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Designing with Stock images
Hi everyone, i have not had much to do with the digital side of things but as things have changed i am doing more and more digital work. Recently been using images from ISTOCK, but am wondering how people proof their work with these images, as surely you dont buy them before the client has accepted the design? but to use the sample image normally has istock written all over it and the quality sucks.
Im guessing this has a simple answer 🙂 i just dont know it.
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Don’t buy any images until youre customer has approved the artwork, its industry standard to leave the water marks on and have a lores image for a proof. You’d be surprised how often customers will change there minds on images so wait until its all been approved……
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As above, design with low res watermarked images, get confirmation, get the ( or some) money and last, buy the images.
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Thats great guys, thanks for your comments.
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Read the licence very closely for any images you buy. It was discussed on another thread on here that the licence doesn’t cover signage & vehicle graphics as the number of views cannot be quantified, where as a print run of 100, or 10,000 can be.
Same goes for buying images, not for your own use, some stipulate you cannot transfer the licence, or resell the image.
I’ve not heard of it being a problem, but if your customer decides to go putting the image you’ve bought on their website, and getty spot it, expect repercussions.
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Design with the watermark on it and explain to customer it needs to be purchased.
if your unsure what they want or if they are specific on a layout or a sign but unsure on a picture. simply send them a link to the likes of fotolia.com and tell them to browse at their leisure as if you do it would be chargeable by the hour. plus tell them to send you links to the images they want. there they can see the cost and the extra you will bill them for on top of your quote.hope that makes sense. :smiles:
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Love using adobe stock as it lets you use the image with copyright included direct into illustrator or photoshop then when customer signs off you just click purchase and it swaps over the image for an original once with out copy protection. Adobe stock also comes on a low plan per month with additional images at £1.99 each once you use the 10 included which I found about the cheapest going.
Tried a few before going to adobe but very happy plus you can save all images outside from the web site if you wish to keep everything you purchased in a clipart file.
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So if your designing a van with multiple images you apply blends and fades to the low resolution images. And if you get the go ahead you have to apply the same affects to the high resolution images??
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Im with Kevin here…I get the stock with the CC. I’ll use watermarked images…unless I feel am going to be able to use the image elsewhere at sometime or I believe the investment is worth it for straight away.. If I send visuals by email, I Grab visual and save to pdf, so its not going to be top image anyway…again depends on the client.
Adobe stock doesn’t hold all the best images, and sometimes I will buy from other stock providers…
It depends on the customer and your confidence. As a photoshop and illustrator Creative Cloud user…this is by far the most cost effective way of getting stock images.
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