Royalty Free Stock Photographs
I have been comparing 2 of the biggest Royalty Free Stock Photo suppliers, both as a customer, photographer and affiliate. Here I hope to help you make your choice of which to join, buy images from and promote.
Here we will be comparing iStockPhoto & 123RF and inviting your contributions to the debate as to which is best.
What brought you here?
Introducing 123RF
123RF is your one-stop royalty-free photo library offering stunning, practical stock photos at the most affordable price!
With a stock of over 3million Royalty Free images available for downloading and a simple credit or subscription plan, it is easy to see why they are the fastest growing Stock Photography company.24 Hour Live Support
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Introducing iStockphoto
The world's fastest growing collection of original, independent, royalty-free images
iStockPhoto are probably the biggest supplier of Royalty Free Stock Images in the industry.With over 55,000 artists and photographers uploading to istockphoto they are certainly one of the biggest sources of stock images.
With Flash, Video, Audio and Illustrations istockphoto do usually win hands down on the variety and are often the number one choice of designers seeking stock images or media.
iStockphoto also have some images available for free download, but very few in comparison to 123RF.
Stock Photos of Dogs
Where To Get Free Images -
123RF usually have available over 10,000 free images for you to browse through and download the basic size, 300x400px at 72dpi free! (At time of writing they had over 17,000!)This selection is constantly changing and the images are provided for downloading free for a period of 30 days by contributors who wish to raise their profile and attract visitors to the images they have for sale in their portfolio.
The image size isn't particularly suited to print or for use online if wanting to fill a large area, but they are a great size for blogs and for squidoo
All Images On This Page Are Free Images From -
Vote For Your Favorite Stock Photo Supplier
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iStockphoto Vs. 123RF
Which is your preferred supplier of Royalty Free Images
Give some reasons why you prefer one stock photo supplier or another.
Or if you are a photographer earning money from royalty free stock photos, tell us which company you prefer and why!
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byiStockphoto
Phil_Bell says:
I've been using iStockphoto. Didn't even know about 123RF until now. I'll check them out. Thanks for the tip.
Posted June 14, 2009
goose says:
I like istockphoto because of the huge range and great search facility. Though the free image resources listed below are pretty cool
Posted December 03, 2008
123RF
fortune68 says:
123RF sounds better than iStockPhoto, and it also seems a fair bit better priced. I'd go with 123RF!
Posted November 08, 2008
a_willow says:
I have currently around 50 images (mostly vectors) on 123rf.com and earned some money of them, too... I found out that it was much easier to be accepted by 123rf than iStockphoto. So my vote goes to 123rf.com!
Posted October 06, 2008
How about background images and textures?
This is just one of the Royalty Free Stock Textures that I downloaded Free from 123RF
Royalty Free Vs. Rights Managed Stock Images
Royalty Free Images are quite simply images where you pay a small fee for their use in advance and then are free to use the image on almost anything, though it is worth reading the licensing agreement from the supplier. Often they only allow you to use the image in print a certain number of times, or for limited print runs.Rights Managed Images you pay for a license and then pay a royalty on it's usage. This form of acquiring stock images is often used by advertisers and publications with a large print run. Also the advantage of buying a rights managed image is that it can be yours exclusively.
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Please do check that the small print on the rights of the images you do upload though.
Other Royalty Free Photo Sites
Do check the usage rights of the suppliers listed below as some do not permit commercial use, whilst other require a credit and link.
- wp Clipart
- a clean and safe site for children and others to find good-quality, printable images that have no copyright restrictions. All the images are in the Public Domain.
- stock.xchng
- stock photography community - reasonable number of free images available.
- Shutterstock: Royalty-Free Subscription Stock Photography & Vector Art
- 5,032,430 royalty-free stock photos
70,100 new stock photos added this week*(Nov '08)
126,504 photographers - morguefile.com Where photo reference lives.
- Morguefile.com free stock photos
- freerangestock.com
- Not just royalty free, totally free.
- BigFoto.com
- Free Download of all Pictures, though you must provide a link (free pictures, or free photos) to bigfoto. The link does not have to be positioned next to the image.
- Piotr.Pix Free Stock Photos
- Piotr.Pix is an image database providing free high-quality images. You can freely use pictures in your personal, charity projects or any non-profit project.
- openphoto.net
- Free Images, not a huge range, but they are free!
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Cookysprinkles wrote...
Thank you thank you! This is wonderful. I'm a newbie and had no idea where to turn! I look forward to using both resources.
Posted December 13, 2008
TylaMac wrote...
Thanks for sharing these sites! I write a lot of articles and blog posts like most lensmasters and I'm always looking for more stock photo sites. You've shown me a few I didn't know about. This is a valuable service. Thanks again!
Posted November 23, 2008
enslavedbyfaeries wrote...
This is great information! I've featured this on my How to Add Pictures lens.
Posted November 10, 2008
Derrayjac wrote...
Well I think I have a look at them all and see then, cause I wanted photos and art stuff
maybe they all supply the two, but cheers for the info I had only heard of clip art so nice one
Posted November 08, 2008
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