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 There are also some photo pricing tools for stock photography out there but most you have to pay for or, worse, are outdated.
We are liking the new search and it is really returning better results. Keep the feedback coming.
We just released another new tweak that photo buyers, image researchers and those looking to license vector files will hopefully like and use.
Filename search is functional on live. You can now search by watermark filename [...]
For all the Boston and Northeast Cutcaster’s out there, John will be speaking at an ASPP (American Society of Picture Professionals) event on Thursday October 8, 2009 at 6:00 – 8:30pm at Pearson Educations office building. The event will cover new licensing models and the best ways to price your content so it is [...]
Just a quick headsup that we need more “back to school” type images at Cutcaster. Buyers are looking for these images and illustrations and we are creating Clipfolders to add these files to so we can send out to buyers. If you have good “back to school” related content that you haven’t uploaded [...]
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. [...]
The last two weeks saw a lot of changes at Cutcaster, some of which you see on the front-end and some of which are behind the scenes or still need to be released. I did want to pass along a quick update to see where what we have done and where we are headed. This is only a partial list.