Did you know that if you have your own site and you display your images there, you can point them to your image details page on Dreamstime and earn 60% from the sales you make this way or even 70% if you are an exclusive??

How you can do that:

1. Build your own site (or go with a web2 platform)

2. Display watermarked thumbnails of your images

3. Point the ones that you have on Dreamstime using their referral link. You can also add a "Download" button under the image.

You can find the referral link under the watermaked image, on the image detail page:

e.g. Image details page

scroll down for "Referral Link".

The link should look like this:

http://www.dreamstime.com/ladybug-rimage2840606-resi6

were ...

Each image should have its 15 seconds of blog fame (and its 10 years of stock value ;) ) so here it is, submission with number 3,000,000 on Dreamstime. Passed unnoticed and quietly. A great stock btw that should also give you more hints about the surprize ;)

The common standard of the traditional stock photography industry is the size in megabytes (MB). The value of an image in MB sounds more appealing to the customer. Nothing more tricky than that!

The common standard for (educated) designers is the size in pixels (MP) that leads to discussions about dpi, ppi etc. It is this size that tells them how large an image can be printed.

The traditional industry uses this parameter as a trick. Requiring photographers to upsample their work (enlarging image size with a software) without any concerns about the final image (which usually ends up fuzzy and blurry) is simply wrong. Because not all images can be upsampled properly and the designer can do that easily.

The size in Mb ends up very high taking huge amounts of storage ...