In my early days, starting in 2003, iStock was the only agency that would carry clipping paths through the JPEG images. For images sold resized they even resized the clipping paths for a few years. Clipping was an added value for customers who wanted items on a page with close surrounding text and who wanted images to drop into other pictures. Unfortunately, iS subject policy changes has killed my niche of clipped subjects, so in 2020 I don't know the current value of doing the work of clipping. I also don't know if any agencies carry the clipping paths through the JPEG files today. You may just have to try some and watch for a year to see if they have better selling than  your non-clipped images. Submit both so you have a like subject reference point.

Great idea. Will try that. Thanks

I remember a promo ad for sky replacement "coming soon" on a Photoshop video a number of years ago but it never came to fruition. Then Luminar came along and beat them to it.

Now it looks like Adobe WILL launch a sky replacement later this year which automatically changes your photos' brightness and colour to suit. It looks great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_jWJ7Z-tKI

What do you think?

Hi there,
Just signed up to the forum. Looking forward to getting involved many times.

I have quite a few photos I'm going to upload of wild birds and flowers so my question is, would you isolate them or not?