Reinvention: Ron Rovtar Goes From Stock to Real Estate

By Jim Pickerell | 891 Words | Posted 7/15/2009 | Comments (1)
Photographers need to be prepared for and anticipate career change. Consider the career of Ron Rovtar, a successful stock photographer in the 90s, now happily selling real estate and using his photographic skills to photograph architecture.

Fotoglif Pays Online Publishers to Use Photos

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 339 Words | Posted 7/14/2009 | Comments
Toronto-based Fotoglif has joined GumGum and PicApp in the ad-supported online image-licensing space. Former studio owner and Fotoglif founder Michael Betts says the business offers photographers a big opportunity, while also rewarding publishers financially.

Majority World Promotes "Green" Assignments

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 92 Words | Posted 7/14/2009 | Comments

VIEW Reps The National Trust

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 72 Words | Posted 7/14/2009 | Comments

Getty Images, MLB Renew Agreement

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 215 Words | Posted 7/13/2009 | Comments
Getty Images and Major League Baseball Properties have announced a multi-year extension of their agreement, under which Getty will continue as the exclusive Major League Baseball commercial photo partner and licensor of its image archive.

Future of Advertising in Print

By Jim Pickerell | 573 Words | Posted 7/13/2009 | Comments (2)
"We have reset and won't rebound and re-grow," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the continued decline of print as an advertising medium during the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

OffiSync Integrates Google Image Search Into Microsoft Office

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 245 Words | Posted 7/10/2009 | Comments
OffiSync 2.0, released last week, has integrated Google Image Search, enabling users to easily find and insert images posted online into documents and presentations---to the chagrin of many a copyright owner.

ASMP Relaunches Site, Expands Resources

By Jim Pickerell | 243 Words | Posted 7/10/2009 | Comments (1)
The American Society of Media has launched a redesigned Web site with expanded resources available to all photographers and members of the photographic community---not just ASMP members.

Viewfinders Revamps Site, Implements PLUS Standard

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 187 Words | Posted 7/9/2009 | Comments
Photographer-owned Viewfinders has redesigned its Web site with an emphasis on improving search. The 10-year-old Portland agency that focuses on imagery of the Pacific Northwest also implemented PLUS Packs, the standard developed by the Picture Licensing Universal System Coalition.

Berman Joins Noor

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 44 Words | Posted 7/9/2009 | Comments
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