Microstock: loading the first photo
A Photo / / December 20, 2019
Successful passing the test or exam 
Without examination upload your photos right after the registration and approval of account mozhno on such popular microstock as Fotolia, Dreamstime, «lory». All three sites podderzhivayut Russian language, the rules are written in detail and clearly. 
Separately, I note that the conditions of work with "lory"Means a contract concluded in the paper: blanki need to print, fill out and send along with a copy of the passport in the mail. Yet menee hope that "Russian Post" you are not scared. In addition, in the age of e-mails sent osyazaemogo letters - it is quite a romantic activity. 
Bolshinstvo online sales of photos Giants (BigStock, Shutterstock, DepositPhotos, IStock, CanStock and others) in the beginning of the offer to be tested - an examination and / or test - stepeni varying complexity. 
Let us examine the simplest option - test - For example BigStock. You will need to respond to 15 generally simple questions. How to successfully pass the test?
- Carefully read the question. As a rule, the questions without pitfalls. Do you have utochnit information site rules. 
- Answers are available on the web. If some of the questions will cause difficulty, ask Google. 
- try again. Most sites allow an infinite number of times to pass the test. Zaporoli test for the first time? Go again, taking into account their mistakes.
Neskolko harder to get into the sales team on the resources where you need to go ekzamen providing examples of works. On the other hand, once the exam shows predstavlyayut whether your pictures commercial value or need to be improved more. Poetomu not necessary to dismiss from the exam and be registered only where it is not.
Most of the waste is required to choose from 3 to 10 photos to pass the exam. Of course, you have your favorite photos and those that have already gained a bunch of likes on social networks. But not always the same pictures are suitable for successfully passing the exam microstock. For example, let's look at the requirements of the very popular and highly profitable IStockYou want to download 10 test photos.
How to choose a photo for the exam
subjects
Na IStock subject to the requirements of pretty strict, but quite adequate and glavnoe, clearly prescribed. It should take advantage of them when you create a snapshot at all if you hotite achieve high sales. 
Images that gladly accept for sale:
- illustration of different aspects of modern business;
- concept and visual metaphors;
- food and drink;
- a group of people for teamwork;
- holiday and seasonal themes;
- photos neofisnyh employees: mechanics, garbage men, bartenders and others interesnyh people;
- photos on the theme of religion and spirituality; 
- photos on the theme of science and technology; 
- social issues; 
- pictures of sport, especially the komandnom.
As can be seen, especially welcome photos of activities. So if you often snimaete people, to pass the exam will be easier than the lover seals, landscapes, clouds. Takzhe demand pictures of food and drinks, which are generally too now quite populyarny. However, remember that eating photo taken to Instagram during lunch time - it's not exactly what would be appreciated by the inspector at the drain. Better if it will produmannaya photo session in the studio. 
What exactly it is not necessary to load for the exam, so it:
- photos taken through the window of the aircraft on the way to a vacation;
- banal photos from Sunday picnic or a walk in the woods (if you have found particularly chudesny landscape, make the panorama at the drains of their love); 
- static photos of people or people from the shadows;
- boring life (lonely apple on a white background) - this stuff is already in short supply;
- sunsets, clouds, sky - allowed only really unique pictures of obektov.
Let me remind you that must not be on the picture:
- logos, characters, advertising, copyright or trademark are torgovoy;
- modern (post-1923) works of art, including sculpture, kotorye is likely more copyright pravom;
- individual people, whose releases have not (release templates are usually available on microstock) ;
- license plate or other vehicle registration marks;
- any obscene content (scenes severity insulting material pornografii) ;
- images from other resources, even after significant changes.
Compare examples of good and not so good photos, taken from a site of photobank:
Fine!
Not really…
Fine!
Not really…
Narushaya these prohibitions, upload images to a run-off, in principle, it is possible - for the so-called redaktsionnogo use. This means that the picture will not be used for commercial or reklamnyh purposes, but can be placed in As an illustration, for example, in the news statyah covering sporting events, concerts or celebrities. The same primenenie can find pictures of objects with logos. 
