Shutterstock’s New Content Editor

Uploading your files to Shutterstock keeps getting easier. They just upgraded the Content Editor to make it faster and more powerful. For a limited time, you can continue to use the Batch Editor or the Legacy Editor, but you should switch soon, as those tools will be phased out.

With the new content editor you can:

      Add titles, keywords and releases to several files at once, or just 1 at a time.

      Quickly add and delete keywords.

      Undo and redo changes.

All of the best features from the Batch and Legacy Editors were also preserved:

      Copy and pasting keywords

      Tabbing through fields

Watch a short video from Shutterstock to see how the new content editor will save you time.

10 Tips for Submitting Footage to Shutterstock

Footage is hot, and many of Shutterstock contributors are working hard on clips for Shutterstock Footage. Make sure you’re creating work that will get noticed in the collection and won’t get rejected. Based on recent trends seen in footage submissions, here’s a quick list of tips that will help you improve your acceptance rate and sales.

10 Tips for Submitting Footage to Shutterstock

Shutterstock introduces the Darkroom: Shape The Future of Shutterstock

Today Shutterstock is launching the Shutterstock Darkroom, a place for you to see contributor features in development. It will be used to show off new features and make sure developers are on the right track before deployment of these features to everyone. Every Darkroom page will have a feedback tab on the left, so you can tell Shutterstock team what you think.

The first two new features in the Shutterstock Darkroom are a new Content Editor (which some of you are already testing) and a new Image Gallery Stats page, designed as a better way to monitor your image statistics.

As you use these new tools, please remember a few things: Shutterstock Darkroom features are live and functional, but they are tests and might not work perfectly. Darkroom features have not been optimized for all web browsers, so developers recommend using the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome or Safari.

Visit the Shutterstock Darkroom and see what develops!

Image descriptions now matter more on Shutterstock

Shutterstock team has adjusted its search engine to consider image descriptions as more valuable than before. Now the descriptions are treated the same as keywords, according to Shutterstock. It means that you have to be careful when writing a proper description. Try to work on it as thoroughly, as you work on the keywords.

If you have previously neglected the description field, now it is time to start paying attention to it. First briefly describe the image in terms of who or what is shown there. Then mention what is the action on that image. Afterwards, you can add some adjectives and also a description of the conditions/environment. Now you have to put all the above into a one normal sentence. Try to implement one or few most significant keywords into it. Be sure not to spam and never duplicate many keywords in the description field.

This alteration of the search engine will somewhat shuffle a search order on a number of images. Let’s hope it will have a positive effect on your photos. If you are not yet at Shutterstock, come there and join the best selling image agency.

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