© 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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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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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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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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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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© 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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Before digital image libraries like Bigstock, stock agencies used to mail out massive, printed catalogs showing off their pictures. Crazy, right? The people at ad agency JWT in Cape Town, South Africa had a bunch of these obsolete stock picture books in their office and had an idea. They figured, “Let’s turn these piles of…
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When you have a piece of artwork which you may need to use multiple times, shave minutes off your design workflow by turning it into a symbol and utilize the power of the symbolism tools in Illustrator. Symbolism tools allow you to manipulate copies of your artwork in different ways so you can use them…
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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…
Read MoreHere’s a video of a snatch-and-grab robbery by an octopus, who steals a digital camera, which continues to shoot video as the creature swims away with it! The photographer who posted this underwater footage on YouTube writes: “I didn’t feel threatened at all during the whole ordeal. he seemed to be fixated on the shiny…
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