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Giveaway: 100 Stock Photo Credits at Stockfresh

designerbooster — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:39:48 +0000

Update: Giveaway Period Has Ended

Stockfresh, a site where you can buy royalty-free stock photos and vectors, has teamed up with us to give away 3 stock photo accounts preloaded with 100 credits (worth $ 79.99 each). Read on to see how you can be one of the 3 lucky winners.

About Stockfresh

Stockfresh is a new stock photo agency by the original founders of the popular stock.xchng and Stockxpert sites. Stockfresh has some of the best photographers on board, so you’ll definitely find awesome images and graphics to purchase there. Stockfresh’s goal is to provide high-quality stock photos and graphics at affordable prices through a hassle-free, clean user interface. They take pride in the fact that they pay contributors with commissions that are among the highest in the industry, so if you shop with them, your money goes to the right place: the hardworking artists, photographers and designers who deserve it. Currently they have over 1,200,000 images online and the collection is growing rapidly. See some of their offerings through the most popular images page or the newest images page. Follow Stockfresh on Twitter and Facebook.

Update: Giveaway Period Has Ended

How to Win

To win a Stockfresh account preloaded with 100 credits, follow the steps outlined below.

Step 1

Browse the Stockfresh site’s collection of royalty-free images and vectors. Try looking at the popular categories page, most popular images page and/or new images page.

Step 2

In the comments below, answer the following question:

Which resource would you download first if you won 100 credits? Provide the URL in your comment.

Giveaway Details

This giveaway ends on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, after which the comments section on this post will be closed and you will no longer be able to leave a comment. Please leave a valid email address when filling out the comment form so that we can contact you if you have won. Please only comment once. The winners will be randomly selected using a similar method as previous Six Revisions giveaways. The winners will be announced on a separate post. You are advised to subscribe to our RSS feed so that you can be quickly notified when the winners announcement post has been published. Please note that comments are moderated and so your comment may not show up right away. Please note that comments that do not follow the instructions on how to win (described above) may not be published, or may be removed later on. Six Revisions

Dreamstime Promo Code

designerbooster — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:39:03 +0000

Dreamstime.com is a stock photo agency which provides you with high quality photos. This website has a large photo selection at affordable prices for designers. Use the Dreamstime promo code below to save more when you purchase credits today! If you want to purchase some of the photos, all you need to do is buy some credits and by the way the more credits you buy on a one time deal, the cheaper the credit gets. The credit cost starts at around $ 19.99 which is equivalent to 20 credits and you can get it up all the way for $ 99.99 for 130 credits. In fact an image suitable for web publishing can be bought for 1 credit, while large images which will be use for large prints cost only 3 credits. Now see the huge difference in how much money you will save. On the other hand, if you are not opting on buying credits on a one time deal, you can also buy a monthly subscription to the site.

Dreamstime Promo Code for January 2012

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3 free credit when you sign up

How to Use Dreamstime Promo Code?

Simply click the link above to claim your Dreamstime promo code. Next sign up at Dreamstime and enter the Dreamstime promo code in the Referral/promotional bonus code field. That’s it, you will receive your free credits after that. Vector Diary

Use of Stock Images in Ads, Copyrights and Treatment

designerbooster — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:43:24 +0000

Stock photography is the supply of photographs licensed for specific uses. It is used to fulfill the needs of creative assignments instead of hiring a photographer. Today, stock images can be presented in search able online databases. They can be purchased and delivered online. Often, they are produced in studios using a wide variety of models posing as professionals, stereotypes, expressing stereotypical emotions and gesticulations or involving pets. As more and more stock images are being evolved, more options are becoming available for the photographer and photo buyer. Image licensing is an important aspect which the buyer as well as the photographer must know.

