I just wanted to take a moment and introduce this new site! I hope everything is intuitive and interesting for all those who check in. Here is my reason for creating this site:

I first got into stock photography as a designer about a year ago. I design billboards and needed an image of some food. I stubled upon ShutterStock, but didn't have the money, nor the need for a subscription. I finally found iStockPhoto and purchased this image:

And its been downhill since there. I now buy and sell stock photos all the time. I find myself intrigued with the systems and all the sites that are popping up. It has taken me a year to discover what I consider to be all the best stock sites.

You see the problem is that they don't all show up on Google. But even harder for a photographer or designer is the fact that you can't respectfully talk about one agency in the forum of the another. You see members using initials and tip-toeing around the rules, but I have never found a good place to share. So here it is!

For Designers
For designers we hope that you find find one place that you can go to post a photo request and receive ideas from many different sources. We hope you will share what you want with us.

For Photographers
This site will hopefully become the resource I didn't have. There is a listing of all the stock sites that I know about that are more than a few months old. There is rankings to help you see where people are actual buying pictures from. Share Photoshop tips and other photographer like information.

Feature Photos
Right now the featured photos are either free images, images I have used in the past, or my images. Please check out the Featured Image forum to get your image up there.

Please reply to this post with any initial comments or ideas for this board.

StockMan, YOUR THE MAN!

Well, anyhow. I signed up for this forum ages ago, but its good to see the site finally come together. It looks great. I hope more people will get involved. I love your list of stock sites. I am check out some I didn't know about before.

I think I have a few that aren't on your list. I'll have to check my records!

Good job!

New site looks good. Congrats!

Another microstock fanatic just stopping in to say hello. I'm Liz from New York. Thanks for putting this site together .. it's a great idea. Hope to learn and maybe even share some ideas with all of you.

This is a nice site that seems to be growing quite nicely. Maybe I'm a bit thick but could you explain the stats page in the rankings?

Cheers

John

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