The truth shall set you back: beware the hidden costs of royalty-free stock images
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Stock photographs are theoretically royalty-free, but in practice licensing agreements can be extremely complicated. Purchasing a photograph is actually the purchase of certain rights of reuse and reproduction. In many cases, the photographer retains ownership of the image, even though by selling the image to a distributor, no per-usage royalties are collected. Licensing fees are often separate and required for publication. Many vendors of royalty-free images do not make clear the fact that in most cases publication of images purchased will require further payment of fees. Most licensing policies restrict the use of images in for-sale products, such as t-shirts, printed books and packaging. Additional legal issues include live model releases, which require that usage of photographs not be used for pornographic or defamatory purposes. Traditional stock agencies are often more expensive, but can sell exclusive rights to images, as well as offering legal assurances.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1997
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Adobe PageMaker 6.5
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Adobe Systems' $895 PageMaker 6.5 desktop publishing software has expanded its capabilities with more flexible page layout options, but its primary enhancement is the addition more robust online document production capabilities. PageMaker provides users with a new interface that uses palettes similar to those found in Illustrator and Photoshop. Web-page designers will be interested in the Hyperlinks palette, which allows a bookmark list to be imported and then assigns the URLs to objects in a document. Adobe's HTML Export command effectively transmits pages, but the transmitted file still requires some review to ensure its accuracy, especially if the converted document was originally laid out for print. While this upgrade fails to correct the long-deficient Undo command, it is a good choice for users interested in better HTML support.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1997
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Stock options
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Royalty-free stock photographs are useful when publishers cannot afford a photo shoot or need an image quickly and have no time to negotiate royalties. Collections of royalty-free stock photographs are available from traditional stock libraries, such as Comstock, or from software publishers, such as Artbeats Software and Adobe Systems. The collections are grouped into titles; each title comprises roughly 100 images, some many more. Royalty-free photographs are not completely free. The titles vary widely in price: low-end titles range from $50 to $100 apiece; high-end titles, from $200 to $300. For example, Adobe Systems' Adobe Image Library offers 300 dpi-drum-scanned images in both RGB and CMYK modes. Each Adobe Image Library title, ranging in price from $230 to $300, includes either 100 photographs or 40 illustrations.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1998
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