers can now buy a single image for $2.00 on our site. No goofy credits and no subscriptions needed! All images that were added before November 2nd will AUTOMATICALLY be upgraded to this new size over the new few days. If you prefer to NOT sell your images added before 11/2/2009 at this new size the

Extra Extra, read all about it: Fotolia becomes a little more global as they launch their support in Turkey. Fotolia is the first-ever major microstock company to offer localized web services in Turkey. By offering a platform to buy and sell royalty-free images and videos, Turkey is the 12th region to join the Fotolia family. "We have a strong worldwide reputation and are the number one European provider of stock images. We're thrilled to be the first major microstock to localize in Turkey," said Oleg Tscheltzoff, co-founder and president of Fotolia, LLC. For more information, check out www.fotolia.com.tr