) November 12, 2008 -- As the result of an acquisition, microstock innovator Can Stock Photo Inc. is now an affiliate of stock photography pioneer Fotosearch. As part of the new relationship, Fotosearch will distribute Can Stock Photo imagery, allowing Can Stock Photo's contributors access to the robust worldwide distribution network Fotosearch has built over the past 10 years. Can Stock Photo contributors will be able to present their stock photos to millions of Fotosearch visitors every week.

) July 1, 2009 -- MediaFocus.com, a supplier of high quality, royalty-free stock photography, just added "image credit packages" as a new option to license stock photos, making it one of the most versatile stock photography agencies on the market. At MediaFocus graphic designers, advertising professionals, and anybody in need of professional stock photography can license stock photography fitting their personal purchasing style and budget.

) April 25, 2009 -- Orange County wedding photography company, Joe Broccardo Photography, announces the release of their revamped website, http://www.broccardophoto.com. With the release of the new website Joe plan's on expanding his knowledge into teaching photography and has expanded his company to include an associate photography program.

) October 16, 2008 -- Shutterstock®, the world's largest subscription-based online stock photo agency, achieved another industry milestone this week when its editorial library passed the 100,000th image mark, thanks to the success of its entertainment/celebrity photo program: Shutterstock on the Red CarpetTM. Shutterstock is the only online stock photo agency to offer this unique program, which assists its global network of photographers in getting past the velvet ropes to the hottest events worldwide.

) November 21, 2008 --
The Photography Network (http://www.photography-network.net)
a new dedicated social network aimed at photographers was launched this
month. With over 1000 members joining within the first weeks,
photography network provides an outlet for amateur photographers to
share their work and discuss technique, style and equipment.

The quality of the members on the site is fantastic

) June 9, 2009 -- Photopreneur, the photography Web site offering information and resources to help photographers make the leap from artist to entrepreneur, has released its first book, "99 Ways To Make Money From Your Photos." The 340-page softcover book is available on Amazon and by visiting the Photopreneur site at http://blogs.photopreneur.com/99-ways-to-make-money-from-your-photos.

) November 11, 2008 -- BrightQube (www.brightqube.com), the award-winning online stock photography destination, is now offering image buyers the most efficient way to find royalty-free stock photos from its collection of more than three million images with new and enhanced features to its revolutionary Web site. Fast becoming the go-to creative resource for designers, BrightQube continues to anticipate its customers' needs for every project and budget by offering a range of helpful navigation options to quickly pinpoint and purchase stock photos faster than ever before.

) August 12, 2009 -- Shutterstock®, the world's largest subscription-based online stock photo agency, is emerging as a leader in one of the key areas for making money online in today's Web marketplace: affiliate marketing.

Photo: Patrizia Tilly/Shutterstock

) November 3, 2008 -- Shutterstock, the world's largest subscription-based online stock photo agency, today announced the landmark addition of its 5 millionth image to the company's extensive collection of premium stock photos. Thanks to its popular subscription-based model, speedy review process, and consistent stream of quality submissions, Shutterstock continues to hit new industry growth milestones while maintaining high standards of image quality.

Shutterstock continues to thrive, adding over 70,000 high quality stock images per week.

) May 27, 2009 -- Online photo site snapizzi, the one-stop shop for portrait and event photographers, today announced that it has added an array of new web tools and print products that improve the photographer's workbench and make photo sales and management easier than ever before.

NFrame Photography using snapizzi's IZ tags to capture Memorial Day VIP event

) April 17, 2009 -- A new online photo community called snapizzi enables photographers of any skill level to capture, manage and sell their photos online with a new tagging technology and website.

snapizzi's IZ tag: digital barcode & tagging technology

) September 10, 2008 -- Shutterstock, the world's largest subscription-based online stock photo agency, announced a major milestone for the stock photo industry today: 60 million stock photos, vectors and illustrations have been downloaded from its library since 2005, reinforcing the company's status as the top online resource for quality, royalty-free images at affordable prices.

Shutterstock announced 60 million stock photos, vectors and illustrations have been downloaded from its library since 2005.

Aboutvision.com, the internet's first JPEG2000 stock photography subscription site; known for offering the best compression quality available has launched not one, but two new and exclusive collections of high quality image collections to their already impressive resume of royalty-free photos. These new collections; as well as the substantial collective galleries already at AbsolutVision.com; are now being offered to subscribers at all time low cost proving once again why AbsolutVision is the leader in the stock photography industry. (PRWeb Aug 4, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/prweb2708484.htm

) December 3, 2008 -- AbsolutVision Stock Photo, the Internet's first JPEG2000 stock photography service is offering a 40 percent discount on annual subscriptions through Jan. 5th, along with a newly created one-day subscription plan of 10 pictures for $4.95.

Founded in 2002, www.absolutvision creates and sells royalty free JPEG 2000 digital images to both consumers and businesses. The company's successful subscription-based model is cost-effective and allows users to download thousands of quality pictures for a fraction of the cost and time typical in gathering images for commercial or personal use.

