Today I want to introduce you to the translation of another interesting article from the Adobe Stock blog about the features of preparing content for stock in the current year, focusing on current trends. In fact, it would be more accurate to translate its title as something like “Shake Up Your Stock” but I don’t think that sounds right. So, I decided to add a bit of improvisation to the translation. I hope you like it.

Stock bank Fotolia is quite easy to use and is recommended for beginners. Because of this, I receive a lot of questions from novice microstockers regarding the registration process on Fotolia: what data to enter, what each point means, why the circle is not green, why the registration is not complete, and so on. In today’s article, I decided to cover the registration process on Fotolia as broadly as possible.

That random internet search became a turning point; it directed me to microstocks, and Dreamstime was the first stock agency I registered with and sold an image.

Microstock Fotolia or Fotolia, and recently Adobe Stock – is a relatively young international French photo bank, operating since early 2005. You may ask, how can it be young if it has been operating since 2005? I agree that its experience is quite solid, but the leading photo banks appeared even earlier. Therefore, compared to the leading microstocks, Fotolia is indeed a relatively young microstock.

In the Fotolia (Adobe Stock) blog, an interesting overview of stock trends for the upcoming year was published at the end of last year. Unfortunately, I could only publish the translation of the original now. However, I believe this overview may be quite useful for stockers, both beginners and veterans.

Today, I would like to dedicate this post to reviewing the news from stock photo agencies released over the last couple of months of the outgoing year and the one that has just begun. However, I will try to be a bit original in presenting the information since this is the first post of 2011. So, here we go: