As you know, we’ve been making some serious to improvements at Bigstock over the last several months. We’ve just rolled out a series of new contributor features, including charts and graphs to help you keep better track of your earnings. In addition, we’re announcing the addition of a tax center to help our contributors submit…
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Join Bigstock at the HOW Conference in Denver
The Bigstock team is packing our bags and getting ready for the HOW Design Conference, which starts Sunday in Denver. It’s one of the top events for creative professionals, and we’ll be there to spread the word about Bigstock. If you’re attending the conference, visit booth 608 to learn more about us and pick up some…
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What’s in a Color?
© eileen/Bigstock Color is the one of the most essential aspects of design – even in cases when you use no color at all. Color, or lack thereof, helps convey your message, so it’s critical to choose the right colors for your projects. The right combination of colors can evoke intrigue, hunger, happiness, and more. The…
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When’s the Best Time to Upload Images?
As many contributors know, downloads for specifically-themed images spike during certain times of the year. For example, Bigstock buyers are most likely going to be searching for summer-themed images during spring (or in some cases, even earlier). When to upload particular seasonal or other “timing” based images is a popular question, and while there’s no…
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150+ Things You Can’t Show in a Commercial Stock Image
Experienced stock photographers know to secure model and property releases when shooting recognizable people or locations. But there are some subjects which, for legal and intellectual property reasons, cannot be used in a commercial license without additional permission. For example, a crayon with a recognizable Crayola swirl may be covered by that company’s trademark. Below,…
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How To Keep Your Image Sales High
A lot of Bigstock contributors, smartly, keep an eye on their monthly earnings and look for sales trends. But sometimes there’s an exceptionally good or disappointing month and it’s hard to figure out why. Based on our experience, here are some ways to keep your images selling consistently well. For obvious reasons, upload as many…
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Model and Property Releases 101
If you’re like most photographers, you’d rather do photography than paperwork. That said, a little bit of paperwork is sometimes necessary. If you shoot stock photos, model and property releases are a vital part of your work. You’ll need releases if you want stock sites like Bigstock to accept your photos, and releases can protect…
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Top Five New Features of Adobe Photoshop CS5
Today Adobe officially announced Creative Suite 5, which includes a major upgrade to Photoshop. Will the upgrade be worth the money? Adobe has published a web site calling out new features, and some of them look quite impressive. Here’s a look at five new features that stand out.
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How to Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Darken Part of an Image
Updated by designer Cristin Burton on Feb. 17th, 2015. This Adobe Photoshop tutorial will show you to use adjustment layers and layer masks to adjust parts of a photo. This demo was on in Adobe Creative Cloud, but should apply in several other versions as well. In this tutorial I will adjust only the sky of the…
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Six Easy Steps To Mastering Bigstock’s New, Improved Uploading Process
With our new design, our goal was to make it simpler and faster for artists to contribute their images to Bigstock. For our contributors, we made significant enhancements to the Bigstock upload process. You can now make all your edits on a single screen. Our new interface features real-time metadata field validation and direct image…
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