What is a royalty free stock photo?
Photographs and images which are hired for use in advertising, printed documents like brochures and cards, or on websites, are usually referred to as ‘stock photos’ or sometimes just ‘stock’. Usually they can be hired as’rights managed’ images or as ‘royalty free’ stock photos, the main difference being that a rights managed image is normally only hired for one use, requiring you to pay again if you want to use it again in a reprint, for example. Royalty free images, on the other hand, can be used as many times as you want, but are often only sold at postcard sizes, which is not much use for anything other than the web. At A4StockPhotos, all royalty free photos are much cheaper than rights managed images, but big enough to be used in a much greater variety of applications.
