Great Photo on Flickr? Getty Images Might Pay You For It
By Miguel Helft
If you are a photographer with high-quality images posted on Yahoo’s Flickr service, you may soon get an e-mail inviting you to become a paid contributor to Getty Images, the world’s largest distributor of pictures and video.
Yahoo and Getty Images said Tuesday that they have entered into a partnership under which Getty editors will comb Flickr in search of interesting images. They will then invite photographers to participate in the program and ensure that their images have the proper releases to be licensed legally. Those who are included in the program will get paid at the same rates that Getty pays photographers who are under contract with the company.
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Adobe has announced the launch of an online photo storage and manipulation tool. The public beta of Photoshop Express marks the arrival on the internet of the probably the world’s most recognizable image processing brand name. Photoshop Express allows users to non-destructively edit and enhance their images, which can be pulled and pushed to and from popular websites such as Facebook. Updated: Adobe has issued a statement about some of the application’s fine print that was causing consternation.
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The site’s terms and conditons, which appear to grant Adobe the right to re-use and license, potentially for profit, the images uploaded to public areas of the site, have caused concern amongst potential users. Adobe has now issued the following statement on its Photoshop Express forums:
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 Adobe has announced the launch of an online photo storage and manipulation tool. The public beta of Photoshop Express marks the arrival on the internet of the probably the world’s most recognizable image processing brand name. Photoshop Express allows users to non-destructively edit and enhance their images, which can be pulled and pushed to and from popular websites such as Facebook. Updated: Adobe has issued a statement about some of the application’s fine print that was causing consternation.
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Carol Dallara of Medford and her grandchildren Cole Cryan, 3, and Leia Cryan, 6, get close to the cattle egrets at the Feather Ridge exhibit at Adventure Aquarium in Camden.
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Carol Dallara of Medford and her grandchildren Cole Cryan, 3, and Leia Cryan, 6, get close to the cattle egrets at the Feather Ridge exhibit at Adventure Aquarium in Camden.
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