In keeping with our caffeinated theme, this week’s free stock photo, Coffee Beans is also coffee-related. Download this image, by Shutterstock contributor barbaradudzinska, for free before Tuesday, February 14, 2012.

Get your daily dose of apples with this week’s free stock photo, Red Apples in a Row. Download this image, by Shutterstock contributor Fotocrisis, for free before Tuesday, January 31.

Fresh vegetables are the key to a healthy diet and this week’s free stock photo, Fresh Young Carrots by Shutterstock contributor straga, is a great example of that. Download this image for free before Tuesday, January 17.

Make 2012 fruitful! Download this week’s free stock photo, Fruit Tree from Shutterstock contributor ollirg, for free until the end of Monday, January 9.

As head of the Mobile team at Shutterstock, I’m excited to announce Shutterstock for iPad is officially live in the iTunes App store. (You can download it for free, here.)

After six months of researching, planning, developing, and fine-tuning, we hope customers find this application makes browsing for images a more seamless and beautiful experience than ever. With the simple swipe of the finger, you can:

• Scroll through thousands of images, seamlessly tiled together in a unique Mosaic View that doesn’t compromise image quality or aspect ratio by cropping or distorting;
• Save images into your existing lightboxes, or create new ones; and
• Share them via email, Facebook or Twitter.

As I’m sure many of you know, getting to the point of app launch can be a challenging, yet exhilarating, experience. Since this was to be our first venture into the mobile space—and because understanding the customer and their workflow is always central to product development at Shutterstock—this initiative started with a bit of research.

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