Digital stock image marketplace Fotolia have launched Fotolia V2, a new version that offers performance enhancements as well as two new features: a public API and the ability to distribute vector files.
The new version of Fotolia sees complete redesign that is said to boost stability, speed and enhance the user experience, as well as providing improved support for global standards and non-English languages.
Fotolia’s new public API makes it possible for developers to integrate Fotolia in to their applications or products. The company already has numerous partners for the program building applications including plug-ins, add-ons and widgets.
SVG vector support gives Fotolia an edge over many of its competitors by supporting a format that continues to grow in popularity due to its ability to be resized on any scale without quality loss.
Fotolia was already a well rounded stock photography site. The new version makes the overall package more appealing.
Fotolia is a great site. Can’t imagine how much money i have saved on stock images since 1 year with them . They have the more diverse portfolio from all micros .
Cool site, but a little slow sometimes..
I used Fotolia for 6 months and always find new and interesting stuff for my customers.Very cheap and god stuff but .the site has always been very slow. How will it change with v2 ?
I signed up with them and right now my profile page is throwing errors. hope it gets fixed shortly. -dm
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Location: http://www.fotolia.com/Member/MyContents
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This site seems very slow. They need to fix this soon.
I don’t like Fotolia for several reasons: too slow, search results are not accurate enough, from 50 visits probably 10 ended with mysql error pages. A quick visit just now didn’t show any big improvements.
istockphoto is doing a lot better job in royalty free stock - my 2 cents!
Cool site / SVG takes it over the top
Hello,
The site is not that slow for a new launch with tons of visitors. In addition to increase number in visitors, I can imagine that they need to make the cache effect work. I don’t know what SVG are but any a pretty website !!
Jupa
I remember the days when getty and their ilk was about your only route to royalty-free if you wanted anything decent on a budget. Sites like this and istockphoto lower the entry barrier for graphic artists, and this is a good thing, because it just invites more creativity into the mix.
If I was an illustrator, though, I actually would find the SVG thing a bit annoying. Since they offer both SVG and EPS as output options to buyers, why not allow uploads of EPS, too? Most vector art is going to be created in professional illustration program that generates EPS, so exporting same as SVG is an extra step.
Nothing against SVG, but as a format it’s a long way from real adoption on the web, at least until MS starts supporting it in IE. Of course, if this site helps push adoption of SVG then I’m all for it, since I’m a big fan of that format.
Bottom line, it’s a nice site, not really any slower on a high speed connection than istockphoto that I could notice. I’ve been on istockphoto for a long time - and I’m signing up for this one, too.
Lucky Oliver is a better up-and-coming microstock agency. Much better selection and higher quality.
The vector aspect is cool, but definitely not an edge that can’t be duplicated by the others.
I am sorry, but i totally don’t agree with you. Lucky Oliver is not even comparable to Fotolia. Fotolia’s images quality and the site is much better.
This is a test
Some pretty impressive features. I am sure some graphic design software/web design software will take advantage of the API to offer their users an easy way (ala Microsoft Office Clipart) to access photos.
I tried checking the website and this is what i got
XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://www.fotolia.com/
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