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Tutorial - Submitting Stockby ~larafairie-stock

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A guide to submitting stock anywhere on the internet, I hope you find this useful.

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~WammyP Nov 3, 2010 Hobbyist Digital Artist

All that really need to be said! I've been thinking of posting something similar on my stock site. I want to add "despite the temptation, don't dress your models in black ~~unless you can supply enough professional lighting to see every fold perfectly in the final photo~~". I see so many stock pics with poor lighting, the picture taken from too high an elevation, etc., on and on. The black clothes in many stock photos tend to look like one flat dark blob.

~kriskaye-stock May 30, 2010

Thanks ! This tutorial is great

~BlueVioletRiot Mar 17, 2007

Rad, I just discovered your tutorials section, Im so happy! Thank you for taking the time to help other artists in the community. (And Ive totally been wondering what the unspoken "rules" are on stock photos. Glad to finally see it laid out somewhere.)

~Otherwheregirl Feb 23, 2007

I love the tutorial!

As a stock newb, I've noticed that stock art can really test your skills as a photographer. I'm totally new to photography, and stock, so I'm learning loads.

My gallery is super small since I'm trying to only have good usable images that aren't too redundant.

(I hate having to sort through hundreds of the same exact picture in one gallery)

~parallaxerror-stock Nov 29, 2006 Photographer

I'll keep this in mind... though it makes me think that I should improve my equipment.

~BlasphemedSoldier Nov 12, 2005 Hobbyist Photographer

Well Y-e-a-h. I agree with everything you said. Good hints for newbies. I think you should read no. 2 and review your stocks. good luck.

~subspaceNinja Nov 9, 2005

Excellent little tutorial. A lot of stock on here especially should be placed in the snapshots category. One thing I would certainly suggest to stock photographers is inputting keywords into the metadata of the actual .jpg so that people with programs like Adobe Bridge can search it out on their own computers without having to rely on the filename. I just wish this would be required on iStockphoto or StockXChange where files are assigned a number code.

Also, concept, concept, concept! Oh, and white backgrounds!

~kapari Nov 1, 2005

Oh, do you ever find what would make a great stock picture, but the person has too much makeup on that ruins the effect?
I find that often and i'm not too great at photoshop so I can't remove the makeup without wrecking the picture. Any tips?

~kapari Nov 1, 2005

I always have troubly with my stock. My camera is getting old and it doesn't seem to like the memory card I have in it. Even on the highest res it still comes our grainy in the full size. It's ok when the picture is made smaller, but I think people don't expect that to happen when they see it on my stock site >.<

-Sarah

~DelightfulStock Oct 27, 2005 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

All good advice

now if only people would heed it

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