Looks like Calgary's Patrick Lor has hit the ground running since joining Fotolia two weeks ago. Today Fotolia - a marketplace for microstock photography and video - launched PhotoXpress, a free, premier-quality image bank, which will offer users royalty free image licenses for personal or professional use. Via Techcrunch, Lor says the site will feature a collection of more than 350,000 images and illustrations, but Lor’s ambitions are to have close to a million photos available free of charge.
Lor, president of both Fotolia North America and PhotoXpress North America, helped to build rival and now Getty-owned iStockPhoto.
iStockphoto, the world's most visited online stock photography marketplace, was created to meet designers' needs for high-quality, royalty-free... [more]
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