Author: Amos Struck

Image Source has just introduced new web and mobile image sizes and prices: “more sizes, more flexibility online”, starting from €10.
Targets announced are blogs, mobile applications, web banners, avatars, thumbnails. Microstock and traditional stock convergence.

Robert Davies has just launched StockPhotoFeeds.com RSS Feeds and Free Stock Photo Finder Firefox Addon with two main services:
* The ability to subscribe to RSS feeds of image-searches across 5 microstock agencies and on SXC.hu free stock photo library.
* A firefox addon to search among hundreds of millions of free images across over 200 websites.

In MICROSTOCK MONEY SHOTS: Turning Downloads into Dollars with Microstock Photography (August 24, 2010), industry insider Ellen Boughn demystifies the world of microstock, sharing behind-the-scenes secrets for posting images that will get viewed, downloaded and most important, sold.

iStockphoto Relaunches Website with a Modern Look, Improved Navigation and Strong Focus on the Customer.
The new site offers a clean, contemporary look and feel, and reflects more than a year of customer-focused usability research and design. The new site was built using an innovative back-end architecture laying the framework for several future enhancements including a new search interface being unveiled before the end of the year.

Demotix is a citizen-journalism website and freelance photo agency.
Professional freelance journalists, passionate amateurs and ordinary citizens can upload their photographs and, soon, videos to Demotix and share them with the community of news-addicts

MonkeyBusiness and Iofoto photographic overview, 2 best selling photos and 4 samples selected from the new works

Graphic Leftovers announces the GL Collection “Our Hottest Images” Looking for hot, fresh images? Check out the new GL Collection which features hand-selected vectors and images that are truly outstanding.  The GL Collection was created to provide GL members with a premium image search option without the premium price tag! Unlike other stock image sites, Graphic Leftovers does not charge more for premium or featured images, we simply want to provide members with an option to search our most creative and original images. These images are chosen based on artistic quality, uniqueness, composition and execution. Buyers can search exclusively inside the collection…

Yuri Arcurs and Andres Rodriguez photographic overview on Dreamstime, 2 best selling photos and 4 samples selected from the new works

After more than 4 years of microstock activities, with different efforts and directions, I’d like to start from some personal experiences trying to draw a general and current state for the microstock contributors. That’s mine 1) 2010 seems to have shown the peak of my microstock earnings followed by a sensible loss of “power” of selling. 2) My incomes are supported by some old shots/series that are still covering niches and have reached a good visibility thanks to their high positions when sorting the search results for number of downloads. These images are not “special” and I can now produce…

Thinkstock Launches New Image Pack Subscription Service Seattle, WA, July 9, 2010. Thinkstock, an image subscription site from Getty Images, today announced the introduction of image packs. This new product offers value-conscious creative processionals pre-paid access to imagery and an even greater choice, value and flexibility in licensing imagery. Customers can now choose to license 5, 25, 100 or 250 high-quality royalty-free stock photos and vector illustrations from Thinkstock’s collection of more than five million images. Collections are sourced from the industry’s leading providers including Getty Images, iStockphoto and Jupiter Images. Customers can download their images anytime within a year with…