Fotolia Offers Three Free Stock Photograph Credits to LCN Hosting Customers

In response to both customer and photographer demands Fotolia has released two new licenses. The first license is called the eXtra Small standard license corresponding with the XS abbreviation. The license is designed for blogs and web applications (thumbnails and small images on websites). The license will start at just 1 credit for a 300*400 pixel image.

At the opposite end of the license scale, Fotolia has introduced an XXXL standard license, offering extremely large images. This license is available starting at 7 credits for 4800*6400 pixel images (30.7 MP) perfect for large printing projects.

With the introduction of these two new licenses we adjusted our price structure. Here is a link to the new pricing structure

We just launched a new service for our contributors based on the new Fotolia API. MyFotolia allows you to create and display your own private gallery in your own unique way. You decide which images and galleries will be on your MyFotolia homepage. Say you have a lot of great images of automobiles, make sure the buyer sees not just a few but all of your cool shots by putting your “Cars” gallery on your new MyFotolia and simply send the client your MyFotolia URL address. To give it that personal touch, you control all aspects of how your site will look you can, for example, upload your best image and use it as your banner so the buyer can see the quality of your work right away. You are also free to choose and change your favourite colours to suit your personality or mood. Maybe best of all a new and exciting function of MyFotolia will give you the power to arrange and rearrange the order of the images in your gallery to better catch the buyers’ eye. If you know your automobile client is looking for “Hot Rods” make sure they are the first images he sees when he opens your “Cars” gallery. Remember your client will be happy to purchase your image when he can quickly and easily find it. Your MyFotolia account is your own private collection, so you eliminate any competition, as the buyer will not be distracted by other artists content and may even choose to use a whole series of your images in one project. No need to feel bad about leaving one of your friends out in the cold though, simply create a link in your MyFotolia account so your clients and any one else can visit your friends private galleries too. Now with the obvious greater exposure you will experience you may want to keep track of exactly who has visited your site what they viewed there how many visits they have made and of course your sales! Well with MyFotolia you can do it like the professionals do by creating an account on the Google Analytics Website just click on “My Settings” in your MyFotolia home page for more details. Your MyFotolia site is a direct link between you and the buyers so make them feel welcome while you optimise your visibility. You can look at the following example.

Two months ago we released the Fotolia API. The API is a programming developer interface making it possible to create widgets, applications or websites in relation with the Fotolia website. A lot of developers and partners are developing new applications using the API. These applications will soon be released and we will keep you posted. Fotolia itself is using It’s own API to create new products (you will learn about it very very soon).

Dear Fotolia Contributors,

The upload option is now back on line! We apologize for all the confusion and any inconvenience caused by the upload server installation during last week. It was a hard time for all of us and we thank you very much for your patience and for your support.

We are very pleased to announce the new version of Fotolia. We have been working on this new version for about one year. If you think that this new version looks pretty the same, it is because we didn’t really focus on design (which is still pretty good ) but we totally rebuild the website core. We keep the former website organization and features and we changed the rest. Fotolia had been entirely recoded to reach new horizons. Opening, scalability and performances have been the basis of the new architecture.

This new version was long to come but we have now tools to make Fotolia become a major actor in the stock image industry. The next weeks will come with important announcements and new features.
Many improvements and changes have been done. You will discover them while browsing Fotolia. In the following line we will focus on some important improvement which could affect the way you use Fotolia.

We are very sorry to inform you that the launch of the Version 2 of our site will be delayed for a few more days!

You’ve heard us talk about some big changes coming for quite some time. Well it is finally happening. Version 2 or commonly called by insiders V2 will start to be released in just a few days. At the end of this week, Fotolia will be closed for approximately 12 hours to move our servers and release the new version of the website. No major visual changes have been made from a design point of view, however the entire website has been recoded to improve performances and prepare Fotolia for the future. We are also using this release as an opportunity to introduce changes in the pricing structure. The pricing changes will help simplify purchases and keep Fotolia competitive in the marketplace.