Using Your Adobe Stock Photo Outside of Adobe

adobestockAdobe was smart when they decided to come out with Adobe Stock Photos. After all, they are authors of the world’s leading digital creation software, such as Photoshop and Adobe Flash. In the past users would need to import their own photo into Photoshop in order to give the program material to edit. With the integration of Adobe Stock Photos, users can purchase an image royalty-free, from directly within Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps. You’ll know if you have a Creative Cloud app if the letters CC come after the name of the program. For example, Photoshop CC is the name of the Photoshop app used within the Creative Cloud. The CC part of the name stands for Creative Cloud. This is true for other apps including Illustrator CC, InDesign CC, and others.

The royalty-free license of Adobe Stock service does not mean cost is not involved. Royalty-free is a protective measure used to protect both you (the person acquiring the image) and your client (the person using the acquired image). Should any claim of copyright be thrown around, you can take your receipt from Adobe Stock images and claim that you have every right to use that image. What you are purchasing when you buy a royalty-free image is a is a license to use it without the hidden extra costs of using images that are not royalty-free nor in the public domain.

Just because you purchase a stock photo or image from Adobe does not mean you have to use it within an Adobe app. The image is free for your use in any other program, including as a standalone photo. The one thing you can’t claim is that you’re the one who took the photo. However, you don’t have to give credit to Adobe Stock images every time you use the picture. Examples include other photography computer programs, such as Corel Painter or Corel Paint Shop.

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Most people who subscribe to stock photo imaging services are involved in marketing in one way or another. There are many ways you can use stock photography to increase your presence on the Internet. You can use your images purchase from Adobe Stock on your homepage. As someone who uses other Adobe apps, you’re well aware that you don’t need to use the images as they come. In fact, that is why Photoshop exists – it allows you to edit the image to create the impact that you’re looking for. Find the image you wish to use and put it on your homepage as a large background image relating to your service.

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Use Adobe images on your landing pages. These landing pages are among the first things a visitor sees when they visit your website. By choosing an image that relates to the particular service that you’re trying offer on your landing page, you increase your chances of a visitor staying on the landing page long enough to enter their email address. The effect cannot be achieved using text alone.

A picture is worth a thousand words, and Facebook is proof of that. When you use images in your Facebook posts, people are much more likely to view your content, like your content and join in on the conversation. Time is valuable, and many people fallen to the TLDR crowd. This is a group of individuals who read refuse to read posts that are too long – TLDR stands for “too long, didn’t read.” You can solve this issue with a photo or an infographic to convey your information.

Use them in your CTAs – Call to Actions. This is the small area at the end of a blog post or article that invites the readers to perform an action, such as visiting a website or entering the email address for more information. Any inbound marketer knows that a CTA must follow every single blog post. As marketers comprise the majority of the people who use stock photo imaging services, using them in your CTAs is an excellent marketing strategy.

Another marketing technique you can use for Adobe Stock images is email campaigns. As a marketer, your entire goal is to create conversions. This is much more likely to happen if you include images in your marketing campaigns. All of the images you use in your email campaigns can come from Adobe’s stock photo library.

Use them in your blog posts. Blog posts don’t have to contain words – they can include carefully chosen images from Adobe’s image services. In fact, if you want to increase your readership, consider using stock photos from Adobe’s image library as headers for your blog posts.

The most common use for stock photo images before they ever make it to market is in productivity software, such as Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft PowerPoint is specifically a visual program. Consider making a bigger impact with your next presentation using Adobe’s stock images.

The point is very simple – there are many more uses for Adobe’s stock image library then within Adobe’s suite of programs. You’ll most likely use them for marketing purposes, and there are several other programs that you can integrate into marketing strategy than just Photoshop. Apple’s suite of productivity software such as Keynote can also make excellent use of Adobe Stock Imagery. Explore the methods and find out other ways you can use Adobe’s new Stock Service.

Dollar Photo Club – Affordable Stock Images

Finding a dependable and economical source for royalty-free high-resolution images has just become a lot easier. The new Dollar Photo Club provides an online photo resource for creative professionals looking for exclusive access to high-quality, royalty-free, and affordable stock photos.

The Advantages of Becoming a Dollar Photo Club Member

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DPC’s image database is open for anyone to search; you can check it out for yourself at www.dollarphotoclub.com , but be careful when you do: I searched for “kittens” at this site, and an hour later realized that I had been completely overwhelmed by the cuteness of it all! However, DPC is a members-only club when it comes to getting downloadable access to images. Once you’ve purchased a Stock Photo Subscription, as a member of the club you have access to 25 million images. The general public is excluded from using them, however, and this is precisely the club’s purpose: exclusivity.

Dollar Photo Club.com has a low monthly subscription rate of $10. Becoming a member is free in the sense that you can, during the month, download ten of its images. That’s $1 an image. Of course you can buy as many images as you choose: they are all, under every circumstance, $1 an image. The advantages of exclusive access at such an affordable price are obvious.

Joining the club definitely has its benefits. The creative professional will appreciate the fact that, with exclusive access to this image database, the chances of running up against your image used on someone else’s site are minimized. In fact, the club screens applications for membership when they first come in, to minimize the possiblity of such embarrassing circumstances occurring.

This Photo Club is beautifully simple

dollar-photo-club-logoThe beauty of this stock-photo subscription is its simplicity. There is only one option under which you can jon the club. Membership is limited to creative professionals who are prescreened. Once you’re a member, you have unlimited access to the millions of images, growing daily in number, available anytime at www.dollarphotoclub.com .

Paying $1 for each photo has its advantages. You don’t have to worry about how many times a day you access the image, or about how many times you use it in your projects: you basically have that image to use as you choose. You aren’t limited by print runs or regions. And there are no hidden charges: as the folks at www.dollarphotoclub.com insist, “The first rule of Dollar Photo Club is: all images are $1. The second rule is: ALL IMAGES ARE $1.” It couldn’t be said more simply and more clearly. And you don’t need to worry about issues like credit card expiration: if you bought the image for a dollar, it’s yours to use whenever and wherever you choose.

It’s curated by Stock Images Specialists

DollarPhotoClub.com is the brain-child of stock-photo mega-company Fotolia. This stock-photo site has nearly 30 million royalty-free images in its database at present, a number that is growing daily. Unlike DollarPhotoClub.com, it is open to the public – no membership fees required. Customers buy “credits” and use these credits to purchase images, which vary in price. The goal is to throw the image database open to as many online customers as possible, making it a kind of Walmart among stock-photo companies. When it created its dollar-photo option, its goal was to limit customers to users with definite professional and creative goals. By offering its images at $1 an image and requiring users to register as members, DPC can both access its parent’s skills and content and provide exclusive customers select access to a more focussed and inexpensive database.

If you’d like to learn more about these online stock-photo sites and ways to locate and use royalty-free stock photos, check out more infos here.