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Software / "Glossy" look of many stock bestsellers?
« on: October 30, 2013, 09:55 »
Hey everybody,
until now my approach to stock has been more on quantity than on quality. Although I had some good results, most of my photos have never been sold :-(
So I started looking at the bestseller shots on the different sites to learn from them and I noticed that most of them have a kind of "glossy magazine" look. Now I do not know how to exactly explain this, but my photos usually have a very "digital" look and are either blurry or sharp. The bestsellers on the microstock websites have a more traditional film look, with what seems a mix of (glamour) glow, soft focus and often slight desaturation.
I wonder if there is any photoshop filter or trick that allows to achieve such a look?
Thank you very much!
until now my approach to stock has been more on quantity than on quality. Although I had some good results, most of my photos have never been sold :-(
So I started looking at the bestseller shots on the different sites to learn from them and I noticed that most of them have a kind of "glossy magazine" look. Now I do not know how to exactly explain this, but my photos usually have a very "digital" look and are either blurry or sharp. The bestsellers on the microstock websites have a more traditional film look, with what seems a mix of (glamour) glow, soft focus and often slight desaturation.
I wonder if there is any photoshop filter or trick that allows to achieve such a look?
Thank you very much!
