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Corbis Digital Stock Expands Royalty-Free Image Offerings with Release of New Master and Objects Collection CDs.


SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 1, 1998--

New Social and Business-Related Imagery a Vivid and Timely Reflection of Current Business and Social Trends

Corbis Digital Stock, a premiere provider of royalty-free Royalty-free describes material (typically graphics such as stock photography and icons, but also sound such as music loop samples) that may be used for profit, without paying royalties.  digital images, today announced the release of four new Master and two new Objects Collection CDs.

This latest addition to the Master and Objects Collection offers imagery by world-class world-class
adj.
1. Ranking among the foremost in the world; of an international standard of excellence; of the highest order: a world-class figure skater.

2.
 photographers that reflects current business and social trends. With content ranging from concepts and metaphors to home and corporate settings, the CDs provide imagery that imparts a contemporary look to creative projects. Master Collection images are currently available for $299 per CD and Objects Collection images are available at $149 per CD. Single images from both collections, with prices starting at $29.95, are available at www.digitalstock.com.

"Corbis Digital Stock's commitment to bring the best images from world-class commercial photographers to creative professionals is evident in this release," said Charles Smith Charles Smith may refer to:

In basketball:
  • Charles Cornelius Smith (born 1975), University of New Mexico and Portland Trail Blazers
  • Charles D. Smith (born 1965), University of Pittsburgh and New York Knicks
  • Charles E.
, executive director of Corbis Digital Stock. "This visually striking and very contemporary imagery is suitable for a wide range of projects."

The four new Master Collection CDs announced today include:

-- "Business on the Move" was inspired by the increase in business travel and the growing number of professionals who conduct business remotely. This new CD portrays multi-ethnic, mobile professionals in various travel-related and business settings.

-- "Digital Concepts" is the first in a series, offering photography merged with computer illustrations to create original conceptual imagery. Utilizing powerful photo-editing tools, the material on "Digital Concepts" is thought-provoking and compelling.

-- "Family Time" takes the viewer home for some "quality time" with imagery of parents and children enjoying each other's company in family-oriented settings.

-- "Industrial Textures" features image compositions of rusted rust  
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1. Any of various powdery or scaly reddish-brown or reddish-yellow hydrated ferric oxides formed on iron and iron-containing materials by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water.

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  metals, nuts, bolts, screws and electrical outlets, all transformed into refined textures with an industrial edge.

The two new Objects Collection CDs announced today include:

-- "Objects - Home & Family 2" features useful imagery of parents, children and family pets, as well as images of common household items, such as a hair dryer, toothpicks and a bedroom dresser.

-- "Objects - In the Office 2" is a quirky quirk  
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 return to the workplace with imagery of bemused business professionals, boxing gloves boxing gloves nplguantes mpl de boxeo

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 and other unlikely office accessories.

Images from the entire Corbis Digital Stock library are available by calling 800/545-4514, and are also available through resellers worldwide. Individual images can be purchased and downloaded at www.digitalstock.com.

About Corbis

Corbis is a privately-owned company that provides visual content and services to creative professionals and image consumers through innovative digital technologies. Through the combination of world-class photographic images and state-of-the-art technologies, Corbis creates new and compelling ways for its customers to search for, shop for and experience images.

The Corbis Collection -- 23 million images, with more than 1.3 million available online -- contains the world's most significant photography from more than 1,000 creative sources, including Ansel Adams, Bettmann, UPI UPI
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United Press International
 and the National Gallery in London. Corbis Images (www.corbisimages.com) -- Corbis' image licensing division targeting creative professionals -- continues to deliver on its strategy to provide customers with one, integrated product spectrum through its acquisition of Digital Stock and Westlight, two leading providers of commercial photography worldwide, and most recently Outline, the world's leading provider of celebrity portraiture portraiture, the art of representing the physical or psychological likeness of a real or imaginary individual. The principal portrait media are painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. From earliest times the portrait has been considered a means to immortality. .

Corbis is based in Seattle, with offices in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, London, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  and San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . For more information about Corbis and its products and services, call 800/260-0444, 425/641-4505, fax 425/746-1618, or visit its Web site at http://www.corbis.com/.

(c) 1998 Corbis Corp. Digital Stock and Corbis are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corbis Corp. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  and other countries. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

    CONTACT:  Corbis Digital Stock
               Shana Ehrlich, 760/634-6500
               shana.e@digitalstock.com
                    or
               Access Communications
               Holly Rossetti, 415/904-7070, ext. 264
               hrossetti@accesspr.com
               Sarah Bessette, 415/904-7070, ext. 218
               sbessette@accesspr.com


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