It’s no secret that every once in a while things just pop into our head for no apparent reason. Sometimes people in art departments wait precisely for that – for a word, for a sign, for some kind of jolt of energy to push them in the right direction. After all, any creative knows what “The Block” means, and that the block may be unblocked anytime by something absolutely unexpected and highly unusual.
Sasha Aliabiev from Moldova is a great cartoonist deserving of a wider audience. His work is not very conventional, so to speak, but his uniqueness is exactly what we appreciate about his art. In his portfolio you’ll find everything: from cute food loving gnomes to weird alien cupcakes. Enjoy!
Depositphotos is glad to announce that from now on the agency’s contributors are able to receive payments through the global payment system Payoneer. To celebrate the start of our collaboration with Payoneer, we'd like to announce that all contributors can activate a Payoneer Prepaid MasterCard® card free of charge, and also withdraw funds with no transfer fee (for those who choose the bank transfer payout option), through July 24, 2013.
Please note! This promotion is extended through July 24, 2013
Having reached two milestones, Depositphotos offers 15 million crowdsourced royalty-free files to over 1 million customers worldwide. New York, NY, June 3, 2013 — Depositphotos, the fastest-growing microstock agency in the world, announced it has reached a milestone 1 million customers, and has amassed 15 million royalty-free photographs, vector images and video files in its library. Founded in 2009, Depositphotos met its first significant milestone of 5 million files in December 2011. Adding over 150,000 new files weekly, it proceeded to triple the size of its collection by June 2013. Moreover, the client base of the agency recently exceeded 1 million customers from 192 countries.
It’s been a week since we started our Week of Newcomers, a daily tour of new names in our community that is growing rapidly thanks to our dynamic content strategy. What do a famous Russian travel blogger and a U.S. pro stock photographer have in common? Why does the Polish national cuisine look so tasty, and who would appear the first in a search for a portrait photographer in Warsaw or a cartoonist in Barcelona? The list below contains the answers!
Sean Locke
Bright, emotional and juicy stock photos by Sean Locke could make every product shine, from recognizable prints to successful business websites. “Real people. Useful objects. Greate themes. Interesting composition. They all help to tell your story, to sell your product,” promises Sean in his blogFans: Fan Watching Game But Listening to Others | Stock Photo © Depositphotos | Sean Locke
Depositphotos' and Designcollector Network's joint contest is over! Today we are happy to announce the best of the best: the top three winners of the competition and the winner of the Depositphotos' Choice Award. According to the premise of the contest, 30 shortlisted artists were invited to use images from Depositphotos' library to produce works of graphic art on the topic "The Digital Decade.". We received many entries, and the contest jury selected the top 15 artworks to be exhibited at the OFFF Festival 2013 in Barcelona. We are proud to introduce 15 works that got the majority of votes as well as the winners of our contest.
Dines (UK)
Filipp Ryabchikov (Russia)
Frukta Alexey (Russia)
Giga Kobidze (Georgia)
Markus J. Baier (Germany)
Nicolas Monin-Baroille (Germany)
Pokras Lampas (Russia)
Sergey Skip (Russia)
Sebastian Andaur (Chile)
Sorin Bechira (Romania)
Tomas Toleikis (UK)
Vladimir Tomin (Russia)
Wojciech Zalot (Poland)
Xavier Bourdil (France)
Zakharia Mesropov (Georgia)
Award Winners
And the Grand Prize goes to...
On May 28, we will name the winners of The Digital Decade contest organized by Designcollector and Depositphotos. The results will be published in our blog and in the upcoming DCMAG#3 Special Edition. A dozen illustrations will travel to Barcelona to meet the audience at OFFF Festival Barcelona in June. In early May, our jury selected 30 artists to come up with some visual thoughts about the past decade and also project into the future. Now, when there are only a matter of hours left until the deadline, we'd like to share a gallery of 12 works-in-progress kindly provided by our talented contenders.
Designcollector Network, один из первых блогов, открывший миру в начале и середине нулевых талантливых дизайнеров из России, приглашает вместе отпраздновать свое десятилетие! Понимая значимость Designcollector для продвижения и развития новейших творческих идей, Depositphotos приглашает вас к участию в нашем совместном конкурсном проекте. Авторы лучших работ получат в качестве призов новейшие гаджеты для создания новых работ, бесплатные подписки на Depositphotos, а Designcollector опубликует их работы в своем специальном печатном альманахе DCMAG#3. Лучшие 15 работ будут представлены на фестивале OFFF 2013 в Барселоне.
