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BigStockPhoto.com, one of the fastest growing,  royalty free, online stock image sites, today announced that the one-millionth live image has been uploaded to its site. Since launching BigStockPhoto in late 2004, the site has experienced phenomenal growth and success, establishing the BigStockPhoto online community as a noteworthy force in the rapidly evolving microstock industry.

Scrapblog™ has announced availability of its free web-based multimedia scrapbook authoring software service. In development for over two years, Scrapblog lets everyday people mix their photos, videos, audio, text and other creative elements to create multimedia scrapbooks called scrapblogs.

Scrapbloggers can aggregate content from their computer or their favorite social media sites including YouTube, Photobucket, Flickr, Yahoo! Photos, and Webshots. Scrapblogs can be shared with just a few friends or the entire world; currently Scrapblog supports direct publishing to Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress, Flickr, MySpace, Facebook and other popular social networking platforms.

Create Magazine has launched the global Create Network - an online community seeking to connect and inspire creative professionals. (http://www.createmagazine.com/)

“Since officially launching on March 20, the Create Network has already attracted over 6,000 members, including commercial photographers, art directors, copywriters, designers, film producers, animators and graphic designers looking to be informed, connected and inspired,” said Jerry Brown, publisher of Create Magazine and president of Create Communications.

iStockphoto®, the world’s most visited stock imagery and video site, has selected AMUSE Entertainment Group B.V. to take its stock photography images into the mobile sector. The pilot phase of the program will be launched in the UK and will allow mobile users to download wallpapers from a selection of 5,000 of iStockphoto’s quality images. Images will be found within a dedicated mobile storefront accessed through the iStockphoto website, and marketed and promoted jointly by iStock and AMUSE. Images will be made available to UK mobile phone subscribers on the 3, Orange, O2, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone networks, and will be delivered via mBlox, the world’s largest mobile transaction network. 

Urban Dirty is a regularly updated online photo library featuring 153 gritty, grimy and sometimes slimy images for use in design and artwork creation. For example, here’s a desktop wallpaper using an Urban Dirty photo. View the images in small, medium or large, download or edit online and have fun with them.

My good friend Bjorgvin has launched a brand new version of Stockvault.net.  New look, new features, and lots of new images!  Browse and search the photo gallery of over 7.000 royalty free, high resolution stock photos, templates and logos to use in your personal and educational design projects. You can now share your own photos by signing up as a photograper to give something back to the community.

In case you are looking for SUPER high resolution textures and backgrounds, visit StockVault’s sister site TexturePacks.net, where you can buy and download images in packs of 25.