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Happy New Year 2014 – Designs and Photos

Sam — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:18:39 +0000

Download royalty free Happy new year 2014 celebration greeting card designs, Beautiful Collection of the Happy New Year 2014 Greeting Card designs for your inspiration, Wish your friends and loved ones a Happy New Year 2014 with these Festive New Year Cards Designs, Photos, and Wallpapers!

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Search Keywords: 2014 , calendar , card , celebration , change , decade , festive , greeting , happiness , happy new year , holiday , illustration , luck , lucky , new , number , occasion , positive , special , traditional , wish , year

Happy 4th of July – Designs and Photos Greeting Cards

Sam — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:20:39 +0000

Celebrate the birthday of America with your friends, family and loved ones and wish them a Happy 4th of July. With a true national spirit of courage, integrity, sacrifice, liberty and independence, Collection of beautiful stock photos designs and greeting cards for the Independence Day of the United States available for all commercial uses under the extended license.

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Search Keywords: 4th of july , america , campaign , card , day , democratic , event , flag , fourth , freedom , greeting , happy , holiday , independence , invitation , july , liberty , memorial , national , patriot , patriotic , pride , states , texture , united , usa , vector

New Featured Stock Photos – 17th of May 2013

Sam — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:28 +0000

This is a collection of new featured stock photos for this week: “Woman Hands Holding Ipad Tablet in Hands, Engraved Aladdin Lamp with Fire Flames, Manipulated Big Hand and Small Hand Attached Together, Orange Mugshot Prison Background, Fingers Climbing Over Stairs of One Dollar Money Bills, Hell and Heaven Road Sign on Green Landscape View, Seamless Yellow and Red Abstract Circles Texture and Backgroud, White and Black Smart IPhones Isolated on Gray Backgroud, 3D Design of Wooden Happy New Year 2014, Constitution of the United States of American with American Flag, American Independence Day Fourth of July Greeting Card, American Eagle Design with American Flag, Vector Seamless Macro Waterdrops Texture and Backgroud, Arabic and Islamic Art Calligraphy of Verses from the Holy Quran, Silver Jesus Fish Cross on Red Background, Closeup of Colored CD Lights”, and more 197 new photos addition onWhat’s New~ 17th of May 2013

Beautiful Cats Photography

Sam — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:18:15 +0000

These are beautiful and cute, funny, ugly, and even street cats, a collection of cats and pets stock photos for your commercial use:

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Search Keywords: beauty , cat , closeup , cute , dark , darkness , domestic , eye , face , fear , feline , fur , kitten , look , luck , macro , mammal , moustaches , muzzle , mysterious , night , nose , pet , portrait , pupil , stare , vet , veterinary

New Featured Stock Photos – 2nd of May 2013

Sam — Thu, 02 May 2013 10:59:50 +0000

This is a collection of new featured stock photos for this week: “ Young Girl Holding Rose in her Hand Isolated on White Background, Macro Closeup of Small White Headphones with Music CD, Closeup of Baby Face with Finger in Mouth, I love You in Handwrite English Calligraphy Greeting Card, Abstract Green Holes Texture and Background, Vector Design of Opportunity Ahead on Green Road Sign Against Blurry Sky, Blank and Empty Wooden Sign, Colorful Puzzle Pieces Logo Isolated Against White Background, Vector Design of Bald Eagle Perched in Tree Against Red Orange Sunset Sky Background, Silver Male and Female Sign and Symbol on Red Wooden Surface, Searching People with Magnifying Glass in Vector Design, Large Pizza with Vegetables and Meat on Wooden Table, Hand Painting Cat Sketch Artwork, Violence Words in the Shape of Hand Gun, Plate with Fresh Falafel Balls, Macro of Webworm Insect Insect Walking on Disk”. and more 220 new photos addition on What’s New~ 2nd of May 2013

New Featured Stock Photos – 16th of April 2013

Sam — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:41:32 +0000

This is a collection of new featured stock photos for this week: “ Closeup Baby Girl Face, Closeup of Mountain Toucan Head, Man and Woman Holding Love Hearts, Baby Holding Mother’s Finger, Red Flamingo with Neck, I Love You in Calligraphic Design, Male Nubian Ibex, Business Team Against Sunset, Restaurant Green Menu Cover Design, Swirled Colored Abstract Background, Vector Paitning of Tiger Face, Yin Yang on Splashes Grunge Background, Beautiful Model Woman Face Wall Painting, Feng Sui Frog with Gold Coin in Mouth, Pink Balloon Isolated on White Background, Common Chameleon Walking on Dry Branch”. and more 220 new photos addition on What’s New~ 16th of April 2013

People Silhouettes Designs at Sunset

Sam — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:01:57 +0000

Silhouette always comes with the most stunning photography and designs, A silhouette is the picture of a person or object in unique scene which is viewed as a solid shape in black color, the subject of the silhouette is basically featureless and dark, and the whole is usualy presented on a light colorful or even dark background, This is a collection of beautiful vector designs of people silhouettes at stunning sunset backgrounds.

