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Q: What are stock, or royalty-free, images?
A: Stock, or royalty-free images, are images that are purchased at a set price. The photographer does
not continue to earn a royalty-fee for the image after the purchase of the license.
Q: Do you offer editorial images?
Q: What can I use royalty-free images for?
A: Royalty-free images are used for a variety of personal, non-profit, and commercial projects.
Some examples would be: computer desktop wallpaper, use in brochures and fliers, greeting cards, pictures within books, product
or service advertisements, posters or art prints, scrapbooking, school presentations, business presentatios, and much more.
If you can imagine it, these images can be used for it.
Q: Do I need to obtain a license to use these images?
A: Yes. There are several different licenses to choose from, based on your needs. Each license
is a legally binding contract that states how the image can or cannot be used. Some uses require additional licenses, such
as selling a product or design containing the royalty-free image. For information about these licenses, please visit this
link provided by Dreamstime.com: Licenses.
Q: How much do stock images cost?
A: For a single royalty-free image that will not be used as a resale, it can cost as little
as $1 for a small image. Plan on purchasing a lot of images? Pre-paying for a subscription through Dreamstime can get you
images for as little as $0.20 per image.
Q: What if I want to buy an extended license? What would that cost?
A: Unlimited Seats, or multiple users
using the image, the highest you will pay is $25 per image. To increase your maximum copies up to 2,500,000, you pay up to
$50 per image.
Want to resell the image or a design containing the image through the web or in print?
This license will cost you no more than $50 per image, and as little as $38 per image.
Q: Can I purchase the full, exclusive, rights to an image? Does
this guarantee that I am the only designer who can use this image? How much does it cost?
A: All images that I offer through Dreamstime have a "Sell The Rights" (SR-EL) option.
This license grants the buyer full ownership of the downloaded image. The buyer can use it exclusively (exclusivity applies
from the moment that the file was downloaded using this license), and include it in any type of design with just a few restrictions:
sensitive subjects may still apply and the buyer may not claim that the file was created by him or her, nor resell it
as a photo.
The cost of purchasing full ownership of an image starts at $350.
Once a buyer has downloaded an image under the SR-EL license, the photographer will disable the image for sale. The photographer
will not sell this image to any other individual, organization, business, etc. Once the full ownership rights to an image
have been sold, the photographer may only use the image as an example of his/her work, such as in an online porfolio.
The photographer will retain a copyright on the image, even after the full rights have been sold.
Prices for the SR-EL license are negotiable.
Q: What equipment do you use?
A: I mainly use two digital cameras: Canon EOS 30D, and
Canon Powershot G9. For any post-processing corrections, manipulations, or enhancements, I currently use Photoshop CS3.
Q: Can I purchase the RAW image, or digital negative?
A: Many of the images I sell through Dreamstime do have a RAW file that you can purchase.
Any images that have had sensitive material removed (trademarks, etc) will not have the RAW file available for this reason.
All images with the RAW file available will be up for sale on
Dreamstime along with the JPEG image. However, please allow 30 days for the RAW version to appear for sale on newer images,
as the RAW files must go through a separate approval process.
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