Here’s a video of a snatch-and-grab robbery by an octopus, who steals a digital camera, which continues to shoot video as the creature swims away with it! The photographer who posted this underwater footage on YouTube writes: “I didn’t feel threatened at all during the whole ordeal. he seemed to be fixated on the shiny…
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12 “Green” Stock Images for Earth Day
© Paul Fleet/Bigstock Earth Day is April 22. To provide some visual inspiration, we collected a few of Bigstock’s many beautiful images related to the environment. Themes like alternative energy, ecology, global warming, climate change and conservation are popular searches on Bigstock, and our artists have contributed many images with green themes. Browse through our…
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Top Five New Features of Adobe Photoshop CS5
Today Adobe officially announced Creative Suite 5, which includes a major upgrade to Photoshop. Will the upgrade be worth the money? Adobe has published a web site calling out new features, and some of them look quite impressive. Here’s a look at five new features that stand out.
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15 Photos of Beautiful Beach Scenes
© Michele Piacquadio/Bigstock At Bigstock, one of our most popular search terms is “beach.” Within our collection you’ll find many photographs of sandy scenes, some stunning, some peaceful and some whimsical. Take a look at this selection of images and imagine a sunny day, a cold drink, and cool waves on your feet. Sounds just…
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How to Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Darken Part of an Image
Updated by designer Cristin Burton on Feb. 17th, 2015. This Adobe Photoshop tutorial will show you to use adjustment layers and layer masks to adjust parts of a photo. This demo was on in Adobe Creative Cloud, but should apply in several other versions as well. In this tutorial I will adjust only the sky of the…
Read MoreHappy Birthday Doc Edgerton, High-Speed Photo Pioneer
From Wired.com, we learn that today would have been the 107th birthday of Doctor Harold Edgerton. You might not know “Doc” Edgerton’s name, but you’ve almost certainly seen his photographs. As an engineer and professor, he invented a very-high-speed camera called a Stroboscope that captured photographs that were at once beautiful and scientifically important. His…
Read MoreVideo: See an iPad Destroyed by a Blender
Imagine getting a new iPad and immediately destroying it. Crazy? For a couple of years, a blender company has been running a series of web videos demonstrating how their products can liquefy almost anything. This week the “Will It Blend?” show destroys—yes—an iPad. This isn’t the first time they’ve killed an expensive gizmo in a…
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Meet the New Social, Portable Bigstock Lightbox
Four easy steps to making the most out of Bigstock’s lightbox feature. A Bigstock lightbox is a free, helpful tool for saving a collection of Bigstock images in one place. (If you used our old site, you might remember we used to call them galleries.) Lightboxes are great for sharing images with clients and friends,…
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Six Easy Steps To Mastering Bigstock’s New, Improved Uploading Process
With our new design, our goal was to make it simpler and faster for artists to contribute their images to Bigstock. For our contributors, we made significant enhancements to the Bigstock upload process. You can now make all your edits on a single screen. Our new interface features real-time metadata field validation and direct image…
Read MoreTime-Lapse Video Shows 146 Days of Skies
Here’s a photo project that’s both simple and brilliant. Artist Ken Murphy is working on an exercise called A History of the Sky, in which he uses a digital camera to shoot still images of the sky throughout the day, then assembles an entire day’s worth of images into video clips. You can best understand…
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