When I created the site with free images, I wanted to help beginner designers or people who have no means to pay for photobanks. I constantly replenish it with various works which I hope will be very useful to you. I hand out the images on condition of full usage even in commercial projects, except for the resale of my images.

Of course my small photobank is suitable only for beginner designers. But if you are an experienced designer or publisher in the field of multimedia, then you will certainly need the images of higher quality as well as a wider choice.

You can obviously find high-quality images on the Internet, but you may have problems with the right-holders of these images. Thousands of professional photographers, designers and illustrators sell their works through agencies. These agencies are photobanks or microstocks. Microstocks sell images at low cost on average from $ 1 to $ 25 for 1 image, depending on the size of the image. There are various discount programs and annual subscriptions, which allow you saving quite a lot of money.

What advantages do paid microstocks have over the images, found on the Internet?

There is a total of about 20 microstock agencies. To tell the truth, usually the authors expose the images for sale in all agencies simultaneously. Therefore, one should look for more favorable conditions to buy the images. Out of all large agencies, I would single out the following ones:

1.     Shutterstock (the world's largest photobank, the lowest prices)
2.     Fotolia (easy search by categories)
3.     Dreamstime (easy interface)
4.     iStock (high-quality images but high price)

If you want to improve the quality of your work to a higher level, with the help of photobanks you will manage to do it. Save your time and money. Good luck!