Royalty Free

Royalty Free stock photography gives the image buyer the option to use the image in as many ways as desired while only paying one fee. License pricing are generally lower with Royalty Free. This license is cost effective because the buyer is choosing not to protect against competitive usage. The images are easy to use because the buyer doesn’t need to determine or track usage and is free to use in the images in multiple ways. Of course, there are also disadvantages. For the buyer, there is no protection against conflicting use by competitors and photographs offered in the Royalty Free domain are generally of lower content quality.

Rights Protected

Rights Protected license prices are generally higher then Royalty Free. In this case the buyer has control of the license and there is protection against having the photo used by a direct competitor for a competing use. Records of every use of a photo or image are kept to avoid conflicting rights between competing end users. Usually, images tend to be higher quality in content and subject matter for Rights Protected license. Rights protected images are licensed for a specific period of time and for a specific application which is negotiated in advance. The reason one would use rights protected imagery is to prevent competitors from using the same image in the same marketplace.

Rights Managed

Rights Managed is a license type similar to Rights Protected but does not guarantee exclusiveness unless an additional fee is paid. Usually, license prices with Rights Managed are somewhere in between Rights Managed and Royalty Free. Rights Managed means that the buyer pays for a license to use the stock photo for a specific use for a defined time period. Usually, the licensing is not transferable. They are only granted to the person or company who purchased them. The buyer may not sell, rent, loan, give, sub-license, or otherwise transfer the photograph or the right to reproduce the photo to someone else. Use of stock images must be appropriate to your design and content. There are certain points you must keep in mind while using the stock imagery: a – Don’t use a stock photo when you can easily illustrate or get a photo shoot yourself. b – Don’t use Cliché or over used images. c – Avoid using images that have been masked or have bad paths clipping. Instead you can do it yourself if you are really good at cropping the backgrounds. (Image Source: hand with clipping paths) d – Never use pictures that do not relate to your concept or content. (Image Source: nature photography) Don’t use the image just for decorating the page or the element you thought was nice, but use image that is in reference to your content. a – If you buy the low resolution version of the image just because it is cheap, you’re going to ruin your effort and the whole design. b – Do not use images that look out dated or non professional. c – Using pictures in which the model has over posed will not look good. (Image Source: Man with happy facial) d – If you want to use the image that is extended better use the professional ones instead of using the image that has poor cloning. (Image Source: Cloned dog) e – Placing the selling product directly over the image looks really retard and non professional. (Image Source: boy with hand) Stock images are found in wide variety and it has become so easy to find almost any image on the internet through certain specified sites. E.g. ShuuterStock, Corbis, Gettyimages or masterfile. These images are available on low resolution so since they have the copyrights issues, therefore cannot be copied directly to be used in print ads. Either the client buys them or orders similar images. Use of stock images is hassle free, you don’t have to hire a photographer or create backgrounds or pay lot of money for the photo shoot. Stock image sites get all the information, how much is the viewership determines the price, in which region the image will be used and whether royalties are due to the image creator or owner. Sometimes you just have to pay once to use the multiple images or pay in a bundle and use a series of 3 or 4 images annually. Use of stock images in ads can be as creative as possible. Do you really want to use the image just as it is or should you be thinking more on conceptual basis? One important question…. Use of simple stock images without tempering. (Image Source: Sweet couple of red fresh) Now this is an example of treated stock images using the creativity and not just placing the image as it is. Use of different colors in the back ground have been treated. Stock images have copyrights, you just can’t pick up any image from internet and use it, you either buy it or order it. On the other hand many ad agencies use stock images to present the concept to the client and on approval later arrange the photography in the same atmosphere and replicate the images with their own models. E.g. if you are selling shoes obviously you will not use the images of shoes of some other company, rather will present the concept and then use your own shoes in the photos. The appealing look of the product or the appetizing appeal of any food item is just through the right image. Stylists, experts and photographers put in their best efforts to make the product look amazing so the audience is compelled to buy it. This is the art of stock imagery not achievable by any layman. (Image Source: Food Passionate) Tempting…isn’t it? This is the art of stock images. When we use an image that we’ve bought, begged or borrowed from someone else, we are implying (to potential customers) that it is our work because it’s showing the service we are selling. This is breaking the law…lying to your clients is not just good. Take reference from images, think and then re establish the images yourself. You may use a part of an image or just the background but selling somebody else’s product is not just good. In this way only you will be able to develop the trust and confidence of your clients who might not know at a later stage that you have actually stole somebody else’s images. (Image Source: Bungalow Interior) This is not your work so just use this image for reference. This is not your product but you can use it to refer to the concept, can replace with your own imagery but leading to the same concept. Treatment of images as discussed above can be a very creative thing. Use of different softwares can make the process easy but just treating the image for the sake of treatment won’t work, you have to give it a certain character. You will be able to see lots of images being used in this poster. All these images represent glamor and glitz though even without treatment those would have worked, but giving them a distinct character make the whole image look more vulnerable and appealing. Not necessarily you have to pick an image and treat it, even a simple dot can say a lot. But stock images make life easy…you believe it or not, without them in today’s world, half of advertising wouldn’t even be possible. PelFusion Design Magazine

