I only mention these from time to time, and only when it is a particularly good sale! I just saw an email that announced that the Jixipix professional digital painting apps will be on sale for Black Friday, with 50% off the normal pricing. That means that each of the Pro Products that I use are $24.99 instead of the normal $49.99 using the code BLK50. I have an affiliate link if you are interested that gives me a small...
Jixipix painting applications are ones that I regularly use in my stock photography and fine art work. 50% sale this week!
I only mention affiliate links to programs and products that I actually use and the Jixipix range of Apps falls into that category. As usual at the US Thanksgiving holiday, they are offering a sale of 45% off their products. I have the Pro Bundle, that includes impressionist painting, pastel colors, jigsaw designs and others, and I actually have the water color app as well which I use quite often. I’ve used them mainly for fine art stuff that I...
After a focus this year on stock photos (with some great results), I decided to try to boost the sales of prints of what I call my Fine Art Collection! I mentioned that I was going to try an experiment of lowering my prices to see if that would juice the sales. Well, I gave it two months and nothing much happened, and so I reverted to a new pricing plan that was closer to the ones I have used...
I get a lot of emails about various discounts at this time of year, and so if you are in the running for one of the products that I use, here are the various sales I have seen: StockSubmitter – up to 80% off subscription sales between 27 November and 12 December. I use this program all the time and I will certainly be topping up my subscription amount. Remember that what you are buying is really a credit and...
Once again, a very reasonable month. I know that we are probably in the final stages of this industry in terms of whether a single contributor (as opposed to a group of artists continually uploading new content) can make a reasonable living from stock, but usually the death of an industry takes longer than you think! In this case I think the major impact on earnings is the pressure that is on the stock agencies to get buyers to pay...
I wrote, just three days ago, that it is a long time since I had a sale on Fine Art America. In fact my previous one was back in June. It must be magic that just writing those words caused someone to buy one of my images for their wall as yesterday I got the email saying this this image of Woodburn Hall at West Virginia University had sold as a massive 40 x 24 inch metal print: The profit...
I’ll do these posts from time to time when I see a new offer that looks interesting on the two main products that I regularly use (besides the Adobe suite). The first up is Luminar 4 from Skylum with its very clever sky replacement feature (and quite a lot of interesting things about adding large moons to empty skies at night). The latter might not work for stock images (because you don’t own the copyright on the moon image), but...
In these troubled times, it is important to perhaps take a break from feeding the stock machine and see if you can process some of your better images for sale as prints or on other products. I upload my best shots to Fine Art America (always), Photo4Me (sometimes) and Society6 (from time to time). I was reminded of this with another sale earlier this month on Fine Art America – this time a large metal print (36 inches x 24...
I enjoy adding painting effects to my images and sometimes upload them as stock. I tried to learn Corel Painter a few years back but that was too complex for me and so I’ve stuck with Jixipix which has water color, oil painting and also drawing tools that are very easy to use. I bought mine when they had a 40% sale, but today they have upped that to 50%. The coupon code to use is LUCKY50 with the link...
