I have been taking photos and “stock” with more than thousands of it; and thought of upload it to stock photography website and sell it although it’s not a way of make a living of it. Rather to keep it in my GB hard disk.
Recently there’s many stock photography websites offer the services. Overall, there are 2 types of stock photography on market place, Stock (Macrostock) & Microstock. So what are their differences?
Stock photography websites are the traditional photography marketplaces where photo prices range from $1 to thousands of dollars.
Microstock is mainly from those newbies who able to capture professional photos with consumer DSLR or even the normal digital camera. Another word, the price of the photos was much cheaper.
Again, the rate of failed submission is very high too, because niche market could it containing million of photos; either you have to submit a totally new and creative photo to match the different needs.
Well, I have successful submitted and registered few of the Stock websites.
Fotolia
The more you sell, the higher your commission.
iStockphoto
It has huge database and containing million of photos and you can sell as low as $1. And you are earning 40% of it.
ClusterShot
It’s not just a website for you to sell and buy photos.
Shutterstock
It is the largest subscription-based stock photo agency in the world. Everyday added thousands of photos.
Dreamtime
You can find large variety of royalty-free stock images.
Stockexpert
Provide customers with affordable stock imagery while offering a powerful tool to photographers.
What is Tilt-Shift Photography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography)? First time I saw it when Joe was showing me the effect recently, it amazed me how the miniature effects were recreated and impressive (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/16/beautiful-examples-of-tilt-shift-photography/) with it. Or you might mistaken it was fake or a miniature display!
Well, if you don’t have the lens and equipment, there’s many way you could achieve the Tilt-Shift effects.
Found out this Online Tiltshift maker http://tiltshiftmaker.com; well, not that impressive with the free tools. There’s not much control on Saturation where allow to make the colors more enhancing.
If you are using Adobe Photoshop CS, I’m recommend one of the useful tutorial. The steps are clear and useful, and it’s so flexible to control the Lens blur and colors. Check out my first attempt.
What if you don’t have Adobe Photoshop installed in your workstation? Or, what if you have emergency to edit and upload an oversize image at cybercafé?
The solution is got it done online in any web browser (anytime, anywhere)! Try on Pixelr – Online image Editor. I found it quite useful and the tools are similar to Photoshop, well, it’s kind of online version.
It was integrated in Flash technology, interface and click through was excellent. First glance of it, the impression of “good to have”! Several thousands of visitors use the service each day according to blog.
Personally, it’s definitely much better than Microsoft paints! 
First of all, 65% of similarity in PS, you could find it here! Nevertheless, there were some limitation such as selections of Filters, layers etc. Overall, it gave convenience to most of the people who could edit their photo in one browser.
