Site has people unpeel pixels off of a covered image to expose a swimsuit model. When the image is 100% uncovered the gallery will be released under a Creative Commons with 10% donated to open source

) June 1, 2009 -- InDis Baltic announced the release of a complete new version of its browser based online image editor Clarkii, specifically created for use by website owners, web developers and web design companies.

Screenshot Clarkii

) August 20, 2009 -- On July 9th, Google added an option to its Image Search function to filter images according to their Usage Rights. Later, they introduced a method for webmasters to specify explicitly the license for their images. Google advises that this be accomplished with RDFa; i.e., the markup of a webpage.

) 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.

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) October 19, 2009 -- Reflex Stock®, one of the world's leading independent stock photography distributors has re-launched its website with an enhanced collection of over 15 million quality stock photo images to suit every budget and brief in the advertising, design, editorial and corporate markets. Prices for royalty free stock photography start from as little as 14c per image.

) June 2, 2009 -- PhotoHand.com is selected to be spotlighted in the Sun Startup Essentials Showcase, that is part of Sun Microsystems program dedicated to providing support, funding assistance, and discounted products to entrepreneurs.

PhotoHand.com Featured at Sun Microsystems Startup Showcase

) 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

) February 24, 2009 -- Photo-60 is offering a new way to turn old family photos into digital photos quick and easy with their new Shoebox Scanning service. Customers can have 1,000 pictures be transferred to a CD or DVD for only $94.95.

For too long, the traditional method of keeping cherished family photographs was keep them loosely in countless shoeboxes, to be stored in the back of the garage to be forgotten forever.

) April 27, 2009 -- Mode Multimedia Inc. announces a new release of iMapBuilder -- an easy to use map software for Windows to create interactive maps and clickable images. It can help anyone to make interactive maps, clickable images and diagrams in few mouse clicks -- without any coding, design or programming knowledge.

) September 15, 2009 -- The launch of VIP Creative Solutions, bringing vitality and choice to finding the perfect designer. V.I.P. Creative Solutions business is made with the client in mind. We have created a sure fire way to bring excellent value, superior service and professional and creative designers to the web design process. All the guess work has been cut out

The process always works best when a business, small or large can feel confident in the chosen designer. Whether the need is E-Commerce, PHP, XML, DHTML, AJAX, Flash, or even C#.

) 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.

) 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 24, 2009 -- Dr. Naveen Agnihotri, co-founder and chief technology officer of Milabra, will present a method that enables computers to identify and understand images as people do at the Infonortics Search Engine Meeting April 27-28 in Boston.

The method, known as parts-based representation, promises to significantly improve image indexing and search software, which typically relies on more basic techniques such as indexing text labels that people add to images or comparing images pixel by pixel to known images.

) January 11, 2009 -- DigMyPics.com, the web's leading photo scanning service, now offers to transfer customers' scanned photos directly to their Picasa Web Albums. Developed by Google, Picasa's fast and easy photo sharing has quickly become the standard for digital photo management.

"This new service makes it a snap to bring those old photos out of the closet and into the cloud," says Lucy Burk from DigMyPics, referencing the 'cloud computing' of online storage.

) March 19, 2009 -- Smart Images offers FREE SHIPPING on selected Datacolor Spyder3 Monitor Calibrators until 31st April 2009.

) February 3, 2009 -- Milabra launched a Web-based image and video-recognition engine for online media companies today at OnMedia NYC. The new company, based in New York City, also announced a $1.4 million financing round from private investors.

Milabra CEO Sam Cox

) October 26, 2009 -- "2010 is CAA's 40th anniversary," stated Ritchie. "We want a dynamic and exciting new brand image that appeals to our market - designers and advertisers. JTCG's team of creative, strategic, digital and SEO talent is exactly what we need to successfully reinvent ourselves and pave the way for future growth. We are extremely excited about this partnership with JTCG and the future of Creativity Annual Awards." Les Kollegian, Creative Director for JTCG states, "We are honored to be chosen from literally hundreds of creative agencies that CAA comes in contact with annually to be their agency of record. We are thrilled to be involved with invigorating the CAA brand and look forward to taking the company to the next level."

