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Cover Image: Royalty-Free v. Rights Managed -
When you begin to work with a designer on your book, you will
eventually have to make a decision on an image for your cover. Aside
from making the important decision about the content of the image,
which the dedigner will use along with type to put together an
eye-catching cover design, you will also need to make a decision about
the rights of the image.

Free Stock Photo's For Your Ezine – What is Royalty Free Photo Stock?
-Everyone who publishes an HTML email newsletter at some time gets the
urge to include an image, clipart, photo, graph, chart, etc… Today,
we're going to focus on photo stock, or where you can get stock photos
(with or without paying for them.)</font>

The Ins and Outs of Free Images On the Web

• As web designers, as clients, as marketers, we need images for our
  

projects. In many cases, the requirements for photos are so specific, a
professional photographer is hired to create the original work needed.
In some situations, the project – or budget – does not require the
skills of a professional shooter to create the photo from scratch. This
is where stock photography comes in. </font>

Licensing Photography and Copyright Laws

• Odds are, unless you are hiring a photographer or have images of your
  

own, you will want to use some type of photography or illustration in
your marketing materials. Here is a brief explanation of the different
types of licensing options for remaining within intellectual property
laws.

Print Clearly: Are royalty-free images a blessing or a curse for artists?

• clip art on the Web – Industry Trend or Event – Column – Although
  

handy access to useful images appeals to designers and other art
buyers, it has a darker side from the illustrator's point of view. Sign
on the dotted line</font>

Royalty Free Licensing Model -
Royalty free licensing is a new commercial model. The model is
attractive to customers partly because of its simplicity. However, like
all new models there are problems and ambiguities associated with it.
In some cases the simplicity is more apparent than real.

Royalty-free Stock Illustrations

• It's far less complicated to use royalty-free stock illustrations in
  

your work than it is to go through the hassle of getting managed-fee
artwork. After all, when you use managed-fee art, you need to </font></font>ne­gotiate
with an agent, haggle over the price, and parse complicated legal
documentation. With royalty-free illustrations, on the other hand, you
simply pay up front and use images instantly.

Royalty-free Stock Photos

• The Internet has ushered in a new way to explore and utilize graphic
  

images--royalty-free photography. Unlike rights-managed photography,
which must be leased from a third party and subject to strict terms and
conditions, royalty-free photography is pretty much open use. As long
as you don't derogate the models, create excessively lewd content from
the pictures, or try to resell the imagery, you can do pretty much
whatever you want.

Royalty free stock subscription

• What are the major stock photography subscription packages available
  

through Photospin.com? First, you can sign up for free using the trial
subscription service. You'll get 1024 X 768 PowerPoint friendly
resolution, JPEG and TIF pictures, and access to examples of all types
of files available. If you aren't sure what your design needs are yet,
it is a great idea to sign up for this free trial--you are under no
obligation, and it's fun to use.

Royalty Free Images

• Royalty free images are a fairly new development in the field of
  

stock photography. Unlike rights-managed images, royalty free images
are considerably more affordable. However, for some, this greater
affordability comes at a price.

Royalty-Free Images on the Web – Is „Royalty free“ Free?

• Though these sites will provide „royalty-free“ images, the images
  

themselves are usually not free. Royalty-free simply means that you may
use the image without paying for that use. Because the types of usage
may be limited, read the fine print at each site. </font>

What are Royalty-Free & Rights-Managed Products - What is the difference between them? </font>

Where to Find Free Images and Visuals for My Blog

• Finding quality images and photos for complementing an important
  

article, essay or news report is already a challenge for many. Imagine
when the goal is not only to find good images, but also to find some
that you could openly and freely use without needing to pay roy</font></fon­t>alties or one-time publishing rights.

