A picture paints a thousand words. This is certainly the case with good quality stock image or a digital photo.
There isn’t a modern website designed now days that doesn’t make good use of stock imagery and photos available to them online. Carefully chosen stock imagery can dramatically improve the look and feel of a website and transform what would otherwise have been a very bland and unimpressive looking site into a professional, vivid and eye catching one.
Within the past decade it has become much easier to access images and photos online but with the birth of Royalty Free Image Stock sites use of digital images has rocketed.
Purchasing Stock Imagery
There are many websites to purchase your images from and below are our top 5 Royalty Free Image Stock Sites:
Fotolia - http://www.fotolia.co.uk/
Getty Images - http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/
iStockphoto - http://www.istockphoto.com/
Juniper Images - http://www.jupiterimages.com/
Shutterstock Photo - http://www.shutterstock.com/
Even though the stock images are very cheap and can be attained easily after signing up with an image stock website, you need to ensure that you purchase the correct license for the type of work you intend to use the image it for. There are now quite strict guidelines on purchasing the correct license for the image and this tends to depend on the purpose and whether you intend to re-sell the image on a piece of work or a template and if so what quantity.
For more info on the licensing rules you would need to view the respective terms on the stock site you were purchasing from.
Selling Stock Imagery
If you have an eye for catching the perfect picture on your camera then why not set-up an account with an image stock site and sell your images? Each and every image stock site will have certain criteria that needs to be satisfied in order for the images to be shown and sold via their site.
The sort of criteria that would need to be adhered to before your images are accepted consist of areas like: quality, resolution, subject matter, legal, copyright, uniqueness and other various image and photo quality conformity.
We will be writing more specifically about various useful tips and advice on the use and selling of image stock in future.
Inferno Designs professional photographers supply photos and stock imagery that can be viewed via the following stock companies:
Fotolia: Visit our Fotolia Image Stock
Dreamstime: Visit our Dreamstime Image Stock
Article Written by David Taplin
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