In 2018, I started submitting my own landscapes, city scenes, and portraits to stock marketplaces. Writing a title, ordering the keywords, and uploading every image taught me what buyers could actually use—and how much time repetitive work could consume.
In 2024, I began creating stock images with Midjourney and other AI tools. Generation became faster, but vague subjects, near-duplicates, weak titles, and unfocused keywords did not disappear. I still had to decide what was worth making.
After working with hundreds of thousands of images, I built StockPhotoScout to bring the useful parts together: choosing clearer subjects, preparing prompts, titles, and keywords, and reducing repetitive upload work. I am not interested in overnight-sales formulas. I want contributors to make fewer weak images and spend less time on busywork.
I also publish photography as Siyuan: View my Unsplash portfolio
Want to talk about stock contributing, AI images, or StockPhotoScout? Email me
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