Holy schmoly, we all gulped, gasped and said “huh?” when Getty Images, the world’s most famous stock library, went and bought out the microstock retailer istockphoto a while back.
Microstock libraries like istockphoto sell RF images for as little as $1. They have definitely had an effect on the sales of traditional RF priced photography as […]
Rights ready image licences are a recent invention by stock photography library Getty Images. Introduced at the back end of 2006 to coincide with a new collection called ‘Lifesize’, Getty positioned this new licence type firmly between the traditional rights managed and royalty free licence types.
So what does a rights ready stock image license […]
At some stage during your new stock photography career you’ll progress from shooting landscapes, your cat, small objects on a white background and begin submitting people shots. These are the money spinners, the real sellers.
At first the prospect of hiring professional models will seem daunting. So many people cut their teeth by shooting […]
Following on from my last post about the licencing types that offer buyers rights protection and exclusivity on the usage of your images its important to understand how to add restrictions so that the image is ‘locked’ and unable to be sold for the exclusive rights to other would-be purchasers.
Hang on…. why would anyone […]
A rights protected image license (abbreviated as ‘RP‘) is essentially an extended version of a traditional rights managed image licence. It grants (normally for an extra payment or higher price than a normal RM licence for the same usage) exclusivity of the image for a particular use so the buyer can be sure that […]
Royalty free licencing of images is a fairly new idea. Introduced by Getty Images in the mid 1990s and quickly taken up by the other stock agencies of the day as an alternative way of buying image rights it quickly became a hot topic for photographers and remains controversial to this day.
So what does […]
Rights managed licencing is the oldest (and some would say best) way of selling your work. Rights managed licences give you complete control over how to charge fairly for your work and can apply equally to commissioned work when pricing photography or stock library sales. Pricing rights managed commissioned work is the subject of another […]
A common stumbling block among new photographers is how to sell their photography work and the role of licenses (a usage agreement) in managing the rights that their work automatically holds.
I’ll cover copyright in another post but for the purposes of this post lets assume you live in the UK, USA or one of the […]
A common question to those new to colour management is how to set up Photoshop so it is using the right monitor profile. The one you just created with your new monitor profiling equipment or the one you just created in Adobe Gamma.
Answer: you can’t set the monitor profile in Photoshop
Why?
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Here’s a quick tutorial on how to add contrast to an image in Photoshop without boosting saturation.
Quite often we need to add contrast to an image to give it more punch and bite. There are several ways to accomplish this in Photoshop but the way that gives us most control is to use an […]
