Creative Juice

10 Free Motion Blur Light Effects

Kickstock Photo — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:12:01 +0000

Merry Christmas!

Here’s your Gift!

You can download the attached media zip file (16Mb) which contains 10 free abstract background images. Three low-res samples are shown below. All images feature abstract light trails, motion blurs and other colourful light effects. The images are all high resolution (10 megapixel) in size.

The attached images (zip file) are free to use, our standard usage terms apply.

All the best for the holidays and coming year.

Focus On: Fonts

Kickstock Photo — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:06:07 +0000

It’s been around for a while, but It’s still a great thing to have around the studio. The perdiodic table of the fonts was originally published at behance.net http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Periodic-Table-of-Typefaces/193759 and subsequently flashed around various sites including lifehacker. You can download screensaver versions from the original creators at http://www.squidspot.com/Periodic_Table_of_Typefaces.html

periodic table of fonts

Coffee Break: Tilt Shift Maker

Kickstock Photo — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:54:32 +0000

tiltshiftmaker.com is probably more of an amusing curiosity than a pro tool, but it provides a few minutes fun none the less. The service enables anyone to create an image that looks like it was taken with a tilt shift lens. The effect only works with some images, but produces some quite eye catching results when used with aerial photos.

We tried it out on a few of our photos, one of which we have attached below, the results are quite striking. Of course you can make a better job doing if on photoshop, like I wrote at the top of this post, this is more of a coffee break toy

- warning addictive.

New Images: Japan

Kickstock Photo — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:04:54 +0000

3 Images from our recent japan stock photos gallery

2010 Stock Photo Buyers Survey

Kickstock Photo — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:26:23 +0000

What’s on your mind?

At kickstock we would really like to know more about how we can help you find the image you need at the right price.

You can help us by completing the
anonymous buyers survey.

(If you just want to know the results, which should be quite interesting, there there is a link at the survey site to access those too.)

Coffee Break: 3 Interesting Flickr Tit-bits

Kickstock Photo — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:56:59 +0000

Mixed Media Pool

Flickr Tilt Shift

Kevin Russ

Open Search Plugin

Kickstock Photo — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:57:37 +0000

You can now search kickstock without ever needing to visit the site to enter search terms. We have added an open search feature that allows you to add kickstock to your web browsers search bar.

In firefox just click the drop down in the search bar and select add on any page on the site.

Coffee Break: English Russia

Kickstock Photo — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:33:42 +0000

Not stock photography, but definitely a creative treat for anyone interested urban photography and urban exploration.

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1499

worth a couple of minutes browsing, enjoy!

Creative Snack: Chaotic.co.uk

Kickstock Photo — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:40:19 +0000

Yes it’s the blog of yet another designer, but yes it draws together some pretty cool stuff as “noteworthy and reflective of my current interests and tastes.”

http://blog.chaotic.co.uk/

New Images: Architecture

Kickstock Photo — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:16:42 +0000

New images added to Built Environment > Architecture