Fotolia Acquired By Adobe – The Contributor Perspective

December 12, 2014 Marco | Editor

The news of the day has been that Adobe announced its plan to acquire Fotolia for $800 million dollar in cash (more here on Stock Photo Secrets). The agreement is expected to close in the first quarter of 2015, and Adobe has already announced that it wants to integrate the Fotolia offer into its Creative Cloud. We want to take a look how this is going to affect contributors in this post.

The background of the acquisition

Adobe has been the de facto standard for the design workflow with Photoshop and Illustrator as its main products. For the last …read more

Via: MSP

Marco | Editor

Editor and founder of a bunch of stockphoto businesses

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