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Fotolia Welcomes Its 4 Millionth Image

New York, NY – August 26, 2008 – Fotolia, one of the world’s leading sources for legal, low-cost imagery welcomes its four millionth image, titled “Hot Air Balloon” and uploaded by Christopher Völlmya, a Fotolia contributor from Switzerland.

Fotolia launches Corporate Subscription Service

New York/London, August 6, 2008 – Fotolia, the largest global online marketplace for micro-priced digital stock images (www.fotolia.co.uk), launches a corporate subscription-based offering that will give users four tiers of Subscription access to its image library of nearly 4 million stock images. Image prices now start from 9p.

Corporations wishing to enroll in the Subscription service will be able to tie unlimited user IDs to a central account, which will make media purchases and itemisation much more efficient. Through a central account, multiple users will also be able to access a central bank of Credits for media purchases, without the need for an accounting department to monitor remaining Credits on multiple accounts.

Starting an image agency with the Reseller API

New York/London, June 18th, 2008. – Fotolia, the largest online marketplace for micro-priced digital stock images, is offering a new Application Programming Interface (API), allowing a closer integration of its affiliates. Using the new Reseller API everyone can operate their own microstock agency in the country and language of their choice, selling Fotolia images under their own name.

Fotolia launches new Subscription service

New York/Berlin, June 3rd, 2008. Fotolia, the world´s biggest microstock agency (www.fotolia.co.uk) launches a simple and inexpensive Subscription service that allows members to download up to 25 images (size L) each day, with no Credit purchases required.

New licenses for PR customers

New York/London, May 14th, 2008. – Fotolia, the largest online marketplace for micro-priced stock images, is improving their services for the customers in the press and public relations sector. It is now possible when sending out press releases, to attach high resolution images purchased on the Fotolia website; all that's required, is to purchase the Extended License for that image.

Fotolia and Quark: Free XTensions Software for QuarkXPress 7

Berlin, 18th March 2008 — Quark Inc., manufacturer of prize-winning layout and design software QuarkXPress®, and Fotolia, operator of the international stock photography agency of the same name, are making - within the framework of the QuarkAlliance™ Technology Providers Program - the FotoliaXT QuarkXPress 7 XTensions® available free of charge.

With the aid of the Fotolia XTensions software, QuarkXPress 7 users will now be able to access the Fotolia community’s royalty-free images and illustrations — currently more than three million of them — straight from QuarkXPress 7, pull selected images using simple Drag&Drop, and position them into their print, Web, or interactive layouts.

Introduction of 2 new licenses: XS and XXXL

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

3,000,000th image at Fotolia

New York, NY, January 21, 2008 – Fotolia, the world’s leading source for legal, low-cost imagery announces it’s 3,000,000th image, titled “Colorful balloons with ribbon isolated on white background.” The image ( ID #5858267) was submitted by Marek Kosmal, a Polish photographer whose Fotolia portfolio can be seen at http://www.fotolia.com/p/7307.  “I am delighted that I am the lucky one to upload the 3 millionth image to Fotolia. It’s a great site where you can turn your passion into hard currency,” says Kosmal.

MyFotolia - Your Customized Fotolia Space

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.

Fotolia launches Infinite Collection

New York/London, December 2007. – Fotolia, the world’s leading source for legal, low-cost imagery, launches it's 'Infinite Collection', which consists of over 15,000 pictures provided by premium international image agencies. It is now possible, with immediate effect, for other agencies to offer their images via the Fotolia website.

Porsche Inter Auto signs on as Fotolia´s 500,000th member

New York, NY/Berlin – December 4, 2007 – Today, Fotolia (http://www.fotolia.com) the world’s leading source for legal, low-cost imagery welcomes its 500,000th member: Nicole Schlotterer, Head of New Media, for Porsche Inter Auto GmbH & Co KG in Salzburg, Austria.

“Porsche Inter Auto GmbH is responsible for 122 car dealerships throughout Europe representing Porsche, Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Bentley, Lamborghini and Bugatti,” explains Sclotterer. “The key to our success are strong partnerships. In Fotolia we have found the perfect partner in the image sector. Fotolia gives us access 24 hours a day, 365 days per year to a broad selection of professional high quality material and this is what is important to us. We are looking forward to this partnership!”

News about the Fotolia API

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).

Upload is Back!!!

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.

Fotolia New Version : What changed ?

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.

Delayed Release of Version 2

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!

V2 coming soon: Prices and other changes

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.

