Design and Photography Highlights from Cutcaster

Posts Tagged ‘book design’

Expected Trends in Conceptual Stock Images

We all wonder what to shoot next. Some have it down to a science and do a ton of research. Some just shoot and hope to get lucky and grab that perfect shot. Determining what the next trend will be is never easy but Soren Breiting at www.stockphotonews.com did a great writeup on the expected [...]

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Cutcaster Highlights July 2010

Summer is here, you need some extra cash, Send us new content or referrals, we’ll earn you money in a flash… Want to see the content Cutcaster needs and photo buyers are requesting? We can help you upload and submit any content to free up your time, if you email us at upload@cutcaster.com. In addition, [...]

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How can I use a stock photo I find online?

A lot of times when you find an image online that you want to use it might not be that clear what you need to do in order to legally license the image and use it for your creative project. Whether there are questions surrounding the license type, the usage, any restrictions, who the actual [...]

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10 Suggestions for Better Keywording

Having the correct and most relevant keywords associated with your files will not only get them in front of the most interested visitors but will improve your ranking in our new search engine. Here are 10 suggestions you can think about when keywording your images. 1. You only need between ten to fifteen (5-15) keywords. [...]

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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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Super Hot Keyword Searches

Here’s a great list of the top searched terms on the site. We would love to see more of this kind of work and feature some of our hottest image makers! You can click on any of these image links for edited lightboxes related to these subjects. You can search all lightboxes, built by Cutcaster [...]

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Cutcaster now offers Free Photo Research

Let us turn your words into picture perfect photos that beat your expecations 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 to [...]

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Avoid getting “ISB” at Cutcaster

Photo buyers and researchers have been known to collapse of boredom, exhaustion and image overload because of ISB. Are you bored of the same old tired stock photos and illustrations that have outdated technology, no diversity, clothes from the 70′s and feel way too posed? Do you wish there was a great and new source of stock photos, illustrations, vectors, clipart or any kind of user generated images that was authentic, non-cheesy, editor-reviewed and had all the clearances you needed?

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