Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

liveBooks secures $5 million in funding from strategic and private investors

Company introduces subscription-based pricing and pre-designed websites delivered through SaaS; aligns strategic partners to expand into graphic design, interior design and other new markets

San Fancisco, Nov. 04, 2009. liveBooks, Inc., the leading provider of award-winning websites that allow creative professionals to promote and manage their businesses online, today announced that it has secured $5 million in funding from strategic and private investors. This allows the company to expand into new markets and create more flexible and affordable payment and design options for its customers.

National Geographic Digital Media Unveils New Immersive Web 2.0 Photography Application - "Infinite Photograph"

New app offers unprecedented interaction with shared online photos; Launching with shots of natural world dubbed 'As Seen on Earth'

Washington, DC, April 15, 2009. National Geographic Digital Media (NGDM) today launches Infinite Photograph, a cutting-edge Web 2.0 photography mosaic application that will allow users to interact with shared online photographs by clicking on color patterns to create an infinite array of stunning mosaics in a variety of themes.

Gearing up for Earth Day, the first Infinite Photograph theme debuts April 15 at www.ngm.com/infinite, featuring mosaics created from user-submitted photos of the natural world as part of National Geographic's My Shot "As Seen on Earth" hub, found at http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/myshot/infinite-photograph/earth.

Reshade´s Professional Online Photo Resizing Engine Gets Faster

Bucharest, Romania, Mar. 21, 2008. Reshade offers the first web application targeting quality preserving photo enlargement. While similar commercial products range in the hundreds of dollars Reshade offers its service free. The new version released today boasts substantial speed improvements, over the previous version, that support the increasing user base. The product has received great reviews from several online communities.

The Reshade engine is more than twice as fast as other high-quality image resizers. This permits processing a greater volume of photos, lower delays and greater user satisfaction.

FaceTec™ enables automated personalisation of digital advertising, communications and content

Liverpool, UK, Feb. 01, 2008. Genemation Ltd, a leading facial recognition and image processing technology company today announced that it has launched FaceTec™, a patented facial customisation platform that enables the large scale automated personalisation of digital advertising, communications and content.

FaceTec™ enables brands, marketing agencies, advertisers, social media networks, content and image rights owners to interact with users in a highly personalised way in the Web 2.0, mobile, video games and online games sectors. FaceTec™ empowers users to easily personalise or customise digital facial images which can be automatically embedded in digital advertising, brand related communications and content (or replace existing faces in an image) and be virally distributed throughout the digital world.

Swiss Picture Bank Guarantees Long-Term Preservation of Your Photos

Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 30, 2008. Swiss Picture Bank, launching at PMA '08, available for review today and in booth R-191, is the first permanent, guaranteed online archive for digital photos. Swiss Picture Bank is different from other "storage" sites, because:

• Your pictures are safe - guaranteed.
• You pay once per picture - there are no recurring fees.
• You choose from a range of long term security plans, beginning at only 3 cents per picture for 30 years.
• Your account is hosted in data centers operated by Swisscom IT Services - together with its subsidiary Comit, the leading provider of IT infrastructure to Swiss banks.

Imagekind Introduces Story Frames

Seattle, WA, Jan. 30, 2008. If a picture tells a thousand words, then Story Frames from Imagekind speak volumes. Imagekind, the world´s fastest-growing online community for creating, buying and selling custom framed artwork and photography, today announced the release of their new Story Frames collection, a group of customized framing products that allows anyone to transform a series of digital images into a story worth telling.

Story Frames from Imagekind are the world´s first "build it yourself" framing option that allows everyone from the casual photographer to established artists to create personal narratives from digital files - including photography, art and children´s drawings.

Cozimo Unveils Simple, Elegant Web Application for Image, Video Collaboration

Palm Desert, CA, Jan. 28, 2008/DEMO 08. Cozimo Technologies Inc. today introduced a new real-time web-based application for digital media and design professionals who regularly review and collaborate on visual content -- such as images, video or PDF files -- and require feedback from many people located in many different locations.

"What people call real-time collaboration on the web today is neither," says Douglas Gayeton, chief creative officer of Millions of Us, the virtual worlds agency whose clients include Intel, Microsoft, Warner Brothers, Coca Cola and Scion. "To do what we do with Cozimo used to require everyone to be in the same room. It´s totally changed the way we work."

Fotoflexer fastest growing Web-based Image Editing Solution

FotoFlexer Generating 52 Million Pageviews per Month, Within Just Five Months of Launch

Berkeley, CA, Jan. 23, 2008. FotoFlexer, the world´s most advanced Web-based image editing solution, announced today that it closed out 2007 averaging 1.75 million page views per day, with more than 500,000 unique visitors per months - all within just five months of the company´s launch.

The dedication of its users is not the only thing FotoFlexer had to celebrate in 2007. FotoFlexer´s patent-pending technology, based on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and computer learning, was selected by Google as the exclusive image editing launch partner for OpenSocial. FotoFlexer also became the first online image editor to provide a completely free, open API - giving all Web sites the ability to harness the power of the world´s best online image editing solution.

Picnik.com Wraps up Debut Year With Three Million Users

Seattle, WA, Jan. 03, 2007. Picnik, the leading online photo-editing application, bids adieu to 2007 and welcomes 2008 by today announcing it has reached more than three million unique visitors.

Picnik is also celebrating end-of-year honors from industry press, including Macworld´s coveted Editor´s Choice (the Eddy) award for best Web software of 2007 and recognition by CNET as a top web site of the year. In December, Picnik became the editing solution for Flickr´s 20 million users worldwide.

Fotofix.com´s professional image retouchers improve Hillary Clinton’s image - literally

Austin, TX, Oct. 27, 2007. Call it Cleavage-gate. When photos of Hillary Clinton´s cleavage peeking out of a revealing V-neck made the news, there´s no doubt she would have liked a do-over. Fortunately, that image do-over can now be achieved-after the fact. Whether retouching Hillary's cleavage, Fred Thompson´s facial creases, or the dark circles under Giuliani´s eyes, the ability to go back and improve an image is now available to candidates for president and candidates for Mom of the Year alike.

   

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