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Title: Collages - do they get accepted and sell?
Post by: madelaide on February 20, 2007, 15:20

I have a lot of older 640x480pix images and also many 1280x960pix that are pretty good but too small for almost all sites (BigStock and StockXpert still accept 1.2Mpix, I think, but only they).

I thought of doing collages of images of the same subject, maybe also with the travel ones doing like a postcard with two or three of them together.

Are such images generally accepted?  Do they sell?

Regards,
Adelaide

Title: Re: Collages - do they get accepted and sell?
Post by: leaf on February 20, 2007, 16:38

I think these became popular on shutterstock a little while back, and then they said 'no collages' when it starte getting out of hand. -- as far as i can remember anyhow, but i am not sure what the current opinion is. 

Title: Re: Collages - do they get accepted and sell?
Post by: CJPhoto on February 21, 2007, 02:34

Not sure about whether they are still accepted but at SS when the fad hit, lots of people said 25c is too small for one photo, let alone 2 or more.

They did appear to sell well.  Some people even just put white lines to create a grid to give things a more "finished" product. THese get rejected now definately if they only contain one photo.

Title: Re: Collages - do they get accepted and sell?
Post by: madelaide on March 06, 2007, 18:00

I have submitted a collage to some sites.  IS, StockXpert and LO rejected it.  DT and BigStock are in queue. 

(http://www.shutterpoint.com/%2Fphotos%2FA%2F20070222%5F203441%5Fcollage%5Fgerberas%5Fthum%2Ejpg) (http://www.shutterpoint.com/Photos-ViewPhoto.cfm?id=460470)

I think I shouldn't have added a title - this was one reason for LO.  IS said it was more a final design, not a stock image

Regards,
Adelaide

Title: Re: Collages - do they get accepted and sell?
Post by: ludesal on March 06, 2007, 22:38

I think on DT may accept it, but without the text. Just my opinion...
Good luck, Adelaide  :)