Comments on: Imagepick launches royalty-free image bank

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:01:08 +0000

Robin - interesting, thanks, for the heads-up

By: Robin Blandford

Robin Blandford — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:27:18 +0000

Hi Mike,

I don’t see what’s special about this to make TCUK. Our family business has been doing it years. See http://www.imagefile.ie/ for almost 3 million images from an aggregation of 69 international suppliers. Lots of European influence in them too, rather than American. Interesting sales models too, including an ‘all-you-can-eat’.

imagepick is using the 20/20 image sales web app (you’ll find it on many sites), which in my opinion having tested a few, is not great.

-Robin.

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Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:13:25 +0000

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By: Jay Adair

Jay Adair — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:19:02 +0000

From a usability point of view, the first thing that struck me was how you couldn’t right-click and open an image in a new tab or window. There’s javascript hindering this. A bit annoying when you’re trying to flick between list and detail views.

The use of classic ASP is interesting as well. Perhaps they dug out a dusty old shelved product from Getty for their own uses

The photos are very American looking as well, at least for the term I used ‘motorcycles’. This is pretty much always the case when I look at image libraries, which puts me off. Perhaps I should approach them and offer our photos which are UK shot.

Otherwise, I don’t see how this differs from a hundred other libraries out there, and at that price, as you say, it’s setting a high minimum bar.