The other day I was helping out a client looking for different types of people in our stock photo base. After working in the stock photo industry for some years you begin to recognize the different models, and you’d probably greet them as old friends if you ran into them on the street. Even when you have 10.000+ models in your image base, as we do now, you still recognize a surprising number of them!

So at first I didn’t stop to take a closer look when I saw a familiar face. But there was something about those blue eyes that made me click back to take a closer look. I thought to myself “This must be that Grey’s Anatomy guy, Avery, but is he a stock photo model”? I got Jan to check the model release, and it’s true.

Jesse Williams, who plays Jackson Avery in Grey’s Anatomy, is a stock photo model represented at Yaymicro.com!

Let’s enjoy his pictures while we wait for season 7, where he’ll play a leading role. First episode, “With You I’m Born Again” airs on September 24, at ABC.

Cheers, Linda

When using editorial images (RM, Rights Managed) there are some regulations as to how much image editing is allowed.

The main rule is:

You should not change the main theme or content of the image in such a way that the message displayed in the image in any way gets distorted.This includes cropping and montages.

Yes, it happens all the time – but that does not make it any less questionable . You could get sued, and we don’t want that to happen, do we?

Often you need to give an editorial image a bit of retouching, a better cropping and perhaps some color adjustments. Minor adjustments like these are allowed! At Professor Hany Farid interesting home page you can see examples of unlawful image tampering, ranging from Abraham Lincoln, to Britney Spears and Sarah Palin. Some of the images at the site are funny, some are questionable and some are asking for a lawsuit.

And remember – editorial images mean editorial usage only, no commercial use! Editorial rights are licensed on a use-by-use basis. Use in an editorial manner means use relating to events that are newsworthy or of public interest and usually distributed through a legitimate mass media, presumably unbiased, which reaches an anonymous audience. For commercial use YAY offer Creative images with RF-license. This RF-license grants you permission to edit the image as much as you want, in any way you want. If you are unsure about editing or usage, feel free to e-mail us for (a free) advice!

Linda