Stock contributor guides, in reading order

An ordered path through our guides on stock metadata, keywords, rejections and working at volume, grouped so you can start at the right point rather than reading everything.

If you have never sold a stock image, read the starting guides in order. They cover what the business actually looks like before you spend a weekend shooting for it.

Metadata that gets found: keywords and titles are what decide whether a buyer ever sees your file. This is the part most contributors get wrong for years.

Rejections are mostly mechanical and mostly preventable. These guides cover the published rules and the fields people forget.

Working at volume: what changes when a portfolio outgrows doing everything by hand, and which tools are worth paying for.

Shooting and selling better: the craft side, plus selling work that is not photography.

A reading order through everything we have written about contributing to stock agencies, grouped by what you are actually trying to solve.

These are the same articles as the

Looking for how the product works?

These articles are about the craft and the business. The documentation covers the software itself, including what it does not do yet.