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Depositphotos – With Awesome New Design And 4 MILLION Stock Images

Chris Peterson — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:55:35 +0000

Depositphotos.com is the fastest growing stock photo agency in the world. It has more than four million stock photographs and vector images sold under royalty- free licenses. (To be exact it had 44, 759, 54 total stock images at the time of writing of this article.) This means once you buy an image from Depositphotos you don’t ever need to pay them again for the same image in the name of taxes or royalties. After a one time payment, images can be used for your purposes – lifelong!

Free!

A free subscription plan is available by which you may download a maximum of 5 stock images per day for a period of 7 days. This means you get 35 images absolutely free! And the wonderful thing is that these free images are also royalty-free and can be used just as the paid ones. Also, the free images can be chosen from the entire library of more than 4 million images!

Costs and Payments

The cost of images is very commercial. It begins from only 0.5 US $. There are at least four ways by which you may buy images from Depositphotos. Click here for details on subscription plans.

Payment options are numerous. All major credit cards like Visa, Master Card, American Express are acceptable. Similarly all major merchant accounts like PayPal, moneybookers, webmoney are acceptable.

New Design

On 29^th Sep 2011, the site has unveiled a major update in design.

“It’s essential to organize your page logically so that viewers can scan it easily… put the most important information near the top, in larger type, and with plenty of white space surrounding it. “

Remember, you’re not trying to stuff as much as possible on a single page – you’re trying to cover what’s important for the topic at hand. If you have lots of material to cover, or more topics to deal with, you can easily make more pages and link them to this one.”

- Ed Tittel and Steve James HTML For Dummies; first edition; chapter seven.

Depositphotos seems to have taken this advice as a hardcore rule to build their new design. The home page seems to have enough space to “breathe” easily now.

New Home Page of Depoitphotos

Old Home Page of Depositphotos

The authorities of Depositphotos claim that their new look will give “10 times better performance”. To check this claim I made a small test.

The word “blog” returned 4568 results in 7.33 seconds on Depositphotos with excellent quality images. Indeed the performance is increased 10 folds.

The results were totally relevant with the search that I did. This is because of the extended search functionality and an updated website core. Every word from an image title is now used in determining the image rank in search results.

Every image size now has its own file type description and a separate download button. The new design enables you to buy an image just by clicking a button!

All dimensions of all browsing devices are compatible with the new design. The best fit starts from 1024 X 768 and higher resolutions are unlimited.

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The Incredible Beauty Of Sunrise And Sunset Scenes

AN Jay — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:23:07 +0000

A good photographer can only capture the memory of the sunrise next to majestic mountains and the sunset going down to rest behind the ocean’s horizon. These are the most attractive scenes of nature a camera can capture. Here we have compiled a showcase of such beautiful photographs of sunset and sunrise that would inspire you a lot for sure! In these photos, you can notice that how challenging it would be to adjust with the light to take the photograph the way you want!

You are welcome if you want to share more Sunrise and Sunset Photography images that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.

Land of the Rising Moon – Arch Rock, Joshua Tree National Park, California

A favorite sunset

Sunbeams at Sunset

Mist on the River

Hot air balloon at sunset

Esterillos Sunset

Sunset at City of Arts and Sciences

Biblical sunset

Dublin Bay Winter Sunset

Sunset at Red Rock

Winter Magic – Yosemite National Park, California

Point Arena Lighthouse Sunset – California Coast

City Sunset: HDR

Pastando II / Grazing II

Sunset

Sunset at my backyard

Once There Was…

Dusty Sunset

Sunset

Sunset beach

Madeira: Santana Sunrise

Golden silence, serenity at its finest

Sunset Hawaii August 2007-1

Morning

Morning Breaks

Pfeiffer Beach – Sunset Splash

Oregon Beach February Sunset

Flying away at sunset

10th January: Sunset

Sunset at half moon bay #1

Blue Mountains Sunset

Simien Mountain Sunset

Sunrise Birds

Morning Light

Sunrise Tree

sunrise

Sunrise

October Sunrise

Skimboarder’s Moment III

Sunset

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FindEXIF Lets You View Detailed EXIF Data of Any Image Online

DB — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:13:31 +0000

When you take pictures through a digital camera, a lot of detailed information is attached to it. Among other things, these details include which camera the picture was taken from, what are its dimensions, its exposure time, and color space. All this attached information is called EXIF data and can be accessed by right clicking your photo on your computer and entering the details field its properties (in Windows).

The information in this properties window is not always easy to interpret. Moreover there is no method to store this information in a file unless you start typing yourself.

FindEXIF is a website that lets you view and save the EXIF data of any picture.

FindEXIF is a free to use website that extracts the EXIF data of any website and presents it to you. This can be done for any picture, not only the ones on your computer. The input is an image’s URL; for online images this becomes quite easy but if the image is store on your computer you will first need to have it hosted online through a service like ImageShack.