) May 15, 2009 -- Microfacs Inc., an image and document conversion expert, announces receiving a major contract with Northrop Grumman Corporation. North Grumman Corporation is a major defense contractor that focuses in the aerospace, shipbuilding, electronics and information systems markets. The contract is for digitizing aperture cards that contained schematics and instructions for aircraft. There are over 360,000 aperture cards to be digitized. The cards were old and many in poor conditions; however Microfacs was able to use its latest scanning equipment to produce quality images.

) 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

) July 14, 2009 -- Aptimize software has released the latest version of its website accelerating software, the Aptimize Website Accelerator. Aptimize solves the problem of slow loading websites. Before a web page appears data such as images and scripts need to transfer from where the website is hosted to the browser of the visitor - this takes time. Aptimize automatically compresses this data so that this transfer takes less time and web pages load faster allowing visitors to be more productive - now they can do more, view more, and buy more.

The latest version includes a user-friendly interface; increased ease of installation, configuring and optimizing; advanced optimization options and helpful diagnostics and troubleshooting tools.

) May 19, 2009 -- With the launch of their newest venture, Momentum Design Lab now offers a complete, professional icon set with over 2,000 icons. These icons are compatible with any platform and will help to immediately engage users in any application.

Momentum’s icons are ideal for designers who want high quality icons and are working with limited budgets and specific stylistic needs. All of Momentum’s professional, unique, and eye-catching icons dramatically enhance the visual appeal and usability of any application, site, or media project.

) February 11, 2009 -- Mode Project, the Chicago creative production studio commissioned to create the highly successful Obama logo, announces the addition of interactive veteran Joie Mikitson. Joie's industry knowledge and technical acumen enables Mode Project to apply their core creative competencies to interactive projects.

"Mode Project is one of the few shops equipped to handle a project from start to finish--from initial strategy to content creation to production to delivery," says Mikitson. "Now we can do that for motion design, live action and interactive, making it cheaper and easier for both agencies and direct clients."

Rochester, MI - Brand Labs today released Universal Zoom, a Volusion plugin that allows consumers to browse expanded product images simply by hovering over them. While similar Volusion tools have been available for some time, this release marks the first time that this sort of functionality has been available outside of the product page.
After we released RapidCart, our customers got all excited and started asking us for a whole range of different browsing options, explains Ari Alderman, Brand Labs' Merchandising Manager. One of the things they wanted was greater display flexibility on category pages. Universal Zoom grew out of our exploration of that.

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) July 30, 2009 -- Entrepreneur Jennifer Blakeley has turned a passion for letter art into an innovative online money making venture. Inspired by the children's book "Alphabet City," Blakely traveled across Canada taking photos of objects and scenery that resemble letters of the English alphabet and has now turned those photos into a thriving online business, Alphabet Photography™ Inc.

) March 12, 2009 -- QOOP's new website gives artists, authors, photographers, designers, and publishers a simple way to monetize their digital content with free online stores and tools to create sales listings from digital content. Three types of listings can be created in a store: Image Listings for single images based on digital photography, art , or graphic design; Document Listings for books, articles, manuals, brochures, reports and other writings; Photo Product Listings for photo books, designer posters, mini photo books, and other creation made with the suite of design tools provided by QOOP for compiling and creating with digital images.

) May 27, 2009 -- The Directory Journal Web directory is celebrating more than its second anniversary this month. Owner, Hasan Saleem, is also celebrating a considerable increase in visitors, from 300,000 unique visitors in April to an expected 400,000 unique visitors this month. Hasan credits the massive traffic influx in part to recent rebranding efforts and general improvements to the site.

"Webmasters and online business owners shouldn't overlook the importance of their online image and branding," says Saleem. "The Web offers everyone equal opportunity and equal access to their target markets. Even small changes to better serve users can make a huge difference, and Directory Journal is a prime example of that."

) May 8, 2009 -- ChianMing.com announces the launch of its service allowing online petition submission of issues, concerns, suggestions, and personal wishes, to solicit supporting signatures. Unlike other existing petition websites, chianming.com allows the signers of a petition to actually use computer mice or other hand-held devices to literally sign the petition. The petition author can then download an electronic copy of all hand-written signatures, with accompanying names.

