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Canstockphoto

Canstockphoto is a small but quite old Microstock agency. They usually don’t generate a lot of income for you BUT they have an affiliation with www.fotosearch.com.

Fotosearch is a Meta-stock image search engine that crawles dozens of stock agencies.

Many advertising and marketing [...]

What is post-processing?

Business woman ® Carsten Reisinger

Post-processing is when you make adjustments to your images after you transferred them to the computer and before you upload them to the agencies. Photographers usually use Photoshop or Gimp for post-processing.

These adjustments could be color correction, white balance [...]

My image(s) got rejected – what do I do now?

Wooden mannequin mastering a challenge © Carsten Reisinger

Everyone – every single photographer had images rejected at some point so you are not alone.

In most cases the reviewer or image inspector did a proper job of evaluating your image(s) and found problems that he/she [...]

How to apply properly to Microstock agencies

If you do what I recommend, you will have your first images online as fast as possible!

It is very simple, so follow these steps:

1. At every agency use the forum to show your application images to all the forum members.

2. Read the critique carefully [...]

Making money selling images at 25 cents a pop?

Success © Carsten Reisinger

Yes, absolutely!

For many years traditional, professional photographers have tried to “exorcise the devil” out of Microstock photographers claiming that they undersell their products. While at first glance it appears to be true, you have to dig a little deeper to [...]

Fotolia

Depressed Woman © Carsten Reisinger

Fotolia has a place amongst the big agencies as well next to Shutterstock, iStockphoto and Dreamstime. Like Dreamstime and iStockphoto, Fotolia offers a credit based system [...]

Dreamstime

Car Sale © Carsten Reisinger

Dreamstime is one of the bigger agencies. It also has a very good reputation amongst contributors. They offer both credit based purchases as well as subscription plans.  Image earn more royalties depending on how [...]

iStockphoto

Sugar Bomb © Carsten Reisinger

iStockphoto is one of the two Microstock industry leaders next to Shutterstock. iStockphoto offers both credit based image purchases as well as subscription plans.

Their commission structure is one of the lowest in [...]