Back on September 5th, iStockphoto revealed their new checkout process, which allows buyers to simply add content to a shopping cart, and then quickly check out with a credit card, instead of using a pre-paid credit plan. Yesterday, they added a great piece of interface functionality to the site.
Now, when you do a regular search, or view a lightbox, you’ll see a new icon under each image to easily add that content to your shopping cart. Almost like a temporary lightbox setup. Once you click the icon, the window at the bottom right will pop up, alerting you that you have added something in.
Two things. First, make sure you watch for that pop-up box. In my testing, the software was a bit slow to update with the addition. Second, by default (and I haven’t found a way to change this), the size of the content, for photos at least, that gets added to your cart is “large” with a regular license. So if you need a different size or license, go to the cart when you are ready, and use the edit buttons to modify those options.
Thanks for sticking around during the site troubles. I know the zoom functionality is still missing from the site, and I am working on a side project that may help you with that issue, at least for content in my portfolio.
