Royalty FREE images for designers!

Posted on February 21, 2008
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Royalty FREE Distribution in Templates and Other Works

One thing that frustrates many designers who build templates is the unbelievably high cost for purchasing images that can be redistributed within their templates.  Purchasing a template at iStock photo or Big Stock for example nets you a use license of a single domain or single purpose NOT for redistribution. 

Large companies like Template Monster and others have the kind of budgets necessary to either employ a photographer or purchase royalty free distribution rights to photos.  To give you an idea as to what cost I’m referring to, consider this;  iStock has an option for a limited use distribution costing $100 per image.  Getty Image charges anywhere from $200 – $1800 per image.  These kinds of expenses make delivery of commercial or even free templates cost prohibitive resulting in people using freeware images which are frequently of lesser quality.

Royalty  FREE Stock Images – Template Designers – Distribution

I’ve discovered in the forums I’m a member of that a new company is about to launch that provides an answer to this pressing need by selling images on CD in packages, each of which is Royalty Free and can be used in your commercial and non commercial templates.  What this means for guys like us is that when we publish a new template and we need images and photos for various aspects of the template, we will soon have an affordable resource that not only gives us an inventory of images but a quality selection for one low price. 

Although price has not been set in stone, it was told to me that the $75 – $200 range will be chosen depending on image set and category.  So for the cost of a single commercial royalty free image we end up with a CD ROM of images for us to select from.  It appears that the first categories photographers are working on at this point is those associated to industrial and commercial real estate with residential real estate scheduled for the mix soon. 

I’m excited about this concept and I think this is a long over due service for designers and desktop publishing professionals everywhere.  I know all to well how frustrating it is for small mom and pop rag sheet publishers to find good quality royalty free images at an affordable cost is.  Many small publications google for images and publish them in hopes not to be caught but with this solution you can receive high resolution images at a price that doesn’t break the bank.

My suggestion to this new company should they ever stumble upon my blog is that they should include a feature on their site called "CD Builder" in which a buyer can assemble their own collection of images from those available and pay accordingly.  This would be a service that would make millions in my perspective.  Best of luck to the EZ Royalty FREE and their venture.  When a link becomes available I’ll publish a link.

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