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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A Quick Tip For Navigating Bigstock
One of our favorite ways to find great work on Bigstock is to browse by contributor. Here’s an example of how it helped us recently. Recently we were looking at the newest images at Bigstock and we spotted a couple of cool 3D-style vector icons. We were curious to see more by this artist. To…
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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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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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See a Stunning 45-Gigapixel Photograph of Dubai
Panoramic photography technology keeps getting more impressive. Last month, photographer Gerald Donovan carried a Canon EOS 7D and GigaPan robotic camera mount to the top of a Dubai skyscraper to shoot an amazing 45-gigapixel panorama of the city. GigaPan, in a press release, claims the shot is the world’s largest photo and would fill 1200 billboards if…
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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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What A Concept! Great Conceptual Images on Bigstock
© Michele Piacquadio/Bigstock Can you make time stand still, love seem simple, and success look easy? Bigstock photographers and artists do it all the time with clever conceptual stock images. Check out some of the creative images available for illustrating hard-to-visualize concepts (like risk, as seen above). View these images in a lightbox of conceptual images,…
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