Stock Images for company website

kaktus · 19 Dec 2017 at 22:55

Hey guys

We are setting up a new website for our company and we were planning on using some stock images from Adobe Stock library but I just realised there's no way to purchase them permanently i.e. you have to sign up for some silly monthly/annual plan for life which seems absurd.

I found the same images on another website https://www.canstockphoto.com/contemporary-architecture-8652117.html. Having zero experience in this, can anyone tell me if we can actually use this on our company website (not for logo, just images filling empty spaces beside text etc)? Buying from this place for example is about $7 for the download as opposed to £180 from Adobe's stock library per year.

Otherwise, is there somewhere else I can find similar images from which can just be purchased outright or with a one-off cost?

Thanks

The_Abyss · 19 Dec 2017 at 22:56

We mostly use istockphoto.

Selekt0r · 19 Dec 2017 at 23:46

If you can find something suitable there are some truly royalty-free stock photos on pexels.com https://www.pexels.com/search/architecture/

swain90 · 20 Dec 2017 at 10:22

Try http://www.alamy.com they claim to have Royalty Free images, not sure if there's a sign up cost to get them though. Do you have any friends who are handy with a camera and photoshop?

kaku · 20 Dec 2017 at 11:48

Standard License
(default with all content)

You may use our content in newsletters, magazines, and advertising / promotional material, business cards, letterhead, promotional posters, billboards, and brochures; all of up to 500,000 reproductions.

You may use our content on your website, video presentations, and multimedia displays.

You can not use our content as your legal logo, or as part of products for resale.

You may not redistribute or re-sell our content in any way.

Looks to me like the standard license should cover exactly what you want.

Russinating · 20 Dec 2017 at 13:56

https://stocksnap.io is another good royalty free (CC0) website.

Energize · 20 Dec 2017 at 18:35

Few things look tackier than stock photography I find.

Dup · 20 Dec 2017 at 20:58

https://unsplash.com is another nice one.

bloodiedathame · 20 Dec 2017 at 21:00

We use Shutterstock mostly.

wonder_lander · 21 Dec 2017 at 15:47

Pixabay.com would be my recommendation

signs · 21 Dec 2017 at 16:06

as a side note , someone pinched some photos of my work off my website put them on theirs then took some large deposits off a couple of company's in Manchester and never did the work (Signs) only found out when one of the firms rang me asking if i was anything to do with the dodgy site !! :eek:

coolsurfer · 22 Dec 2017 at 13:17

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