„About Free Graphics on the Internet…“ Tutorial – How to be a Good Netizen When Dealing With Graphics and Clipart -
If you can sit still a minute and read this you will learn to be cool,
and stay out of legal trouble, when dealing with graphics on the
Internet. The payoff (if you need a payoff for learning to do the right
thing) is that you'll have plenty of graphics and clipart to play with,
plus know how to get inexpensive custom graphics. You might even make
the great leap into becoming a graphic artist yourself and find
employment and satisfaction for years to come. </font>

Adding Photography to Your Web Site – There are four options for including photography in the design of your web site.

A Designer's Guide to Making Your Own Stock Photography (for non-photographers)

• This can be an interesting process with you as art director and
  

photographer. Basically there is one goal to creating your own stock
photography. Try to conceptualize a finished design and then shoot the
image you'll need for a mockup.

Book Recommendations on Stock Photography Agencies and Stock Sales

• Selling your images to a stock agency can be a complicated business
  

as they have their own rules, contracts, and ways of working. Your
rights to your images might change from agency to agency, with some
requiring exclusive rights to your images and other having less
restrictions. With all there is to learn, we've included a few books we
recommend to help you learn more about how the stock photography
business works and how to sell your images to stock.

DIY Photography on the cheap

• Photography is a critical tool for most designers, but where are you
  

getting your photos from? Stock photography can be used beautifully and
is often cost effective, but when overused, it can be the crutch that
degrades an otherwise well-composed layout. </font>

Downloading and Saving Images From Web Sites

• This tutorial is for anyone that needs to know how to save images
  

found on the Web. You will learn how to save images so you can use them
in your own documents. </font>

Explore the Adobe Stock Photos Workflow

• Never lose track of a stock photo again. A service new in Creative
  

Suite 2 lets you download comps free of watermarks, and it invisibly
links the comps to high-res originals. </font>

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Stock Photography – What you're paying for, how much you'll have to pay, and why we participate in this crazy system. </font>

Finding The Right Stock Photo For Your Marketing Projects – Good news: The client just awarded your design group their new cor</font></fon­t>porate
brochure. Bad news: The materials need to be to the printer in two
weeks. Good news: No photo shoot-you're going with stock images. Bad
news: None of the FPO photos can be used.

Finding Images Online

• This is part of a series of documents about finding images online.
  

This first document discusses general tools and strategies for finding
images. The other documents in the series provide advice and pointers
on finding specific types of images:</font>

Finding Art Images

• This is one of several short documents providing assistance in
  

finding images on the Web. For a general introduction to image
searching we recommend you first read TASI's Finding Images Online.

Finding Maps -
This is one of several short documents providing assistance in finding
images on the Web. For a general introduction to image searching we
recommend you first read TASI's Finding Images Online.

Finding Current Events Images

• Finding Current Events Images Introduction This is one of several
  

short documents providing assistance in finding images on the Web. For
a general introduction to image searching we recommend you first read
TASI's Finding Images Online.

Finding Stock Images -
This is one of several short documents providing assistance in finding
images on the Web. For a general introduction to image searching we
recommend you first read TASI's Finding Images Online.

Five Tips For Getting The Most From Stock Photo Agencies

• Let's face it, if all stock photography agencies were the same, there
  

wouldn't be so many of them. Entering „stock photo agency“ on Google
brings up 675,000 results. So how do you know which agencies to use?
And how do you make sure you're getting the most you can out of the
relationship</fon­t>

Free Stock Photo's For Your Ezine – What is Royalty Free Photo Stock?
-Everyone who publishes an HTML email newsletter at some time gets the
urge to include an image, clipart, photo, graph, chart, etc… Today,
we're going to focus on photo stock, or where you can get stock photos
(with or without paying for them.)</font>

Getting Graphics - Before you can add graphics to your page, you need to have some graphics in hand! </font>

Stock Photography Going Portal -
In just the past couple of years, stock photography portals have come
into existence, multiplied and diversified. And they continue to grow
and evolve rapidly. These portals now offer photographers an impressive
range of resources. Indeed, the most promising feature of portals is
the flexibility they offer all kinds of photographers.

