FORUM MEMBERS / HELP- We're Looking For Royalty-Free Photos For A Cat Book

by bradmarcus1

Posted: 12 years ago 12 replies

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FORUM MEMBERS / WE NEED YOUR HELP

My girlfriend and I recently finished a very funny and informative manuscript about cats. We have five. We're already getting some positive feedback. For now, we used photos from Google Images. We don't fully understand the copyright issues...how to find/get permission from the photographers. What are the best, easiest, most affordable sites to get royalty-free photos for a book???

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Sincerely,
Brad Marcus & Connie Edwards

#book #cat #forum #members #photos #royaltyfree

cashcow 12 years ago

Cats are funny. I think your best bet is to buy pictures from a stock photo site? Like BigstockPhoto.

You could also try morgueFile free photos for creatives by creatives - all the images there are free to use without attribution even on commercial projects..

I'm not sure what you plan to do with the manuscript but if you are selling it I would be very careful about using any images from the web, could end up costing you a boatload of money.
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- ImWendy 12 years ago
  
  Allow me to refer you to a past post:
  
  http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ee-images.html
  
  Hope this helps!
  
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TomBuck 12 years ago

I always use: Free Photos - Free Images - Royalty Free Photos - Free Stock Photos - FreeDigitalPhotos.net
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Social App Zone 12 years ago

You must have at least one crazy cat lady in your street with 20 cats .. get snapping
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DylanC 12 years ago

There are quite a number of good free image sites, including sxc.hu, stockfreeimages.com and freedigitalphotos.net

Find a list of the best sites for free images below:
Top 11 Free Image Sites | CashJournals of DylanC
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pdrs 12 years ago

In your case where you have 5 cats - couldn't you just take the pictures yourself - you'd be adding even more value to your product and it's pretty hard NOT to take a good cat picture
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AmandaT 12 years ago

Royalty-Free Stock Photos, Illustrations & Vector Art | Depositphotos®

You can buy pictures for $0.50 each.
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- koolphoto 12 years ago
  
  If it is a printed book then web photos and many online free sites will not work for you. For the web most pictures are at 72dpi. For print material the industry standard is 300dpi. But usually anything from 200 to 300 dpi will work. Dpi is a number that tells you the resolution of the photo. A very general statement is that the more DPI the higher quality the print will be. Monitors are made to show at 72dpi. Prints need more.
  
  If you are going to publish a book in print I would be careful of using lessor known places to find photos or images. You need a stock agency that can tell you 100% who owns the copyright, what rights you have with the photo and what you can do with the photo. Stock houses like Getty or their online agency istockphoto or Corbis Images are going to be much more legally reliable then using many of the lessor know online web sites which were mentioned in this thread.
  
  As with anything including photography, you get what you pay for which includes legal rights.
  
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  sigurdur 12 years ago
  
  I use:
  sxc -dot- hu
  morguefiles
  wikimedia/wikipedia
  flickr, using the CC search engine
  
  Those options usually give me good results that are free.
  Optionally - I buy at shutterstock sometimes
  
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  MissTerraK 12 years ago
  
  Just a thought, but maybe you could ask fellow warriors if they would be willing to donate some of their cat photos to you. Maybe with just a photo by (whomever) acknowledgement in small print beneath the photo?
  
  I'm not sure if they would or not, I'm just brainstorming here.
  
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  fluffythewondercat 12 years ago
  
  Visit your local volunteer-run cat shelter and offer a donation in exchange for photographs. They already have to photograph the cats in order to place them for adoption -- and every shelter is starved for cash.
  
  Get a release signed.
  
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manu1985 12 years ago

You could also go on facebook group pages and ask there. People would love to donate their cats pictures to be in a book - free or not. Plus those people might be the first to actually buy your book and recommend it to their friends just because "my cat is in the book"
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