Fotolia Blog USNews about stock photography, graphic art, web design and Fotolia knowledge baseIntroduction of 2 new licenses: XS and XXXL- January 30, 2008 In response to both customer and photographer demands Fotolia has released two new licenses. The first license is called the eXtra Small standard license corresponding with the XS abbreviation. The license is designed for blogs and web applications (thumbnails and small images on websites). The license will start at just 1 credit for a 300400 pixel image.At the opposite end of the license scale, Fotolia has introduced an XXXL standard license, offering extremely large images. This license is...http://blog.fotolia.com/us/news/fotolia/xs_xxxl.html 2008 Digital Wizard Contest- January 30, 2008 Can you work your magic and turn ordinary images into works of art Does your Photoshop bag of ticks include spells and incantations Then the Digital Wizard Contest by Popular Photography Magazine is just for you. You can even win $1000 and published in the magazine as a grand prize. All you need to do is download the 12 images (supplied by Fotolia to Popular Photography Magazine) and use elements from at least 4 of the images to create a brand new work. Completed works should be sent to...http://blog.fotolia.com/us/news/digital/popular_photography-_digital_w.html MacWorld Recap- January 23, 2008 As you may have noted in my earlier article MacWorld 2008 was a great experience for me. I met a lot of great people and saw some great products. Before I jump into the products it was really cool to have people come up to the booth and say how much they love Fotolia. I even had one women actually start to give a demo to a crowd of people highlighting how she uses the Fotolia features. Everyone I spoke to loved the images and the website. So I did have a chance to view a few cool products...http://blog.fotolia.com/us/culture/macworld-_macbook_air-_modbook.html 3,000,000 pictures contest- January 22, 2008 Earn 3000 credits by submitting the most images to Fotolia. Three years ago Fotolia launched with nothing, no images and no customers. Now we have over 3 million images online and we are adding 40,000 new images each week and the customers keep coming. All of this is thanks to you, our 80,000 contributors. In order to celebrate this milestone, we would like to organize a special 3,000,000 image contest. 3000 credits will be awarded to the contributor with the largest number of accepted images.http://blog.fotolia.com/us/news/contest/3_millions_contest.html MacWorld - Enjoying the apple once again- January 22, 2008 A few months back I called a friend of mine and boldly stated I have seen the light, I purchased a Mac. I was so excited to do all the things "Mac people" always talked about, making movies, listening to music, building websites, and never having computer problems again. Well I guess I was not a true convert since I still held on to my old PC ways and only dabbled in the Mac applications. My email was still on the PC and I already had so much data on my PC too. The popular Apple slogan Think.http://blog.fotolia.com/us/issue/macworld-_apple-_switching-_.html Marek Kosmal Contributes 3,000,000th Image to Fotolia Microstock Library- January 21, 2008 Fotolia.com - Leading source for legal, low-cost imagery becomes first microstock library with 3,000,000 images NEW YORK, NY January 21, 2008 Today, Fotolia (http:www.fotolia.com) the worlds leading source for legal, low-cost imagery announces its 3,000,000th image, titled Colorful balloons with ribbon isolated on white background. The image ( ID 5858267) was submitted by Marek Kosmal, a Polish photographer whose Fotolia portfolio can be seen at http:www.fotolia.comp7307. I am delighted...http://blog.fotolia.com/us/news/fotolia/fotolia-_3_million-_marek_kosm.html Fotolia at MacWorld 2008- January 16, 2008 All hail Apple! I have never met so many Mac guys in one place. I am of course speaking about MacWorld 2008. This is my first year at MacWorld and I am pretty impressed with all the cool toys and people. This is a great place for Fotolia. It seems everyone is looking for images for Keynote, iweb, and all their other creative needs.When you sell royalty free images for as little as $1 like Fotolia new people start thinking how they can use more images. So if you are here at MacWorld stop by...http://blog.fotolia.com/us/news/fotolia/macworld-_fotolia-_stock_photo.html |