To get beautiful images, sometimes we need to subscribe to image banks website that maybe expensive to some of us. Sites like Graphics.com and Photos.com provides high quality and royalty free images. But when it comes to the subscribing price, it may be a barrier to some groups. Here comes Fotolia, to help all the “i can’t afford” people to get the high quality images and the royalty free images.
Fotolia is a site where photographers can sell their images directly to consumers. They offer only royalty free images. Photographers keep up to 80% of fees.Fotolia can be considered as a P2P Photo Sales System.
How Fotolia works?
Similar to the music or film industry we believe that every artist’s (photographers and designers) image is a work of the soul and protected by intellectual property rights.
Fotolia is convinced that the principle reason for illegal pirated use of protected images is mainly due to the high price barrier created by other agencies.
Fotolia provides a compromise between photographers and buyers, by protecting a photographer’s intellectual property rights and providing high commissions, while legally lowering the price barrier so that everyone may enjoy/afford these beautiful images.
Fotolia challenges the traditional closed agency model by offering to everyone hobbyist or professional the opportunity to monetize their talents, whatever their fame, status, or size of portfolio.
Thanks to our collaborative online model, Fotolia is able to offer individuals and professionals (advertising agencies, press, small business, graphic artists, designers) the greatest image collection in the world for free or as little as $1.
Fotolia benefits a lot to photographers and the buyers as well. For instance, i list a few benefits for photographers:
* Photographers set their own price
* Fastest image review
* Highest commission in the industry ( up to 80%)
* International sales in 4 languages
* 100% of uploaded images are online and generate revenue
where buyers benefits are:
* Fastest growing image collection
* Free and affordable legal images
* Prices start at $1 or free
* Best price guaranteed
* Flexible royalty free licence
* International image collection
* Thousands of new images a day
You may sign up for your free Fotolia account here
