If you’re a photographer, designer or marketing type, chances are you’ve used Shutterstock‘s stock image service at some point — either to hawk your wares, or to grab inexpensive(ish) good-looking images for a project. And if you use the service frequently, things just became a little easier — thanks to Shutterstock’s new iPad app (as long as you have an iPad, of course; if you’re a photographer without an iPad, well, get one).
And hey, even if you don’t usually have anything to do with the buying and selling of images, the new app is a free, charming way to poke around in the world of photography.
When he was eight, Eli Milchman came home from frolicking in the Veld one day and was given an Atari 400. Since then, his fascination with technology has made him an intrepid early adopter of whatever charming new contraption crosses his path. He calls San Francisco home, where he works as a journalist and photographer. Eli has contributed to the pages of Wired.com and BIKE Magazine, among others. Hang with him on Twitter.
8 responses to “Shutterstock Now Has a (Very Pretty) iPad App [Daily Freebie]”
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Thanks for the article Eli. Congrats!
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Seriously – is proofreading that hard?
I am going to guess that this app is not some sort of iOS pawnshop application, giving me an opportunity to “hock” my wares. Hock is a transitive verb meaning “pawn”.
It seems more likely that this app makes it easier for me to “hawk” my wares (verb – sell).
Words mean things, people. The effectiveness of your message becomes diluted when the reader is forced to suss out what you meant, rather than simply reading what you wrote.
Allen, no, proofreading isn’t hard — but it does take time. In this case though, it was just a brain fart.
Because we don’t have the budget of a Newsweek or a New York Times, we don’t have the layers of editing we’d like in order to ensure mistakes like these don’t get through (even then, I’ve seen horrible errors sneak through onto front page headlines in big-city papers. It happens).
Of course, a big reason we don’t have a large budget is because we don’t have a paywall. Which means you get to read articles at this site for free. So while I appreciate the heads-up (I really do), I think a little less complaining is in order.
So – less than the one (1) complaint that I have ever posted to this site is how many I am allowed to have?
Got it.
While I don’t write for publication, I do routinely write both internal and customer facing documents in my work. I can understand the occasional misplaced punctuation mark or typographical error, though I put extra effort into avoiding those types of mistakes. Misapplying homophones falls into a completely different category. As I said previously, words mean things. Using a word that *sounds* like the one you want might be acceptable for your Facebook status, but it falls well short of the standards for professional journalism
If budget issues are to blame for not bothering to verify that you are using the correct words in your sentences, then what you are saying, in effect, is that you don’t get paid enough to be accurate.
How much is your intellectual laziness worth to you? I might be willing to kick in a Jackson – if it helps produce articles that are factually accurate.
Allen…you sound like a dick.
I’m glad you think so.