Stock photography
Let's compare five popular online stock photography services:
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Services
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Specials
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Features
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Image Vortex Royalty Free Stock Photos
Royalty Free Stock
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No data
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- Submit and sell images
- Search for images and purchase
- Image downloading and information publication
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- Free registration.
- No monthly fees.
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- Search by color, by category (49 categories), by keywords.
- Most images are available in three sizes.
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15 - 300$ per image depending on the size and artistic value of the image.
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High Impact Stock Photography
Royalty Free Stock Photography
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No data
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- Buy images
- Order images (if you don’t find an image you need, a photo shoot specially for will be arranged)
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- Educational and editorial discounts,
- 30% off: refer the site to your friend and get 30% off,
- Free: purchase 2 images and get the 3 for free.
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- Search by category, subcategory and gallery.
- Search by keywords.
- Sizes available: small, medium, high, ultrahigh, original.
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6 - 86$ per image, depending on the size.
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Getty Images
Royalty Free Stock
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1 million
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Store, manage and share your photos.
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- Search by categories, location, events, people, style.
- Photos are available for editorial and commercial use.
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$100 – 500 per image
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Photos.com
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325,000
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Search for images and download them.
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- New photos added regularly.
- Search by category, by keywords,
- Photos are available in small, medium and large size.
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$99.95, $199.95, $399.95, $699.95 for one-month, three-month, six-month and year subscription correspondently. (up to 250 photos per day.)
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Big Stock Photo
Royalty Free Photos
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No data
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- Upload and sell images
- Purchase for images
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- 35% of sale. When new referred photo buyer makes a purchase you earn a whopping 35% of that sale.
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Search by category and by keywords
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5$ and more.
Prices in credits, which can be bought online or over phone
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Stock Photography
Stock Photography (people, places, etc) is rather a popular business in modern life. It consists of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific uses. It is a convenient and fast way of getting images for one’s commercial or personal use. A customer who uses stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time and money.
In modern world stock photography is used by different people and in different industries. Book publishers, specialty publishers, magazines, advertising agencies, filmmakers, web designers, graphic artists, interior decor firms, corporate creative groups, and others use stock photography to fulfill the needs of their creative assignments.
The number of stock photography services is growing with the increasing demand for easily reachable images in different industries of modern world. Stock photography services offer to their customers thousands and millions of all kind of images. Photos are presented in searchable online databases, purchased online, and delivered via download or email.
Stock photography agencies allow photographers to earn money by uploading their photos to online galleries. Stock photography agencies sell photos and usually pay a percentage to the author. The prices and conditions vary greatly from service to service. Some agencies offer royalty-free photos, others sell rights-managed images.
Royalty-free:
 Pay a one-time fee to use the image multiple times for multiple purposes (with limits).
No time limit on when you can use an image.
No one can have exclusive rights of a Royalty-free image (the photographer can sell the image as many times as he wants).
Prices vary from $1 (in case of microstock) to $100-500, depending on the size, artistic value and purpose of use.
Rights-managed (sometimes called "licensed images"):
Pay each time you use the image.
There is a time limit on how long a buyer has exclusive use of an image (usually one year).
Fee is based on such things as exclusivity, distribution, length of time used, geographic location of use.
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