"Featured Artist" on MediaFocus

U.S. site Mediafocus introduces new section "Featured Artist Of The Week". Once a week will choose one contributor and promote his profile and showcasing files on front page. It will also promote that artist on Mediafocus Facebook page as well as Twitter.

To participate you need:

1. Create and publish your profile.

2. Your profile must include a custom profile picture. The "Featured Artist" section will display this picture for visual interest so you will need to provide one. If you prefer not to display your personal portrait, we understand -- you can just simply upload your logo or brand, favorite pet, flower or whatever. Please do not use use pictures of celebrities, public figures or images of any person other than yourself. No copyrighted trademarks or logos.

3. Create at least 3 Public Lightboxes that will be displayed on your profile page. This will help provide interesting content when visitors click on your profile on our "Featured Artist" section.

4. Each Public Lightbox must contain at least 50 images.

5. Do not use the same image in more than one lightbox.

To create your profile, go to the menu Photographers/Profile Page.

Information about creating Lightboxes and working with them: http://www.mediafocus.com/doc_lightboxes.jsp

Russian version of this article on busja-design.blogspot: "Featured Artist" on MediaFocus.

Free Images on Photokore

Asian stock photography site Photokore is offering its members a special offer: registered site members can freely download one image per day during the month of August.

Photokore has always offered a Free Photo of the Week, but during August registrants will be able to download a free image every day. Members can choose which image they would like to download from a collection of thousands.

Free images are in the gallery "Photokore: Free Photos". The collection of free images is constantly updated with new ones.

Registration to the site is free of charge, and members who registered previously are also eligible for this one-time offer.

Photokore offers search in multiple languages including English, Chinese, Japanese Korean, Hindi, Indonesian, Thai, and Filipino. Due to an increase in visitors from non-Asian regions, Photokore also offers search in Spanish, French, German, and Russian. Photokore is the first Asian stock photography site to offer search in this many languages.

Russian version of this article on busja-design.blogspot: Бесплатные изображения от Photokore.

Affiliate program by iSignstock

iSignstock introduces the affiliate program that enables to earn highly competitive commissions and introduce your visitors to our unique subscription service. As an affiliate you’ll earn 20% of every NEW sale. This means when you refer a new member via this program and he/she makes a purchase on our website we will automatically deposit 20% of the sale into your account.

YOU GET:

- 20% of net purchases by the client you referred (that means up to £59 per sale!)
- 5% on all net royalties of the contributor you referred
- Powerful affiliation tools
- Real time reporting
- An unlimited number of affiliates
- We’ll even offer to make a custom sized banner for your website!

Everyone can profit from the affiliate program. It does not matter if you are a professional photographer or private user, anyone can recommend new members to join iSignstock. Site provide several tools to help you promote iSignstock; just choose which one works best for you.

When your account reaches £40, you’ll be eligible for your first payout via PayPal or Moneybookers (Skrill).

Information source: http://www.shopartgallery.com/new-affiliate-program-from-isignstock-2?Itemid=153

Photokore Blog

Korean site Photokore launched his blog in four languages:

English: http://en.blog.photokore.com
Chinese: http://cn.blog.photokore.com
Japanese: http://jp.blog.photokore.com
Korean: http://kr.blog.photokore.com

As a start, blogs contain basic information regarding stock photography, microstock, stock photography terminology (for those new to stock photography), as well as access to tutorials. The Administration will consider any comments and suggestions on how to make a blog useful and interesting for readers.

iClipart - World's Largest Royalty-Free Clipart Site

I would like to draw your attention to a worthy, but little-known among stockers, Canadian resource - iClipart.

Initially, the team worked in ArtToday, while this resource is not bought JupiterImages. Some time after files sold by the collection of Hemera by JupiterImages. Then the team set up a new stock - iClipart, but some remained in JupiterImages, and now in Getty - clipart. Since November 2006, stock works independently. The database contains more than 7.8 million products: vectors, photos, animations and fonts.

Any of the authors, whose portfolio of more than 500 works, can become contributor of iclipart. To do this, write a letter in support service with links to works. However, I was lucky I was with a smaller amount of the portfolio.

iClipart working with Payoneer and Paypal.
Payments are made monthly.

The audience of customer iclipart is very diverse. For example, schools of Iowa are regular users of the site (schools.iclipart).

Part of the proceeds from the sale of subscriptions iclipart pays to charitable organization Kiva.

Clipart-box. Sell your cliparts here.

It will be a symbolic: the first publication in new blog about new site. A young French microstock - clipart-box, based team of illustrators for sale of own works, invites the authors.

Author's royalty is 50% of extended license price and 25% for standard license. The cost of an extended license to 5 times the cost of a standard rf-license. Price of the file depends on the complexity of execution.

The minimum amount for payout - $ 100. For payments using Paypal.

Accepted vector formats .eps and .ai. Files must be maximum in Illustrator 10 format. Files can contain transparency and shadows. Vector file must be accompanied by jpeg-preview (500x500 pixels).

Referral program under development.