Become Shutterstock contributor is easier now

As the Shutterstock artist community grows, Shutterstock is constantly looking for ways to better support, educate and empower their contributors to become successful in their marketplace. Just within this past year they launched a contributor support center and relaunched their contributor forum on a more dynamic and user-friendly platform.

As the next step in improving the contributor experience Shutterstock  decided to simplify the sign-up and onboarding process by changing the requirement  from 7 to 1 out of 10 images accepted for initial submission. Shutterstock found that the "7 out of 10" rule is no longer an effective standard to evaluate if a contributor can be successful in our marketplace. Shutterstock know that they can better educate and support their contributors once they are active on Shutterstock platform and have access to their many resources and support tools.

As always, Shutterstock will continue to evaluate all images they receive per their standards. This change will simplify the sign up process for any artist interested in joining the Shutterstock community and will improve the overall contributor experience!

You have a great collection of photos?

Become Shutterstock contributor NOW!

Good luck to all new Shutterstock contributors,
and many sales!

Weekend in Romania

Last weekend I was hiking in Romanian mountains.
Here are some photos:

You can already find some on Shutterstock to download in high resolution.
in few weeks I'll be submitting other stuff from this trip to Romania to Fotolia and other photostock agencies, until i have enough photos to write a photo report.

Pellinni best mountain landscapes

Pellinni best mountain landscapes slide show on YouTube.

You can see more of my portfolio at http://qpel.net
Most images of this slide show are on Shutterstock

Music - November 16 by Pellinni

Specially curated Mountaun collection on ShutterStock by Pellinni

 

  

  

Full moon landscapes

Night landscapes with full moon - collection on ShutterStock by Pellinni

Some new uploads by Pellinni

Some new interesting uploads

on ShutterStock by Pellinni

on Fotolia by Pellinni

on iStock by Pellinni

on BigStock by Pellinni

on DreamsTime by Pellinni

Sunset Collection on ShutterStock

Here is Pellinni curated sunset collection on ShutterStock.com

How to deal with uploads to multiple photo portfolios

How to deal with uploads to multiple photo portfolios

Tired of Copy/Paste

Are You a Photographer who tries to keep portfolio fresh and up to date?
Are You tired of uploading the same image to 500px, Flickr, Pinterest... ,
typing same titles, descriptions and keywords/tags,
sitting hours in front of Your computer screen or even worse - with a mobile device?

Sure You are, as I was until i found the way of automation of this process.

The tools

The easiest thing for sure, you probably heard already, is attributing - puting titles, description, keywords and other data inside Your photo, so that other software and online services could read it.

Fortunately majority of photo sharing services can read IPTC data.

There are many ways to fill the IPTC data but I'll recommend to use Adobe Bridge. All You need is to open Metadata panel in window menu and fill IPTC (IIM, legacy) fields:

1. Document Title
2. Keywords
3. Description
4. Author

You can apply similar metadata to multiple files simultaneously.

My Best 100 photos

I've created a special Collection of My Best 100 photos on ShutterStock.com

My Portfolio site

At last.

I have my own Photo Portfolio Site.

With all information about Pellinni

The best Landscape Photos

Personal work page

And Contacts

also I plan to add PhotoBlog of new uploads to photo stock sites