Two actually! If you’ve visited Bigstock in the past two months you may have noticed our download contest. The mission? To reward our creative friends for getting the most out of their credit packages and pay-as-you-go downloads. In case you missed it, for each image downloaded, we gave users one entry to win a 1st…

A tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pureworks, Victoria Jordan Photos and illustrations can work together in many ways to enhance a project. In this tutorial, we’ll discuss cutting and pasting vector files into Photoshop using the following photo and vector by Bigstock contributors Loriklaszlo and Adroach

A tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pure Works Studio, Victoria Jordan Stock images are great for any range of projects, but certain projects require specific file formats. In this tutorial, we’ll go through the best formats for print and web, as well as some of the advantages and disadvantages of those formats using…

Going to Phoenix for AIGA’s Pivot Conference conference this week? We’ll be there from Thursday, October 13th through Saturday, October 15th, fully loaded with swag goodies, special coupons and an over-sized portfolio of some of our favorite images. Visit us at Booth #20 and say hi! For full details, please see the exhibitor schedule here:

Live Chat is now available directly through Facebook! Just click on the “chat with us” icon on the left-hand side of our Facebook page and we’ll be delighted to answer any questions you have. If we’re away from our desks we’ll receive an email and get back to you ASAP. What a better time to…

Preparing an Image for Web vs. Print A Photoshop tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pure Works Studio,Victoria Jordan When you have a great stock photo, you want to make sure that the quality remains high no matter where it appears. In this tutorial, we’ll go through the requirements for both print and web…

While we’re serious about stock photos and illustrations, we still like to make fun of ourselves from time to time (actually, all the time!). So we snagged a classic “hovering art directors” shot when our creative team wasn’t looking and submitted it to the increasingly hilarious blog with the same name.

In the past few months our blog has gotten more popular than ever and we’ve received some great ideas for tutorials, lightboxes etc. If there’s anything you would love to see on the blog, be it stock photo tips, tutorials, cool creative innovations in photography, technology or design, please send them our way. You can…

When we launched our new single-image, pay-as-you-go payment option (internally we call it “pay-go” –> nerdy, we know!) we got rid of our lowest credit pack. Based on feedback from customers, who prefer credits in smaller packages, we decided to bring it back. This new credit pack gives you 6 credits for $13USD/CAD/AUD or 10…

We’ve been getting some great feedback on our new campaign from designers looking to make the switch to our more transparent and affordable alternative to iStock for stock photos, vectors and illustrations. The second ad in our new series just launched in UK design magazine Creative Review and hits the stands in Print and HOW…