We are looking forward to March 24 – the beginning of the Photoshop World 2012 conference. It’s going to be three fascinating days with some of the great specialists in photography, Photoshop and graphic design. This year, Depositphotos is not only a participant of the conference, but is also a conference gold sponsor.
RemaDays-Kiev is an international advertising show put on by RemaCongress, a group dedicated to advertising and marketing communications, which recently hosted RemaDays-Warsaw and RemaDays-Europe. The Kiev show combines four advertising sectors: Out&InDoorSystems, GiftsWorld, TechnologyPark and PrintShow. This year, the show was held in the International Exhibition Centre in Kiev, Ukraine, from February 29 to March 2.
Every March 17, people all over the world wear green clothing and imagine themselves to be real Irishmen. St. Patrick’s Day is one of the most popular unofficial holidays around the world.
Green Beer © Depositphotos / Charles Wollertz
It has been said that a man can endlessly contemplate three things: water, fire, and another man working. The fascination with watching water—the endlessly pulsing waves of the sea or the ocean—coupled with an artistic photographic process can often produce interesting results, and can also be quite fun.
Sleeping sea under the blue sky © Depositphotos / Dmytro Tolokonov
February 29 can be a risky day for men. According to tradition, on that day they just don’t have the right to refuse a marriage proposal from any woman.
Do you marry me © Depositphotos / Helder Almeida
Humans’ desires to alter their bodies, from simple coloration to extensive scarring, dates back to prehistoric cavemen who decorated their bodies with ritual imagery to scare away evil spirits.
Samui body painting © Depositphotos / PHUCHONG CHOKSAMAI
Red is the color of ambitions and power, and for the longest time, commoners could never wear it. Historically, the red cloth was a symbol of wealth and status, because the dye was extracted from expensive cochineal, worth its weight in gold.
Medieval Red Door © Depositphotos / William Attard McCarthyThe world’s first postcard, called a “Correspondence card,” was issued in the Austro-Hungarian Empire on October 1, 1869. Unlike our present postcards, they didn’t feature any illustrations. In the early 1870s, soldiers of the French and German armies began to add their own photos to the postcards they sent to their relatives.
Antique postcard with Lily flower design in vector © Depositphotos / Pavel Sivak
Do you think you are a good person? How often do you help strangers? Can you boast about your good deeds? It doesn't matter what your answer is, today you are simply obliged to perform random acts of kindness, so that's why the Random Acts of Kindness day was invented!
Young man assisting old lady © Depositphotos / photography33
Spring is so close that we feel it coming, despite the prolonged cold weather. Snow and slush on the streets can’t spoil our cheerful anticipation of the arrival of the sun’s rays, growing green grass breaking through the snow, and budding trees.
Mountain view © Depositphotos / Дмитрий Пичугин
Colombian-born but U.K.-based artist Andres Rodriguez, at age 29, is one of the world’s top-selling microstock photographers, as well as one of the most sought-after. It took him only four years to create a large portfolio of high-quality images, which is available on the biggest microstock photo agencies.
Man looking at the sky © Depositphotos | Andres Rodrigues
Horizon Interactive Awards is a prestigious international competition in interactive media that gives global recognition to the best web sites, online video applications for mobile phones and online advertising companies. Each year, judges select entries in multiple categories, such as CD/DVD, Web Advertising, Mobile Apps, Online Film & Video and web sites to determine the winners of the competition.
“I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.” – these words became Ansel Adams' credo, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West. He is the author of famous trilogy prints, “The Camera”, “The Negative” and “The Print”. Moreover, he is also famous for his Zone System that helps photographers to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. Ansel Adams was the co-founders of the Group f/64 that specialized on sharp-focused and carefully framed images.
Depositphotos has been working to improve its customer service since the very beginning. We want to offer our users more possibilities, and fewer restrictions! This time we have two bits of news to share with you: once understand them, you will be able to take full advantage of our site. A recent change allows our buyers to upgrade their current subscription plans by simply purchasing an additional subscription. Your new subscription will no longer block your previous subscription; instead, the daily limits of your different subscription plans will simply be combined. Both subscriptions will be automatically renewed, independently from one another, until they are canceled by users. This innovation enables our customers to download more images at cost-effective prices.
Depositphotos offers more possibilities to its customers! One of the latest innovations is “Editorial Use Only” stock images. The demand for images from this category is so high that it begins to exceed our Stock photo agency’s on-hand supplies. “Editorial Use Only” images are intended for use by news outlets, bloggers, publishers and editors to illustrate current, newsworthy material. The growth of mass media fuels the demand for colorful and interesting content for contemporary reading audiences. The images in this category can be used only for printed material, TV and online mass media, to illustrate newsworthy events. Such images are only suitable for non-commercial use.
Today is the 122th Birthday of the National Geographic Society, one of the largest non-profit educational and scientific institutions in the world. It has been inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888. Its interests include geography, archeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation.
Julien Tromeur is a famous Parisian 3D artist. “I am a frog who makes frogs…seen by millions of people all around the world”, says Julien about himself on his web-site. He gave an exclusive interview to Depositphotos in which he shared some secrets of his success.