) September 13, 2009 -- YouPet.com has grown rapidly since its inception because of pet owners and users who have created profiles for themselves and their pets on the site. "What started out as a small group of pet enthusiasts wishing to share photos with family and friends, has grown into an informative & fun site with a dedicated group of 200,000 pet lovers", said Aaron Weitzman, CEO and founder of YouPet.

) June 6, 2009 -- Qsoft Inc. today released the latest iteration of its popular picture rating script, K-Rate version 4.0. K-Rate emulates "Hot of Not" photo rating web sites and is the most advanced of its kind on the market.

The new version of K-Rate introduces several significant feature enhancements. Namely, K-Rate version 4.0 enables users to upload videos to their sites, in addition to existing functionality for uploading images. Videos are treated similar to pictures within the system and can be rated and viewed on member's profile page.

) 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.

) October 2, 2009 -- With unemployment rates hitting 15% in some states, one Minnesota printer has actually been hiring and expanding their services. Service Printers in Duluth has seen growth by investing in people and technology.

) August 28, 2009 -- fCoder Group, Inc. has confirmed its plans regarding the fCoder Imaging SDK. Vitaly Doroshin, the president of fCoder Group, Inc. comments on this future release.

"The fCoder Imaging SDK is intended to open and save graphics files. It extends dramatically the program's features related to graphics without influencing the program's core capabilities. Thus, it can be considered as an entry point for a program using it," said Mr. Doroshin.

) July 2, 2009 -- Randy Maatta, Charleston SC REALTOR®, announced the launch of a website specializing in the questions that homeowners have about falling behind on their mortgage payments. Randy, a REALTOR® since 1979 and a Certified Public Accountant, stated, "Since the housing collapse, and subsequent economic challenges, real estate professionals must now find creative ways to help those who purchased homes in good faith during the boom, but now find themselves in trouble through no fault of their own."

) August 5, 2009 -- Renderosity has been selling software through its online marketplace via digital downloads for nearly ten years, but has now added a new feature to control license distribution.

This feature will remove the need to manage physical inventory for both Renderosity and the software vendor. By keeping a block of serial numbers securely on-site, Renderosity can quickly replenish low stock without the added time required for shipping product. Now, Renderosity's system will automatically send the serial number to the buyer after their order has been successfully processed and paid. This will ultimately save time for both software vendors and buyers.   

) September 24, 2009 -- The photo inkjet paper market is overflowing with products. Beyond the name on the box, many papers are hard to distinguish. To escape the same old look and feel, inkjet printer users are seeking media that are different and add an extra dimension to their prints. To meet this demand, Red River Paper, a Dallas based specialty paper company, recently introduced Cordovan Textured Glossy inkjet photo and note card paper.

) March 31, 2009 -- The Professors House - known for providing honest, sensible and realistic advice for families - announces the unveiling of their new image gallery. Proving that they understand the needs of the families they serve; all of the high quality images are offered free of charge! Visitors will be able to find a deluge of the images they need to complete every projective endeavor, both big and small! The Image Gallery is stocked with thousands of beautiful, high quality images available in both high ad low resolution that are void of disruptive watermarks and organizational logos.

free picture

) February 22, 2009 -- Tampa Bay Search (http://tampa-bay-fl-search-seo.com), a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) company based in Tampa Bay, Florida, recently expanded its line of services to include optimization of SmugMug-based websites to help professional photographers garner more new customers from the web.

Jeff Copeland, owner of Tampa Bay Search, says he got into SEO through the process of designing a website for his wife's photography business - Simple Treasures (www.Simple-Treasures.net) - and stumbled upon SmugMug recently through a client.

) September 11, 2009 -- Think New Creative Solutions, Inc. recently released RhinoSEO.com V2. As part of that release, they pushed out a new free Website Grading tool called mysitegrader.com. This system allows a visitor who fills out the form to see the strengths and weaknesses of a particular website to search engines and how they compare to their competitors.

RhinoSEO