) February 25, 2009 -- Photo enthusiasts now have a website to learn the business of making money in photography. With Z58 Inc.'s launch of GetPhotosTraining.com, photographers get on-demand, entertaining video tutorials to help turn their passion into a photo business. Most photo education websites cover the fundamentals of shooting photographs. With a paid subscription to GetPhotosTraining.com consumers gain access to more than 50 exclusive interviews featuring top-earning, self-made professional photographers.

) February 26, 2009 -- Shutterstock, the world's largest subscription-based online stock photo agency, just reached another milestone as it added the 6 millionth image to its rapidly growing library of premium royalty-free stock images. In less than four months, Shutterstock has added over one million images, reinforcing its status as the fastest growing site for high quality, royalty-free images.

Shutterstock, the world's largest subscription-based online stock photo agency, reached another milestone today as it added the 6 millionth image to its rapidly growing library of premium royalty-free stock images.

) May 28, 2009 -- PictureSocial is dedicated to creating a friendly gathering place for photographers of any experience level. It offers many more features than other photo sharing sites including profiles that are fully customizable, slideshows that can be embedded on other sites, video functionality, blogging platforms with tools, email, special interest groups, and more.

The amount of photos now uploaded to the site is staggering - more than a quarter of a million. The network now contains more than 2000 discussions, 1,000 blog posts, and 200 special interest groups.

) June 9, 2009 -- In an economic climate where graphic designers are often asked to produce more with fewer resources, a new survey by International Communications Research (ICR) shows that over 40 percent of designers are using more stock photography to lower costs in 2009 compared to last year.

Credit: 3d_kot/Shutterstock

) September 16, 2009 -- The release of Liveedit v4.0 is a major upgrade to the cloud sharing and collaborative workflow environment for imaging professionals, designers and illustrators - adding enhanced communication capabilities. A faster, easier user interface and multiple new features dramatically streamline the way imaging professionals stay ahead.

Designed by professional photographers, Liveedit provides an incomparable interface - dramatically improving the remote workflow between clients, art directors, agencies and photographers. With Liveedit, imaging professionals provide a better service to their clients, maximize revenues while saving time and cut costs across the entire process from shooting to retouching, distribution, review, approval, archiving and stock sales.

) October 3, 2008 -- At corporate and publicity events around the world, guests are going home with a new kind of party favor. The latest trend in event souvenirs is the photo favor - a fun, unique photograph of party guests printed within seconds of being taken.

April 10, 2008 --
Houston, TX, April 10, 2008. - Royalty-Free stock photo library Inmagine Corp LLC is now accepting submissions from image suppliers and professional photographers into its IRIS (Inmagine RM & RF Image Submission) collection. Set to be launched in the second quarter of 2008, IRIS will represent the best Royalty-Free and Rights-Managed works from their respective portfolios.
“We've been in the stock photo industry for nearly a decade and we know how professional photographers feel about their work. We believe with Inmagine Submissions, we can directly offer suppliers and photographers 3 essential values – Control, Transparency and Service Assurance!” says Stephanie Sitt, VP of Sales and Marketing for Inmagine Corp LLC.

) September 17, 2008 --
A recent study of more than 1,000 people conducted by KRC Research and
iStockphoto, the world’s royalty-free
multimedia sales leader, revealed that 33 percent of Americans are using
downloaded digital content, but nearly 30 percent are unaware that
permission may be required for its use. This lack of awareness spikes to
38 percent among Americans in both the 18–24
and 65 and older age groups.

) June 6, 2009 -- For over 40 years, 42nd Street Photo has been in the camera business. As times have changed, so has the store, updating their stock with the latest products, offering the knowledge necessary for their customers to purchase the right camera for them, and leading the way in online digital camera sales with some of the best prices that can be found on the web. They carry the top brands, including accessories, and the top models from each brand. The 42nd Street photo website is easy to use, and makes online digital camera shopping a very simple task. It's easy to compare prices, but as many satisfied customers have found, 42nd Street Photo often has the best prices around.
 

) June 29, 2009 -- MyPhotoAlbum Inc. (Symbol "FCT") announces a new way to save and share photos on the Internet. For the first time, users can upload high-resolution photos to MyPhotoAlbum, a full-service online photo album, and share smaller versions of the same photos on Facebook, the world's largest social networking.

Full-Scale photo sharing for Facebook with the new MyPhotoAlbum App

) January 12, 2009 -- The [b] school (www.thebschool.com), the leading social networking site for professional and aspiring photographers, reminds current and prospective members to prepare themselves for economic opportunities in the new year. The ongoing recession makes this announcement a priority for photographers seeking assignments and the ability to openly exchange information among their peers.

Jupiterimages, a part of Jupitermedia Corporation which is a leading provider of original images and information for creative, business and IT professionals, is all set to commence its India operations by April 2008. The India office will cater to the creative needs of South Asia and Dubai. For this, Jupiterimages has roped in Ramji Ravindran as Sales Director, South Asia and Dubai. He moves from Visage Media, which represents Getty Images in South Asia, where he was National Sales Head, South Asia. Ramji have overall more than 10 years experience in Advertising and Media.

