Compositing Images: Part 1

A Photoshop tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pureworks, Victoria Jordan. In this next tutorial, we’re going to be compositing a single face from many other faces. Sometimes, when you work in a marketing department, as I have for most of my career, it becomes necessary to have a certain level of retouching skills.…

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Placing Photos into Round 3D Surfaces

A Photoshop tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pureworks, Victoria Jordan. In this tutorial, we’ll focus on superimposing images onto a more complex 3D objects.  Last time we put images onto flat surfaces. This time, we’ll put images onto round objects, which is a little trickier. First, I’ll pick my round object. I’m going…

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A Letter From Freelancers Union Founder Sara Horowitz

Since 1995, Freelancers Union has worked to create solutions for the challenges independent workers face every day. Independent workers are the center of Bigstock’s very own creative community; from the artists and photographers who create stock images to the designers who use them, which is why we’re truly excited to announce our partnership with Freelancers…

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Bigstock Loves the Creative Review Annual

We’re thrilled to be the headline sponsor of the Creative Review Annual, which showcases the best work in the business and just hit newsstands yesterday. Take a peek into the future of advertising, design and visual work, by checking out the winners of this year’s Annual Awards of The Creative Review. Where other award platforms…

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Ditch That Sticky Coffee Spot, Get Co-Working, & Get Paid!

We’ve chummed-up with Freelancers Union and Loosecubes for their first annual “Co-Working Day Of Action.”  Tomorrow’s event, taking place virtually and in co-working spaces across the globe aims to help independent workers  (hint hint-freelance designers!) get paid fairly for their work. The organizers even developed a handy website called The World’s Longest Invoice to help…

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Creating Simple Animated Gifs in Photoshop: Part 2

A Photoshop tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pureworks, Victoria Jordan. In this tutorial, we’re going to build on what we learned in the first tutorial about animated gifs with more complex movement. We’ll do this using the following two stock images from Bigstock contributors Elenamiv  and NesaCera The first thing I’m going to…

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