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March 07, 2014

Fotolia Awarding "Cash" Credits for Best iPhone and Android Images of 2014

It’s a good week for bloggers, designers, and anyone who uses stock photography with today’s announcement that Getty images are making at least a portion of their wealth of images available with just a credit and a link. Personally, I appreciate the forward thinking outlook as expressed by Getty images executive Craig Peters, “Look, if you want to get a Getty image today, you can find it without a watermark very simply. […] You go to Google Image search or Bing Image Search and you get it there. And that's what's happening… Our content was everywhere already."

The rise of image sharing sites like Flickr and Instagram has made stock photo suppliers re-think the way they do business. One friend of mind is good enough that he sells images to Getty, yet he routinely posts images of the same quality to Facebook and his personal webpage. The stock sites just aren’t in control anymore, they need to have exclusive, unique images that can’t be easily recreated.

Stock outlet Fotolia is beefing up their catalog with a worldwide contest awarding $5000 – in Fotolia credits, not cash – for each of the top telling smartphone photos of 2014, submitted as part of its Instant Collection contest. Photos must be taken with a smartphone – though currently the upload interface only supports iPhones – and all photos submitted will earn $1.00 credit per use until the end of April.

Contributions can be uploaded through the Apple Store’s Fotolia Instant app; an Android version of the app is in beta testing and scheduled for release soon. The iPhone and Android submissions will be catalogued separately for the purposes of determining income, and a winner for Android photos will receive a separate $5,000 credit.

The contest is meant to encourage the modern version of visual storytelling with images that are spontaneous and of-the-moment. Fotolia Instant’s Art Director Morgan David de Lossy said, “Images in the Instant Collection are…more impulsive and more edgy and we are always looking for more images that fit this description.”

For full details visit the Instant Contest page and download the app from iTunes app store.




Edited by Cassandra Tucker


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