FATOMANIA – AN ONLINE MARKET PLACE FOR HIGH QUALITY PHOTOS

An online photo gallery allows consumers to purchase photos and images over the internet. It provides a quicker and easier solution to help photographers set up their own photo gallery in order to attract more netizens to purchase their professional photos online. With Fotomania, the researchers aimed to provide netizens with an online market place where customers will encounter no difficulty in accessing and buying high quality (HQ) photos for their various needs. It has easy-tohandle navigation features, which mainly includes a user-friendly search bar. Unlike other websites, photos on the site are also properly arranged by category so customers will no waste time sifting through random pictures. The site also allows registered Fotomania users to create their own portfolio of the photos they bought. Fotomania helps photographers earn money by selling the stock photos they have uploaded to the website. Stock photos (stockphotography) are professional photographs – usually of landscapes, landmarks, tourist spots, noteworthy events and people – which are bought and sold on a royalty-free basis. The photographer (or stock photography distributor) has ownership of the images while the buyer – usually commercial or web designers - is given limited usage of the photos sold on an online photo gallery. This is typically stipulated in the Terms of Service with the companies which sell photos on the internet.