How To Find Quality Photos On The Internet:
The Stock XCHNG, A Clearinghouse To Search And Share Cool Images For
Free – SXC is a friendly community of photography addicts who
generously offer their works to the public free of charge. You can
easily browse or search through the categories of a huge gallery
containing over 50.000 quality stock photos shot by more than 2.500
 different photographers. Need a pic for your latest article or even for
a commercial Web project?</font>

How to Search for Images Online - Here is a simple, very basic mini-guide for all those of you who need to perform effective online searches for images.

Image Licensing Information – Rights-managed and Royalty Free Images

• „Royalty Free Images“ are purchased outright, either as single images
  

or on CD-ROMs in bulk, and can be used for any purpose within your
business. The images cannot be sold on, but few other restrictions
apply.

Learning from Graphics / Images - How newspapers used the images varied widely around the world. I noticed that</font></font>
my perception of how graphic the images were depended on placement, how
intense the colors were, and size. The most striking thing to me was
the difference in the color quality from paper to paper. </font>

Licensing Photography and Copyright Laws

• Odds are, unless you are hiring a photographer or have images of your
  

own, you will want to use some type of photography or illustration in
your marketing materials. Here is a brief explanation of the different
types of licensing options for remaining within intellectual property
laws.

Organize your digital pictures -
The best thing about digital cameras is that it's easy to take
thousands of pictures. That's also the worst thing about digital
cameras. After you've owned your camera for a few months, you won't be
able to find that great picture you took a couple of months ago if your
pictures aren't well organized or named logically.

Picture Perfect -
The snaps you took during your trip to Venice are mediocre at best, and
your glowing, 1,000 word online review of the city won't look the same
with those overcast images accompanying it. So how about some lavish
imagery to spruce the whole thing up? It's easy to add intensity and
attractiveness to your site by using images gleaned from an online
photo library. Many provide free quality photos for non commercial
sites, and usually all you'll need to do in return is provide a link
back to the site, or credit the photographer. </font>

Point. Shoot. Kiss It Good-Bye

• Your hard drive is overflowing with gazillions of digital pics.
  

DSC00234.jpg might as well be labeled DON'T_KNOW_DO­N'T_CARE.jpg. The
quest to build the photo archive of the future.

Purchasing Photos: Royalty-Free vs. Rights-Managed -
When working with a designer on your website or printed materials you
may be faced with the decision of purchasing a photo or illustration.
But, when the invoice arrives for your „royalty-free“ or
„rights-managed“ artwork, what are you really buying? You should know
the difference between the two before you buy. </font>

Stock Art </font>-
Stock photos and clip art have been around for a long time, even before
computers. Stock photos are professional photographs of all different
subjects that are sold individually or as a set, usually on a CD or on
the Internet. Clip art is line art such as drawings and illustrations
rather than photographs. Clip art images are available either in
digital form on CDs or on the Internet or as black and white images in
a book that are cut out, or „clipped“, and pasted into the layout.

Stock Media Licensing Explained - Stock media companies provide ready-made media content that can be legally added to your work in a matter of minutes</font>

Stock Photography – Information about the stock photography industry and links to stock photos sites.

Stock Photography 101 – In general, there are two types of stock photography available</font>

Stock Photography for Web Developers - As a Web developer, chances are that you'll need images for your Web prese</font></fon­t>nce.
While some of you might possess skills in photography or illustration,
many do not. In addition, time constraints might make it impossible to
shoot or create what you want in time to meet a deadline. Then there's
 the other issue – cost. If all of these factors are an issue, check out
stock photography. In this and subsequent articles, we'll have a look
at the stock photography industry, how it works, what images cost,
copyright issues and how you can make use of images as a Web developer.

Stock Photography FAQ – The Basics -
Okay, listen: There is absolutely no way we can overstate the
importance of these model release issues – if the photos have
recognizable people in them-- no matter whom you are buying pictures
from, us or anyone else. </font>

Stock Photography Resources for Web Designers

• If you're stuck with a job, and all the client has supplied is a
  

shitty bitmapped logo, a single page Word document, and a floppy disk
with three, small, over-compressed images, don't sit there and complain
(and yes, I've definitely done that in the past).

