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vs vs Well Getty has finally chosen to shut down StockXpert, but they are not making it easy to understand. I will give my break down and you can read below the official report. So first off, if you have credits at SXP then you get a one for one trade with iStock (Buyers wont loose any cash they have paid). Now the tricky part, if you are just at SXP then you can request a finial payout of your balance, do so before Feb. 11th when they close the doors. If you are a member of iStock, then your balance will be transferred to that account. Everything makes sense so far right. Now the wrench. Getty is launching a new subscription site called Thinkstockphotos...and if you are a member of SXP then they will be merging your images over to that site. They will only do this if you are opted in on third party option. So, now the odd part, you have a sale at Think...were does the money go...your iStock account, a new account at Think, nope...sounds like its back in SXP account. Even afte...

Well, due to a nice surprise at Shutterstock this January ended up being my best month every with my Stock Photography. I found out that I got my first Extended License over at Shutterstock , something that I have only seen once at Dreamstime . I doubt Feb, will be this nice, but here is to hoping. The top three guys this month was Shutterstock , then Dreamstime , and rounding out the top three was 123RF . I look forward to increased sales at 123RF when they launch their editorials section. Like always, check out the lovely pie chart for a full list of companies I had sales with this month ( click to increase the size ). Also, all other stock sites I have images at can be found on the left side of the blog. Oh, and I would also like to welcome DepositPhotos on the map with my first sale with them, which is great for such a new company.

They crew at Dreamstime has been busy so far the 2010. Below is a highlight of great additions already added in January. First up they have not got an option to purchase multiple license for an image. You can find this option under the image details tab and select away. On January 12th they launched a new download format for buyers. You now have the option to get almost any image in their database as a TIFF file. Dreamstime has made it an option for several images to opt in or out of several extended license sales. There is a button that you can choose to turn on or off at your DT command center as I like to refer to it as. Also, if you have the option turned off a contributor can send an automatic request to you of providing them an extended license option. EL options are big cash cows for contributors, so I would think you would like to leave this option on for all your images unless something special is going on with one of your images. On January 8th they added a little butt...

Great news for buyers and sellers at 123RF, they now accept and will sell Editorial image later this spring. Editorial images are one of the fastest growing aspects of Stock Photography. Editorials are widely used by companies and blogger who post articles about current events. Check out the process for uploading your editorial images below...note that ftp support will be coming soon. Yes, it's good news for those of you who've been waiting for this moment. 123RF is now accepting editorial content. We would like to invite you to upload your editorial images or illustrations to us. Here's how: Log in and go to where you submit your images for upload Select 'Editorial'. Click on 'Continue' to begin your upload. Next, select the number of images that you wish to upload. Only web form upload is available for now. (FTP will be added later on!) Next, select the images that you wish to upload to us AS EDITORIAL MATERIAL only. Click the "Upload" butto...

If you are a Shutterstock user and submit vectors to their site for sell, they have tweaked a few of their rules. This is a short and sweet blog post, see below of the updated requirements. New! Upgraded Vector Submission Requirements What You Need to Know In an effort to streamline the vector upload process, we recently announced our new vector submission requirements. Going forward, please be aware of the following changes: - You can now upload vectors that are compatible with Adobe Illustrator 10 . - We will continue to accept files that are compatible with Illustrator 8. - With both Illustrator 8 and Illustrator 10 files, the maximum file size is now 15 MB . The JPG Preview requirement remains the same. Please continue submitting your low-res JPG previews along with your vector files. Current Illustrator 8 Vector files in your portfolio will remain as is. These new requirements only affect the type of file you upload from now on -- it is not necessary to upload new...

Cutcaster has come out with the 2010 New Years Resoultion of everything they plan to accomplish in the upcoming year. I hope that this works as sales have been, well empty over there. They team is very friendly and dedicated though...so hopefully we will see good things out of them. Check out their write up below. What a year 2009 was! With the Aughts (00s) drifting out of our memories and 2010 taking shape before us, we wanted to thank you for your continuous support and give you a glimpse of what to expect in the next 52 weeks from Cutcaster . 2010's focus is on the Photo Buyer and our New Year’s resolution is to educate more buyers about the benefits of choosing Cutcaster . We know you're not supposed to say a New Year’s resolution out loud because it's twice as onerous a duty but we know the hard work before us is to prove we can satisfy any buyers' needs and provide them an amazing selection of content when they search Cutcaster. In the New Year, expect us to: I...

Tamron is running a 18week series on how to improve your skills and basic understanding of the DSLR camera. The clips are about 1 min long, which is great to keep you from being overload with information and if you are tight on time. Weekly episodes start today, Jan. 18th, 2010 and will run for the next 18 weeks on every Monday. Of course Tamrons YouTube channel has several other videos to check out if you have more time on your hands and want a more in depth experience about their lens. The video is presented by: Andre Costantini who is a award winning professional photographer. Check out the new channel here .