Blend Images was founded by a select group of the world's top commercial stock photographers. Our commitment to providing the very highest level of service to our contributors is born out of our personal experiences with stock agencies past and present. With the ever-changing nature of the stock photography industry, it is more important than ever to carefully consider the options you have for image distribution. Blend's leadership position in providing the world's best multicultural stock imagery has resulted in strong licensing sales growth through one of the world's largest distribution networks and our state-of-the-art direct sales website.

Why become a Blend Contributing Artist?

• Multicultural stock content is the fastest growing segment of commercial stock licensing. But just replicating standard shoot scenarios with diverse ethnic talent won't get the job done. Not only do you have to know how to shoot, you need to know what to shoot and why. We provide creative research and guidance to all of our photographers through monthly newsletters, semi-annual research reports, photographer summits with guest speakers from ad agencies, design shops, and demographic research firms, and access to an experienced personal photo editor/art director.
• We have one of the largest distribution networks of any commercial stock library. And we are one of only a few commercial libraries distributing rights-managed, royalty-free, and mid-stock licensing options. Why have your content represented at only one agency? With Blend, your content will be available through hundreds of stock agencies worldwide, including Corbis and Getty Images. You submit once, and we make your imagery available to our entire network.
• Blend offers competitive royalties. Our current standard rate is 50% for rights-managed content and up to 50% for royalty-free content! You can access your royalty reports on-line 24/7 through our industry leading "Loupe" service which provides a visual representation of images licensed, allows for multiple sort options, and download to Excel. Want to track your top selling images month over month? It's easy with Loupe.
• All Blend photographers have access to our industry leading listserv - Stockpros - which connects you directly to the world's top earning stock photographers where industry news, shooting technique, and advice is readily available. Need to find an assistant in an unfamiliar city? Likely someone on Stockpros can help.
• Access to "Blend Artists" website. With an ever growing archive of creative research reports, monthly needs lists, links to sites of interest, audio/visual presentations and much more, BlendArtists.com will help you be a better stock photographer.
• The ability to shoot for multiple licensing types through one stock library and one editor. Blend currently represents work in rights-managed, royalty-free, and mid-stock licensing models. Our editors help you maximize your revenue potential by working with you to place your content in the appropriate licensing model.

And most importantly, we're nice folks. We love stock photography, and we love photographers, because we ARE photographers. We do understand what it takes to create the very best work. We've all been on shoots that have generated killer shots. And of course, the occasional production that just didn't fly. We know the kind of investment photographers make in their content, and we take our role seriously to generate the very best returns possible. We only hire staff who are helpful, committed, and most importantly, have enough experience under their belt to be able to provide truly useful input. We return phone calls. And if you ever want to talk to the CEO, his cell phone number is listed in the staff directory. In short, Blend is a unique community of photographers creating the world's best multicultural stock content backed by a staff of truly talented professionals.

Join us.

Image Requirements to Qualify for Photographic Representation:

• Images should be captured using professional level DSLRs of 11+ mega-pixels, Pro Digital Backs, or high-end scanners that can deliver the required quality.
• Final media should be 48-52 MB, 24-bit RGB (8 bits per channel), uncompressed tiff files at 300 ppi resolution.
• Images should be fully retouched, color corrected, and free from dust, dirt, posterization, artifacting or other image flaws.
• Files should be produced in a color-managed environment with Adobe RGB 1998 as the desired color space.

Submission Guidelines:

• Include a range of 30-50 tightly edited, low-resolution jpg images
• Digital files only please

Submission Methods:

Choose between any of the three methods below.

1. URL with your personal website
2. Web Photo Gallery (web galleries can be created using your imaging software.  Reference your owner’s manual for instructions.)
3. Spring-loaded hot link-- a clickable link that provides downloadable jpegs

Please email us at creative@blendimages.com about your photographic background and professional experience, along with the information for accessing your imagery. 

After reviewing your portfolio, we will respond via email about the next step.  Thank you for your interest in Blend Images.  We look forward to hearing from you.