Introducing Bigstock’s Tax Center

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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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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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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