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In my last post, I did a deep dive into how I am using ArtushVision AI to automate my Lightroom Classic keywording workflow for stock photography. It solved a massive headache by reading and writing directly to .XMP sidecar files—meaning my RAW files stay untouched and I don’t have to export a single JPEG just to generate keywords. It works just as well for those who just keyword the JPEGs for upload to the agencies. But as any photographer who...
Finally, an AI keywording system for stock photos, videos and Print on demand images that really works for me. Read my full comprehensive review.
The latest installment of my monthly reports on making money from the online sale and licensing of photography. March has been what I would call an Okay Month. Total earnings ended up at $2625 mainly due to a fall off in print sales in March. I’ll talk about that later in the report. But first, as they say on the news, the numbers! Growth in Total Earnings from Photography Although March was better than 2024, that is about all we...
After 18 years in the stock photography industry, I look back at my spreadsheets to find the best earnings stock agencies in 2025 and 2026.
15 years of stock photography has given me much experience with equipment choices. What fills my camera backpack for travel imagery now?
A quick test of a new AI keywording tool called Autokeyworder that works as a Chrome extension to add keywords during the upload process
The Missing Images: Why Your Fine Art Prints Aren’t Indexed by Google (And How to Fix It) for Fine Art America and Pictorem POD sites.
Curious about making money from online photography? See my February 2026 earnings report detailing my $2,994 income across stock agencies and fine art sales.
After 18 months, the sales of my fine art photo prints through my Etsy store have started to take off. How did I manage to achieve these 51 sales in a relatively new shop?
A bit of a detour away from photography with an exploration of several hours of time-wasting advice from CoPilot and Google Gemini and the implications for AI adoption
