Technology

There are several categories of camera gear available: there's the sensible, the desirable and then there's the stuff that you'd never even imagined. Here's a selection of equipment that most definitely belongs in the latter category.

After the incredible response to our first and second high res wallpaper posts, we now follow up with this third offering. Take this opportunity to spruce up your desktop with high resolution wallpapers courtesy of some of Crestock's finest contributing photographers and designers.

Today marks a major day in the history of stock photography. This morning, after months of conceptualization, design, re-design, usability testing and development, Crestock Ver 3.0 is now live. The user interface is completely different and so much more intuitive that the GUI you find on at least 90% of the other big guns in the stock photography industry, with a plethora of new features.

As a designer, you’re probably familiar with all these gadgets that are available in various online stores – some are useful, some quite brilliant and a few downright indispensable.

And then there’s the opposite side of the spectrum. Let’s just say that the world's stupidest gadgets came in for review today.

What is the first step many wannabe stock photographers make? I would say for most of us it is to upload some old pics and see how many make it. Read on to see how my first step turned into a stumble, and what I learned from it ...

We realize that we have a lot of photos and images in our collection that would make fantastic desktop wallpapers. So, after getting permission from the owners of some of these images, we're now offering the very best of them to you here as hi-res, gorgeous wallpapers – entirely for free!

Mikael Damkier, aka mikdam, is one of those photographers that have embraced Photoshop as an indispensable tool. Here he tells us how Photoshop has helped him develop his signature style.

A number of online photo-editing tools have emerged over the last couple of years, and while none of them are currently advanced enough to suggest that it will soon be time to wave Photoshop good-bye, it has certainly been enough for Adobe to take notice. They recently made the potentially revolutionary annoncement that a free, online version of Photoshop will be online “within 3-6 mouths”.

Just to clarify: this post has absolutely nothing to do with real eggs, nor the chocolate variety you buy in the shops. In this context, "Easter eggs" are the little surprises you can find hidden away in your software applications, if you know where to look...

One of the very easiest ways to increase your stock photo sales is to tag your photos with the right keywords and give them the right title – here are a few remarkably effective ways to drive sales!