EyeEm, photo community + marketplace company, is launching a new iOS app today, built on the base of their proprietary computer vision technology, EyeEm Vision. The Roll is an app designed to replace smartphones’ camera roll folder, with an intelligent tool that allows to search, group and sort your stored images without any extra input from your part. You can download the app here. Auto-Tagging, Visual Analysis and More The new app uses EyeEm’s AI-based technology (EyeEm Vision) to analyse all photos in a device’s photo library. Using deep learning algorithms, it automatically generates tags for each photo (identifying date,…
Author: Amos Struck
Amos Struck
I write about the stock photo and microstock industry since 2006 on my several online-magazines. My goal for MyStockPhoto is to teach photographers and stock photographers how to sell more photos and earn money with their photography hobby.
Dreamstime, one of the top 10 microstock agencies, is building a new audio clips library, and since this week they’re open for submissions. The new audio collection will be available for both on-demand and subscription based purchases in the following months. This addition is aimed at providing more services for customers of their stock footage library whom will now also find audio content to complete their projects. Do you have audio clips? Click here and submit them to Dreamstime now! High Quality Clips in a Variety of Styles and Themes Audio clips submission has been enabled in Dreamstime this Monday.…
Shutterstock published a new version of their contributor app (version 1.4) that allows uploading of model releases as part of the image upload process. This allows for a full mobile work flow for users. Model and property releases now part of the Shutterstock Contributor App At the end of last week, Shutterstock announced its newest version of their Contributor App which already had the reputation of giving good insights into image sales and allowed for uploading of new images but was missing a rather important feature: The addition of model releases to submitted images. With the new version, the Submission section…
With Dropstock.io, a new tool for distributing images across agencies has been published. It uses the Dropbox capabilities of storing and sharing images and uploads them through the agency’s FTP servers. Using Dropbox as a platform for distribution Slovenian traveller and stock photographer Ana Flašker and German programmer Robert Jung have joined forces to create a new tool to help microstock photographers using the Dropbox platform to easily share images across multiple agencies. The solution is based on the cloud storage services of Dropbox which can be used in a free version with limited space. It would allow easy drag and drop of…
In a rather swift move, 500px has announced a drastic change in their licensing and royalty payouts of their ‘Marketplace’ (formerly ‘Prime’). The cut is more than half from 70 to 30 per cent of the licensing fees, at least for non-exclusive images. Thr 500px Email contains lots of details and a two weeks notice As was stated in the email, 500px has learned a lot from licensing images for the last two years. As our partner site StockPhotoSecrets had presented back then, the 500px Prime market was planned to be a premium market with prices starting at $250 and…
Earlier this year, the announcement that the once mighty Corbis agency will be acquired by the Chinese company VCG, now comes with deadlines: Corbis’ microstock subsidiary Veer has just announced their closure effective March 30. Customers are being transferred with their remaining credits or a subscription to Getty’s subsidiary iStock as part of a deal the leading agency has made with Visual China Group. VCG has announced that it has no interest to license images themselves outside of China, so this step is part of the global partnership with Getty Images that already existed before the Corbis acquisition. What the Veer…
Xpiks is a free desktop application available for OS X, Windows and Linux that enables you to keyword your photos and then upload them to microstocks. If you’re contributing to several microstocks it might be tiring each time to upload photos, write keywords and submit. Xpiks not only allows you to do it once, but also provides you with a lot of useful features like spell checking, keywords suggestion, automatic zipping and others. Look and Feel, Features After you will download and run Xpiks, you can start adding photos to the workflow. Photographers can open JPG and TIFF files in…
Microstockr Pro is a new desktop app, available for PC & MAC that lets you track your microstock earnings in real-time. If you’re a contributing photographer maybe the time wasted checking individual agencies could be used doing something more useful. The app helps you keep track of your portfolio in one place instead of logging into each site every time. The nice thing about it is after logging into an agency the app starts crawling the sales all the way back to your first upload, essentially recording the entire history of your sales. Now, imagine doing that for many agencies…
The leading microstock agency Shutterstock has announced changes to their initial review process. Going forward, out of the ten images that need to be submitted during the application process, only one has to get accepted to be admitted to the contributor base of the market leader. Initial review removed, more guidance during submissions As the agency announced in an internal message within their contributor forums, the decision came to lower the initial review requirements. In the past, it was required to get at least 7 out of 10 images accepted as part of the application process. Then again, it was…
After Adobe Stock was launched mid year with some early success, their agency subsidiary Fotolia now announced the long awaited addition of video content into that offer. With Adobe Stock, the software giant integrated the image content sourced through its recently acquired subsidiary Fotolia into their widely used Photoshop and Illustrator products. According to the announcement, all motion content in HD size will be available within the Library module of video editing software Premiere and AfterEffects after this change. Content can be searched, downloaded and licensed through the Creative Cloud apps directly without the need to leave the software. The HD version will come…