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Search Keywords: arm , boy , brother , child , couple , mom , evening , family , gesture , hand , home , horizon , house , kid , little , love , mood , mother , nature , outdoor , parent , people , play , pond , positive , relative , rest , river , shadow , shoulders , silhouette , sister , sky , son , stand , sundown , sunset

No Longer Photos Under the Free License

Sam — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:17:37 +0000

I have launched my Photos8.com website (with original high resolution photos downloads) for free back in 2007. Stock photos were available with two licenses, one is free as long credit is given to me and my site and one has to be paid for if no credit is given. With both licenses you can still download the high resolution images.

This was an effort to make it easy for users, students, designers, and etc. who can’t afford paying for photos for their projects. While the site has loyal followers, over the years the terms have been misused.

Many people started taking my photos and using them without my permission and without complying with my terms and conditions. Those people assume that any image on the internet or on Google image is free so they don’t worry that much about respecting copyrights, wallpapers sites distributing my images, posters and stock photos selling my photos. And the list goes on and on, lots of things that I can’t control.

So, on June 2011, I have created Photos8.org with a Shopping cart system and to have it combined with Photos8.com, this way i can have control over and the high resolution images became only available when user purchase the extended license (which comes at a very cheap price) for those who really need it for their commercial projects and work, and the free images become available under the free license and it’s only with the small image size “500(px) x 333(px)”.

I thought that the small image size will be enough to users who really need images in their work, school, projects, commercial use, and etc for free, and if any users is interested in using my high resolution photos in any commercial use can always purchase it and download it with my extended license.

I thought that with this change the misuse of my images will be very few and little, but I was very wrong !! Tons of users and sites (I am not going to mention specific countries by name because we are all equal) are taking my images and copy them as it is, they remove my watermark on the free sample image and distribute them, sell them, creating spam websites and etc. My site even began to lose ranking on search engines and those who are taking my images are ranked higher.

Working and Filling DMCA take down requests from search engines, hosting companies, websites and domains, tracing users who steal my images and also taking legal against violators of my copyright is taking all my time, efforts and money, and the truth is I am very tired doing all of this.???

What made things worse is On 25th of Jan 2013 Google announced a new design for its Image Search, and this changes the way Google displays images. The image search has resulted in a 60% drop in traffic from Google image search. And users no longer have to click through to view the high-res version of the image, Google is displaying it for them. In essence, Google is taking images to display it on their own website, without referring the user on to the site, Read More about Google’s New Image Search is Killing My Sites.

I have put a lot of efforts and time into making this site grow, Beginning today 15th of April 2013, I will no longer provide my photos under free license anymore, all free sample images will be watermarked and not be available anymore under the free license, all of my photos are available under the Extended commercial license, and for any users who is still using my photos under the free license please note that nothing is changed (the legal free license images is still the same, credit and attribution).

For new users and return users, I am very sorry for ending the free license, These changes are never easy, But by focusing my efforts, I can concentrate on building great photos and designs.

Wooden Textures and Background for Designers

Sam — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:55:35 +0000

Wooden textures is a massive design trend for designing backgrounds, This is a collection of high resolution Wooden textures and backgrounds, designers can take full advantage of and these photos are allowed for commercial usage for free and with extended commercial license.

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Search Keywords: abstract , area , backdrop , background , border , brown , carpentry , cover , decoration , design , exhibition , floor , flooring , front , indoor , inside , interior , panel , parquet , place , room , structure , surface , texture , timber , wall , wooden

New Featured Stock Photos – 1st of April 2013

Sam — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:17:39 +0000

This is a collection of new featured stock photos for this week: : ”Newborn Baby Girl Crying, Bricks Wall with Landscape View, Three Crosses with Jesus at Sunset, Happy Birthday Open Card , Greeting Love Hearts, Colored Glass with Sky in Broken Window, Kids Standing in Line at Sunset, Catching Locust in Hand, Blue Explosion Abstract Background, Drawing Smile on People Face, Good Luck in Japanese Kanji Hand Write Calligraphy, Wish You Happy New 2014 Year Greeting Card, Scary Skull Man with Fire, Sheet of One Thousand Dollar Bills Year Series 1934, Side Head Portrait of Grey Crowned Crane Bird, Complicated Road Sign Against Blue Sky” and more 370 new photos addition on What’s New~ 1st of April 2013