Привет из Орландо, штат Флорида! Команда Depositphotos совсем недавно вернулась с конференции PhotoShop World, которая проходила с 16 по 19 апреля. Это было необычайно успешное мероприятие, и мы были счастливы познакомиться с такими же любителями фотографии, как и мы! С радостью поделимся с вами нашими впечатлениями. А это я с “большими шишками” мира фотографии у входа в зал мероприятия.
Hello from Orlando, Florida! Depositphotos has just finished exhibiting at this year’s PhotoShop World that took place between April 16-19. We are so excited to have had such a successful show and to have met such passionate and enthusiastic photo lovers like ourselves! Here I am with some “Big Shots” outside of the convention hall.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, March 11, 2013 - Depositphotos, the fastest-growing microstock agency in the world, launches its brand new groundbreaking mobile photojournalism project, Clashot, and the Clashot iPhone application. Depositphotos creates the first fully functional platform to enable users to earn money selling their mobile photographs.
Форт Лодердейл, Флорида, 11 марта 2013 года – Depositphotos, самый быстрорастущий фотобанк в мире, представляет свой новейший проект мобильной фотожурналистики Clashot и приложение Clashot для iPhone. На своей платформе Depositphotos создает первый полноценный и многофункциональный инструмент, с помощь которого пользователи смогут зарабатывать на продаже своих мобильных фотографий.
Hello there! February has brought several important updates we’d like to share with the Depositphotos community. Depositphotos’ Chief Operating Officer, Igor Kaliuzhnyi discusses news that might be useful for both buyers and contributors. 1. Licenses You might have noticed that we have significantly modified the License Agreement. The core of the document is still pretty much the same, though; the agreement explains the differences between the Extended and the Standard Licenses in a comprehensive way. We hope that now it’s much easier to understand how all this licensing business works. We’ve also added a comparison of the various possible ways you can use files purchased under the Standard or Extended Licenses. We encourage all buyers to check this table if they aren’t sure which license they need. We also invite our users to send suggestions regarding possible ways of using files which are not mentioned in the comparison. Our goal is to create an explanatory guideline that would be helpful in any situation. Besides, we are going to make it possible to use the Extended License to purchase any file available at the website, so it will be easier for buyers to find exactly what they need; while at the same time, giving all the contributors an opportunity to boost their sales and, consequently, their level of earnings. Please note that the price of the Extended License is now $80.
Keeping your earnings high means not only producing high-quality images, but creating stock files which are up-to-date. We are in 2013 now, so it would seem rather old-fashioned to draw an ordinary red heart or a couple of Cupids. We’d like to help you create popular illustrations by reviewing the latest trends of Valentine’s Day graphics. Luckily, we have two secret weapons in our hands: our current search trends and the statistics from 2012 that we can compare. Happy Valentine Day heart | Stock Photo © Depositphotos | wacomka
'One minute more, and the wager would be won. Andrew Stuart and his partners suspended their game. They left their cards, and counted the seconds. At the fortieth second, nothing. At the fiftieth, still nothing. At the fifty-fifth, a loud cry was heard in the street, followed by applause, hurrahs, and some fierce growls. The players rose from their seats. At the fifty-seventh second the door of the saloon opened; and the pendulum had not beat the sixtieth second when Phileas Fogg appeared, followed by an excited crowd who had forced their way through the club doors, and in his calm voice, said, ‘Here I am, gentlemen!’ Phileas Fogg finally returned to London, and he was just on time to win his bet. This is where our journey ends, and we'd like to finish it with these beautiful images of London by Depositphotos contributors. Stay tuned! Cartoon map of London | Stock Vector © Depositphotos | AnastasiiaKu
Welcome to Liverpool: the city of The Beatles is the second to last stop on our journey around the world. Thank you for being with us (and with Mr. Phileas Fogg) all this time! Albert Dock - Liverpool - England | Stock Photo © Depositphotos | Steve Allen
Hello there! It is the 10th and final issue of High Five! for this year, and today we are summing up the most burning microstock-related topics with the help of Depositphotos’ contributor Anna Furman.
5 tendencies of microstock photography
1) Competition among professional stockers is growing even stronger. 2) It is getting much more difficult for newcomers to get into the top tier of microstocks and start earning. 3) Glamorous or unnatural pictures are falling out of fashion; what clients need is sincerity, real emotions, and everything natural. 4) Customers prefer photographs of interesting and charismatic models, who are not necessarily beautiful. 5) Fresh ideas and a sense of humor really matter. Natural skin care | Stock Photo © Depositphotos | Анна Фурман
