Pixabay, a Creative Commons CC0 site, just launched this intuitive, fun search tool. If you know how to use Google Maps, it will be very easy to find a particular Pixabay image with picsbuffet. Try it out – they are looking for feedback on this new type of image search. In our real environment, we “navigate” …
All things change, especially in the fast-moving world world of photo licensing. For some time, now, industry professionals have noted that PACA (Picture Archive Council of America) has evolved into the DMLA (Digital Media Licensing Association); but do they also know that PACA’s fantastic mega metasearch engine of licensable content has been updated into DMLASearch? …
Guest post by Jain Lemos Stop photo searching like the century and get in sync! There’s tons of new technology popping up around the ability for buyers and creators to record transactions, track and share content, and basically get down to the business of image curation and usage. Scopio has jumped into the fray as …
Another new user content community aims to change the way we use visual materials found online. And this one has put the ubiquitous hashtag front and center. Guest post by Jain Lemos. “We want to become the largest market for social media content,” says Olga Egorsheva, co-founder and CEO of Lobster IT Limited. Her London-based …
Located in the heart of Oxford, the Pitt Rivers Museum has collected photographs ever since its foundation in 1884 by Lieutenant-General Augustus Pitt Rivers. Particularly strong in images from the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the collection contains important fieldwork archives, including the photographs of adventurers such as Sir Wilfred Thesiger. Sir Wilfred Thesiger belongs …
Guest post by Alisa Steck Hooray, the graphic design is completed & you’re ready to replace the holder image with the real deal. Now comes the challenge of finding the perfect image that will fit the bill, fast. There are several tricks that could help narrow down your stock photo image search to quickly hone …
PACA Tech Advisor Doug Dawirs updates us on PacaSearch: One of my go-to stops after reviewing a new brief is PacaSearch, especially for off-the-grid image needs (say, examples of Nostradamus’ prophecies through out history?) I am guaranteed to get relevant and comprehensive results and often am introduced to sources I had not been aware of. PACA …