Archive for the ‘Images’ Category

20 Free Facebook Cover Images

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Customize your Facebook profile with one of our 20 amazing Facebook Cover images. All images are ready to use, and provided to you by the low price image agency YAY Micro. Just right-click on an image to save it to your computer. © http://yaymicro.com

Click here to get your free Facebook Cover Image.

Image Gallery – New Images

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

We’ve just made an image gallery with some of our new images this last week. Click here or on the image to take a look at some great images from different photographers at YAY.

Image by photographer: Coffee999

Image by photographer: kaowenhua

Image by photographer: leaf

Image by photographer: uriy2007

Chinese New Year

Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Couple Wearing Rabbit Ears by iofoto
Couple Wearing Rabbit Ears by iofoto

Last Thursday was Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival as it is literally called. The Chinese are serious about celebrating the new year, and the whole festival takes 15 days. The last day is the classical lantern festivals, when people light candles and send small lanterns into the sky.

The year of the Rabbit is traditionally associated with home and family, artistic pursuits and peace. It is also easier to make a good income in the Year of the Rabbit, than in the ferocious Year of the Tiger, which just ended.

At YAY the Chinese New Year brings a welcoming vacation to our employees in China.

过年好! (Happy New Year!)

Jan.

Color Search – The Yay Way

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
parasol
“Parasol” by Ivonnewierink

Hi everyone

We are currently working hard on the search experience here at Yay Micro. We have some pretty cool stuff coming up in the near future, and today we’re introducing color search – the Yay Way.

We are big fans of the “keep it simple – stupid” philosophy. When we were thinking about how to implement color search, there was a lot of really interesting ideas that arose. In the end we wanted to create something that was easy enough for everyone to use, but at the same time providing a powerful tool that would be useful.

We ended up with what I would call Google Image Search on steroids. If you are familiar with Google Image Search, you might have noticed that you can easily choose a color for your images, but only one. We wanted to take it a step further and give users the same user interface, but allow them to choose multiple colors that might want in an image. Also, we wanted to give them the option to exclude certain colors. We are quite happy with what we ended up, and now we want to know what you think about it. It’s our first version, and we will defenitly keep improving it to our users’ needs.

Some examples of what you can search for:
Blue and Yellow “Flowers
Red and Brown, but not White “Woman”

So what do you think, leave a comment :)

Regards,
Bjorn

Free Valentine Wallpaper

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Get in a romantic mood with our free Valentine Wallpaper! Choose between many beautiful Valentine images from our talented photographers!

L:)

The Day Before Christmas

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

In Norway we celebrate Christmas on the evening of December 24th, making December 23td our “day before Christmas”. The main tradition this day is to decorate the christmas tree. We also have another odd tradition: We all watch an old german short movie, called “Der 90. Geburtstag oder Dinner for One“. It’s not even about Christmas. Does it get any weirder? The Amercian tradition, with movies such as It’s a wonderful life is much more Christmas-like, and I have to admit I prefer these movies ;) .

Today’s image captures the magic of a Christmas tree, and the anticipation for Christmas Eve! Photo by Sandralise

Linda

day-before-christmas-tree

Silent Night

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Only days from Christmas, let’s take a deep breath and make sure we enjoy this busy, wonderful time!

Linda :)

silent-nightPhoto by ciarada

Image of the Day

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

As often as possible I try to browse through recently received images, and then I click on an image and from there into a portfolio. This procedure gives us a good overview of the images we have at YAY. Sometimes I see an image that just reminds me of something. Today, that something was today. The image just reminded me of how the feel of the weather was this morning.

This photo by ibphoto gave a perfect example of how the light and temperature was this morning. Cold, clear and crisp.

Couple of trees on frozen lake with sunshine
Couple of trees on frozen lake with sunshine

Jan

Christmas Animals and How to Get a Good Laugh

Friday, December 17th, 2010

You can just tell how embarrassing some animals find it to be dressed up as Santa’s little helper. But they’re so cute! If you want a good laugh, check out the Christmas section of “lol-cats”. I laugh until I cried, and then I laugh some more. The text for the dog image is from this site. Photo by studioportosabbia

Linda :)

loldog-christmas-funny

Vector Images for Christmas

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Ever thought about making your own Christmas card? Or Birthday card? Or an anniversary card for a loved one? YAY now has over 48 000 vector files that fit this purpose perfectly. And now, just before Christmas, we’ve seen a huge spike in downloaded vector-files. So, you ask yourself: What’s a vector file?

In vector graphics information is stored as a collection of geometrical shapes. That means that you can open a vector graphics file and render it as large as you want. You can also change geometrical values without distorting the image or loose quality.

At YAY we have both EPS and SVG vector files. EPS stands for Encapsulated PostScript and is the filetype that the Adobe program suite mostly support. EPS-files can be opened in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, as well as CorelDraw, GIMP and InkScape. All these programs can also save convert the EPS into JPEGs or your preferred format. SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics and is the preferred vector  file for web-applications. All major browsers support SVG. However, SVG is not supported in Photoshop. Though CorelDraw, Illustrator and Inkscape has native support.

InkScape is a program you should look into if you’re working with vectors and are in need of a free program. It is distributed under a free software license and is quite capable of doing almost everything you need to do with vector files.

So, I’ve picked a few examples to give you an idea of how vector files look:

Santa Chimney
Santa Chimney
Christmas trees and stars
Christmas trees and stars
An abstract orange floral background
An abstract orange floral background
Fairy Princess
Fairy Princess
Christmas and New Years Card
Christmas and New Years Card

Merry Christmas!

Jan