Microstock Design & Photography

Ok. In this webpage, I hope to bring together all the websites that I  have come across and found them to be really useful and from which I personally learnt many things. Please feel free to sitemail me if you have any good recommendations to add here.

Here are some useful tips to links that will help you once you start to submit to Micro Stock. I was uploading photos individually for about 6 months until I finally decided to try some of them. I just started using them in Jan 2007 and they have proved to be extremely useful thus far. Hope you think so too. I love freeware, so everything I recommend would be free of course.

Mozilla Firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/
Browser that allows you to open many tabs in one page. Useful for multiple uploads especially to istock since istock does not accept FTP but uses its own unique system.

Filezilla
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
Good for FTP upload eg uploading hundreds of photos to stock sites. Majority of the Micro Stock sites accept FTP.

Fotki
http://www.fotki.com/
Useful for storing photos online at 100%. You can use it as a storage or put up photos with problems (artifact, noise, light etc) to other photographers for comments/feedback/help.

For those of us, myself including who needs help in Photography.

http://www.morguefile.com/archive/classroom.php

Like any new beginner, I find that I have a lot to learn especially with regards to lighting. So, here are the ones that have been recommended me and I thought they were cool. You can build you own cheap DIY tents! Hope to try them one of these days. I am listing them here also for my easy reference ;-)

http://studiolighting.net/
http://www.photoflexlightingschool.com/index.html
http://www.pbase.com/wlhuber/light_box_light_tent
http://www.instructables.com/id/EKTSDWUR5HEP286OV2/

Anything and Everything to do with Stock Photography or General Photography.

http://www.stockphotographer.info/
http://www.popphoto.com/

        
Looking for that perfect camera and unsure which one to buy? Perhaps these sites would help you. Buy Camera & Equipment

http://www.dpreview.com/
http://www.steves-digicams.com/

These are the Micro Stock Forums that I participate in. You can talk freely about anything with regards to all the stock sites, seek help or just have friendly chats with fellow micro stock mates.

Photography Forums
Canon Digital Photography Forums

Micro Stock Forums
Talkmicro Forum
Microstockgroup Forum

Here is a listing of articles and surveys relating to Micro Stock Photography that you must read if you are interested in this business.

ARTICLES
25 Cents Fortunes
Stock Photography Articles & Discussions
Tax Savings Tip For Graphic Artist

SURVEYS
PDN's Stock Income Survey Results (31 May 2007)