Photos.com Tops 360,000 Images
Yes, that’s 10,000 more than our last high-water mark, with many of the images added in recent months. The number only tells half the tale, however, since we are constantly culling less-popular images from the collection. So a higher total number doesn’t actually reflect the amount of fresh images added to the collection. Our perspective is that it’s the overall depth and quality of the content that Photos.com provides, rather than simply impressive image counts, that makes it ultimately so useful. But quantity helps drive sales, so make sure you update your site to indicate the new number.
There’s way too much new content this month to list (in fact, more than 3,500 photos) but noteworthy are studio shots from animal photographer Eric Isselee. Search with “animal studio” and Match All, as well as Last 30 Days, to display more than 100 pics, many of them of man’s best friend but with cats, a rabbit or two and even a piglet included for good measure. Most of these have had their backgrounds removed, making it easy to use them in a wide variety of applications.
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New Content on Clipart.com
More than 3,300 new professionally shot, model-released stock photos have recently been added to the Clipart.com collection. We’ll start by singling out images related to health and beauty, with some interesting ones related to makeup, both traditional end extreme.
Business shots are always popular and we’ve added hundreds of fresh ones with an emphasis on diversity. There’s more to life than work, however, and this is reflected nicely in a striking new group of photos related to music in all its forms, from the instruments themselves through those creating music, to people simply listening to their favorite tracks. Also worth singling out are new ! textures, photos devoted to sewing and some compelling scenic shots of both land and sea. Remember, the image count on Clipart.com is now 9 million.
Banners of the Month
We’ve listened to your requests for more seasonal banners and you’ll more of these now available for the content sites in the program. This month we’re featuring two Spring banners for Animation Factory, as well as two for Clipart.com and Stockxpert.
As always, just click on the link for any of these to quickly generate all the required affiliate-enabled code, and then copy and paste this into your Web pages. If you have suggestions for new banners, please don’t hesitate to contact us, using the email address at the end of this newsletter.
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Jupiterimages Content Sites
> Find stock photos on Jupiterimages.com, Comstock Images,
Photos.com, AbleStock.com, Thinkstock Images, Goodshoot,
Comstock Complete, liquidlibrary, Bananastock and Stockxpert
> Find photo objects on PhotoObjects.net
> Find broadcast quality clips on Thinkstock Footage
and Creatas Images
> Find clipart on Clipart.com
> Find Flash imagery on Bigshot Media
> Find music loops on BBM.net, Crank City Music, StudioCutz,
Blue Fuse Music, Media Music Loops and RoyaltyFreeMusic.com
> Find illustrations on Liquidlibrary.com
> Find animations on Animation Factory
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published: 07.04.2008 17:50