Stock Photos

[drivin_me_nuts]

Can someone please suggest a site or two where I can purchase some shock images for a website - the more creative and imaginative the better!

Cheers

[Ed_P]

The "biggies" in the micro-stock market, offering royalty-free images, include Shutterstock, iStockPhoto, Fotolia, Dreamstime, BigStockPhoto, 123RoyaltyFree and StockXpert. Shutterstock is primarily a subscription site (you pay a lump sum and can download up to 25 images/day), but has recently introduced an "on-demand" service too.

Most of the sites have several million images available, in a range of resolutions and licence types. Hope this helps.

Ed ...

PS: I assumed "shock" images was a typo!

Edited by Ed_P on Wednesday 27th August 07:48

[drivin_me_nuts]

Ed_P said:

The "biggies" in the micro-stock market, offering royalty-free images, include Shutterstock, iStockPhoto, Fotolia, Dreamstime, BigStockPhoto, 123RoyaltyFree and StockXpert. Shutterstock is primarily a subscription site (you pay a lump sum and can download up to 25 images/day), but has recently introduced an "on-demand" service too.

Most of the sites have several million images available, in a range of resolutions and licence types. Hope this helps.

Ed ...

PS: I assumed "shock" images was a typo!

Edited by Ed_P on Wednesday 27th August 07:48

thanks for the tips. I went Fololia last night and I could not make head or tail of the lisencing agreement. 30 days membership is £125 and 30 days & 25 images per day... but at the side of the images when I added them to the basket there was another price. From my 1am logic you either buy a licence or you pay per image - is that correct?

PS it was a type - I did mean sTock photos. In my line of work most people have had more than enough shocks to last a lifetime

Thanks for the links, endless hours of trawling through the net await me.

Edited by drivin_me_nuts on Wednesday 27th August 12:09

[CVP]

Another option will be Alamy

click here

Chris

[Ed_P]

Hope you managed to sort out the confusion with ordering images from Fotolia. I couldn't give you any advice on that because I'm a submitter rather than a buyer, but I did see this interesting article about buying from iStockPhoto. Gives a good overview.

Ed ...