Adobe to make iTMS for stock photography...

However: There already exist a lot of stock photography online stores out there, and they work quite well.

As for graphics templates and stuff (Illustrator, InDesign), I'm not so sure... Graphics professionals probably won't need them, anyway. And whether consumers are ready to shell out money for templates...

Your last question: Photoshop is dominant as in a monopoly. I don't think this will either make Photoshop sales rise or decline. But I _do_ find the situation poor. There was a time when xRes (was that Macromedia?) had a little chance of taking some customers off Photoshop. But the application (PS) just has been refined over the past 15 years to a degree others can't seem to match. And while there's still a lot of things one could want have added to Photoshop, I think competition will have a very hard way to get anywhere near its level. Also: They would have to have the same things but better - and for less money. And while PS is surely an expensive application, it's still relatively cheap for what you get.

But back on topic: I'd quite surely try out an Adobe Stock Photography Store. But we (the company I work for) already have good sources for stock photography.
 
fryke said:
However: There already exist a lot of stock photography online stores out there, and they work quite well...
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You're thinking is straight lines.

Imagine the photographic equivalent of iTMS, now integrate that with the Adobe Version Que system.

Imagine a business links into the stock image system. Someone finds an image they like, they download a low resolution copy and drop it into their layout.

The layout holds all of the information it needs via storing the image as a Smart Object [though not in its current form, granted].

Once the final InDesign or Illustrator layout goes to print, the final high resolution image is pulled in and paid for automatically, without any intervention on the part of any member of staff.

It's not hard to imagine how much of an impact this could have...
 
Has anyone used istockphoto.com? It's a different concept from usual stock sites but is very good (and cheap). Anyone can upload images to the site providing they pass a certain quality standard and the individual images are also good enough. This means there are a lot of designers and the like who maybe aren't professional photographers but upload very high quality stock images. For every image you upload, you get a credit for downloads, or you can just buy credits for 50c each. I've already used a few of their images for some publicity stuff I've been designing, it barely cost me anything and they look pretty good.

This isn't quite the model that Adobe are thinking of but there's a certain comparison with iTMS in that it encourages people to pay for downloads instead of using p2p. Of course it's a different medium but I think this is a very positive thing.
 
istockphoto.com: sounds interesting. registration didn't work for me, though, i.e. i've never got the e-mail they were promising. :/
 
I use istockphoto.com regularly. I find it more than useful, and always manage to find the image I need.

It's perfect when you need that 'something' for a web site, or want a fairly mundane picture, and don't want to fork out the huge amounts of money the usual photo sites ask for.
 
For the life of me I can't remember the name of this company or their product, but there is something already out there like this. They had a booth at the 'Drive by Design' event Apple had in November (Cincy one). I'll have to look and see if I picked up any kind of brochure from them.
 
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