CAN I SUBMIT IMAGES TO SELL ON TONOSTOCK ?

Yes, Tonostock Royalty Free Stock Photos will be happy to add new photographers. First open PHOTOGRAPHER account, after approving your account by our admin team you will be able to upload a batch of 10 to 20 images, please do not submit more than 20 images the first time, then our editors will review your images and when your images will be reviewed and accepted will receive an email with notification of accepted photographer account. All photographer contributors receive 50% commission of his sales. Contributor photograpehrs will receive the income on their Paypal account when requested after each at least earned 50€, so please make sure you have a Paypal account before openening your Photographer account.

Images should be 100% copyrighted by the author or the agency that represents the photographer or designer. All people and property images should be protected under a model or property release document signed by the model or property owner, photographer and a witness. We can provide you the right release document that contain all the legal terms to fill a complete Release agreement.

We allow photographers or graphic designers to submit images to any other Royalty Free sites as we do not ask for any exclusivity. We understand that to spread the portfolio into more than one agency is todays regular way to work on Royalty Free Photo Stocks.

To prepare images meeting our Tonostock agency guidelines, photographs should be in .jpg .jpeg and saved with the highest quality for example in Photoshop: 12

Images can be edited at photographers home setting all required IPTC fields into the image with a simple IPTC editor like Photoshop, Microsoft Pro Photo Tools or any other. We require 3 filled fields all in english language:

Tittle: Simple and short that describes the image

Description: Longer description than tittle that will content the main keywords defining the image

Keywords: Accurated keywords, separated by comma describing image, 15 min to 50 max keywords. You may think that images will be searched by words, all words that match your image should be written there, customers will buy your image if they find it... so is good to avoid missing the logical keywords that each image should content. An easy rule to keyword an iage is that the keywords includded on your image could answer to the questions of: Who, When, Where, How, Why ?

TONOSTOCK provide our clients with the best image quality on photo stock market. We request our contributor photographers and designers to check all their images before submitting us to filter the quality requirements requested by our stock agency. We do not enjoy with rejections but all images that do not meet our quality guidelines will be rejected. To understand our quality images requirements we list below some advices:

• Focus: The main subject of the image must have a sharp natural focus, all blurred images must be filtered by the photographer before submitting. Blur or out of focus on backgrounds is allowed we only request the focus on the main subject.
• Noise Levels: All subitted images will have a very low noise leves, check before submitting the darken areas in every photo and apply if necessary a noise reduction filter as the recommended "Neat Image". Avoid set higher ISO levels on your camera settings, over ISO 160 some cameras produce a high noise levels.
• Color, bright and contrast balance and sharpness: Images after shooting needs some further adjustments please do not over-process images on postproduction. Image editors like Photoshop has the ability of apply multiple adjustments, photographers must know how to adjust their own images without destroy the histogram curve.
  
• Interpolation: Please do not interpolate the original image size, maintain the camera size and do not oversize more than 5%.
• Composition: Stock image composition are versatile and may be used in many different projects by our designers and customers. Designers like to have empty spaces where to set the logo or copy. Subjects may be full sized without crops to reach the highest rates of versatility. For example a missing hand on the image could make the image quite less usable for full size isolation. Try to shot thinking as the designer that will use your image in a magazine cover and have enough space to all graphic and text requirements. Images for stock must be direct, easy undestanding and with a clear message, this is the key to success in stock photography.
  

To signup in our TONOSTOCK contributor community and begin to submit your images please fill the requested fields below and signup: