Vector Images for Christmas

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:

Merry Christmas!

Jan

Beautiful Christmas Cupcake

The last couple of years have been good for the cupcake. And no wonder, when you look at how detailed and beautiful they are now-a-days. This looks nothing like the cupcakes I used to eat when I was a kid..  This christmas cupcake is from photographer Ruth Black.

Free Christmas Screensaver

If you’re having trouble finding the Christmas Spirit this year, we at YAY can help you! Install our FREE  screensaver with beautiful Christmas images. Our screensaver features a selection of 100 great images from our database. The images selected are our personal favourites, which will give you a pinpoint to the images we appreciate.

Get your free screensaver now!

Our screensaver is compatible with both PC and Mac. It’s also very easy to install. Seriously, it couldn’t be better.

Jan

Press Release: Stock Photo Agency YayMicro Releases New Affiliate Program: Get 20% Commission on All Sales – Forever

Affiliates can now work from home with a new stock photo affiliate program from the stock photo agency YAY Micro. The agency offers a 20% commission on all sales, and affiliates can offer customers a 20% discount coupon. Affiliates also have the chance to get a $5 bonus plus a chance to win a free iPad.

Today low price image agency YayMicro launches their new affiliate program. All affiliates get a 20% commission when promoting YAY and their images.

The 20% commission is offered on every sale, forever. This way one customer can provide a steady income for years. Clients are normally from ad agencies, papers, magazines, or they work as designers, freelancers, and within creative jobs. The images are used in design, to illustrate articles, in newsletters, annual reports, in blogs etc. Affiliates can offer quality royalty free images for one of the lowest prices available, and with a safe-to-use license for the client.

The affiliate program is considered to be one of the best in our industry, both on commission and on how easy it is to use. It should be painless and profitable for you – the more money you make, the more money we make, says CEO Linda L. Johannessen.

At YAY’s website there is more information on working from home, how to get started, ready-made banners, user instructions, and tips on how to use social media such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs. Readers can also learn how to make even more money with promoting the affiliate program. Affiliates get a 5% commission on all sales people you refer to the program makes.
Affiliates who join the program today also gets the chance to win a free iPad. All they have to do is to place a banner link on their homepage or blog.

Read more and watch a short video about being a YAY affiliate.

The press release

YAY's Traditional Julebord!

Today we are having our yearly Julebord with our employees. A “Julebord” is a Scandinavian tradition where employers throw a Christmas party for all employees. At our offices today we are serving the traditional norwegian dish Pinnekjøtt, which is smoked and salted mutton. It is, actually, quite delicious. The mutton is served with mashed rutabaga, potatoes and Christmas beer.

The talented guys over at Worldwide Panoramas AS, which share the same office as YAY, have been invited over, so this will indeed be a happening. If you’re looking into advanced photographic solution, you should check them out. They’re gigapixel photographies are very impressive!

A Julebord is kind of like the Scandinavian version of Thanksgiving, except for the turkey.

Merry Christmas!

Jan

Share This Image

Tuesday I wrote a blog post about one way for photographers to share their images. Here is another; the new “Share this image”-box.

If you are a photographer you will see this box on our preview-pages (right side, below keywords) and provides copy-paste ready links to the image in different formats. There are even one-click Facebook and Twitter buttons for you to use.

The links also include affiliate-codes for our soon-to-be-launched affiliate program. This means you automatically make money if you get customers to our site, by using these links when sharing images.

Bjorn

Gingerbread as Christmas Decorations

Photo by shalamov

Gingerbread Christmas decorations are fun to make, beautiful to look at, and a joy to eat! Today I’m having my friends over, we’re going to make a gingerbread house and some hearts to hang in the windows. It’s a bit early, but I want to have some decoration ready since it’s the first sunday of advent tomorrow. In Norway the first sunday of advent marks the beginning of “Christmas preparation time”, what’s the tradition in your country, or in your family?

Linda

Photo by Ruth Black

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

I’ve recently returned from a trip to the US, where I had the pleasure to give a presentation of YAY to potential investors at the OTCQX-market in New York. A presentation that was very well received!

Anyhow, going to the US in November gives you a reminder of how infatuated Americans are with Thanksgiving celebration. The morning after I gave the presentation, I was watching morning TV at the hotel and saw Mike Huckabee explain how to deep-fry a turkey for thanksgiving. I believe he was serious when he told the audience “Not only is it good, but it’s healthy too!”.

A short discussion about this at the office when I returned, and Linda showed me this rather fascinating cooking lady at YouTube:

So, have you ever deep-fried a turkey for thanksgiving?

Deep-fried or not, we at YAY wish you all the best for thanksgiving!

Jan