[daveleeuk]

Hi Everyone,

Just curious, as I work in stock photography;

Do web designers generally prefer Royalty Free, or Rights Managed?

Thanks for your time!

[d*d]

I generally use royalty free, the restrictions on rights managed are a pain in the arse although the quality tends to be better

[daveleeuk]

Thanks for that, may I ask the rough pixel dimensions of your average image? and how much you'd expect to pay?

[d*d]

Originally Posted by daveleeuk

Thanks for that, may I ask the rough pixel dimensions of your average image? and how much you'd expect to pay?

there is no average pixel dimension, most sites will charge different amount for different resolutions, got to getty and istockphoto.com and attempt to buy images for more information

[daveleeuk]

I know all images have diff dimensions etc lol, I meant what is the average you, as a web designer would need?

[sub]

Depends on the project/budget.

[daveleeuk]

So it will vary alot then, for example, it wouldn't usually be 600x400, it could be anything upto 4000x6000

[sub]

This is irrelevant as you would surely shoot an image at the maximum resolution and leave the scaling down to the image library, no?

[daveleeuk]

I work for an image library, and I want to start to target web designers, because it's an area we havn't really covered.

I'm just trying to find out their requirements really.

Most sites I have visited for RF images (targeted to web design), seem to be offering 'memberships' where the customer would pay for example £750pa, or £100pm, for x amount of downloads, over the specified periods of time.

To me this doesn't sound too appealing?

[campbell]

If you have microsoft office, I'd say go here. they are absolutely the best for free images.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx

[seen.to]

Originally Posted by campbell

If you have microsoft office, I'd say go here. they are absolutely the best for free images.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx

Did you read ANY of the above?

To the OP: Check iStock.com as has been said, they charge from $1-10 based on resolution. We also use a lot of images from veer.com at work - much higher prices. Prefer royalty free.

[freelancr]

I don't do much designing, but when I do I always check royalty free sites first. Here is a good one: stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site

Regarding dimensions, you usually are able to get the original resolution as created by the camera so this can be xxxx*yyyy, then its up to you to resize or do whatever to it, so it doesn't really matter. Obviously the bigger it is the better as it will give you more options on what you can use it for.

[d*d]

Originally Posted by daveleeuk

Most sites I have visited for RF images (targeted to web design), seem to be offering 'memberships' where the customer would pay for example £750pa, or £100pm, for x amount of downloads, over the specified periods of time.

To me this doesn't sound too appealing?

Which sites are they, most of the image libraries I've been to charge by the download with no membership fee, nobody in their right mind would pay £750 p.a unless the photos were of a specific nature or quality you couldn't get elsewhere

[campbell]

Originally Posted by seen.to

Did you read ANY of the above?

To the OP: Check iStock.com as has been said, they charge from $1-10 based on resolution. We also use a lot of images from veer.com at work - much higher prices. Prefer royalty free.

Microsoft Office has royalty free images. They purchase them from the companies like iStock.com and give them to you for free.
Even though some of them pictures aren't stock, a good amount of them are.

[daveleeuk]

Originally Posted by campbell

Microsoft Office has royalty free images. They purchase them from the companies like iStock.com and give them to you for free.

How very kind of them!

[Zaoris]

It's really hard to say, depends on the project, budget and so on.
I guess Royalty free are more frequently used but rights managed are above :]