Once you enter your picture’s URL you can click on the “GO” button and view its detailed EXIF information.

Your information is shown under the thumbnail of your image. You get a permalink (permanent URL) for this information which you can use to access the EXIF details from anywhere. Alternatively you can copy the text on the webpage and copy it in a text editor to save on your computer.

Visit FindEXIF by clicking here.

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Stunning Photos Filled With Creative Ideas And Humor

AN Jay — Sun, 16 May 2010 07:19:59 +0000

Photography can become more interesting and inspiring when it has creativity and humor at the same time. Today, we are showing you Stunning Photos Filled With Creative Ideas And Humor. I appreciate to all those talented artist who created these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these artistic wonders.

This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to know more about these artists.

If you want to share more fantastic examples of creative photos so please comment about them below. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.

Crossing worlds by denkyo

Transparent Screen iPad by Chengyin

Conference by C.G.

Morning coffee ABVH

Wedding Ring by Tsesler

Autumn Magic by Camiloo

Gunther Philipps by Gunther Philipp

Extreme Thirst by Phoenix-Cry

Orangeman by Martin Grohs

Waterfall With Ducks by Unknown

**Sky Horse by *MTDewer**

Rooster by Pixelprinz

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Congratulations To The Winners Of Free Accounts With $30 Credit From DepositPhotos

AN Jay — Sat, 15 May 2010 21:30:12 +0000

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could Take A Chance To Win Free Accounts With $30 Credit From DepositPhotos. We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them Single User licenses of DepositPhotos.com free accounts.

DepositPhotos.com is one of the best resource for buying and selling Royalty-free photographs and vector images. Their vast library of imagestock coupled with wide variety of flexible purchase options makes them most convenient and profitable tool for designers, artists and photographers.

Whether you’re a designer looking to buy images for a project or a photographer selling your stock, They make working with DepositPhotos.com as easy as possible. Their low, low pricing and flexible purchase plans make it easy to buy exactly what you need instead of just what you can afford, and their generous commission structures give their contributors enormous earning potential.

Looking for images containing food, beverages or tableware? That’s easy – just start in the “Food & Drink” category. Need an image related to an office environment, work or careers? Visit our “Business & Finance” Category. Maybe you’re looking for an image of a ring, necklace or bracelet. Then, start your search in the “Jewelry & Gems” category. With more than three dozen categories to choose from, you’ll never have trouble finding the perfect image, no matter what you’re looking for!

Congratulations to all the winners from SmashingApps.Com. All of the winners will be contacted in few days. If you are not winner at this time so please be patient and keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed, you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well because we are coming up with another new great contest earlier next week.

Thanks to DepositPhotos.com for sponsoring this wonderful contest at Smashing Apps.

If you want to conduct any contest at Smashing Apps just contact us and send us all the details.

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Incredibly Captured Beauty Of Reflection In Photography

AN Jay — Sun, 09 May 2010 00:28:13 +0000

Reflection Photography is a most popular way to beautify your photographs and bring life to them. All you have to do is dig deep enough into your imagination and come up with new and exciting ideas on how to make a lifeless photo look extremely incredible. You can satisfy your hunger of creativity with Reflection Photography. You just have to master your skills of photography and this post will help you in doing so. Enjoy this mind blowing post about Reflection Photography.

If you want to share more fantastic examples of Reflection In Photography so please comment about them below. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.

Sunset Reflections

Together – Detail

Pausing for a moment of reflection

Reflections Of Amsterd@m – Jesus In A Puddle

Autumn Reflection II

Michaelmas daisy dewdrop refraction

It’s a Laugh…

Self-Reflection

The Dance of Joy

Reflex on “il Campo”

Reflect

Corner work

Half Dome Reflections II, Yosemite

Under the Golden Bridge ….

Even dogs enjoy the beautiful nature

Ephemera

Lotus Flower Reflections IMGP6812-refl

Reflection Perfection

Pond-Reflections

Picture Perfect Reflections

Swan Reflection

Lovely reflection

Can

Chambord Dream

The Wine Glass Travels to Red Rock Canyon

Boat Reflection

Reflections Of Amsterdam – The Magnaficent View

Fish Reflection

Falling Up

Water Drop Reflection

Reflective Symmetry

The marbel – Reflection

Reflection – Sometimes We Are Clear Inside And Abhorrent Outside

A Moment for Reflection.

King of the water

Mirror skies

Dichotomy

Mirror mirror who is the fairest of em’ all

Un gatto e nove vite – a cat and nine lifes

Reflex a Gant (HDR)

A reflection of innocence

Raincatcher

At a secret mission

Sunrise Reflection

You’re so vain

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Take A Chance To Win Free Accounts With $30 Credit From DepositPhotos

AN Jay — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:46:42 +0000

DepositPhotos is running a contest, where winners will get 15 accounts with free credits (worth $30 each). Well, you guys know what DepositPhotos is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.

