Where can I get quality images and photographs?
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 3:25 am
Professional designers and letter layout designers use paid and free photo banks and content libraries for their tasks. The larger the library, the higher the chance of finding the necessary material.
Thanks to photo stocks, industry professionals can save a lot of time. After all, if there is no ready-made content, then it will have to be created from scratch. For example, hire a photographer and models, explain the concept of the photo to them, pay for the photo shoot, the entourage and wait for processing.
An alternative way to create media materials is to cut video (to obtain GIF animations) or draw using professional graphics editing programs: vector, raster and 3D editors.
In any case, the authors' work will not be free.
Recently, the situation has changed dramatically - generative neural networks have appeared on the market . Artificial intelligence is capable of creating images and short videos (animations) from scratch, based simply on a text description from the client.
About copyrights, copyright and licenses
If work should be rewarded, then where do free photo stocks come from?
Firstly , in order for an author to build a client base and attract buyers, he needs to show his work in a professional manner.
Secondly , the market is very overheated, so not everyone has a chance to sell their work for a lot of money. Why create and store content that no one uses? You can place it in the public domain, maybe it will be useful to someone.
Thirdly , many authors initially provide part of their works free of charge – under the terms of an open license. Simply because they can afford it (similar to donations).
However, there are many different schemes for distributing hong-kong phone number data and licensing copyrighted content. Some require a mandatory link/attribution, some distribute only low-resolution images for free, some put watermarks on the images, etc.
If you simply find any suitable image in a search engine (Google/Yandex) and use it in your work, it is quite possible to get a lawsuit from the author. Any creative object is an object of intellectual labor and without the author's permission (without alienation of rights) you cannot simply use the content.
For example, content that is originally distributed under a Creative Commons license can be used completely free of charge ( CC0 license ), but in some situations the author must be indicated (Creative Commons Attribution license ), even if the image has been edited ( ShareAlike license ), and a number of modifications of the same license do not allow the use of images for commercial purposes ( Non-Commercial ) or any change in integrity ( No Derivatives license ).
Removing copyright is usually a paid process and is possible in Royalty-Free , Editorial and Rights-Managed licenses , depending on the scale of distribution and the degree of alienation of rights.
To protect yourself from lawsuits, you need to sign a license agreement (another document that serves as the basis for the alienation and transfer of copyright) with the author or his official representative.
Currently, many neural networks generate content that is not protected by copyright (in fact, under the CC0 license), which gives free rein to literally flood the network with a mass of unique (and not so unique) images, animations, icons, etc. So far, this area is not sufficiently regulated.
Thanks to photo stocks, industry professionals can save a lot of time. After all, if there is no ready-made content, then it will have to be created from scratch. For example, hire a photographer and models, explain the concept of the photo to them, pay for the photo shoot, the entourage and wait for processing.
An alternative way to create media materials is to cut video (to obtain GIF animations) or draw using professional graphics editing programs: vector, raster and 3D editors.
In any case, the authors' work will not be free.
Recently, the situation has changed dramatically - generative neural networks have appeared on the market . Artificial intelligence is capable of creating images and short videos (animations) from scratch, based simply on a text description from the client.
About copyrights, copyright and licenses
If work should be rewarded, then where do free photo stocks come from?
Firstly , in order for an author to build a client base and attract buyers, he needs to show his work in a professional manner.
Secondly , the market is very overheated, so not everyone has a chance to sell their work for a lot of money. Why create and store content that no one uses? You can place it in the public domain, maybe it will be useful to someone.
Thirdly , many authors initially provide part of their works free of charge – under the terms of an open license. Simply because they can afford it (similar to donations).
However, there are many different schemes for distributing hong-kong phone number data and licensing copyrighted content. Some require a mandatory link/attribution, some distribute only low-resolution images for free, some put watermarks on the images, etc.
If you simply find any suitable image in a search engine (Google/Yandex) and use it in your work, it is quite possible to get a lawsuit from the author. Any creative object is an object of intellectual labor and without the author's permission (without alienation of rights) you cannot simply use the content.
For example, content that is originally distributed under a Creative Commons license can be used completely free of charge ( CC0 license ), but in some situations the author must be indicated (Creative Commons Attribution license ), even if the image has been edited ( ShareAlike license ), and a number of modifications of the same license do not allow the use of images for commercial purposes ( Non-Commercial ) or any change in integrity ( No Derivatives license ).
Removing copyright is usually a paid process and is possible in Royalty-Free , Editorial and Rights-Managed licenses , depending on the scale of distribution and the degree of alienation of rights.
To protect yourself from lawsuits, you need to sign a license agreement (another document that serves as the basis for the alienation and transfer of copyright) with the author or his official representative.
Currently, many neural networks generate content that is not protected by copyright (in fact, under the CC0 license), which gives free rein to literally flood the network with a mass of unique (and not so unique) images, animations, icons, etc. So far, this area is not sufficiently regulated.