You will find stock photos of animals, flowers and plants, landscapes, nature and wildlife along with stock photos from many countries.

 

If you are using stock photos in your daily work you should take a look at Stock Photo News. (See also below).

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Extract from Stock Photo News,
STOCK PHOTO NEWS No. 16
The first Modern eZine combining Stock Photography and
Marketing
September 2003 (Read more at www.StockPhotoNews.com )

PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES AND YOUR MARKETING RESOURCES

Photos are important parts of your marketing. The photos
are useful

- to document your offers
- to signal positive acceptance of what you are displaying
- to function as eye catchers
- to bring the buyers in a general positive mood.

In such a way photographic pictures have other functions
than creative art and illustrations which are not
photographic pictures.

At the same time it is important to acknowledge, that
pictures are not selling your offers isolated. It is your
copy that sells your service or goods.

In some cases free clip art will do the work for you.
Especially with small print runs and local distribution of
your advertisement. But in larger professional work you
should definitely go for stock pictures from pro picture
agencies with good pro photos in photo libraries.

There are many advantages of the photo libraries

- The pictures in a photo library are not used by 'every'
business, so the money spend on each photo gives your work
some image of exclusivity.

- You will have access to huge quantities of high quality
photos.

- You will have professional support for your requests and
ideas of the images in mind.

- You will have the possibility to contact specialist
picture agencies, like Biofoto which are especially minded
for the kind of picture area they are covering, like travel
photography or wildlife photos.

Nowadays many picture galleries are to be find on the web.
Be aware of that the typical picture agency only has a
smaller selection of the pictures online accessible for
your search. So supplement your picture research by asking
the picture editors of the photo agency to help expand your
choices.

Soren Breiting
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THE INCREASING FILE SIZE OF STOCK PHOTOS

Alamy is now requesting their photographers to deliver no
less than 48MB picture files for submissions, what ever
they are scanned films or outputs from digital cameras.
See www.alamy.com

Photodisc now offers larger image formats to allow cropping
of key details or print outs in 'bedspread size'. Images
are available in 100MB, 200MB and 300MB. See
http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/photodisc/promo.asp
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