Toy Image Markets
It is advisable to constantly keep in mind that toy and game markets, amusement and entertainment venues need fresh images and tight glossy shots for promotion and product websites. Hobby webmasters, editorial photo page layout professionals,  and other publishers are also always on the lookout for an image that can fill space with a few hundred words of text. Remember, any image that can include “hobby” and “shopping” is a hot microstock market.
Pictures of anything in vivid color sell the concept. Online ads, feature ads and vast amounts of white space sprinkled over their site require a resting place for the eye yet retain the browser’s attention. The secret to getting microstock images of this quality is to suspect that a frame filling colorful contrast picture makes a good endnote for website layout design. This image might be good for a website section image, an article about games photo, a Christmas or hobby page, or whatever the photo editor decides its best use might be.
Magazine and newspaper editorial layouts use this as a way to keep the eye filled with attention capturing graphics. Games and toys have always been a highly consumer-taste market that caters to the amusement instinct in all of us. Games and especially the popularity of board games like Monopoly or Settlement of  Catan frenzy make searchable results a likelhood. Color makes savvy images a must for blog or hobby or game board sites.
But often the market for a microstock image might be a blog topic or feature article essay about subject matter which a certain image brings to mind.
The above photo was taken in a bookstore, and I felt it topical that the glossy games section had been given prominent display space versus the books that might gave been ordered. I cropped some of the darker area to grab the vivid color of the games. I noticed a lot of people stopping to check out the display in the store, this is a huge hint that whatever people are noticing has microstock appeal inside an image.
The variable light quality inside the shot was hard to balance using layers and brightening and sharpening tools. One editing effect robbed the image of its resolution, and darkening one fixed the lighter areas but clipped color from the shot.
