Today I want to share a translation of another interesting article from the Adobe Stock blog about preparing stock content this year and understanding the latest creative trends. The literal title would be something like “Shake Up Your Stock,” but I decided to improvise a little with the translation for a smoother effect. I hope you’ll enjoy it.

The Fotolia stock photo site is fairly simple to work with and is recommended for newcomers. Because of this, there are many questions from beginner microstock contributors about registering on Fotolia: which data to enter, what each item means, why a circle isn’t green, why registration isn’t complete, and so on. In today’s article the plan is to cover Fotolia registration as broadly as possible.

That random internet search became a turning point – it led to microstock, and Dreamstime became the first stock agency where registration was completed and an image was sold.

The microstock agency Fotolia, and recently Adobe Stock – is a relatively young international French stock photo agency operating since early 2005. You may ask, how can it be called young if it has been around since 2005? True, its experience is quite extensive, but leading stock photo sites appeared even earlier. Therefore, compared to top microstocks, Fotolia is still considered a relatively young platform.

At the end of last year, the Fotolia (Adobe Stock) blog published an interesting overview of the upcoming year’s stock trends. Unfortunately, the translation from the original is only being published now. Still, this roundup should be useful for contributors, both newcomers and seasoned pros.

Today’s post is dedicated to reviewing the news that stock photo agencies have churned out over the past few months of the closing year and the beginning of the new one. But I’ll try to present the information with a bit of originality—after all, it’s the first post of 2011. So, let’s get started: