Image research and picture editing
Whether it's for a big campaign, a trade publication, a blog post or a social media post – the right image decides whether your message lands. At Strandperle, we have been specializing in exactly this for more than ten years. As an independent image service provider and your outsourced art buying team, we research across the pool of all agencies worldwide and are tied neither to individual providers nor to particular portfolios. This way we ensure that you always get the best possible selection: on-brief, creative and beyond the mainstream.
External art buying
Strandperle is your outsourced art buying: we take over the complete image sourcing and picture editing for advertising agencies, design studios, companies and publishers. You don't need to build or maintain an art buyer team of your own. Whether you need punctual support for a campaign, want to relieve your in-house picture desk, or want to outsource image sourcing entirely: we work flexibly as an extension of your marketing and creative department.
As external art buying, we bring two things that are often hard to cover in-house: market overview and negotiation skill. We know the catalogues of all relevant stock agencies, we know which collection stands for which visual language, and thanks to our purchasing volume we have access to conditions that are usually not available to individual companies. You get the same quality and selection as an in-house art buying department, but at significantly lower fixed costs and without the overhead for recruiting, tool licenses or training.
In practice this means: you send us your brief, we take over the research, the rights clearance and the budgeting and deliver fully approved visual material, including all invoicing documents from a single source. That way your team keeps its head free for what really counts: concept, design and the strategic work on your brand.
Send us your brief, and we get started. Our experienced picture editors know the most diverse visual languages and know what matters in the various industries, from lifestyle and wellness through best ager to industry, pharma and technology. We take your corporate identity, the tonality of your brand and the requirements of the respective channel into account.
On request we create moodboards and creative research so you can visually think through your campaigns from the start. We master the techniques of professional image selection: depth of field, focal length, aperture effects, the golden ratio, tonality – these are not foreign words to us but our daily tools. Creative images stand out from the flood of interchangeable motifs. That's why we give you versatile input that goes against the mainstream.
A visual language oriented to the target audience is the tool with which companies shape their outside perception: on the homepage, at the PoS, in ads and especially on social media. Through precise image sequences, brands can be anchored in public awareness the way the company spirit intends. We advise you on finding the optimal image taking your corporate identity and corporate design into account.
It doesn't always have to be photography. There's also astonishing material in the world of illustration – from comics and children's books through fashion and product design to storyboards and scribbles for ad campaigns. Beyond that, we also research videos, soundtracks, music pieces as well as typefaces and fonts for you. Whether it's a clip for social media, background music for your image film or the right typography: we find the material that fits.
We are not just suppliers, but project partners. We support you in every phase of campaign development, from the first idea through motif selection to final approval by the end customer. This of course includes clean rights clearance and licensing as well as on-target budget optimization. All from a single source.
Give us a call or drop us an e-mail. We don't just speak with words – we also master the alphabet of visual language.
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