How Do You Report an Issue With Royalty-Free Photos on This Site?

Below the tag chips on every image page at Affordable Royalty-Free Photos there is a report link. It exists so that anyone, without an account, can tell us that a specific photo has a problem. Reports go to a person, and most of them are dealt with in a few days. This article lists what belongs in a report, what to include, and what happens once it is sent.

Problems worth reporting

Technical. The Download JPG button fails, returns an empty file, or delivers a file that does not open. The spec block states one size and the file is another. The preview and the download are different photos.

Tagging. A tag that is plainly wrong, such as "winter" on a summer beach, or a missing tag that would help others find the photo. Tags are the backbone of search on this site, as the tags and search article explains, so corrections are welcome even when small.

Defects. AI-assisted imagery can occasionally contain artefacts: extra fingers, unreadable signage, impossible reflections, an object merging into another. Most are caught before publication. Some are not. Tell us and the photo will be fixed or withdrawn.

Resemblance. A generated face that looks like a real public figure, a shape that reads as a real trademark, or a composition that closely mirrors a known copyrighted work. None of this is intended, and the site would rather remove a photo than keep a lookalike in circulation.

Content. Anything you consider harmful, offensive, or unsuitable for a general-purpose catalogue of royalty-free photos.

Duplicates. The same photo under two different pages.

What to include

The form pre-fills the image page URL when you open it from the page. Add a sentence or two describing the problem. Contact details are optional and are used only to ask a follow-up question.

For tags, name the wrong tag and, if possible, the right one. For resemblance, say what the photo resembles. For a copyright claim, confirm that you hold the rights or act for the holder, identify the original work, and describe which part of the photo you believe copies it. Complete reports are resolved quickly; vague ones take longer because someone has to guess what you meant.

Outcomes

• Fixed. Broken files are re-exported and tags are corrected. The page keeps its URL.
• Removed. Photos with credible resemblance issues, serious defects, or content problems are taken down, and tag pages and search results update at once.
• No change. If a report describes something the license permits, for example a competitor using a photo that you also used, the report is closed with an explanation to the sender.

Replies are only sent when contact details were left and there is something to say.

If you already used a removed photo

Copies downloaded before removal remain licensed. A photo withdrawn for a defect or a lookalike concern does not oblige you to recall anything. The exception is a photo removed after a substantiated infringement claim; in that case the replacement page carries a note, and you should decide whether to swap the photo in live projects. It has been rare enough that most users will never encounter it. The redistribution article covers what happens to downloaded copies in general.

What the report link is not

It is not a request line for new subjects. To see what exists, browse the tag index or run a search such as autumn. New photos are added on a rolling basis.

It is not licensing support. Questions about allowed uses are answered on the license page and throughout the FAQ.

Use the link for problems with a specific photo, give enough detail to act on, and the catalogue gets better for the next person who searches for the same thing.