New Lightboxes of Stock Images and Illustrations at Cutcaster

Abstract image - abstracts are great for presentations, backgrounds and wallpaper.

Baby pictures - We love babies at Cutcaster and so do our buyers.

Banking - We keep our eyes on the news!

Baseball - If it’s spring it’s baseball season!

Beach - It’s about time to play on the beach.

Business People - One of the top searches. Our business people are tops.

Calendar - Our vector calendars are tops.

Car - Automotive topics are in the news and in demand.

Cell Phone - Check out these fantastic images of people on the phone.

Child- We love kids too!!!

Computer - Computer and laptop images in high demand.

Concept- This is a light box of Law Concepts. Search Concept for all of our light boxes with special themes.

Cooking - Healthy cooking and eating images in high demand.

Dog - Pooch portraits are on the rise.

Drink - It’s happy hour! Search light boxes for Beverages for all our drink light boxes.

Flowers - Still one of the most searched words. Check out our premium box.

Food - We have some of the finest food photographers in the business at Cutcaster. Search on food for light boxes of food collections.

Fruit - Beautiful, seasonal, fresh.

Furniture - Isolated or in place, furniture shots have a lot of uses.

Garden - Gardens, gardening, and outdoor living are hot topics.

Golf - Fore!! We are looking for the greenest greens.

Health Spa - Spa topics are sought after at Cutcaster.

Illustration - Illustrations like web icons, silhouettes, concepts are in demand.

Medical - Medicine and health care images are in high demand. We would love to see hospital and doctor’s offices.

Money- Currency, financial, trading, and thrift concepts.

Office Team- Office people in groups, interacting with each other.

People family- Families acting naturally together in demand!

Real estate - Front page news, real estate concepts are needed now.

Sky- Something as simple as the sky, or as complex as weather are searched for now.

Soccer - We are looking for sports of all kinds.

Spiritual - Religion topics, we need many more of these themes.

Wine - Connoisseurs love our wine images.

As some of you know, we revamped the photo lightbox tool so it is much easier to create, edit, add images to and send lightboxes at Cutcaster. This is not only a great feature for photographers at Cutcaster who want to organize similar images but also for us to send to potential buyers on our site when they ask for research or about a particular type of images. Login and check out the new lightbox tool if you haven't seen it yet. Here is some more info on how it works:
http://blog.cutcaster.com/2010/02/02/photo-lightbox-feature-release-new-additions-and-explanations/

Here are a few of the lightboxes that we have created with your images and are putting in front of our buyers. If you have any images that are relevant and you think would go well in any of these lightboxes, please let us know. Also please create lightboxes for your own images as we have seen that these are getting picked up by search engines and bringing eyeballs and hopefully more buyers to your images.

Let us know what you think and as always hope everyone is doing well.

Digital Railroad Cuts Staff in Half

Charles Mauzy, who was just appointed CEO of Digital Railroad in November after Evan Nisselson stepped down, announced today that the online photography service is restructuring and will be cutting back on its staff. The number of cuts has not been reported but blogger John Harrington has speculated that Digital Railroad would cut as many as 22 jobs, or roughly half its staff. Mark Ippolito, who I met at this years Picturehouse, and Tom Tinervin, who I saw speak at the Apple store in Soho, will remain in their respective roles.

This is a definite shift in their business strategy most likely to focus more on the marketplace model, which we also believe at Cutcaster was the way to go, or they are running out of money and hanging on. What was the amount of their last round of investment?

Mauzy says, "The friends and colleagues we say farewell to today have laid the foundation for our mutual success," and notes, "Our investors have tremendous confidence in our leadership team, our strategy and have renewed their financial support with additional investments in capital this month."

600,000 and counting!

This is a great video of the Myers family of Sacramento. They have a collection of 600,000 slides of photos which means they were born with a camera in their hands and it never left their side. Check out the organization and the time it must have taken to amass that collection. Bravo for providing some great moments in time and sharing them with us.