You, the micro stock photographer, can do allot when taking the picture. however there are more things you can do after the image in stored in your computer. I'll let you in on a secret - not everybody who buys your images is a photoshop expert. sometimes a change that looks trivial to you can mean the world to a photo stock buyer or a web designer.
Here is a bunch of guides that will help you to get the best out of your images.
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Hue change guide - will teach you how to submit several pictures, based on the same photograph, to your micro stock site. Each Picture will have different colors. This is a great tutorial for clean images, with distinctive colors.
- Fake model photography - in this tutorial you will learn how to create an image that looks like a tiny model of a landscape.
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Separating your subject from the background has resources for this great technique, which is very popular with micro stock image buyers and designers.
- If you use photoshop, this site has great (great) video tutorials for photoshop
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Image retouch - here you can learn how to improve your micro stock images and make them more appealing. Remember - the better the image the more you will sell
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In this site you can learn how streamline your digital workflow
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and here you can find very good instructions fir making the best out of your skin shots
recheck this page in a few days, I am adding tutorials all the time.