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 […]
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 […]
