Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 released.

Beta was out for while so we got a glimpse of what is going to be there. Briefly I want highlight what's new:

• Noise reduction - natural-looking results from your high ISO images with noise reduction technology


• Lens correction - automatically reducing lens defects like geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting with single-click profiles


• Flickr integration - uploading your images directly to Flickr from within the Lightroom


• Image watermarking - embeding your identity or your brand and logo in your images


• Tethered shooting - importing and viewing images as you shoot them with tethered capture


• Perspective correction - nondestructive perspective correction

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May 2010 earnings breakdown

Overall worst month this year but it hard to achieve record level from previous months. SS continues to dominate with 58% of my earnings. 123RF stopped downhill trend and earned more than last month. I hope it will keep growing now. DT is climbing slightly every month. FT is third but it is oscillating around average, one month it is above, next below. No signs that it would change in future. This month was so weak that even IS scored more. I should stop writing right here cause everybody else is just random. No earning from BS this month but I got sales from FP after nothing for months. YM actually earned more than FT but from third-party sales and I have no idea how many images were sold.

May May/Apr
SS 58.62% 78.38%
123RF 12.90% 108.89%
DT 10.09% 169.51%
YM 5.75% #DIV/0!
IS 5.62% 61.72%
FT 4.85% 47.53%
FP 1.44% #DIV/0!
CSP 0.63% 10.64%
CS 0.11% 16.67%
Total 92.41%






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Google announces WebM open media format

At Google I/O conference: WebM, a new project that will attempt to offer a standard, open format for audio and video on the web.

WebM includes:

• VP8, a high-quality video codec we are releasing today under a BSD-style, royalty-free license


• Vorbis, an already open source and broadly implemented audio codec


• a container format based on a subset of the Matroska media container

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Extended lincense sold

First EL this month: underworld :-)

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Earn extra cash for every image accepted on Veer, until June 30

Earn extra cash for every image accepted. Veer Marketplace is launching an exciting new campaign that rewards you for being a part of the Veer community. From May 5,2 010 until June 30, 2010, you’ll receive a cash incentive – up to $1.40 – for every image uploaded and accepted. The more you submit, the more you’ll earn per image. Plus, you’ll continue to earn royalties for every future sale.

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April 2010 earnings breakdown

Overall better than month ago but far from BME. Good news is that SS made new record and dominated results this month. Second time this year I got BME form SS which is really good start. Let's look at other top 5 guys. 123RF came second. Great result in comparison to last year but after BME in January it cannot repeat its success and it is going slightly down every month. Still much better than others. Fotolia grows, slowly but steadily. It is enough be be third. Surprising result form CSP due to one Fotosearch Medium Regular sales. It happened after a month of no activity. DT is really down. Something is going on there, I got unusually high rejection rates and almost no growth in sales. IS on the other hand seems to grow. It is still 1/15th of what SS does but it is way better that last year. I wish ThinkStock result were posted faster cause it is now almost half of normal IS sales.


Apr Apr/mar
SS 63.91% 135.89%
123RF 10.12% 76.13%
FT 8.71% 159.99%
CSP 5.10% 4700.00%
DT 5.09% 50.32%
IS 5.08% 84.18%
BS 1.45% 80.00%
CS 0.54% 120.00%
108.13%


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Let's look at 2010 trends:
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Steve Jobs email response generator

It looks like somebody figured out that all this recent email responses from Steve Jobs are generated by a bot :-)

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