Have you joined the hundreds of Cutcaster fans on Facebook? Our Facebook page is a lively community of submitters and buyers who post timely articles and their latest Cutcaster images. We constantly search the Internet to find helpful design links and design tools to help inspire your creativity which we want to share with the [...]
We had a wonderful time at PictureHouse the other week and met a lot of people we have only spoken to over the phone or by email — it was great to see some old friendly faces and meet a ton of new potential users of Cutcaster (if you remember, we actually launched at last [...]
DNF-Style is one of Cutcaster’s oldest contributors and stands for Danielle and Frenk who make up the photography team. Below is an excerpt of an interview we did with them last week that helps to educate other photographers and explains their background. 1. In today’s visual language, how do you make images that are authentic [...]
Jack Hollingsworth is putting together a ‘photographer makeover’ for any interested shooters down in Austin, Texas, on April 29-May 3. I’m sorry that I won’t be there but the five day jam-packed sessions will include all things web 2.0, as it relates to pro shooters. multimedia. digital cinema. social web. personal branding. recession marketing.Plus you [...]
Recently we had a conversation with a large and very informed buyer. We wanted to pass along these nuggets of wisdom and knowledge (these are shorthand notes to help you the reader): Looking for more diversity with university and middle school students. For school kids, they need different types of schools…urban, public, etc and [...]
In 2009, we plan to ask our Cutcaster photo buyers and contributors to share their knowledge and experiences in the image and vector licensing industry to help the entire community. We recently asked one of our newer photo contributors to Cutcaster, Monkey Business Images, a few questions about the changing landscape of the photography industry, their work-flow and process when deciding what/how to shoot and any advice they have to help the Cutcaster community sell more images. The great folks at Monkey Business Images were nice enough to share their experience with us and we thought we would share what we learned with you.
I had a conversation last week with Jeff Sedlik from PLUS about using their licensing framework at Cutcaster. How many of you have heard of PLUS? If you don’t know about PLUS it is an international non-profit initiative on a mission to simplify and facilitate the communication and management of image rights. So what does [...]
Whenever the microstock business receives a mention in the media, it is usually accompanied by the common description of microstock artists as amateurs, hobbyists, and stay-at-home moms or dads who have a consumer-level digital camera and some vacation photos they hope to make a quick buck off of. While those descriptions may accurately represent many [...]
From: FernSubject: Be out for a whileTo: john@cutcaster.comDate: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 2:46 PM Hi John, Just so you know – the check really came in handy. I used it to help with Hurricane Ike evacuation. We got hit hard. I have damages to my home, carport and fencing. We are without power, water, ice, [...]
“Getty also runs a site called iStockPhoto, where amateurs contribute photos that the company markets at lower rates. The photos on Flickr are of sufficient quality to demand higher prices,” Mr. Jonathon Klein, CEO of Getty Images, said in a New York Time’s article. What a way to market one of your companies assets while [...]
