A stock photo is a photograph taken by a professional photographer and sold
on stock photo sites for use online and in print materials.
Have you used any of these
free stock photo sites for eLearning, or do you have a go - to site that I didn't mention?
Further, even if they are properly licensed, images
from stock photo sites may limit the number of printed or electronic impressions.
Even if you don't like to take pictures, more and
more stock photo sites are also looking for digital art as well.
The best workflow is to get photos from a
reputable stock photo site (We like 123RF) or, if you're doing a cookbook or other personal project, hire a good photographer to have your own high - quality photos taken.
Once you have a few ideas in mind, start searching
stock photo sites for the right image — I know many professional book designers who use sites like Big Stock Photo, 123RF, or IStockPhoto.
Dollar Photo Club is another resource for finding high - quality images and photos that are often found on more
expensive stock photo sites, all for about dollar each as well.
If you don't have the resources to design or take original photos, there are always free
stock photo sites such as Pexels and Stocksy.
While
most stock photo sites focus on a small niche (usually landscape photography), FreeImages offers thousands of pictures from a diverse selection of categories.
(I tend to get a lot of ads for
stock photo sites when I view my own site because I'm always buying stock photos.)
Many of these free
stock photo sites make their photos available with the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.
Meanwhile, it continued to face competition from Flickr,
other stock photo sites like Shutterstock, and Getty (which had done a licensing deal with EyeEm), as well as the increased number of freely available photo sites, like Unsplash, for example.
For those dipping their toes in the wonderful world of blogging or designing covers, here's a good one: Finding Photographs for a Book or Blog Gets Better, where he talks about a couple of little interface enhancements that have made shopping for royalty - free photos
on stock photo sites a whole heap easier.
I sent him links about the Vegas casinos being trademarked, but he argued that he had uploaded the photographs from a
reputable stock photo site that had guaranteed that the photographs were royalty - free.
I search and download the images
from stock photo sites, choose appropriate fonts, typographical styles, arrange it all, and then launch into the actual design in Photoshop, and that's how it essentially comes together on the canvas.
Give the gift of time and convenience by giving her a block of 100 photos from Photobucket, Depositphotos, or one of the wide variety
of stock photo sites you can find online.
Your images could be making you money thanks to
stock photos sites.
I can't speak specifically for StumbleUpon as I've not used the site in ages, but as a web developer it's not uncommon to go to
a stock photo site, stick in a keyword and pick the first one that looks ok.
I can't wait to see your quinoa recipe — please send it to me when it's up I actually made the little icons using Illustrator — mixing some stuff I found on
a stock photo site and then making tweaks to make them fit more with the blog!
Scammers will often pluck an image from
a stock photo site to be used on an online dating profile.
images turn up on
a stock photo site or modelling site, you might want to think twice.
If you enjoy photography you can submit your photos to
stock photo sites and receive a commission every time someone purchases one of them.
In recent years, there has been a huge surge of free
stock photo sites that offer photos, vector graphics, and even videos!
I found that photo at
a stock photo site a year before I published An Illusion of Trust.
After scouring royalty - free
stock photo sites (like, every spare moment for an entire week until my eyes felt like they were bleeding!)
Around four solid hours — not counting the hours spent squinting at thumbnails on
stock photo sites and choosing the final photos.
If you do want them to secure and place images for you, make sure they are not using some of the free
stock photo sites that may offer images with questionable rights.
Then I hunted for quirky images to match the quirky characters in my books via
a stock photo site.
If you're not sure whether an image will look good for your cover, all
the stock photo sites allow you to download «comp images» that have a watermark.