Before digital image libraries like Bigstock, stock agencies used to mail out massive, printed catalogs showing off their pictures. Crazy, right? The people at ad agency JWT in Cape Town, South Africa had a bunch of these obsolete stock picture books in their office and had an idea. They figured, “Let’s turn these piles of…
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When you have a piece of artwork which you may need to use multiple times, shave minutes off your design workflow by turning it into a symbol and utilize the power of the symbolism tools in Illustrator. Symbolism tools allow you to manipulate copies of your artwork in different ways so you can use them…
Read MoreHere’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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© 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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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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© 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…
Read MoreFrom 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 MoreImagine 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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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,…
Read MoreHere’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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