About all walks of digital painting

It’s really hard to find a good variety of stock images that you can use on anything.

1, First and foremost, you need to be thankful for the person who has gone to the trouble of uploading these nice pictures for you, imagine how you’d feel if some one abused your hard work. Make sure you read the T&C of all stock pictures. Most people require you to credit them on your work, some people ask for links to show what their work has gone towards, every one’s conditions are different, so make sure you read them!

2, In peoples T&Cs it’s always stated that you must change the picture before you upload it onto a website to sell. This is to stop people downloading a free stock photo and then selling it on another. Which is very fair. If you don’t, people can sue you for the money you made on that picture.

3, If you search “free stock images” hundred of sites come up, the crap images are free and then the good ones that you actually want to use are a pretty penny. You can find the odd good website that has great photo’s but I have yet to find one that I would want to put on here.

4, Using stock photos that you have to credit people is a pain in the butt, I’ve seen people complain about how there picture has been used and it had been taken down.

5, All in all, if you need a texture or a flower for your art, get a cheap camera and take them yourself, the people who share their free stock images won’t be any better that what you take, and you build up a missive “stock” yourself that you can also sell if they’re good enough or let them be free, you soon realise why people want credit for their work because of the amount of effort it takes.