Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

lynda.com announces Release of Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks: The Essentials

Over 12 hours of tutorials featuring expert Photoshop tips and techniques

Ventura, CA, Sept. 30, 2007. lynda.com, the leader in self-paced digital media and design training, today introduced Photoshop CS3 Channels and Masks: The Essentials. Alpha channels are collections of luminance data that control the transparency of images, and they influence just about everything in Photoshop. Coming to terms with alpha channels, also known as masks, is a surefire way to maximize results.

Youtube Download: HiHiSoft Releases New Video Utility

Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, Sept. 29, 2007. Youtube Download is a small application designed to make quick and easy work of downloading and searching movies from YouTube. YouTube has rapidly made a name in the world of Internet video. One can´t imagine a computer user that has not heard of YouTube, one of the greatest Internet video providers. No matter what you are looking for, you should always try a search on YouTube, and you may find what you need sooner than you expected. New devices such as the iPhone and Apple TV are bringing YouTube movies to places where they were traditionally absent.

SitesandPhotos.com Teams Up With Albatross Aerial Photography

SitesandPhotos.com, the only archeological media bank, has begun a joint venture with Albatross Aerial Photography to add Aerial Photos to their media bank and work together on future archeological documentation projects

Tel Aviv, Sept. 06/Sept. 30, 2007. SitesandPhotos.com, the world´s only photo and video bank devoted entirely to archaeology has teamed up with Albatross Aerial Photography to add aerial photos and video to their already comprehensive library.

Prix de la Photographie Paris Presents Human Condition Photography Competition

Paris & Los Angeles, Sept. 29, 2007, Px3, abbreviated for "Prix de la Photographie Paris," strives to promote the appreciation of photography, to discover emerging talent and introduce photographers from around the world to the artistic community of Paris as well as the world at large. In conjunction with its annual exhibition of winning photographs in Paris, Px3 features The Human Condition competition, created to document the wide spectrum of peoples' ways of life around the world.

New Picnik Premium Changes the Photo-Editing Landscape

Picnik Premium Combines the Power of Traditional Photo-Editing Software With the Ease and Convenience of the Web for $24.95/Year

Seattle, WA, Sept. 26, 2007. Picnik.com today unveiled Picnik Premium, a new Web-based photo-editing application that allows anyone to quickly and easily edit, enhance, share and print photos from any Internet browser (IE, Firefox, Safari, Mozilla, etc.) and with any computer platform (PC, Mac, Linux). Picnik Premium delivers the one-click auto fixes, basic editing tools (red-eye removal, crop, rotate), and special effects (text, black & white, soften) beginners love, as well as the more sophisticated photo tools more serious photographers can't live without

Models, make-up, Masterfile: Complex fashion shooting in Toronto

The new pictures from the massive Masterfile fashion show shooting are online. Behind the lens for Masterfile were photographers John van der Schilden, Paul Wright and Christoph Strube.

Toronto/Duesseldorf, Sept. 27, 2007. A long red carpet, an even longer catwalk, countless models, and a crowd of paparazzi ... . Where is this happening - at a large fashion show in New York, Paris or Milan? Wrong! We are actually in Toronto, Can- ada. Or, to be more precise, we are in a photo studio in Toronto. And the entire scene has been put together by Masterfile.

Jupiterimages opens new Channel of Distribution for its Stockxpert Community of Photographers

New York, NY, Sept. 27, 2007. Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM) today announced that it is now offering a new channel of distribution to its Stockxpert (www.stockxpert.com) community with an on-ramp program to submit images to Jupiterimages. Jupiterimages will now accept image submissions from the ‘Xpert’ community to be sold under the Dynamic Graphics brand on its Web site and through its worldwide network of agents. Interested contributors can find more details related to this program and how to submit content on this dedicated page of Stockxpert.com’s Web site (http://www.stockxpert.com/special/sxpress/).

Research and Markets publishes New Study, Video Dynamics: The State of Video Search

Study States That Two Leading Video Search Platforms, AOL-Owned Truveo and Blinkx, Encompass the Widest Range of Video Content Available to Users

Dublin, Ireland, Sept. 27, 2007. Research and Markets has announced the addition of New Video Dynamics: The State of Video Search to their offering. Despite the profusion of video search services, searching for videos on the Internet is still a difficult process.

BigStockPhoto Joins Quarks´QuarkAlliance

Extends new benefits to QuarkXPress 7 users - Special promotion gives eligible QuarkXPress 7 customers the opportunity to download 5 free images from BigStockPhoto's library of 1.4 million+ RF stock images

Davis, CA, Sept. 27, 2007. BigStockPhoto.com, one of the world's fastest growing online, royalty-free stock image providers, announced today that it has become an authorized partner of Quark´s QuarkAlliance program. As a member of QuarkAlliance, BigStockPhoto is a part of a special promotion providing QuarkXPress 7 users with free and discounted products and services to help boost their creativity and design options.

Getty Images signs Two-Year Agreement with Lenovo

Seattle, WA/Beijing, China, Sept. 26, 2007. Getty Images announced today that it has signed a new two-year agreement with Lenovo, the global company dedicated to building the world´s best-engineered personal computers. As part of the agreement, Getty Images will supply editorial imagery to the technology leader for use in their internal and below-the-line communications, in the lead-up to and immediately following the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.