Mujka Illustrator brush sets are a great source for Stock Illustrators. A total of 78 brushes for backgrounds and grunge designs. You can download 1 brush set for free.
How to use images in your blog LEGALLY and how to use images ETHICALLY.
Most likely the content of your blog refers to newsworthy or educational
publications and the risks of being sued for using an image without credits to
Author are not great.
The question is - did you think how much money and time the artist spends to
produce a good image?
FeaturePics and it's Authors are offering free of charge, images licensed under "Blog Use License (tm)" for the world of blogs.
This licensing allows blog publishers to use low resolution (130 pixel) images without watermarks in blog/news content.
This new image license is of interest to anyone who wants to use free images without copyright infringement.
The Picture Archive Council of America (PACA),a North American trade
association representing the interests of the image licensing industry, has
published a freely downloadable PowerPoint presentation on copyright in image
licensing.
8/7/07, High-concept photography by Valentino Sani»»
High-concept photography by Valentino Sani
In our modern world of web sites, blogs, forums, etc we need images that explore and illustrate the ideas we have. Some of us can come up with an image with a story behind it, but only some.
Mysticism and mystery, fascinating shapes and forms, light, shadows and outlines - FeaturePics Authors enjoy experimenting, they create black and white and sepia-toned images using a variety of techniques.
Martin Evening, author of The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom book, has just published a free Lightroom 1.1 PDF supplement update for readers of his book and anyone who is interested in learning about what's new in Lightroom 1.1.
America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, could not have come into existence if not for the horse. It provided us with the means to travel thousands of miles across country that we could not have traveled on foot. It carried us, our food, and our families, across thousands of miles of the most inhospitable land on Earth.
Shutter speed is perhaps the most creative adjustment available to the digital photographer. It allows us to freeze action or use motion blur to create a variety of effects, and is expressed in seconds or fractions of seconds depending on the length of exposure.
6/17/07, The best of British contemporary illustration 2008»»
The best of British contemporary illustration 2008
Images 32 is distributed free of charge to a specially targeted list of 4,000
UK and European art buyers in summer 2008 and sold worldwide. The complete
annual will be published as part of the Images archive on the AOI's website
promoting the selected illustrations online.
6/17/07, Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2007»»
Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2007
This project uses "Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2007" competitions
endorsed by ICOGRADA and supported by JAGDA to enlarge Taiwan's design
perspectives and internationalize.
The competition is open to designers from all regions and countries
The winner of the Golden Lion Award of the 52nd International Art Exhibition
has been named; he is Malick Sidibé from the African state of Mali.
The 72-year old master has received Award for contribution to photoart. As
related by BBC News, the main prize of the biennial is awarded to the
photographer for the first time in the history of the Exhibition.
Enter your best image (or images) and compete for inclusion in the 244-page "2008 Single Image Award B&W SPECIAL ISSUE",
distributed to subscribers and newsstands in 50 contries.
All photographs submitted, whether cash-prize winners or not, will be
considered for inclusion in the 2008 Official Missouri Vacation Planner and
other Missouri Tourism publications.
The contest is open to any amateur photographer except employees of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and members of their immediate families. An amateur is defined as someone who does not earn most of his or her living from photography.
7 June 2007 -- Florence, Italy (Europe) -- Working towards a seamless photo workflow
Photographers must describe the content properly and permanently assert their
authorship. Photo agencies and aggregators must collect and normalize the
metadata from different photographers, and then add their own information to
allow quick pinpoint access by their customers. The publisher's photo desk
wants to easily see search results from photo databases.
6/10/07, Nikonians photohraphers of the year 2007 contest»»
Nikonians photohraphers of the year 2007 contest
lNikonians, in an effort to promote and recognize as many talented photographers as possible, whose images serve to share, learn and inspire us all, is now expanding its contest format as follows:
May 1 - June 30: Nature/Still Life/Portraits
July 1 - Aug 31: Night time/Sigital Art
Sept 1 - Oct 31: Landscape/Architectural/Sports
Nov 1 - Dec 31: Wildlife/Weddings
Finals awards and prizes will be announced and awarded in the first half of February, 2008
The Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards conducts two
competitions each year--one for professional photographers and one for
non-professionals. Both are open to photographers anywhere in the world.
2007 launches the Pilsner Urquell Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year.
Deadline Extended to June 30, 2007
6/10/07, The CLA Centenary Photographic Competition»»
The CLA Centenary Photographic Competition
The CLA Centenary Photographic Competition is designed to show how farmers and land managers work to maintain and enhance the landscape throughout the year.
Send us your favorite photo that expresses an emotion: happy | sad | tired | mad - or any other emotion.
The Photo Contest Grand Prize Winner will receive a magnificent Tamron AF18-250mm Di II zoom lens for a Canon, Nikon, Pentax or Sony Digital SLR camera.
