Most popular microstock photos, illustrations and videos

11. February 2010, 00:31 Buying graphics, Selling graphics

What are the most popular images and videos on microstock? You can find them in the lists on nearly each microstock agency (on some agencies you have to register to display the list). Sometimes they offer also overview of most searched keywords, which is very useful for the contributors.

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Discount code for Pixmac

11. September 2009, 01:27 Buying graphics

Another discount coupon for Pixmac: For any purchase you do on Pixmac with this code: PX100079, you will get 10 credits for free!

The code is valid to 2009–12–09.

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Discount code for Pixmac

1. September 2009, 04:44 Buying graphics

For any purchase you do on Pixmac with this code: PX50078, you will get 5 credits for free!

The code is valid to 2009–11–20.

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Discount code for 123rf

20. August 2009, 06:56 Buying graphics

Check out 123RF & enter promocode tan8ibL3 on during your purchase for discounts.

Message from today's 123rf twitter feed.

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Discount code for Shutterstock

10. August 2009, 01:41 Buying graphics, Shutterstock

I got a promo discount code from Shutterstock. So if you want to save 10% – use this link, register and then apply this coupon: TWEE10.

Coupon is from direct message from Shutterstock twitter account.

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Microstock for designers - where to buy photos and illustrations (updated)

10. June 2009, 02:33 Buying graphics, Stock sites

As a webdesigner I need quite often some photo or illustration for my graphic designs, or as a part of the website content. At the beginning of my career I used some free stock photo sites, but after some time I realized, that the searching of the right photo took me quite a long time and the result is poor. So I started to use microstock – you can get there photo from few cents and the microstock agencies have really big portfolios (some of them have more than 6 millions items!) and the quality is excellent.

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iStockphoto - How to get 3 credits for free

11. March 2009, 02:16 iStockPhoto, Buying graphics

You can get 3 credits for free on one of the best microstock agency for graphic designers. How? iStockphoto has a referral program – if you create an account and make first purchase within 14 days, you will get 3 credits and I will get 10$ as a referrer. So if you are interested, just send me an email on orson (at) se­llinggraphics­.com with your first name and last name before you register on iStockphoto site. After that I will send you an invitation from iStockphoto site on your email.

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Microstock's standard royalty-free license limitations

4. March 2009, 02:03 Buying graphics, Stock sites

What are the limitations of standard royalty-free license of each microstock agency? In this article I will look only at maximum number of copies, in case when the buyer wants to use the illustration or photo for the packaging of his product. You shouldn't forget, that standard microstock license can't be used for „resale“ of the artwork on „print on demand“ products (postcards, mugs, t-shirts, posters, wallpapers, web templates…)

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iStockphoto launched iStockaudio - collection of royalty free audio tracks

16. February 2009, 03:10 iStockPhoto, Buying graphics

iStockphoto now offer a collection of more than 10, 000 royalty-free audio tracks for sale! Each is from 5 seconds to 4 minutes long. You will find here various music genres, isolated sounds, sounds effects, complete compositions and more… You can search by Search by musical genre, tempo, emotive keywords, key or time signature.

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