Stock Images Newsletter, 19th August 2020. What's coming up and what you should know.

I've been blown away by just how quickly this community and people's enthusiasm for it have taken off! I really didn't expect it to be more than a basic dropping place for images and the occasional update of an index. However, the activity has made me decide to bring the community account into action to give some support to the amazing artists who are kindly sharing their work. While I can't guarantee that people using images from here will make the artists beneficiaries of their posts, indeed those with small accounts may not bring in enough to even do so, I can highlight authors and reward them through the community account.

I did consider making another account which could actually incorporate the name of the community, but for a variety of reasons I decided against it. I already have keys for other numerous accounts in lists and this account is here, so why not make use of it. So I hope you'll forgive the fact that it's not an easy to remember account name.

What's coming up.

What I'm hoping you'll be seeing from this account is creator highlights where we'll make the featured creators beneficiaries. I will also be using it to expand the index into more easily accessible sections and any votes on those posts will be used to power up the account. I may also be collating certain image genres into separate posts for easier reference. For example, we have lots of posts with various flower images and it’s a lot to go through if you're after a particular species. So putting the roses together, for example, would mean there is only one spot to go to for a rose picture instead of going through multiple, mixed posts. Each image would have the creator's username and specific requests underneath.

_{I use the word creators, because while we mostly have photos here at the moment, other artistic images are very much sought after too. Using the word photographers or artists seems to exclude one or the other, despite the fact that I would class photographers as artists too.}

I've put the community forward for the @ocd incubation program. Fingers crossed we'll be accepted for support. If so, we can give the creators even more support.

Can you help?

I realise our creators are posting in all different communities and often have images in their posts which they're happy for Hivers to use. Rather than them adding a note every time, as to whether their picture/s can be used, it could be easier to add #hivestockimages as a tag and that would be the permission for it to be used on Hive. For use outside of Hive, please consult the creator themselves for permission.

As I make the indexes I'll trying to be as thorough as possible, but mistakes can be made and as the index pages multiply I may not have the chance to go through and check every link. So if you happen to find a broken link when you're looking through, please make a comment on that index post to let me know which one.

If you are submitting your images to the community, please try to focus on the quality of what you're submitting, mostly for the sake of your own reputation. For the sake of the reputation of the community, I will omit image posts from the index if I feel they are of low quality. However, I won't mute or downvote those posts, because I realise it's just my opinion and someone else might be quite happy to use them. If you find I've not indexed something of yours then don't take it personally. I've either not gotten around to it yet, or felt we had plenty of better quality offerings already. It doesn't mean your other images won't get indexed.

I'm pleased to have been able to use this beautiful image from @lifeskills-tv and give thanks to @riverflows for the idea behind the banner strip. Also, thanks, as always, goes to @sitaru for the bee logo. All will be beneficiaries of this post