New Stock Photography and Royalty Free Pictures - Your Guide

Stock photography is a great way to get professional looking pictures for your applications.

The stock photography is offered on different conditions:

Royalty-free stock photos have become increasingly popular, because it is so easy to handle them. You pay for each royalty-free stock photo one unit price to get a digital picture file of a certain size.
Here is an overview of what kind of applications different sizes of picture files can be used for: Sizes of stock photos

What makes roylty-free stock photos easy to handle is:
- They come prepared (=optimized) for publications
- You can use them as many times and for whatever you want to use them for.

Licensed stock photos (often called traditional licensed stock photos) are different. Here you order a specific photo to be used in a specific way. It could be as a cover picture of a life style magazine with a print run of say 50.000 copies.

The advantages of licensed stock photos are
- You can get a track record of the previous use of the stock photo, e.g. that it hasn't been used previously for a cover of a life style magazine.
- Such photos are normally used for more serious applications.