Micro Stock Top Tips
Here are a few top tips you might want to know about.
Cable icious: Get a super cheap micro USB cable online with 4, 5 or 6 pins in the connectors to cable up your  digital camera device or camera phone. Likely you lost that magical connector and the camera vendor wants $40 for it. Shop online for cheap.
Cables wear out at midnight when you are traveling , when no computer peripheral store is open. And don’t expect the one you need to be in stock, on sale when the stores do open. Buy extra. Don’t let a $300 train ticket go to waste because a $1.49 Mini B USB cable fails.
Don’t snap your camera off after that last shot. Take one more, so the drive freeze won’t kill the last shot. Sometimes the last shot will get killed if you snap off the camera next time you’re done too soon. Let the last shot that gets killed be the blurry throwaway and not your careful composition.
Have a separate 1 Gigabyte memory card blank at all times. Don’t rush the deletion of valuable files to make room on the hoof for one more snap unless you know you’ll never need it. Keeping an extra blank means getting to your files in the quality time and examination environment they deserve.
Delete blurry or out of focus files ongoing, your camera will scan to store images in the blank spaces. Observe the size of files snapped under various lens settings. A museum photo setting will capture more detail in resolution size than some other settings.
A landscape image taken in night landscape mode will require much more storage space than a simple daylight shot. Micro focus shots are huge and should be reduced in size to the nearest workable resolution possible. File your shots taken in separate folders copying them into destination which reflect their size and resolution and lens setting.
Thus, a random assortment of daylight beach scenes and micro focus flower shots can be uploaded as a series or tagged in a group. Also, these image files can be processed in a project tray or adjacent folder selection in an online or resident image processing filter.
Reduce the number of resident image editors and programs on your hard drive. If inserting a memory card, USB connector, or flash drive immediately chain loads 5 programs and their interfaces leap over each other to cram the images into each separate program’s viewer, filter, and folders, kill them or disable the automatic launch functions.
