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3 Simple Reasons to Search Cutcaster’s Photo Library

First Class Photos. Tap into a wide-ranging collection of editor-reviewed imagery, including professionally shot and user-generated photos, vectors and illustrations. Cutcaster adds thousands of pictures and clipart each day. More bang for your buck Our flexible buying options stretch your budget as far as your creative imagination. You’ll get flexible payment plans, discount codes for [...]

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COVER. EVERY. ANGLE.

It’s hard to know how to take that shot that will sell over and over again. We get a lot of similar images uploaded to us at Cutcaster. After reviewing one particularly large batch of similar images where it appeared as if the photographer just stepped back one foot for each shot while moving his [...]

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What is a comp image and does Cutcaster offer them?

A ‘comp’ (short for complimentary) is a free, low-resolution, watermarked version of Cutcasters’ images. Buyers will generally download comps to evaluate an image’s suitability in a particular creative project or to evaluate varying page designs. ‘Comps’ may also be used by photo researchers or photo buyers who are doing research or purchasing images for a [...]

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Cutcaster Referral Program Update

Do you know photographers, illustrators or photo buyers who could use Cutcaster and would benefit from you telling them about the site? Cutcaster pays you money for referring potential members to the site who purchase new content or sell content in the marketplace.  Referring new clients to Cutcaster is a great way to pick up [...]

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Cutcaster’s Photo Pricing Algorithm – How to price stock photography?

Ever wonder how much one of your photos or illustrations is worth? What you should charge for a great stock photo? Should the price of a stock photography license change depending on the image or buyer? If you charge too much will that scare away all the photo buyers?

Outside of a stock photography agency telling you what they are going to charge their photo buyers for a stock photo license or a buyer telling you directly what they want to pay, it’s hard to know what to charge for a stock photo. You can look at your costs, the uniqueness of the image or how the stock image will be used and come up with a some idea for what to charge. There are also some photo pricing tools for stock photography out there but most you have to pay for or, worse, are outdated.

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Free Photo Research from Cutcaster

Let us turn your words into picture perfect photos that beat your expectations and save you money and time. // We know when you do something yourself you will do it right and it is hard to trust someone to do research for you, but why not leverage our free photo research and delegate it [...]

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“Content is King” but “Process is Queen”

“Content is King” but “Process is Queen” for anyone working in the publishing world. At Cutcaster, we work tirelessly to understand your unique workflow so we fit seamlessly into your photo buying process and make purchasing the best content with all the rights you need easy. Our royalty free extended licenses are a one time [...]

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12 Commandments of Keywording your stock images and vectors at Cutcaster

The 12 Commandments of Keywording success according to Cutcaster 1. You only need between five to fifteen (5-15) keywords. Twenty (20) would be the most you ever really need. Better tagging means better search results, bringing in more users, which means more sales for your images at higher prices then other sites. We would rather [...]

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One Image Pricing Strategy for Photo Contributors to maximize revenues

From a Cutcaster contributor in an emai to our support- “How I price my images on high paying sites? At Cutcaster, we can price our own images. So how do I go about picking a price for my images out of mid-air?? I find the best way to price them is based off of the [...]

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The Advantages of using Cutcaster photos and vectors for your next project

Starting a corporate account at Cutcaster is completely free and takes only a few steps. Go to our corporate accounts page at https://www.cutcaster.com/corporate/RegisterCorporate and complete the quick registration process. If you need help, email help AT cutcaster.com. When you sign up you will get an email to verify your account, which you will need to activate by clicking on the link within that email. Cutcaster will monitor all corporate account signups and there is an approval process that takes a few hours.

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