Word guide
The words people search for when they want royalty-free photos — spelled out letter by letter, with the misspellings we see most often.
R-O-Y-A-L-T-Y hyphen F-R-E-E P-H-O-T-O-S
Royalty-free photos are pictures you license once and then use as often as you like without paying a fee for each use.
Often typed as: royalty free photos, royality-free photos, royaltyfree photos, royalty-free fotos, royalti free photos
See the spellingS-T-O-C-K I-M-A-G-E-S
Stock images is the general name for a catalogue of pictures, photos, and graphics licensed for reuse rather than made to order.
Often typed as: stockimages, stock imags, stok images, stock imagess, stock imiges
See the spellingR-O-Y-A-L-T-Y hyphen F-R-E-E
Royalty-free is a licensing model in which no per-use fee, or royalty, is owed after the initial grant.
Often typed as: royality-free, royalty free, royaltyfree, royaltee-free, roylaty-free
See the spellingP-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H
A photograph is a still picture made by a camera, or rendered to look as though it were; the royalty-free photos here are photo-realistic renders.
Often typed as: fotograph, photograf, photgraph, photagraph, phtograph
See the spellingP-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y
Photography is the making of photographs as a craft or category; stock photography is the industry that produces royalty-free photos.
Often typed as: fotography, photograhpy, photografy, photogrphy, photographey
See the spellingL-I-C-E-N-S-E
A license is the permission that sets out how royalty-free photos may be used; this site publishes one at /license/ for every file.
Often typed as: licence, lisence, lisense, liscence, licensce
See the spellingC-O-P-Y-R-I-G-H-T
Copyright is ownership of an image under law; with royalty-free photos the owner keeps copyright and grants you a license to use the file.
Often typed as: copywrite, copyrite, copy-right, copywright, copyrigt
See the spellingW-A-T-E-R-M-A-R-K
A watermark is a translucent stamp laid over preview images to deter copying; royalty-free photos downloaded here are delivered without one.
Often typed as: water mark, water-mark, watermak, waterrmark, watermarck
See the spellingA-T-T-R-I-B-U-T-I-O-N
Attribution is naming the source of an image; it is optional, not required, for royalty-free photos from this site.
Often typed as: atribution, attribtion, attrribution, attribucion, attributtion
See the spellingR-E-S-O-L-U-T-I-O-N
Resolution is the pixel count of an image, such as 7680 by 4320, which decides how large royalty-free photos can be printed.
Often typed as: resolusion, resoultion, resolition, ressolution, resoloution
See the spellingH-I-G-H hyphen R-E-S-O-L-U-T-I-O-N
High-resolution means an image has enough pixels to print large and display sharply; 8K royalty-free photos are high-resolution by any standard.
Often typed as: high resolution, highresolution, hi-resolution, high-resolusion, high-resoluton
See the spellingM-E-G-A-P-I-X-E-L
A megapixel is one million pixels; 8K royalty-free photos measure about 33 megapixels.
Often typed as: mega pixel, megapixle, mega-pixel, megapixell, megapixil
See the spellingJ-P-E-G
JPEG is the compressed image format in which royalty-free photos are delivered on this site, balancing small files against visible quality.
Often typed as: jpg, jepg, j-peg, jpge, jpeg file
See the spellingP-O-R-T-R-A-I-T
Portrait means a vertical orientation or a picture of a person; both senses appear as tags on royalty-free photos here.
Often typed as: potrait, portait, portrate, portraite, portriat
See the spellingL-A-N-D-S-C-A-P-E
Landscape is a horizontal orientation and the subject category for outdoor scenery; most royalty-free photos here are landscape format.
Often typed as: lanscape, landscap, land scape, landsacpe, landscpe
See the spellingI-M-A-G-E-R-Y
Imagery is a collective word for pictures taken as a group, so a catalogue of royalty-free photos can be called stock imagery.
Often typed as: imagary, imagry, imaginery, immagery, imagerie
See the spellingI-L-L-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N
An illustration is a drawn, painted, or rendered image rather than a camera capture; some royalty-free photos here lean toward an illustrative style.
Often typed as: ilustration, illustation, illustraion, illistration, illustrattion
See the spellingC-O-M-M-E-R-C-I-A-L
Commercial use means using royalty-free photos to promote or sell something, which this site's license permits.
Often typed as: comercial, commerical, commersial, commercail, comerical
See the spellingE-D-I-T-O-R-I-A-L
Editorial use means illustrating articles, reports, and commentary; royalty-free photos here may be used editorially with honest captions.
Often typed as: editoral, editorail, editiorial, editorual, editoreal
See the spellingA-F-F-O-R-D-A-B-L-E
Affordable means priced within reach; on this site it describes royalty-free photos that cost nothing to download and use.
Often typed as: affordible, afordable, affordeble, afforable, affordabel
See the spelling