Generative AI is changing how people create and business is done, which has far-reaching impacts. Photography is no stranger to technological revolutions and has thus far always survived. However, the coming storm of AI feels different to many, including Adobe, a company that has been involved with digital imaging since its earliest days.
Getty Images has launched "Generative AI by iStock": an AI image generator that allows customers to create their own artificial intelligence stock photos.
German stock photography company EyeEm has been purchased by Freepik, a platform that provides images and other media.
Adobe Stock has put a call out for 1,000 photos of bananas to help train its AI image generator -- And the company is offering $60.
A stock photographer has revealed the results of his experiment that saw him upload 100 images to free stock photo websites.
Stills is a new, invite-only photo licensing platform that offers a curated selection of authentic, design-centered, on-trend photos instead of what it characterizes as the dry, boring imagery found on other stock sites.
Vecteezy is a significant player in the stock image space, providing visual content for some of the world's top brands. Vecteezy recently launched a reverse image search feature that relies upon artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver licensable media matching an input image.
An image generated by artificial intelligence (AI) with obvious flaws has been plastered on a huge billboard advertising a property development, PetaPixel has exclusively learned.
In recently compiled data, it was shown that images generated from artificial intelligence (AI) are performing better than photographs on Adobe Stock.
Noticing a lack of options on the market, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has released a set of royalty-free stock photos that feature people with disabilities using common home safety devices.
German technology and stock photography company EyeEm has reportedly filed for bankruptcy and is insolvent.
Adobe has unveiled the winners of its first-ever Adobe Stock Artist Awards that honor some of the "very best examples of aesthetic, technical, and narrative quality" on Adobe Stock.
If you work with stock photos, you might already be aware of Unsplash, one of the largest and most popular sources of free online images. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the service, this explainer will walk you through what exactly Unsplash is and how it works.
Artificial intelligence-powered image generators have exploded into the mainstream. Thanks to support from major stock sites, they are also an approachable route to making money. But as is almost always the case, when money gets involved, the situation quickly becomes far more complicated.
A woman warned others to "NEVER do stock image modeling" after her photograph ended up being published in an unflattering article.
Free stock photography website Unsplash has announced a paid version, one year after Getty acquired the company.
Artificially intelligent (AI) images generated by machines are for sale en-masse on stock photo websites such as Shutterstock, iStock, and Adobe Stock.
Photographers are facing a growing problem over unpaid royalties with stock agency EyeEm allegedly in some difficulty.
Shutterstock has announced that it has acquired the world's largest video-centric stock agency Pond5 for $210 million.
Getty has announced that it will become a publicly-traded company. The company is valued at $4.8 billion and plans to list itself on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol "GETY."
Recently, the creators behind Mango Street shared how their stock photos made them $47,000 in one year, but how realistic is this scenario for other photographers to emulate?
I’m sure most photographers have heard of Unsplash, the free-to-use stock image website. You upload any of your photographs, then after a short moderation process, they become available in the Unsplash library for anyone to download and use in any way they like.
The Canadian Internet Authority (CIRA), which manages all .CA domains on behalf of all Canadians, has followed up the success of its first set of extremely Canadian stock photos with a winter and cybersecurity themed "Series 2" set launched today.
The new Marvel superhero film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is smashing box office records after opening this month, worldwide fame to actor Simu Liu for his performance as the titular hero. But did you know that prior to becoming a leading actor, Liu had been a stock photo model to pay off debts and make ends meet?
Picsart has announced that it has secured an additional $130 million in Series C funding from a host of huge investors, with a post-money valuation of roughly $1.5 billion.
Panasonic's marketing department produced a set of images for a new product made entirely from stock images, and as part of that edited a photo of a White man's head onto a separate image of a Black man's body.
A Canadian woman has raised concern after discovering that a photograph of her mother mourning at a memorial site is now sold and licensed through Getty Images.
You don’t need to have a portfolio of hundreds of thousands of images to rank on the first page of the most visited customer queries. In fact, we found that 83% of Shutterstock contributors that rank on the first page of top-500 customer queries have less than 10,000 images in their portfolio.
It was so close to the first of April, it sounded like an April’s fool hoax: the gentle freedom-loving all sharing company would be selling to the greedy capitalistic money-making titan. Or, in other words, Getty Images was acquiring Unsplash. The two unlikely partners officially became at the end of April, sending ripples through the stock photography world and beyond.
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