Stock Photo Ideas


Buying images for web design in micro-stock sites. Part II.

Posted in General by Ingus on the October 29th, 2007

If you remember the first post in this series, then I don’t have to repeat the idea of this post. I’m just showing off the images I’ve bought from dreamstime.com and explaining the reasons why I bought these images. Let’s start.

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This image was actually not used at all, I just had one free credit after registering at dreamstime and decided to download an image to see what quality other photographers offer.

The next few images were used for a website of company that specializes in aero-photography. When I was searching for appropriate photographs, there was quite a big problem with this - there are really few aero-photographs. So if you have a chance to fly and take a picture outside the plane window, don’t hesitate to do so. There’s really a niche for these images. As about the rest images for the website - they are just beautiful images chosen by my client.

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Finally the last image I have downloaded is a vector image that I used for a poster. My girlfriend created a fairytale line dance musical and she needed a poster. I did a quick search on dreamstime for appropriate backgrounds and this was one of the best I found.
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The thing I love the most - the image was in vectors, so I could resize it to any size. Despite the fact that I didn’t need the background to be larger than A4 size, I still had an option to create huge posters. If we get back to things I’ve mentioned already quite a lot of times - if you don’t have anything to do, you can create some backgrounds - they are quite useful from time to time. And if you know how to draw vectors, even better for you! Vectors always sell quite good.

That’s it. I haven’t bought any other images at the moment, however when I’ll buy some, I’ll let you know and show them off.

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