Design your way

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Designers always need great images to work with, and the first choice is stock photography, because it’s fast, affordable, accessible, and diverse.

However, some microstock agencies are unique by the services they offer to their customers. If you’ve been searching the web for royalty-free photos in 2014 and neglected to experience the benefits of YAY Images, then I’m sorry to break this down to you – but you’ve been looking in all the wrong places. Here’s what you’ve been missing.

YAY Images stands out with an awesome streaming subscription, whereby you just pay $9.90 per month for an unlimited amount of web-sized photos (700PX).

You don’t even have to download, edit in Photoshop, and upload them again wherever they belong. Instead, an in-browser editor stands by to help save time, and besides, you don’t even have to host them. When you’re ready, just copy the link of that image and paste it on the website/blog/newsletter of destination.

It’s like Spotify for images. You will find it dead simple to track down whatever you’re looking for. Either search for images using a keyword, or search for images with other similar ones – your own, YAY’s, or from a whole other source.

Let’s say you want flowery images to post on your blog. Launch a keyword search, and check out the advanced filters on the right side of the page. That is where you can manually drag-and-drop any photo to seek out visually similar alternatives. And when you’ve found your perfect match, choose the appropriate plan, provide your information, and take it.

They have more than 4.3 million images ready to be used so you don’t have to worry about not finding that pixel perfect photo that you were looking for.

Speaking of searching for images, on YAYImages it’s very easy to do it thanks to a super simple and user-friendly interface. Even the homepage is focused on searching so you’re not distracted by useless things.

For example if you are looking for an image with flowers in it, you’ll not only get the best relevant results but you can also fine tune your query by filtering after what colors do you want the images to have, if it’s a vector or not, if the image must include people in it, or if its format is landscape or portrait.

Buying the image is extremely simple: you only need to choose the format (streaming, digital or print) and that’s it! Oh and one more thing, you can even edit the image if you want to add and extra touch on it.

As you can see, you can add color effects, frames, you can resize or crop it, you can add text or change its orientation or brightness. That being said, you can convert a stock image into something unique, shaped exactly after your needs.

Are you ready for some treats? We have an exclusive coupon code just for you: FREE_TRIAL_DESIGNYOURWAY. Use it to tap into a free month of Streaming, 20% off the Digital plan, or a 10% discount for the Print subscription.

In the case of Streaming, you have to provide your credit card information from the very beginning, but you won’t be charged during the first month of membership.

If your needs stretch beyond the online environment, the last two solutions provide high-resolution images for E-books, Powerpoints ($49/month for 1000 downloads!), or print advertising ($99/month). Note that each of these subscriptions can be cancelled at any point, so there’s really nothing to worry about.

In the meantime, feast your eyes on some gorgeous stock photos that we chanced upon while we were peeking through the shelves of YAY Images:

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