And my personal favourite...the classic.....2 men shaking hands!!!
What I'm listening to right now: Kanye West - "Drunk & Hot Girls" & "Flashing Lights" from the "Graduation" album. Wicked.Petition to stop the use of cheesy stock images on blogs
Don't get me wrong, a picture paints a thousand words and I love them. If you are blogging about a company/person/place/product whatever then Iwould encourage you to post a relevant picture of that company/person/place/product.
But....don't use cheesy stock photos just because you think they brighten up your blog. They don't. Examples below:
And my personal favourite...the classic.....2 men shaking hands!!!
What I'm listening to right now: Kanye West - "Drunk & Hot Girls" & "Flashing Lights" from the "Graduation" album. Wicked.
And my personal favourite...the classic.....2 men shaking hands!!!
What I'm listening to right now: Kanye West - "Drunk & Hot Girls" & "Flashing Lights" from the "Graduation" album. Wicked.9 Responses to Petition to stop the use of cheesy stock images on blogs
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You missed one! How could you possibly forget the WORLD with some sort of zipping light speeding round meant to resemble some sort of Network!
But I always fall for them
They’re so “call to action”!
2 men shaking hands!!! – I don’t know how many times I’ve been designing a brochure or website with a client sat with me who wants to remove all the good pics – but doesn’t know what to replace them with only to decide at the last minute on “2 men shaking hands!!!” Agreed – it has to go
I’ve always wondered about this as well! But they probably work – just look at all the cheesy pictures on the marketers’ sites and salespages!
LOLOLOL – the classic two men shaking hands. So true.
Cheese is good! Is there any particular site that got your goat so much that it promoted you to post? We’d all love to see it!
I know a corporate website where the pictures of people working turned up a week later in a Kenco coffee advert. A website in our industry, nontheless.
There’s also a woman that’s always used in photos to advertise bingo and the suchlike – in one of the missus’s trashy magazines, she was on one page as a “competition winner” and a couple of pages later advertising something completely different.
I’ve found her! http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=325112
She gets everywhere. I look like a stalker now, don’t I?
Nothing worse if you are on a slow connection waiting for the meaningless picture to download. Unless they add value to a post, I wish people would stop using them in their blogs.
No discussion of stock photography is complete without mention of Everywhere Girl. Immortalised by The Inquirer website this girl’s sole photoshoot has been used by so many companies on so many websites it stopped being funny a long, long time ago.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=24735