What is the Cutcaster Pricing Algorithm? Cutcaster’s proprietary pricing algorithm maximizes your content’s revenue by changing its price to match the demand in the marketplace. The more your image is in demand, the more you should be paid for it. The algorithm is based on metadata and search variables surrounding your content and also how [...]
* JPEG (Joint Photographics Experts Group) – pronounced ‘jaypeg’ and you will sometimes see it shortened to just JPG. This format is ‘lossy’ in that the more you compress the image and thus reduce file size, the greater you will lose clarity and detail. JPEG graphics can render in full colour and are ideally suited [...]
So Google has changed up their website and now displays a background image on their white homepage. Want to get a great images for your Google background? Find amazing background images, photos and illustrations for Google. Spice up your Google homepage with one of our background images. Search over 600,000 royalty free images and illustrations [...]
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 [...]
Thanks to Tyler Olsen, the fearless leader of the rowdy forum for microstockers called Microstock Group for publishing their Microstock Survey – 2009 Results. 413 market research panelist respond to the survey, giving a relatively small sampling of microstockers creating remarkable imagery today. Tyler explained where the participants came from. The majority of respondents came [...]
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 [...]
Here are just a few examples of how Cutcasters’ stock photos and stock illustrations have been used by some of our photo buyers. Just so we are clear, Cutcaster’s license covers your photo and illustration usage with regards to its use on websites, advertisements, commercials, mobile applications, invitations, set designs, multimedia presentations, displays for trade [...]
We want to hear from our photo buyers at Cutcaster and see how they are using our fantastic images in their creative projects. If you don’t mind sharing with the Cutcaster community how you used the image you bought from our marketplace we would love to feature some of your work and give you a [...]
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.
The first step to bidding on images and naming your price at Cutcaster is to create an account at Cutcaster under the Register page. To bid on images and name your price you need to be a registered Cutcaster user. It’s free. Once you have selected the image you would like to bid for, you can [...]
