Category: stock photography

Everypixel Aesthetics uses neural networks to judge quality of your photos

Dunja Djudjic

Stock photo search engine Everypixel is a tool that should make the quest for perfect stock photos easier. But what’s even more interesting is their tool called Everypixel Aesthetics. It uses neural networks to tell you how “awesome” your photo is. According to the developers, this tool sees the beauty of stock photos in the […]

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What can stock photo searches tell us about perception of women in advertising?

Dunja Djudjic

In the Women’s History Month, Adobe Stock Team has decided to conduct an interesting study. They wanted to find out how the image of women has changed in advertising and creativity. Thus, they have analyzed the data for over 450 million Adobe Stock searches in the last year, trying to find out whether the perception […]

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Filmmaker inserts himself into stock photos for this hilarious music video

John Aldred

I’ve been a big fan of Joe Penna (aka MysteryGuitarMan) on YouTube ever since I saw his stop motion rendition of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro about 7 years ago. With over 2.8 million subscribers, he doesn’t post as often these days as he once did, but when he does, you know it’s going to be […]

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500px’s new RAW app for iOS lets you shoot, edit and sell photos right from your iPhone

John Aldred

Another one to not hang about, 500px are also jumping onto iOS10’s new raw shooting capabilities. Not only do they want you to shoot and edit with raw on your iPhone, but they want you to sell from it, too. It’s an interesting app, and one I’m curious to see how well it will take […]

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These artists recreated lost and destroyed artwork using Photoshop and stock images

John Aldred

Whether the work we create is digital, or a little more tangible, it’s an inevitable consequence that some of it will be lost or destroyed.  In this short series of videos released by Adobe, we see four of them recreated using Photoshop and stock imagery. Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee went missing […]

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Getty to Google: ‘Get the high res photo off your image search page’

Udi Tirosh

Getty, probably the largest image agency in the world, just picked a fight with the largest… well.. anything in the world – Google. In an open letter, Getty accuses google of depriving sites of their traffic by displaying high-res photo in their image search. And it does not stop there. Getty also filed a formal […]

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Behind the scenes look at what makes cheesy and cliche stock photography

Gannon Burgett

Have you ever wondered what it looks like behind the scenes of the cliche stock photos plastered across the web? If so, DigitalRev’s latest video should give you some humorous insight. In the three minute video, the DigitalRev team shows what the situations are that lead to the almost laughable stock photos where computer peripherals […]

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It’s Morning Again in… Vancouver. Marco Rubio Misuses Vancouver Stock Footage As American Coast

John Aldred

Stock footage and stills are used for more purposes than we can imagine, but they are often used in political campaign ads, even if the message they send is sometimes a little confused. In Marco Rubio’s case, it sends the message that his editing team aren’t very good at proofing the footage they license. In […]

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