Depositphotos has expanded its license policy to accept non-model released and non-property-released images for editorial use as a descriptive visual reference to current events, newsworthy stories, social events, places and/or products. This new image category gives more flexibility to publishing houses, authors, newsrooms editors, journalists and bloggers to illustrate their stories by providing them with hi-quality images and news sensitive photos. The ‘editorial use only’ images will not be available for any commercial or promotional purposes.

“Depositphotos has started accepting editorial images due to strong demand for such content from our existing customer base. With this new submission option Depositphotos contributors will be free to cover important newsworthy events and product developments without being concerned with getting model and property releases,” says Igor Kaliuzhnyi, Head of Depositphotos’ departments in Eastern and Western Europe. “With the launch of our Editorial collection our clients will be more flexible in finding images to accompany their stories at fair prices.”

Among these exciting new developments at Depositphotos is the new Tax Center. This now brings Depositphotos into compliance with the existing U.S. Federal tax law.

Income reporting will be calculated for all purchases made by customers in the U.S., and tax deductions may be applied dependent on the existing U.S. tax treaties for non-U.S. residents. Contributors that are U.S. residents will now be required to fill out Form W-9, whereas contributors from other countries will be required to fill out the appropriate W-8 BEN form.

“A stock agency operating within a firm legal framework is a guarantor of security for you and your money,” says Dmitry Sergiev, Depositphotos founder and CEO. “We believe that the rapid growth of our sales will more than compensate our non-U.S. contributors for these recently introduced tax deductions.”

About Depositphotos Inc.

Depositphotos is the fastest-growing stock photo agency in the world. Presently, it offers over 5 million stock photographs and vector images sold under royalty-free licenses. The stock photo library is increased daily by thousands of images, carefully checked and selected by moderators. The company is headquartered in Florida, USA, and has business offices in Germany, Great Britain and Russia.

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By adding over 1,000,000 images in 3 months, Depositphotos proves its claim to be the fastest growing stock photo agency in the world.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1 Dec. 2011 – Depositphotos, the fastest-growing stock photo agency in the world, announces the addition of its 5 millionth image. This milestone underscores its steady growth and commitment to be a huge player in the microstock industry.

Depositphotos’ collection of premium, royalty-free images typically grows over 90,000 images each week. This rapid, steady growth ensures that users will consistently turn up fresh images during their searches. Whether you are a web designer, blogger, news editor or art director, Depositphotos makes it very easy, yet affordable, to buy a quality collection of premium, royalty-free stock photos and vector images.

Depositphotos’ 5 millionth image was created by Yuri Arcurs, world’s most successful microstock photographer based in Denmark. He added his newest collection of 17,000 premium images to Depositphotos, and it so happened that his image of a happy family walking on the beach took Depositphotos’ image library to the 5-million mark. Yuri joined Depositphotos as a contributor in March 2010, and his Depositphotos portfolio has been growing constantly. In addition to being a successful microstock artist, Yuri is known for creating free tools for photographers, photography tutorials and guides, and he is a much sought-after speaker at photography-related events.

Depositphotos continues to make significant improvements across the board, offering even more to its users. To communicate better with its customers, Depositphotos will also launch an interactive blog. It will cover the latest Depositphotos news; it will be filled with photography- and microstock-related articles written by Depositphotos staff as well as industry-recognized guest contributors.

“We are very excited to reach 5 million images in the 3 months after Depositphotos’ library exceeded 4 million stock images in September, and this industry record is just a small thing compared to what we have planned. Stay tuned to our news and you’ll be excited by the new features coming in the next months,” says Igor Kaliuzhnyi, Head of Depositphotos’ departments in Eastern and Western Europe.

About Depositphotos Inc.

Depositphotos is the fastest-growing stock photo agency in the world. Presently it offers over 5 million stock photographs and vector images sold under royalty-free licenses. The stock photo library is increased daily by thousands of images, carefully checked and selected by moderators. The company is headquartered in Florida, USA, and has business offices in Germany, Great Britain and Russia.

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Any student who registers with the Dreamstime community from now to October 6, 2011, will receive a 25% discount on all images and image packages immediately. In addition to the savings, each and every student is eligible to winning one of the five iPad 2s.

Registered students are also encouraged to refer other students to the Dreamstime community, which already has 4 million registered users. An iPad 2 will be awarded to the top-five student referrers.

Any student who is interested and in need of high quality digital images for curricular type of activities such as projects, class presentations, student newspapers and newsletters, personal  blogs and websites should sign up today on: http://www.dreamstime.com/students.

On the other hand, Dreamstime also does pictures of clean-cut and respectable looking students which can be shown to parents, images for different types of fliers, parent-friendly photos from your study abroad experience, or even beach photos. This way the whole student body is covered.

For more details on Dreamstime and to register, click on the registration page: http://www.dreamstime.com/students.

About Dreamstime

Dreamstime is a well renowned and established leader in stock photography and one of the major suppliers of high quality digital images to the world’s largest advertising agencies, national and international magazines and film and television production companies. With more than 12 million images today, Dreamstime is currently the second leading agency in total customers with over 12 million new visitors every month. In addition, it is one of the most popular web sites in the world. The overall increase in numbers constantly makes it the fastest growing stock photo agency worldwide. On top of the current 250,000 free images available, Dreamstime’s photo gallery is updated each second with photos from the site’s 120,000 plus contributors. For more information on Dreamstime, please visit: www.Dreamstime.com

The following 5 simple tips on photography would help you propel yourself towards your passion.

