Everything you need to know about stock photography

General posts | by B-rollmarket team

With expanding internet and a new approach to the business, designers and other creative workers need to adapt to a new environment. So because of that, creative people use stock photos or videos for various purposes. Stock images are an ideal resource for high-quality and cheap photos that you can use in designs. Stock photos are excellent for promotional work, then for marketing and advertising, for publishing, for creative projects, and others. Stock photography is existing photos made for license by paying a fee to the artists who created them and platforms that managed.

ADVANTAGE OF STOCK PHOTOS

The main advantage of stock photos (that include stock photography, vectors, and illustrations) is the money and time-saving. Hiring a professional photographer to create an image is too expensive and needed too much time to create. And also the time between hiring and the delivery of the final images can be of weeks if not more. As you can see stock photos are cheap and ready to use as soon as you pay for the license. You paying fees to both the artists that produced them and the stock agencies managing them, acquiring the right to use them legally in different ways, while the author retains the copyright of their work.

USING OF STOCK IMAGES

You can use stock images for personal, commercial, marketing purposes. A royalty-free license allows for a wide range of uses.

If you want to learn more about the types of stock photo licenses, you can visit, for example, Shutterstock´s license.

HOW MUCH DO STOCK IMAGES COST?

Most stock agencies offer subscriptions, depends on what you need. Those packages are time-framed and the pricing of packages is affordable.  Many stock agencies offer stock photo subscriptions: periodic plans that give you a larger number of images per period in exchange for a flat recurrent fee. These plans reduce the cost of the images considerably, taking the single image price down to as little as $0.20 each.

CONCLUSION

As you can see, stock images are a great way to add a final touch to your commercial, editorial, and personal projects at a very low cost.

In this new reality for the world and covid situation, stock platforms like Envato, Unsplash, Reshot, Pixabay, and others will be even more useful in various projects.

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