Photo stocks - what can you do with them?
(Part I)
Photo stocks originated relatively recently (10-20 years). The first pictures on photobanks were more than sickening. But photo stocks evolved... And now the work presented in the collection is already possible to watch without pain, often - with a slight interest, and sometimes - even with genuine pleasure.
What can you get on photo stocks for free?
* Some stocks offer video and / or pictures once a week / month for free download. Not much, of course, but at least something.
* When a designer happens to stuck from the abundance of work or runs out of any ideas, he goes to stocks for the inspiration.
What's the point?
The point is the price for the suff listed on photo stocks. Note that this butterfly will cost you about $ 10-20 in a good size and perfect quality. Profit to the author of approximately 20% of the photo. In this case you as a customer, get a stack of papers attesting to the fact that you can use the photo legitimate, for example, to advertise fire extinguishers.So what's the catch?
And the catch is that picture can be bought for ten times. Or a hundred times. Or even 10,000. Thus, the author has created it in two hours of good design can receive from it a salary of an average designer for a relatively long time.
Actually, this is the main drawback and all creative Banks (pictures, essays and other things) - there is no guarantee that all you've bought there will remain unique and inimitable (But you still can buy all the rights on the photo you need, which, for sure, will be more expensive).
But, of course, one can not compare the custom wiork with the stuff found on photo stocks.
So what do the designers, which perform individual orders, think about this?
Untalented and boring, but well-known photographers are really afraid that photo stocks will take away their jobs. Advanced photographers post on photo stocks their works. The talented and professional artists are staying calm - their pictures will always be in demand.
Everybody can paint!
What is really great about photobanks - it's their internationalism. If you will ask one of members in the PM "how did you've manage to do such a thing?" - you will probably will get an answer in some Zimbabwean dialect, wafted through the local analog of google translate.
By the way, photobanks let schoolchildren sell their art too. If you are 18 or less, and can do a little drawing - get to drawing curves (not too very difficult), and earn money on chewing gum, cigarettes and cola.
Want to sell your art on stocks? Then you need to know the following:
* From the moment you'll sign up there - you will probably will have to wait your first check for about an half of year.
* If you take pictures of lions, dogs and flies, it is better to you not to register there - you only will waste your time.
* Always keep track of the latest trends, masthead images, and with the tenacity of a donkey trying to do well and only better. Start hanging out in the discussion forums, buy textbooks, lessons and browse the Internet in search of something new.
Photobanks.
There are a big number of different photo stocks on the Internet.
But whether you are looking for photos (or other art) or want to sell them - you should know these two:
Later we will discuss them too.