Staten Island, NY - PhotoHand, a progressive digital image design company, takes the lead in custom wedding album design by completely webbying its customer communication and internal operations online. The result Barnes & Noble quality coffee table books produced within two weeks at half the customary price.
"Our photographer clients have long appreciated our ability to balance artistic quality and affordability, and now we are adding convenience to our proposition," says co-founder and CEO Elena Alexseeva 100s of samples can be seen at www.PhotoHand.com.

) July 31, 2009 -- iSyndica announces today that it has reduced its subscription prices. The new prices, which start at $4.99/month, will help attract even more customers to iSyndica's growing distribution platform. To date, iSyndica has already distributed more than 110GB of photos and 60GB of videos to stock photography and footage sites. As a complement to its new pricing, iSyndica has also introduced an affiliate program designed to encourage existing users to promote iSyndica to their friends and colleagues.

iSyndica's photo & video syndication interface

) June 12, 2009 -- Online photo site snapizzi, the one-stop shop for portrait and event photographers, today announced that its newly upgraded IZ tag™ technology was successfully used to provide a personalized photo gallery for each participant at the 2009 Vision 5K held at Boston College on June 7.

snapizzi's IZ tags are placed on participants bibs, automatically grouping their unique photos taken throughout the event by several photographers, into a private, online gallery.

) September 24, 2008 -- AdoramaPix , the online digital photo processing and image sharing division of Adorama Camera, is proud to announce its partnership with Eye-Fi, makers of the world's first wireless memory cards for digital cameras. The Eye-Fi cards allow users to download digital image files to their hard drives more easily and quickly than ever before using home wireless networks, or at Wayport™ hotspots all over the world.

) September 24, 2008 - AdoramaPix , the online digital photo processing and image sharing division of Adorama Camera, is proud to announce its partnership with Eye-Fi, makers of the world's first wireless memory cards for digital cameras. The Eye-Fi cards allow users to download digital image files to their hard drives more easily and quickly than ever before using home wireless networks, or at Wayport™ hotspots all over the world.

) February 16, 2010 -- Today Shutterstock® announced the addition of its 10 millionth image, a milestone that underscores the company’s rapid growth and commitment to high quality, crowdsourced visual media.

Credit: Matthew Jacques/Shutterstock

) October 28, 2009 -- LookStat announced today that it is offering a free trial of its new microstock keywording and uploading services to stock photographers who are active in microstock.

"We're committed to creating technology and services to enable stock photographers to streamline their workflow and to spend their time on what they do best - creating great images," said Rahul Pathak, LookStat's CEO & Founder.

Color Experts International (CEI), an offshore USA based firm provides most professional services in Photoshop retouching and image manipulation, graphic design, desktop publishing, digital prepress, web design and development at a most compatible price range. Color Experts International is the service provider of the following firms; catalog companies, photo studios, printing and prepress companies, graphic design firms, stock and commercial photographers and more.

) October 19, 2009 -- The Adorama Learning Center today launched PhotoZAP, a new microsite devoted to tough critiques of reader-submitted photographs. Adorama customers were invited in a September mailing to send in their digital "almost masterpieces" to be praised and panned by a panel of photography experts. The goal is to help photographers improve the quality of the images they shoot with their film or digital cameras.

) October 29, 2009 -- While many photographers dream of seeing their images on a national magazine's cover, that dream rarely comes true, but for Shan Canfield in Nashville, Tenn. (also known as Mama Shan), it will in November. Mama Shan won Professional Photographer's Cover Contest--open to all photographers--beating out almost 4,600 other entries from around the world.

Professional Photographer's November Issue; Cover image by Mama Shan (Shan Canfield, the 2009 Cover Contest winner)

) June 8, 2009 -- The lives of videographers seeking to sell content via the Web just got easier, now that iSyndica's revolutionary virtual-distribution server supports video syndication. iSyndica provides a single platform through which users can sell their videos on six different Web sites, saving hours of work spent uploading, tagging and submitting content to different sites. With iSyndica, users upload their content once and then choose the channels over which they want to distribute it.

) July 17, 2009 -- Time Factory Publishing has launched a new online photo Web site, Pikcal.com (pronounced pickle), offering consumers a chance to store and share photos and create fully customizable photo products. The new Web site offers access to professional photos, providing pictures from Getty Images, NASCAR, Susan Branch and Ford, with more licenses coming soon.

With a simple, user-friendly Web site, adults and children alike can create photo books, calendars and other school and office supplies suited to their tastes. The Web site provides a distinctive experience that other online photo sites fail to match. With pikcal.com, photo sharing has never been easier.

) January 22, 2009 -- iStockphoto has partnered with the World Photography Awards to become the offical Amateur Selection committee for the 2009 Sony World Photography Awards (SWPA).

) May 6, 2009 -- In October of 2004, Jim DeLillo of Oakland, NJ uploaded his first photo "Reflections of a Balloonist" to the then fledgling company iStockphoto.com. The photo depicted a hot air balloon reflecting off the pond in perfect symmetry near a covered bridge in Queechee, Vermont. The image has sold 31 times since then, not his most popular, but the oldest. It is still available for sale today. Istockphoto clients have dowloaded his images a total of 10,000 times, securing his place at the Gold canister level.