Now that was funny.
Wow. I have never seen anyone crash and burn so completely before.
OP: “Some things suck. Like this.”
BBF: “Oh puhleeze! You’re saying that everything in the universe is hell and life isn’t worth living? Frog! Typewriter! Cotton candy! Handkerchief!”
OP: “?”
BBF: “Burble burble ad nauseum”
Somebody here needs some fresh air.
And the prize for “first person to make me LOL today” goes to…
Now, now, let’s not be too hasty. After all: Frog! Typewriter! Circus peanuts! So maybe Boo Boo Foo has a point here.
Behind the rabbit?
No, not “just as.”
Are you trying to catch up with andrewdt85 for most embarrassing performance this week?
Whoa! Guys!!! Gals!
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Boo Boo just figured out what the fucking point of the PIT was! Man, boy am I glad we got that out fo the way. I though he’d never figure it out. I mean, what kind of dingus goes around insulting people for complaining about the endless nuisances and crap that goes on in the place set aside specifically for it? Who, I ask who? Who?!
Well, actually BBF does. What a whiny bastard. 
That he owns his own business.
I worked for several years for one of the ‘big two’ stock photo agencies. In the early days of the RF business, my company could only sell what the photographers we’re willing to give to them. Once the industry consolidated and the stock companies had enough leverage to dictate subject, composition and style to the photographers, the agencies had lots of usage info as the bulk of the business by then was coming as individual sales via the web. Quite simply, the have the photographers shoot more of what’s already selling and less of the stuff that’s not.
My company had a large department that did nothing but take customer input and watch trends so they could make all sorts of content decisions. I suggest that you write or call to make your complaints known. One complaint won’t change the direction of the entire industry, but I know they take that input very seriously.
Every month or so, we could pull reports of what images were selling best. It was sad, sad stuff. The way it worked generally was this: the crappy photos that we were embarrassed to have to use in our own catalogs were invariably the most purchased.
Can I ask what they were? My guiess is that it’s going to be a ton of handshakes, multicultural business meetings, attractive non-Asian Indian phone support workers, and young executives “looking up to the future” against a backdrop of skyscrapers.
Thanks for the input, Pork Rind. I’ll be sure to pass along my concerns to the Powers That Be.
Call me crazy, but I think I’m going to take a whack at getting through to Boo Boo Foo.
Okay, Boo, here’s the deal. Cuckoorex is working on a document for his company. He needs a picture of, let’s say… a woman in a certain pose. His company has a database of stockphotos which they’ve already bought, so he has to use those, as he has a limited budget.
He spends ten minutes looking, and he finds a picture that would be absolutely perfect! Except that there’s an ugly blue filter over the entire thing, that makes it useless for his needs. “Crap!” thinks Cuckoorex. “If only they hadn’t put this filter over it! This picture would be much more useful without it, because anyone with the slightest talent in graphical design could have put their own filter over it, if that’s what they wanted.” Unable to use this picture, Cuckoorex keeps looking.
Twenty minutes later, he finds another perfect picture! Perfect, except that they cropped the model’s eyebrows off. Another photo he can’t use! “Why would they crop the picture like this,” thinks Cuckoorex, “When cropping a picture is even easier than applying a filter? Surely the number of graphic designers who could use this picture un-cropped is much, much larger than the number of graphic designers who would want this picture cropped and lack the ability to do it themselves!” Cuckoorex keeps looking.
Another twenty minutes goes by, and Cuckoorex finds a picture that is okay. It’s not exactly what he’s looking for, but it’s not cropped or oddly colored or otherwise retouched, so he can use it. But it’s not really what he wants. He sets it aside, and keeps looking, hoping for a better picture. Another hour later, he gives up, having found no unaltered pictures in the database that are better than his compromise photo.
“Well, this was frustrating,” thinks Cuckoorex. “I spent two hours looking for a picture I could use, and had to settle on something I don’t really like. If only the people who put together this database wouldn’t edit their pictures! I would have been done in ten minutes, and have been much happier with the final product! Although a minor complaint in the grand scheme of things, I feel the need to vent my frustrations publically, and perhaps find comiseration with people who have faced similar annoyances. I know, I’ll start a pit thread on the SDMB! With such a clear cut, uncontroversial, and relatively obscure complaint, it will no doubt garner few responses, but I’ll feel better for having got it off my chest.”
Now, Boo Boo Foo, can you see that nothing you’ve said in this thread has the slightest relevance to anything that Cuckoorex has actually said? If not, I can try again using smaller words, but I’m not sure it would help.
I (insert heart symbol) furt. and **Miller ** is growing on me, too.
And it is a chore to float through thousands of images to find the “right” one. I have done this scores of times for companies that do not have the budget for a designer so they borrow ours.
My lame rant: Getting the “perfect” images and then doing a marketing focus group where they talk their sweet time in slamming them into the ground and grinding them with their heels. 
in my world talk + take…ha ha
That sucks, Cuckoorex. But hey! Look on the bright side! At least your not a completely pathetic waste of space an oxygen with a barbed dildo shoved up your ass who has to shit* on other peoples’ pit threads just to taste what it feels like to be a man. 'Cause that would totally suck.
*I wonder how he shits around the dildo…hmmm…
Hey, I just got turned down for a date two hours ago. You can catch me on the rebound…
Well, I’m 7 weeks pregnant, married and a constipated, weepy, vomiting mess…How’s that for sexy?!? 
Rowr!
I dig your kink, baby…
Try Getty Images..
They do have their share of shitty stock pics, but they also have a lot of very good ones. I’ve been going to them since college for my stock images.