Innovations
Fotolia Accepts Vectors
Adding to Fotolia’s popular collection of bitmap images (jpeg photography), Fotolia now supports vector illustrations. Vector graphics use geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons to represent images. One main advantages of this kind of graphic is that Vectors are made from a series of mathematical curves that will print sharply even when resized.
Vectors are becoming a popular file format for use in a variety of fields, from printing, web design and mobile phones, with major advantages. For example, a logo created with a vector graphic can be printed on a business card...
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Fotolia Aperture Plugin 1.0 Available (for Mac)
Fotolia presents the first version of the aperture plugin for photographers. This plugin for Mac allows you to transfer your images directly from the Apple Aperture software to your Fotolia account. This version is a basic version which will be enhanced in the next few weeks.
This plugin is available in English, German and French.
Aperture is an all-in-one post-production tool for photographers proposed by Apple. The plugin from Fotolia can be installed directly in Aperture to simplify photo submission. This means you will not need to use an external FTP application to upload your...
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Similia : Collaborative Suggestion
Fotolia uses a collaborative behavior analysis to recommend images to users for purchase.
Similia is a new image suggestion feature created by Fotolia to help users identify additional images that may correspond to their photo needs. Running behind the scenes, Similia statistically analyses user’s behaviours (buying, searching and organizing behaviours) on Fotolia and...
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Wikilia
Fotolia believes in building a strong user community to share knowledge and camaraderie. We started with the blog, and then the forum, but now Fotolia is happy to announce a new wiki called Wikilia.
A wiki is a website whose pages can be modified by anyone. The wiki will contain important information for the community. Some sections are already created and must be completed but other sections can be created by anybody. Wikilia is...
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Microsoft Search Tool
Disappointing Desktop Search tool from Microsoft.
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Microsoft recently released its local search engine allowing you to search for any document via a the tool bar in your browser or inside windows task bar. Microsoft is in tough competition with Google (Desktop Search) and Apple (Spotlight) who...
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Lightbox
You may select and save images in your lightbox before you purchase them from Fotolia. The lightbox is an unlimited storage location for photos. To add a photo to your lightbox click on the button “add to lightbox” from within...
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What is RSS?
If these three letters sound like a barbarian insult, take time to discover this revolution. There is nothing simpler and of more practical than the RSS. Do not hesitate to read this article, you it will not regret!
RSS is abbreviation of Really Simple Syndication. It is a standard derived from XML technology that simply distributes the hierarchical contents of XML websites and blogs. This file is updated each time new information is added. To read this...
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Fotolia extracts EXIF information from photographs.
EXIF is the abbreviation of EXchangeable Image File. EXIF data is metadata encapsulated in the image file at the time of exposure. This information relates to the parameters of exposure and the adjustments of the camera at the time of...
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Blog use
Fotolia is an online photo market for professional and private users to buy and sell royalty free images. This company structure is built on the fotolia.com website and the Fotolia blog. The two technologies work together to provide users with...
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Ultralingua: multilingual search engine
A key component to the international structure of the Fotolia web site is the powerful multilingual search engine powered by UltraLingua technology. UltraLingua is a company that offers very high quality translation tools. Ultralingua supports several languages (English, French, German...
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