1. Using rule of thirds to frame shots. If you are framing your objects in the center of the photograph, it would not be an interesting photograph. You have to place them using the rule of thirds which suggests you to frame the objects in the left one-third portion or the right one-third portion to get amazing pictures. However if you want to break the rules it is better to know the rules first-hand before you break them.

2. Importance of Lighting. Light is one of the basic elements in photography that can convey the mood of the subject very well. You can alter the lighting in a photo and change the mood easily. Using lighting properly in your photograph is definitely a different skill that can’t be ignored. Capture the lighting properly and use it wisely to bring out amazing pictures.

3. Using diagonal lines in Landscape photos. If you ever want to get the attention of the viewers to your subjects in the landscape pictures, you have to use the diagonal lines. If you are taking photo of a flowing river or a line of trees, it is better to frame them diagonally in landscape pictures. Placing them diagonally would get amazing shots. You can also make those diagonal lines converge at a point to get stunning pictures. Keep an eye for diagonal lines. Lines can start from a point or converge at point. It is up to you to use these geometric shapes well in your photographs.

4. Proper framing gives interesting touch. The subjects of your photograph should be framed properly so that the photograph looks interesting. When you are taking landscape photographs it is better to frame it with some object in the foreground. That object could be an overhanging branch too. Using this technique often, which is also a common technique, would get you good landscape photographs.

5. Using different angles. You can make your photograph look different by changing the angle of the shots to a different one than normal. For this you have to position yourself in a different angle and look at the subject at a different angle. Do not stand in front of the subject and take shots. You can position yourself near ground with the camera angle from the ground up. Positioning the camera in the top angle would also give a different view.
It is only through practice you can fine-tune any skill and it aptly applies to photography. You can take impressive photos as you gain experience and skills.

Only when the audience has access to your photos you have the chance of selling those photos. If they do not have access how come you sell them although you have it online? Even though you have high quality images it is not possible to sell them if they are not accessible. The potential buyers in a website search for the images using certain keywords. If your photograph is listed for that keyword then there is a chance for sale of that photo.

You should know the right keywords for which you can target your pictures. You can’t use some random words as keywords for your photograph. Making use of the right word will help your image to pop-up when a buyer searches for that keyword.

Keywords

To get your pictures found by search, keywords are used. Mapping your pictures to the right keywords is the key to sale of your picture in websites. Most of the websites give you certain characters of text to attach to your pictures. Use that to key in the right keywords for your pictures. Make sure that you are using keywords that are relevant to your picture. Otherwise that would make the approval of your picture, a slow process and it would be hard to find your picture. Chances are there for rejection if you are not using the right keywords.

Instinct

It is not that hard to find the right keywords for your picture. All you have to do is to think like an average person. Imagine the words that would be used by an average person to find your picture. Most of the searches are using simple words only. The words that come to your mind first when you think of your picture would be the words that others would search more often for that picture. Use your instinct to get the right keywords for that photograph you want to publish in the websites. This will bring in the potential buyers for your photos.

Elements

Make note of the elements in your photograph and use it as the keywords. In a picture of the beach you can use ‘beach’ as the primary keyword and the words of the other elements as the secondary keywords for that photograph. The biggest element in your photo should be the primary keyword for that photo after which you can consider the background. You can also simply specify the contents in that photograph too.

Showing off your products as visual images would do wonders than telling about your product to your customers. Images give a better understanding of your product and even your business and it is bound a good first impression. Creating a good first impression will benefit you in the long run and it is done with high quality photographs. Once you have created that first impression then it would be easy to convince people about the benefits of your products.

Half the battle is won if you have created that good first impression. Do not delay in creating that first impression. If you delay that your competitors might get your target audience and you will be losing your business. If you intend to grab your share of the industry for your product then creating a first impression and that too quickly is mandatory. This can be done easily through the use of good pictures rather than words.

If you want to convey your message in a marketing campaign to your potential customer, then do not use long paragraphs and strings of words. Using mere words would be boring for your potential customer to read through them fully. They will not be reading the entire marketing material as they may not have time to read through all those words. This wholly true in online marketing where the user will just leave your page to another page through a link in your page or just ignore your page to search for another page. It is necessary to engage them with visuals in your page and create an interest in them. For this images are the best bet.

Differentiators are more important in an industry so that you can differentiate yourself from the crowd that already does the same business as you. It is necessary to differentiate yourself and project yourself positively to your potential customer. That is one of the reasons for going for Company Logos and Product logos. This enables you to standout from the already existing competition and helps the potential customer to identify you and your services. Differentiatorsare easily possible with the use of quality and relevant images.

Having known the importance of image in your marketing articles, it is necessary that you find quality photographs for free or create one on your own. If you are using other people’s images you might end up with copyright issues and this happens quite often. If you do not have the time to create your own photographs or do not have the budget to ask a professional to create those photographs you can go for the Royalty-free photos.

Going for royalty-free images is one of the cost-effective ways to create your marketing material. The royalty-free images can be used any number of times and in any way you want provided you get the rights from the copyright holder. If you are not using the royalty-free images then you might end up paying the copyright holder a fee for using their images in your projects.

A successful marketing campaign is sure to bring in more revenues and more customers to you. This is done by using the royalty-free stock photos or high quality photographs in your marketing campaigns. Using royalty-free photos is definitely a cost-effective way to have a successful marketing campaign.