Victor Mars asked: Stock Image includes stock photography and stock footage, means images that can be licensed for specific uses. their uses are very popular with designers, graphic artists, art directors, advertising agencies, and marketing professionals, in magazine advertisements, websites, and marketing brochures. Instead of hiring a professional photographer to create an image. A collection [...]

John M. Lund asked: Someday there will be an ‘e-bay” of photography where consumers and businesses, designers and art directors, agencies and photo buyers will all go to find and license image for their disparate needs.  A student will look for images to complete a homework assignment…and an Art Director for a major ad agency [...]

John M. Lund asked: Let’s say you have made the commitment to join the world of stock photography, you have an excuse, and a valid one, to go out and buy some photography gear.  What I will share with you here is not necessarily the perfect answer as what to get, but what does work [...]

Leva Duell asked: Choosing the right images for your ebook is important to convey the message you want. Stock photography is an effective tool for your ebook covers.Here are some tips to help you find and choose stock photos.1. Photography agencies have many selections. Stock photography is more cost effective than custom photography and will [...]

John M. Lund asked: “Strategic alliances are becoming increasingly important”.  Can’t remember where I saw that quote, but it struck at the time, several years ago, as being an important one.  With every passing month it seems to me the truth in those words increases.  One way in which I am finding that quote to [...]

Nicholas Normandy asked: So you want to make a living from your freelance digital photography. A way to earn extra income that has been showing a lot of promise is selling your freelance photos to stock photography sites like Fotolia. Say you love shooting pictures with your digital camera but never considered making a good [...]

Shivani Kapoor asked: Your Design Needs a free links resource to all your design requirement. We have collection of selected links for Fonts, Stock Photography, Photoshop Brushes, Vector Clip-Art, Logo types, Patterns, Icons, Sounds, Color tools, Text Generators and the Design Contests around the world. We would be attracting designers from around the globe to [...]

Dan Feildman asked: an attractive portfolio is key so the first advice I want to give is to organize your photos in accessible files on your computer, limiting the file size to approximately 20 photos per file. You will also want to rename each photograph so you can quickly access it when the need arises.Obviously [...]

R. Dodge Woodson asked: What is Stock Photography?R. Dodge WoodsonWhat is stock photography? To many photographers it is a path to profits. Other photographers find it to be a hole of frustration. Realistically, stock photography is somewhere between these two extremes.There are three ways to look at stock photography. The first is the view that [...]

John M. Lund asked: I firmly believe that now is the most exciting time ever to be a photographer, and to be shooting stock.  There are more tools and more opportunities than ever before. The playing field has been leveled.  The demand for images, and consequently stock photography, is exploding. Of course, there is more competition [...]