So, you may have noticed as part of last week’s iStockphoto.com big announcements, there was included a per credit price increase of $1 for a package of 10 credits, and a smaller amount as amount purchased increases. There was also the introduction of the new Value collection, with lower credits per image prices (to be introduced early 2009 with 200,000 images) and the Premiere Collection with offering the bestest of the bestest at a higher cost. Additionally, the Standard collection […]
A popular design element the last few years has been the “white card” style image. It is basically a person peering over or around a white card, normally a piece of foam core, or posterboard, adjusted to be perfectly white. This type of image can be used above or beside a newspaper advertisement, or a web page, etc. Anyplace you need a person to draw some attention to your design without getting in the way. It’s a fun way to […]
In photoshop, a path is a vector that you can use to select an area of the content you are working with. It isn’t a raster selection representation, like when you use an opacity mask on a layer (see below). The black/white opacity mask above represents the selection that the saturation layer is acting upon, and it is actually a black and white “image”, if you will. And that isn’t what a clipping path is. For the purposes of this […]
iStockphoto.com is a Royalty Free stock photo site. It does not sell imagery Rights Managed. You may have heard these terms before, but what do they mean, and what is the difference between the two? To start, they both refer to licensing agreements. When you purchase an image at iStockphoto, what you are actually buying is a license that gives you certain rights to use a specific piece of content, here a digital image, movie clip, flash composition or audio […]
Imagery sold at iStockphoto.com, and most other microstock agencies as well, is primarily intended for your to use in a promotional, commercial fashion. We, as contributors, are providing content to help you build and promote your business, or by extension, your client’s business. I’ll list some examples below. The iStockphoto.com license agreement, spells out pretty clearly what you can and can not do with content, but sometimes the legalese gets a little confusing. Let’s see if we can clear that […]
There’s a popular misconception that it is dangerous in some way to use imagery from a microstock content site, such as iStockphoto.com . Dangerous in a legal sense. That someone may come back someday and say that you don’t have the right to use a certain image. Rest assured that buying an image from iStockphoto is very safe. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever read of a buyer who followed the licensing terms, having a legal issue. Let’s take […]