This contest will run from May 05, 2010 to May 12, 2010 and we will select the winners randomly by running MySQL query. Result can be announced any day before May 15, 2010 so keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed to get the latest updates. To participate in the contest and win DepositPhotos account, All you have to do is just tweet this :

Take A Chance To Win Free Accounts With $30 Credit From DepositPhotos @SmashingApps – http://su.pr/22OXz6

1. After you retweet, just leave a comment with your retweet link.
2. Use valid email ID in the email box.
3. Not necessary, but you can subscribe to our rss feed and follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. (To track this contest and for future updates)
4. And thats it!

So what are you waiting for now? Let’s participate in the contest and good luck!

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45 Absolutely Stunning Examples Of Silhouette Photography

AN Jay — Sun, 02 May 2010 09:10:00 +0000

Silhouette Photography produces very stunning results and would be considered as the best option when an artist wants to convey mystery, drama, and emotion in his photographs; and most of all if he wants to make his portfolio look out of the world! So let us have a look at this collection. In this post we have gathered 45 spectacular examples of Silhouette Photography for your motivation. You can easily differentiate Silhouette Photography from the other types of photography because it looks like a dark outline against a light background.

If you want to share more fantastic examples of Silhouette Photography so please comment about them below. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.

Desire for freedom

Silhouette

Windansea

Tule Elk Sunset Silhouette “Point Reyes”

2/365

I Am . . . Who I Am

First Row

Silluette

Sunset fun

Silhouette Cycle

Passageway

Compare And Contrast

I love sunsets

Arabian night

Kite … through the glass

Silhouette Run

Silhouette bride – lost in her own world

Silhouette in the Lonely World

We become silhouettes

Silhouette Of My Daughter

Jumping Silhouette

Silhouette of boys having fun

Reddish Egret Silhouette

Horse Silhouette

Caballo

Silhouette

Hold me pls…

Sunset silhouette

Dawn at the Narrows Explore

free

How many triangles did u see?

1,2,3….Jump!!!!!! West side Story Revisited!

Love is in the air

Baby Blue Silhoutte

Fire in the sky

Anberlin

Just Do It !

We Strut in Las Vegas

Blessed candles of the night.

Fisherman

India – Camel and his rider in Thar

Touchdown

Gangster semi

Goodnight Darlin

Frozen in time II

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Beautifully Captured Impressive Photographs Dedicated To Labour Day

AN Jay — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:13:26 +0000

International Workers’ Day or Labour Day is a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labor movement. This is celebrated as a national holiday in most of the countries on 1st May (except USA, Canada, UK and some other countries) and that’s why its popular as a May Day too. This day commonly sees organized street demonstrations and street marches by millions of working people and their labour unions throughout most of the countries of the world. We thought to give some tribute to this day and selected few really beautiful photographs that captured their hard-work in a single shot. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing these in detail it will surely refresh you and force you to know more about Labour Day and motivate you to give them some respect as much as possible. These are the wonder creations of photographers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.

You are welcome if you want to share more creative photography that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. You can click on the image to see its larger version and to go from where the images has been taken. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.

Coal mine workers, minus (below sea level) 485 meter underground by Yavuz Sariyildiz

Hagalat kelim by Sasson haviv

Team Work by Hamry Wabula

Saltmine by simondeg

Ceramics maker by Thaib Chaidar

Workers on leary way by sparth

Fish Market by Antonio Grambone

The yak man by chavi

Master Of Puppet by Ario Wibisono

Hell’s mercenaries by Sorin onisor

Hand Made by ATK

Stannic by Utku temel

Sound of the craftsman by Takashi

The Glassblower by Stefan Nielsen

Sewing worker by Robert

Knitting by Ali noohi

Sand Collector by Mitchell Kanashkevich

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Stunningly Captured Moments You May Have Never Seen Before (National Geographic Special)

AN Jay — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:10:07 +0000

The National Geographic is working for creating awareness about caring natural resources and the planet, and has been very successful so far. In this post, we have gathered some stunning photographs from The National Geographic Website to pay a tribute to The National Geographic and the photographers who are working very hard and doing a great job. In this post you will notice the beauty of nature, culture and the natural resources.

Feel free to share this post with others and do let us know if we have missed out your favorite photographs that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.

Polar Bears Playing by Sandra Donlon

Swan on the River Avon by Jason Wickens

Tobe, Sudan by Jason Carrier

Barracuda, Bismarck Sea by David Doubilet

Demsa Dancer, India by Kieron Nelson

Yellow-Billed Hornbill, South Africa by Daniel Born

Mahout Bathing an Elephant, India by Mohit Midha

Kolmanskop, Namibia by Chris Gray

Birds Fighting, Rondeau Provincial Park, Canada by Martin Lukasiewicz

Koi Feeding, Texas by Randy Heisch

Grizzly Bear Cubs by Oliver Klink

Chicago City Lights by Jim Richardson