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    Fotolia’s top selling contributors

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    By Amos Struck on September 10, 2009 Microstock News

    What are the most popular microstock clichés? Let's discover them through Fotolia. We can visit the Fotolia's “from this month Best Sellers” page (here a screenshot)

    fotolia-bestsellers
    Fotolia's Bestsellers page

    or we can browse round the Top Selling contributors portfolios to know them and  to see what are their most popular works. A special thanks to Amos Struck for his Microstock Photo Plugin for WordPress that let me buy and insert, in a few clicks, all the Fotolia's pictures of this post, directly with caption, referral links, title, alternate text.


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    Multi-ethnic pile of hands © Yuri Arcurs #5270375

    A classic pile of hands, people formally dressed, business team concept.

    Full Yuri's porfolio

    Multi-ethnic pile of hands
    © Yuri Arcurs – Fotolia.com

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    business team work © Andres Rodriguez #4665940

    Business work team concept with the addiction of another great cliché:  jigsaw

    Full Andres' Portfolio

    business team work
    © Andres Rodriguez – Fotolia.com

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    your empty board © ioannis kounadeas #2204090

    Puppet illustration with a big copy space board for slogan personalization

    Full Ioannis' Portfolio

    your empty board
    © ioannis kounadeas – Fotolia.com

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    House under construction with energy ratings © Kirsty Pargeter #10067668

    Real Estate and energy saving concepts all in one photo

    Full Kirsty's Porfolio

    House under construction with energy ratings
    © Kirsty Pargeter – Fotolia.com

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    Smiling pretty business woman with headset © Kurhan #6166346

    Typical image used for help desk and customer care purposes, pretty girl and headset

    Full Kurhan's Portfolio

    Smiling  pretty business woman with headset. .
    © Kurhan – Fotolia.com

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    And now a couple of samples from two of the Fotolia's Italian Top Selling contributors

    fiocco oro © piumadaquila.com #8026579

    One of the most popular subjects: Christmas and New Year celebration, here represented by a versatile golden ribbon

    fiocco oro
    © piumadaquila.com – Fotolia.com

    Full Piumadaquila's Porfolio

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    wine 50 © olly #6498369

    A bit of Italian Style with a charming brunette with a glass of red wine

    brunette with a glass of red wine
    © olly – Fotolia.com

    Full Olly's Porfolio

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    If you like to explore these kind of challenging subjects (very popular but with an high quality required due to the hard competition), I suggest to visit:

    • 202 Challenging Subjects when Shooting for Stock by Rob “bobbigmac” Davies (picNiche's author); <<The list is built from supply/demand metrics composited across a variety of associated search phrases and queries to picNiche>>
    • 101 B2B Marketing Clichés, an IAS b2b production, with a critic view of the cliché concept; <<Clichés are everywhere in B2B marketing. Every trade mag, most powerpoints, hundreds of websites are jammed with cringworthy specimens>>
    • Don’t shoot clichés? We did…, an interesting experiment by Corepics; they prepared 16 cliché photos and after a poll session they will upload the images at Shutterstock analyzing the selling trend for a month. <<Please help us by picking the best of our cliché shoot. Select your favourite three images from the list in our poll, and leave a comment!>>

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    14 Comments

    1. plrang on September 10, 2009 6:30 pm

      And what about the FOTOLIAs 'watermark'.
      Also if You switch the country You'll see other 'best of' i think.

      Reply
      • mystockphoto on September 10, 2009 6:54 pm

        Hi Plrang,
        of course these are just samples to illustrate some microstock clichés. You can find certainly others and from different countries. In my case, for the last two pics, a small tribute to my Country, Italy.
        Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by 'watermark' but there are not present because I bought that photos.
        Cheers,
        roberto

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        • plrang on September 10, 2009 7:20 pm

          So.. that's why i was just surprised with that 'remove watermark' plugin feature. Got the same installed (my other blog) but there was no such.;)
          And the 'best of' just in case somebody didn't know.
          Greetings

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          • mystockphoto on September 10, 2009 7:30 pm

            …strange, because if you buy a photo, of course, is without watermark . Are you using Microstock Photo Plugin v. 1.8 http://www.microstockplugin.com/ ?
            Cheers

            Reply
            • plrang on September 10, 2009 8:32 pm

              Yeah, V 1.8 | Author: Dima Sereda and Amos Struck. Got that installed but not used jet, thus just thought there is some bug/feature;)

            • mystockphoto on September 10, 2009 8:40 pm

              Ah OK, the preview in the box search is watermarked (same on Fotolia site, I think the API used by the plugin couldn't behave in a different way) but if you finalize the purchase is all right. Correct Amos?
              Best,
              roberto

            • Amos on September 14, 2009 11:01 am

              Hello,

              thanks for using our Plugin. The watermark gets removed once you have bought the picture. We will download the picture for you via the Fotolia API and download it to your Media Library. You can use the photo as oftern as you want.

              Please contact me if you need more help!
              Amos

    2. Amos on September 10, 2009 7:24 pm

      Hello Roberto, thanks for mention the Plugin. Just for your information we will have Italian Language Set included in the next version.

      Reply
      • mystockphoto on September 10, 2009 7:33 pm

        Hey Amos, great to know about Italian Language and that you and your staff are developing quickly.
        Take care,
        roberto

        Reply
    3. Olya on February 6, 2010 7:04 pm

      As I see, there are no any vector illustration. it's strange.

      Reply
      • Rmarinello Mystockphoto on February 8, 2010 9:10 am

        Hi Olya,
        it's my personal editorial choice among the Fotolia's top contributors.
        Cheers,
        roberto
        My recent post Microstock il nuovo Royalty Free – Lookstat

        Reply
    4. Olya on February 8, 2010 7:24 pm

      ok, I see. thank you for answer.
      as for me, I try to monitor TOP of vector images.

      Reply

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