However, before you post pictures on the conditions Editorial Use, makeThat you really can not or do not want to receive income directly from buyers potentsialnyh (eg magazines), offering them their own shots. Suschestvennaya loss of income by selling photos through the drains is justified mainly in sluchae when not so obvious where to look for buyers.
Preparation of high-quality images
Excellent image quality - the key to your good reputation. Regardless of whether you sell photos through microstock, post on his blog, or prints for the exhibition. We go over the basic rules of preparation of high-quality images.
Before you download the selected photo:
- Make sure that proportions and size Microstock photos match the requirements. photostocks requirements for photo size is slightly different, but the bigger picture is best sold everywhere.
- Avoid excessively dim, dark or poorly lit, grainy or blurry pictures. Evaluate how your image looks like a postcard, album art, advertising in glossy magazines. The bigger, the better.
- adjust image. It is not necessary to go to far with filters in Photoshop, but a small adjustment level, adjustment of colors, as well as improving sharpness, tend to go for the benefit of the photographs.
- Carefully read the picture on a good monitor in hundred percent scale. It is better to slightly reduce the photo, if you find defects.
- Be sure to save the picture in the format JPEG with maximum quality (SRGB color profile).
Important! Convert to JPEG in the last instance, after a complete photo processing, otherwise each time you save the photo will lose quality.
Compliance with each of your photo site requirements and its commercial potential will determine the inspector. And then there is the human factor: the taste of a particular inspector, his mood and the degree of lack of sleep, the moon phase, and possibly those photos, he will check to your own. Therefore, after checking (it usually takes a few days), you should not give up on the missed images. They can take on other microstock. And sometimes even on the same stock, when you send them again another time.
Pomnite: you upload photos to customers (mostly designers). Therefore postaraytes think like a buyer. Imagine where you can be placed made fotografiya. Snapshot Shooting rely less on the case, but rather specify sostavte idea and a clear plan. Ask yourself the question: how best to approach the subject as it pokazat to convey to the audience his thoughts? Of course, the critical vote area popadayuschuyu in the frame. Importance should not be cut, too much should not be exposed.
Opisanie and keywords
This is one of the most difficult moments when working with photo stock. After all, the idea that you vidite in his pictures, the inspector can not see. Therefore, when describing pictures krayne important to choose appropriate keywords. BigStock for that advises start with prostyh questions about your image: 
- What is it? 
- What does it do? 
- WHAT is the impression? 
- Where is it? 
- What is color? 
- Why so? 
- Who interact with it? 
- Who is it? 
- What to do? 
At first, can help services for the selection of keywords (for example, Arcurs). But again, the better postavit place yourself in the buyer: Will the keyword to find a suitable izobrazhenie? If yes - feel free to write!
Sometimes it makes sense to add a root word other chastey speech, for example: the sun - the sun, the romance - romantic, smile - smiling. 
But do not use the same word in the singular and plural. And odnoznachno do not add keywords, do not describe the image. They will udaleny and leave you a negative opinion of both the inspectors and the buyers. 
To summarize
In general, if your photo: 
- corresponds popular subjects (commercial value)
- quality (more or less similar to the pictures from magazines)
- adekvatno described (with the original name and adequate keyword)
... that passing the exam, and then a successful sale can be left to the will of Fortune. uzhe you did everything you could. All other causes of failure will depend only on the mood and vkusov inspector or buyers.
In case of failure it is not necessary to send a photo to the shopping cart (especially while holding the key Shift). Wait povtornoy try and try again to send pictures. Additionally, you can: 
- reduce the size of the photo to the minimum (in case you do not zametili some technical defects);
- throw out the collection of similar photos too (better reflect as much as possible tem over which you usually work);
- make a photo more vivid and bright (if you have not already done so once);
- cut set of keywords to the main (usually sufficient for 10-15 words); 
- again make sure you do not forget about model's release.
Importantly, do not hesitate! Try again and again. And you definitely will break!