July 2006 Newsletter

The Editor's Page

Welcome to the July 2006 edition of the StockPhotographer.info Newsletter. We're approaching the middle of the summer season and all around the industry things seem to be a bit slow. However, we do have posted several new articles as well as news from around the industry.

Most Recent Articles

Perry Correll discusses her on-going, ever-present quest to find the quickest most time efficient, cheapest most cost effective, and easiest most user friendly methods for improving any and everything about her micro-shoot-ability in her most recent article, I Can’t Wait!

In Making Sense of an Industry in Disarray, Steve Smith states, “As I glance at the various stock photo related discussion boards every few days, and occasionally dare to jump into a discussion here and there, one thing is quite clear to me - the industry seems to be in a bit of a state right now.”

Steve discusses his views of the current state of the stock photography industry from the Big Three down to the "Micro-Payment" sites and the dilemmas today's stock photographers must face.

Richard Weisgrau begins a new series in his All About Business column with the first three parts of Self-marketing Rights-protected Photographs. In this series, Richard discusses how he goes about licensing his rights-protected stock images.

Richard Weisgrau also has a new book that is due out in August. Published by Allworth Press. Publishing Photography: Marketing Images, Making Money provides the tools and knowledge photographers need to find and exploit the various opportunities in each market segment of the publishing industry to get their images published. Richard has used the vast experience and knowledge he has gained in forty plus years in the business to provide a straight forward and unvarnished overview of today's publishing market opportunities.

Other News

New copyright office fees went into effect July 1, 2006, iView was acquired by Microsoft Corporation and Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that it has acquired the technology assets of Pixmantec ApS, makers of digital imaging software which includes the RawShooter(R) line of digital photography software products. Also, The Stock Artists Alliance has developed a Metadata Manifesto, a proposal for the adoption of guiding principles, standards and technology to promote image metadata use.

There has been a great deal of other news during the past month from all around the industry. Don't miss our regular sections covering Industry NewsSoftware NewsCamera News and the latest information on Printers and Scanners.

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Jim Hunter- Editor-in-Chief, StockPhotographer.info