Image Editing ... take a Look!

Photographers are welcoming some major changes in the way Getty Images handles its stock photography workflow – changes designed to decrease the role of art directors and turn more editing over to the photographers.More of Getty's workflow is moving online, and the company is planning to introduce a new portal for uploading images later this year. The changes adopt some of the same workflow techniques favored by micropayment stock sites, including Getty-owned iStockPhoto.Some Getty contributors will no longer be assigned a specific art director, but will be expected to self-edit their own work and submit it online in high-resolution format. In many cases, further editing will be done by the first available Getty editor. This will speed the process of getting images from the photographer into the Getty system.At the same time, photographers will have access to new editing guidelines and Getty's creative research reports, intelligence that previously was available only to art directors.