iStock > Not what it used to be.
Is it just me or has iStockphoto gone to the dogs?
Like thousands of other small-to-mid sized ad/design firms out there, we have come to rely on iStock as part of our tool belt to create great design for clients that are on somewhat of a limited budget. The quality of their photos used to blow us away; they provided outstanding Royalty Free photography at a fraction of the cost to other sites like Veer & Corbis. In many cases, I couldn't believe that some of the pictures that the design team would show me actually came from iStock. But lately, something has changed, and as a result, iStock now appears to be just one click ahead of the weaker annual subscription sites like ablestock.com or photos.com. Lately, it seems that every search results in nothing but bad pictures with forced subject matter shot against a white back-drop with bad composition. What in the hell happened?
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