Taking Stock

• Back in the 80s and 90s, „stock“ was the name of the game. The
  

economy was good, the market was hungry, and agencies hustled to get
their photographers the biggest clients at the best rates. But then
came agency consolidation. New contracts were issued, and many
photographers felt their „agents“ had become vendors, chipping away at
prices, demanding higher sales percentages, and leaving their
photographers to fend for themselves.

Taking stock of your photos

• Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with
  

Furl.net. It's free! Save it. Ever been looking at a company's Web site
(or printed brochure or product box) and wondered „How can that company
afford these pricey models and professional photography?“ Hey-we've
been fooled too. Most likely, particularly with smaller companies, what
you're actually looking at is stock photography.

Ten Of The Best Stock Photo Sites – Where To Look When Not Just Any Picture Will Do </font>

The Art of Business: Stocking Up on Stock Imagery

• Once the purview of high-priced ad agencies, stock imagery is
  

becoming popular with all rank of creative professionals, thanks to
growing online collections, price competition, improved search
techniques, and dare we say it, instant gratification. </font>

The Art of Business: Copyright or Copied Wrong?

• If you create a work or art, when don't you own the copyright? If you
  

alter someone else's work beyond recognition are you a violator? And
what does Elvis have to do with copyright registration? Welcome to the
tenuous world of copyright law, further unglued by the World Wide Web. </font>

Top ten reasons we hate using stock – #134

• Ever get those briefs where it reads „must use stock“? Course you
  

have, and you probably hate it as much as most. Not only do you have to
use stock, you have to use X-brand stock that the agency has a „good
deal“ with – and not simply some really nice stock places that you know
about…... Well, that's when stuff like this happens. </font>

Photography: To Stock or Not to Stock? Is This Really a Question?

• So, how big of a compromise is using stock photography? Is it worth
  

the money you save? Do you actually save any money? Can it be damaging
to your image? Take a walk around the block with me on this one. </font>

Using Stock Photography (PDF)- A guide on stock photography and difference licensing options. </font>

Using Clip Art/Photos on Presentation Slides

• The most common slide element used after text is a graphic, usually
  

clip art or a photograph. The old saying goes, „A picture is worth a
thousand words“ and it is true. Just make sure that the thousand words
being spoken by the graphics you use on your presentation slides are
words that will increase the impact of your message, not detract from
it. Here are some areas to keep in mind when choosing graphics to use
on your presentation slides.

What are Royalty-Free & Rights-Managed Products Images? – Compares the 2 types of images that you can purchase – Royalty-Free and Rights-Protected images. </font>

When Image is Everything -
The Internet's major attraction, apart from information shared among
authors, scientists, government agencies, and businesses, is its rich
offerings in terms of sounds and graphics. Although looking at the
original (or even a copy) of the „Mona Lisa“ or a Matthew Brady
daguerreotype once necessitated a trip to a museum, bookstore, or
library, the Web has made it possible to conveniently start with almost
any search engine, type in a few keywords, and pull a facsimile out of
the haystack of over a billion Web pages. </font>

Where can I find a picture of…? – Finding a specific image when you want it can be a daunting task. And there is no easy way to do it. </font>

Where Can You Get Images for Your Projects? - This article will guide you through the process of finding art, photos, illustrations, and other images for your projects. </font>

Why Stock Photography is a Great Resource for Web Business

• And it still is today. With the media changing everyday photography
  

has changed along with it and as a result is still a valuable resource
for web business. </font>

Why is it Not OK to Resize, Rotate, and Crop Graphics in a Page Layout Program?

• Despite the fact that today's desktop publishing software offers
  

graphics manipulation options such as resizing and rotating, in most
cases these are tasks best handled in a dedicated graphics software
program.

Where to Find Free Images and Visuals for My Blog

• Finding quality images and photos for complementing an important
  

article, essay or news report is already a challenge for many. Imagine
when the goal is not only to find good images, but also to find some
that you could openly and freely use without needing to pay royalties
or one-time publishing rights.