Entry deadline: November 30, 2007
Spring is well underway and farmers are gearing up for another season. An ideal time for growers to showcase the growth of crops and how farmers have positioned their operations for the future in the 2007 RBC Farm Photography Contest.
Timeline: The contest is open to any Canadian living or working on a farm and closes June 30, 2007.
6/8/07, The Korea International Photography Contest»»
The Korea International Photography Contest
In order to reflect changing trends of the international photographic circle, we have decided to open the contest to pure and salon photograph in the categories of Continuous and Single Photograph starting from 2007.
Timeline: All entries should reach the above address July 30th 2007.
6/8/07, PETCO Foundation's 2008 Calendar Pet Photo Contest»»
PETCO Foundation's 2008 Calendar Pet Photo Contest
Photo Format Submit photos in which your pet is in focus and the subject of the photograph - No humans in the photographs - No choke or pinch collars - No artificial or real fur as props - File format: JPEG medium or higher compression - Resolution: 300 dpi Timeline: Contest Period. The Contest begins on June 1, 2007 at 12:00 a.m. Pacific Time (PT) and ends on June 30, 2007 at 11:59 p.m. PT
Students must clearly communicate their design concept utilizing sketches, storyboards, renders, pictures and any kind of visual tool that can help to best describe the innovative idea. Timeline: 15th June 2007.
On November 2007 Samsung Electronics Italia, with the contribution of ADI, will organize the Award Ceremony where selected students will be awarded and selected project will be exhibited.
San Francisco mayor, Gavin Newsom, has once again declared June 11-17 as Design Makes a Difference Week in San Francisco. AIGA SF will be sponsoring a full week of events and an exhibit highlighting the diversity and professionalism of the design community.
At the end of May, PC World, the most widely-read computer and business
related magazine, announced the winners of its "100 Best Products of 2007"
Awards. The products included the best PCs, HDTVs, components, sites and services.We
will list those products related to photography and imaging, ie. cameras, photo
printers, and photo/image editing tools.
Bad weather doesn't mean bad photographic
opportunities -- there's no need to leave your camera at home. Just read Chris'
instructions, pack your equipment, and shoot, believing that a rainy day can
bring some interesting surprises.
HDR (High dynamic range photography) is
photography that captures a very wide range of brightness levels ranging from direct sunlight to the deepest shadows.
John from Okinawa Photography was very kind to give us a
permission to publish his tutorial "Creating HDR images".
Vienna, May 26 (DPA) The oldest commercially built photo camera, a so-called
Daguerrotype Susses Freres was auctioned at Vienna's WestLicht Gallery and
auction house Saturday for 588,613 euros ($792,333), making it the most
expensive camera ever sold.
5/24/07, Background patterns and background images»»
Background patterns and background images
Backgrounds in the hands of experienced designers can result in outstanding
productions. Visit these examples to see how background textures impact
website design. Check out examples of background textures that will open up many interesting visual design
possibilities.
If you are using images that
provide important information (not just design elements), insure that there is
sufficient contrast to allow the visitor to discern that information.
Reveal how your images may appear to users with a variety of color blindness
conditions.
Google Inc. announced its critical first steps toward a universal search model.
The company will incorporate information from a variety of previously separate sources â including videos, images, news, maps, books, and websites into a single set of results.
Ensure that you are fully taking advantage of the images on your site.
National Geographic Magazine awards first annual photography grant, Pulitzer Prize for feature photography, IPC Celebrates 23rd Annual Infinity Awards International Center of Photography,
The 2007 International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography, and The Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards.
5/3/07, National Geographic Magazine annual photography grant»»
National Geographic Magazine annual photography grant
WASHINGTON (May 11, 2007)-- The National Geographic Magazine has awarded a
$50,000 grant to Eugene Richards. The National Geographic Magazine Grant for
Photography is one of the largest grants awarded in photography, and the
magazine plans to award this annually.
The May 2007 issue of News Photographer magazine features a look at this year's Pulitzer Prizes for Photography won by Renée C. Byer of the Sacramento Bee and Oded Balilty of the Associated Press.
A script makes any image appear dull before the mouse moves over it; as the
mouse moves over it, the image gradually changes to its original appearance.
Photo Essay by Elizabeth Conant where she is capturing the essence of the
history of a great geographic area of the USA (New England and Maine) and
conveing her wonder at the beauty of nature and the ocean!
Describe your image so FeaturePics visitors and search engines can find it.
I'm sure you've heard the Woody Allen quote that 80% of success is showing up. How do you increase your chances of selling an image by 80%? Ensure that people find your image on the net.
4/13/07, Ajax Tabs Content script to implement image galleries»»
Ajax Tabs Content script to implement image galleries
The script supports multiple Ajax Tabs Contents on the same page.Just add your image galleries inside the container and associate them with a specific tab.
A new algorithm developed at UCSD that adds word tags to
images can increase image-search accuracy and efficiency. Above, features from
a picture are assigned a likelihood that they belong in certain categories,
such as "water" or "person."
