Stock Photo Ideas

If you have already read my “About” page, you should know that I’m a web programmer in my day job. When I first started doing stock photography and joined the ShutterStock.com agency, I spent quite a lot of time checking my statistics, if any of my images had been downloaded. Some day a bright idea came to my mind - why not create a simple tool that will do the job for me. Couple of minutes of thinking and the development was started - I decided to create a Firefox browser extension that would display the number of image downloads in status bar.

I’m not going to dive into the details of programming, but the extension was successfully created and named ShutterStockBar.

Afterwards I started a thread about this extension on the official shutterstock.com forums and got a lot of great response. Now after more than a year, when I’ve decided to create a stock photography oriented blog, I’m also moving the ShutterStockBar extension page to this blog. If this is the first time you hear about this extension and you are working with ShutterStock.com, you should check out the extension page.