PhotoSpin Introduces Its First Series of New Monthly Royalty-Free Image Content for 2003.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers ROLLING HILLS Rolling hills are like a mountain chain, only a "hill chain" of hills that roll on and on continually. You will often find them in between plains and mountains, near major rivers, or randomly anywhere. The only places without rolling hills are deserts and flood plains. ESTATES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2003 New Series of Holidays and Office Situation Illustrations and Fruit and Vegetable Photos Offers Designers More Than 200 NEW Images PhotoSpin today announced the availability of its new series of royalty-free images that include an array of Holidays I & II and Office Situation Illustrations and Fruit and Vegetable photos objects. Subscribers will receive more than 200 images from the new series, found at http://www.photospin.com/new/. Holidays I & II illustrations allow designers to stock up now on holiday images for newsletters and printed material. This collection of holiday imagery contains Christmas, Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. , Easter, Thanksgiving and many other traditional American holidays. The difference between Holiday I and Holiday II is in its style. One is in a painterly paint·er·ly adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a painter; artistic. 2. a. Having qualities unique to the art of painting. b. , watercolor style and is only available as a jpeg or tiff (Tagged Image File Format) A widely used bitmapped graphics file format developed by Aldus and Microsoft that handles monochrome, gray scale, 8-and 24-bit color. file. The other batch contains the traditional eps file in addition to the jpeg and tiff and is ready for "layering". Office Situations is a group of illustrations created in direct response to subscribers who have requested more business and office type drawings. Designers will find almost all office type scenarios and each file is available in jpeg, tiff and eps. Fruit and Vegetable photo objects offer a wide variety of fruits and vegetables fresh from the grocer, from apples and oranges, to lettuces and tomatoes. Each image is a photo object and also comes with a clipping path A silhouette of an area that serves as a mask. Only that portion within the clipping path (mask) appears when placed into another application or combined with another image. The area outside the clipping path becomes transparent. and alpha channel An 8-bit layer in a graphics file format that is used for expressing translucency (transparency). The extra eight bits per pixel serves as a mask and represents 256 levels of translucency. For example, TIFF and PNG are graphics formats that support the 8-bit alpha channel. , ideal for wrapping type or creating photo composites. PhotoSpin's new images are well suited for Photoshop, Quark quark (kwôrk): see elementary particles. quark Any of a group of subatomic particles thought to be among the fundamental constituents of matter—more specifically, of protons and neutrons. , InDesign, Painter and any other image editing Changing or improving graphics images. It typically refers to bitmapped images rather than vector graphics drawings. Using an image editor, images can be modified by an artist using pen, brush, airbrush and other "painting" tools. or desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, application. As part of PhotoSpin's professional subscription for only $249 per year, members pay once and get unlimited downloads each year. In addition, they receive monthly updates of more than 200 new image, audio and video files. Images can be individually downloaded for $49.95 for high resolution and $24.95 for low resolution. Members can email PhotoSpin to request image content at submissions@photospin.com. They can also request image content on the Web at http://www.photospin.com/new. About PhotoSpin PhotoSpin Inc. is the first royalty-free content subscription site for business professionals. The PhotoSpin collection includes 60,000 award-winning photographs, illustrations, video clips, sound files, fonts and more. Additionally, 200 or more files are added to the collection each month. The company has a unique subscription-based model where users pay an annual fee, create a unique user name and password, and then can go on to the site for unlimited downloads of content for one year. Individual downloads and CD-ROMs are also available at the site. For more information about PhotoSpin, or its collection of images or individual products, visit http://www.photospin.com or call 888/246-1313. |
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