4/6/07, Color generator creates harmonious color palettes»»
Color generator creates harmonious color palettes
Color palette generator - This is useful for coming up with a website color
palette that matches a key image that a client can work with. It creates color combinations with an impact.
This lovely carousel component allows you to view a series of images. The
forward and back buttons allows you to navigate through the images.
You can easily customize css, so your Carousel has a different look and feel.
3/27/07, Rectangular to polar filter in Photoshop»»
Rectangular to polar filter in Photoshop
Another interesting photo effect, is the ability to take a normal 3
dimensional set of photos, combine them, and then with a couple of PS tricks,
you end up with the result on the left.
This type of image forces the eyes to go in a circular direction in order to see the whole image...
This HTML color code tool is based on classic color theory pioneered
by Johannes Itten in the mid 1900s. Johannes Itten developed a new kind of
color wheel that changed the way color was seen. This wheel is still in use
today.
Our tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of
keywords, image name, and image caption used to describe images in the
Weather category.
License Fees are estimated based on specific uses including: size, placement, circulation, and length of display time. License Fees for FeaturePics.com images depend on uniqueness of the image and adjustments made by Authors.
Tatyana Morozova - A member of the Union of Pictorialists of Russia.
Tatyana shares with us her unique and artistic style of wedding photography,
nature photography, and portrait photography. Her artistic inspiration results in photographs that convey beauty and glamour,
a fusion of modern details and a contemporary documentary style.
Present your wonderful image gallery using ThickBox. Find a function to display your images with a new look.
ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library.
All artist's profits from the sale of these limited edition photographs (series of 50 each)
will be donated in support a public library for young adults and children in Afghanistan. This is a project organized with Malalai Joya, elected representative in the parliament of Afghanistan in association with the ACA Gallery,
Toronto and FEMAID, France
Experimenting with camera settings. Every bad experience can teach you something if you let it - and any experience you learn from is a successful one. I hope that by posting my story here, someone besides me will learn from it.
EOS 5D and 24-105 f4L IS USM v EOS 20D and 17-85 f4-5.6 IS USM.
This was written as a first response to the camera on 23 September 2005 when I was one of the first people in the world to get my hands on a production camera, and that it is only part 1 of a 6 part original article
1/27/07, A New Version of Stock Photo Interface by FeaturePics.com»»
A New Version of Stock Photo Interface by FeaturePics.com
Featurepics.com has released a new version of its site, extending
user-friendly benefits for all parties involved in the process of purchasing
stock images.
FeaturePics.com has reached a new benchmark of 150,000 images and photographs offered for sale.
150,000 images maybe that is not a huge amount of images...
But when you are talking about 1000 new friends it is quite a lot!
This year was a start. A lot of mistakes, attempts to fix them (Thank God, our Contributors helped us a lot) and we slowly, but surely, are entering into this complicated world of stock photography.
Featurepics.com Uses Solar Array Panels To Keep Servers Running.
FeaturePics.com endures a power black-out in Santa Cruz, CA with help from its solar arrays which have been installed by SolarQuest to help company operate its servers more efficiently while providing benefits to the environment.
West Coast Artist Raises Funds to Build Library in Afghanistan.
Rob Elphinstone and FeaturePics are trying to raise money for a
Kids can Read program to build a library project in Farah, near Herat,
Afghanistan
FeaturePics.com had reached a new benchmark of 75,000 images offered for sale.
Fremont, California September 14, 2006 FeaturePics.com, a start-up stock photography web site, has announced today that it had redesigned and improved software for photo reviewers which allowed company to accept and review over 75,000 images in the time period of few months.
FeaturePics.com proudly announces our newest upgrade to our System.
On Sept. 5, 2006, FP has published several new enhancements to make it easier for business customers to
buy and license their purchases.
Web2.0 makes the Internet a much better place to live. It provides new ways to inform and entertain. Data visualization & visual communication are the most important aspects of Web2.0. Timeline AJAXy widget - 1 day of FeaturePics in terms of "who has uploaded photos?"
With AJAX you can update the content on your pages automatically every day and every hour without changing the page itself.
The example below is just a starting point in AJAXing your site.
Congratulations to all of the women in these excellent photos. Also
many thanks to all of the female photographers, editors, clerks, secretaries,
and women who help to make the world such a wonderful place to live in.
Eric Foltz began his photographic journey in 1981 when he purchased his first
camera to chronicle his adventures while serving in the U.S. Army's 1st Ranger
Battalion.
Where visuals are concerned, males favor the use of straight lines (as opposed to rounded forms), few colors in the typeface and background, and formal typography. As for language, they favour the use of formal or expert language with few abbreviations and are more likely to promote themselves and their abilities heavily.
I am using mostly Apophysis to create fractals for stock, but the tips and tricks here may be applied to other programs. Fractal programs (often called "generator" rather then programs are often free, just do a Google on it!
And yes, you can sell fractals as stock because you have altered the original formula and therefore created original art...
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