PhotoDisc Launches New Disc Series: Designer Tools.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 1999-- --Designer Tools Series offers 100 variations on a common design theme to save designers both time and money-- PhotoDisc, Inc., a leading provider of digital stock photography, today introduced a new disc series: Designer Tools. Created to provide a collection of images designers constantly need, the Designer Tools Series features 100 variations on a common theme, such as time management, processes, global connectivity, and commerce and includes items such as gears, clocks, maps, currency, etc. By offering a collection of 100 similar images on one disc, the Designer Tools Series allows creative professionals to utilize one resource to find an image of a frequently used subject, saving the designer time and money. In addition, this series is a valuable addition to any designer's toolbox See toolkit and toolbar. because it allows professionals to inject in·ject v. 1. To introduce a substance, such as a drug or vaccine, into a body part. 2. To treat by means of injection. different visual content of the same subject matter into multiple design projects created for various clients. The first discs in the series include Gears: Metaphors of Interaction, Clocks: Instruments of Time, Maps and Navigation, and World Currencies. -- Gears: Metaphors of Interaction (Designer Tools Series 1) -- featuring multiple and single gears in background and close-up settings. These images range from the colorful and toy-like to time-rusted and industrial-strength, to convey connection, teamwork, process and progression. -- Clocks: Instruments of Time (Designer Tools Series 2) -- portraying the ways time holds our world captive. From a Victorian gold watch and fob to a kitschy kitsch n. 1. Sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts: "When money tries to buy beauty it tends to purchase a kind of courteous kitsch" starburst StarBurst - An active DBMS from IBM Almaden Research Center. clock, these artfully shot images portray metaphors that communicate the stress of insufficient time, looming looming: see mirage. deadlines, synchronous Refers to events that are synchronized, or coordinated, in time. For example, the interval between transmitting A and B is the same as between B and C, and completing the current operation before the next one is started are considered synchronous operations. Contrast with asynchronous. events, split-second decisions, and clocking in and out. -- Maps and Navigation (Designer Tools Series 3) -- offering an abundance of maps and navigational tools, in muted mut·ed adj. 1. a. Muffled; indistinct: a muted voice. b. Mute or subdued; softened: muted colors. 2. colors and sepia SEPIA - Standard ECRC Prolog Integrating Applications. Prolog with many extensions including attributed variables ("metaterms") and declarative coroutining. "SEPIA", Micha Meier <micha@ecrc.de> et al, TR-LP-36 ECRC, March 1988. Version 3.1 available for Suns and VAX. hues. Antique, marine, topographical and planetary plan·e·tar·y adj. 1. Of, relating to, or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets. 2. a. maps are complemented by images of compasses, sextants, spyglasses and armillary spheres to evoke thoughts of adventure, exploration, charting a course, and navigation history. -- World Currencies (Designer Tools Series 4) -- portraying how money makes the world go round, featuring a wide variety of international currencies including Francs, Yen, Kronor, Deutsche Marks, Pesos, Yuan, Guilders and Shekels. Designer Tools discs are priced at $249 each and feature 100 images per disc in 600K, 10MB and 28MB file sizes. PhotoDisc images can also be individually purchased and downloaded from the PhotoDisc Website -- http://www.photodisc.com -- in 600k, 10MB or 28MB file sizes, with prices ranging from $19.95 to $129.95 each. Every PhotoDisc image and disc purchased includes complimentary assistance -- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week -- from PhotoDisc's image research and licensing staff, which can be reached at 206/441-9355 or at 800/528-3472 (US and Canada), and from its technical support staff, which can be reached at 206/269-1695. About PhotoDisc PhotoDisc, Inc., the market leading royalty-free stock photography brand of Getty Images, Inc. (Nasdaq:GETY), was one of the first publishers of high-resolution digital stock photography. PhotoDisc has been providing images to creative professionals in industries including graphic design, advertising, prepress, publishing, and web and multimedia design since its founding in 1991. In 1998, PhotoDisc launched PowerPics(tm), a website created to provide images to the mainstream business and small-office/home-office (SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. ) markets. PowerPics images can be found at http://www.powerpics.com. The PhotoDisc image library consists of approximately 75,000 royalty-free images, of which more than 27,000 are available on more than 160 thematic CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). collections. Individual images and CD-ROMs are available worldwide for purchase in file sizes up to 28MB from the award-winning PhotoDisc Website -- http://www.photodisc.com. CD-ROMs can also be obtained through the company's catalogs and at major software retailers. For additional information or to order any PhotoDisc CD-ROM, or for a free catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. , call 206/441-9355 or 800/528-3472 (US and Canada) -- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. About Getty Images, Inc. Getty Images Inc., (Nasdaq/NMS:GETY) is a leading international provider of visual content to a diverse range of professional users of images, including advertising and design agencies, magazines, newspapers, broadcasters, production companies and traditional and new media publishers. Getty Images has already achieved its first strategic objective (stated at the time of the company's IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. in 1996): it has become the largest provider in the visual content industry through successful acquisitions. Getty Images' second objective -- to provide an enhanced service Enhanced service is service offered over commercial carrier transmission facilities used in interstate communications, that employs computer processing applications that act on the format, content, code, protocol, or similar aspects of the subscriber's transmitted information; and effectively expand our marketplace through electronic commerce -- is well underway with four successful electronic commerce websites already available: http://www.tonystone.com, http://www.photodisc.com, http://www.allsport.com and http://www.hultongetty.com. The next objective for Getty is the launch of a hub Website for all the brands as a first step towards a complete desktop working environment for the global creative market. Getty Images' high-quality visual content brands are: Tony Stone Images (http://www.tonystone.com), the world's leading contemporary stock photography brands; PhotoDisc (http://www.photodisc.com), the world leader in royalty-free stock photography and electronic delivery; Allsport (http://www.allsport.com), the global leading sports photography Sports photography refers to the genre of photography that covers all types of sports. Equipment The equipment used by a professional photographer usually includes a fast telephoto lens and a camera that has an extremely fast shutter speed that can rapidly take pictures. brand; Hulton Getty (http://www.hultongetty.com), one of the two largest privately owned collections of archival photography in the world; Liaison Agency (http://www.liaisonphoto.com), a leading North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. news and reportage brand; and Energy Film Library (http://www.digital-energy.com), one of the world's leading stock footage brands. Further information is available from the group's Website at http://www.getty-images.com. PhotoDisc is an official trademark of PhotoDisc, Inc. and is registered in some countries. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and are used here for identification purposes only. |
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