Fotolia Logo

You are writing an article about Fotolia or the image bank industry in general? An exciting topic, indeed. Here you can download our logo in different resolutions.

How to download a logo:

PC: Click on the right button of your mouse and select "Save as"
Mac: Click on the picture and while clicking select "Save as"

Temporary Server Problem NOW FIXED

Temporary problem with upload and downloads

Due to server issues, you can have trouble downloading some images this afternoon. Only few images are concerned. Upload of images has also been stopped. Everything will be back to normal at 20.00. We are really sorry for the inconvenience.
*14/12/06 20:13 - THIS PROBLEM NOW FIXED*

200,000 Stock Photography Members!

Fotolia welcomes our 200,000th member.

Fotolia would like to welcome our 200,00th member - Lorraine from South Jordon, Utah, USA.

Come Learn About Microstock Photography at Photo Plus in New York

Will you be in New York the weekend of November 3, 2006? It’s the weekend of Photo Plus at the Jacob Javits Center. Photo Plus is a great place to check out new digital cameras and listen to top industry leaders like the President of Fotolia.com.

We are Experiencing High Server Load

With unprecedented popularity being experienced by our servers, today we have reduced the number of images you get on your first search.
In response to an unexpectedly high server load, we are temporarily reducing the number of images displayed in your search results.

If you input a more precise query, you will be able to see more images.
Everything will be back to normal in a few hours.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Fotolia Italia

With such a name, we had to propose an Italian version of their website. Driven directly from Rome, Fotolia Italia is now available for Italian buyers and photographers.

TemplateMonster.com Partners with Fotolia.com for stock Images

TemplateMonster.com and Fotolia.com - Images included in the templates and Customer Discounts

New Search Features

As the Fotolia image bank continues to increase, we are working very hard on offering new search features and on improving search results. A new feature has been released today and a new search tool called Similia will be released very soon.

1&1 & Fotolia form strategic partnership

Fotolia to provide stock images for £1

New features of the week

There is always something new at Fotolia. This week is no exception. After the Easter update (and minor bug fixes) the engineers got together and added two new features. Well one of them is a once removed feature but the other one is new.

New Easter Features

In the next few weeks Fotolia will release a new website design full of cool new features. The new site comes as result of comments and feedback from users like you.

News about conversion system

Fotolia is announcing two major changes in the credit conversion system. First Fotolia is removing the fees to convert credits to cash for transactions over 50 credits. (See details below.) Second Fotolia is introducing a new option in addition to Paypal to convert your credits to cash called Moneybookers. Now contributors from over 135 countries may receive their funds from Fotolia.

Size does Matter !

Size does matter when it comes to stock images and no one knows this best but our buyers and photographers. Therefore, by popular request, the Fotolia Standard Royalty Free License will receive a major overhaul. As the title implies the file size will dictate the price of the image license. In short, bigger files equal higher prices. However, this new system will not change or affect the extended royalty free license or exclusive buyout license.

Fotolia introduces gift certificates

Fotolia has just introduced a new gift certificate system.

Display your image as a scrolling slide with Fotolia and Slide.com

In a special partnership with Slide.com Fotolia introduces a new feature. You now have a great way to display your images on a website or blog as a scrolling slide show. You just have to create an account and copy and paste the code provided by slide.

New Lightbox Shopping Cart and Gallery

Fotolia modified its purchase and download process to make it easier, quicker and more user-friendly. Thanks to the implementation of a shopping cart and of a gallery system, it is now possible to purchase many images at the same time and to share images with your clients.

February Upload Reward Program

The February upload promotion will reward all photographers and artist who upload images to Fotolia in February 2006. The promotion begins February 1st, 2006 and ends February 28th, 2006.

New License : Extended RF License

Fotolia introduces a new and more profitable royalty free license to the stock image market called Extended Royalty Free

Fotolia New Year's Gift : January Upload reward Program

The January upload promotion rewards photographers and artist who wish to upload many images.

Fotolia Launches the first Social Marketplace for Digital Images

Royalty Free Digital Images Available Online for FREE or as Low as £1

Fotolia 1.0 on line

After a few hours of migration and update, we are proud to announce the new Fotolia version 1.0. The next few days will be devoted to correcting bugs and making small improvements. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any feedback.

Fotolia 1.0 is coming

Fotolia.com is getting a small face lift on 3rd November 2005. As a result the website will be down for a short period of time. But never fear the blog will still be here.