Depositphotos – With Awesome New Design And 4 MILLION Stock Images

designerbooster — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:07:00 +0000

Depositphotos.com is the fastest growing stock photo agency in the world. It has more than four million stock photographs and vector images sold under royalty- free licenses. (To be exact it had 44, 759, 54 total stock images at the time of writing of this article.) This means once you buy an image from Depositphotos you don’t ever need to pay them again for the same image in the name of taxes or royalties. After a one time payment, images can be used for your purposes – lifelong! Free! A free subscription plan is available by which you may download a maximum of 5 stock images per day for a period of 7 days. This means you get 35 images absolutely free! And the wonderful thing is that these free images are also royalty-free and can be used just as the paid ones. Also, the free images can be chosen from the entire library of more than 4 million images! Costs and Payments The cost of images is very commercial. It begins from only 0.5 US $ . There are at least four ways by which you may buy images from Depositphotos. Click here for details on subscription plans. Payment options are numerous. All major credit cards like Visa, Master Card, American Express are acceptable. Similarly all major merchant accounts like PayPal, moneybookers, webmoney are acceptable. New Design On 29^th Sep 2011, the site has unveiled a major update in design. “It’s essential to organize your page logically so that viewers can scan it easily… put the most important information near the top, in larger type, and with plenty of white space surrounding it. “ Remember, you’re not trying to stuff as much as possible on a single page – you’re trying to cover what’s important for the topic at hand. If you have lots of material to cover, or more topics to deal with, you can easily make more pages and link them to this one.” - Ed Tittel and Steve James HTML For Dummies; first edition; chapter seven. Depositphotos seems to have taken this advice as a hardcore rule to build their new design. The home page seems to have enough space to “breathe” easily now. New Home Page of Depoitphotos Old Home Page of Depositphotos The authorities of Depositphotos claim that their new look will give “10 times better performance”. To check this claim I made a small test. The word “blog” returned 4568 results in 7.33 seconds on Depositphotos with excellent quality images. Indeed the performance is increased 10 folds. The results were totally relevant with the search that I did. This is because of the extended search functionality and an updated website core. Every word from an image title is now used in determining the image rank in search results. Every image size now has its own file type description and a separate download button. The new design enables you to buy an image just by clicking a button! All dimensions of all browsing devices are compatible with the new design. The best fit starts from 1024 X 768 and higher resolutions are unlimited. Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers

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Giveaway: 100 Stock Photo Credits at Stockfresh

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About Stockfresh

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How to Win

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Giveaway Details

Dreamstime Promo Code

Dreamstime Promo Code for January 2012

How to Use Dreamstime Promo Code?

Use of Stock Images in Ads, Copyrights and Treatment

Royalty Free

Rights Protected

Rights Managed

Depositphotos – With Awesome New Design And 4 MILLION Stock Images

Update: Giveaway Period Has Ended

Update: Giveaway Period Has Ended