Hi all - I wanted to share a niche stock site I recently created that has more of a creative/artistic bent than usual, but still has mid-to-micro-stock price points.

It's called ArtsyStock, it's brand new, and I'd be interested in your opinions if you'd be generous enough to offer them. There aren't too many photographs at the moment, but we'll accept any medium so long as the result is interesting. The collection is very small right now since we're so new, but growing at a good pace.

ArtsyStock isn't really meant to offer the painting equivalents of handshake images, as you'll see, and the usefulness for designers lies in niche areas and with creative solutions to design problems. Customers can also use the images they buy for a gallery-quality print, so there's a bit more flexibility there compared to a standard art print site for your average art buyer looking for a deal. On the seller's end we start everyone off with 51% royalty rates, capping off at 75%, based on lifetime sales (no yearly "redeemed credits" in other words).

Many thanks for checking out the site.

http://www.artsystock.com/

I was refreshing the page to read updates on the thread about iStock licensing our photos to Microsoft (essentially letting users steal full size images without attribution ... but that's another story) when I got this: http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/4546/istockdown.jpg

My latest batch of images is going to Alamy, methinks.