Lightwave 3D and Stock Photography

I create a lot of high resolution images that are sold on stock photography sites. What I make are not photos but these sites sell images for the advertising industry and my images fit that need.

I have been using Lightwave and Photoshop since the early days of Lightwave. I think my first version was 1.4 or something like that.

While I love creating the images, I hate some of the rest of the procedures. You see I have to add key words so people can find the images, each image must be given a unique name and each must be categorized.

Then I must upload the images to the sites where I sell them (about 6 sites right now) and each site works differently and each has there own set of categories and requirements for keywords and names. So almost every image needs a bit of work on each of the different sites.

Now this is not a real big deal if you are uploading each image as I make them but as I am finding it's a very big deal when I need to upload all my images to a new stock site.

I just started with Dreamstime.com a few days ago and while their setup is pretty strait forward I still must edit every image to match their setup and I have close to 1,000 images.

Over the past few days I uploaded 200+ images and I can say that I hate this part of the job. I worked on it for many hours but it feels like I have been doing it for months. And I am not even 1/4 of the way through my portfolio.

I'll post more on this later.