Word guide
The words people search for when they want stock pictures — spelled out letter by letter, with the misspellings we see most often.
S-T-O-C-K P-I-C-T-U-R-E-S
Stock pictures are ready-made images licensed for reuse in websites, print, and marketing instead of being commissioned for one project.
Often typed as: stok pictures, stockpictures, stock picures, stock pitchers, stock pictues
See the spellingS-T-O-C-K I-M-A-G-E-S
Stock images is the broad term for licensed pictures, photos, and illustrations kept in a catalogue for anyone to download and use.
Often typed as: stock imagies, stockimages, stock immages, stok images
See the spellingR-O-Y-A-L-T-Y hyphen F-R-E-E
Royalty-free describes a license where you obtain a picture once and may use it again and again without paying per use.
Often typed as: royality free, royalty free, royaltyfree, royalti-free, royal-free
See the spellingP-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H
A photograph is a single still image captured with a camera or, on this site, rendered to look like one; each item in a set of stock pictures is a photograph or an illustration.
Often typed as: fotograph, photografh, photograf, photgraph, photagraph
See the spellingP-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y
Photography is the practice and art of making photographs; in stock terms it names the whole category of camera-style stock pictures.
Often typed as: fotography, photograhpy, photografy, photogaphy, photographie
See the spellingL-I-C-E-N-S-E
A license is the written permission that says how you may use stock pictures; on this site it lives at /license/ and applies to every download.
Often typed as: licence, lisence, lisense, licens, liscense
See the spellingC-O-P-Y-R-I-G-H-T
Copyright is the legal ownership of an image; with stock pictures the copyright stays with the publisher while you receive a license to use the file.
Often typed as: copywrite, copy right, copyrite, copyrigth, copywright
See the spellingW-A-T-E-R-M-A-R-K
A watermark is a visible logo or text stamped over a preview image to stop unlicensed use; the stock pictures you download here carry none.
Often typed as: water mark, water-mark, watermerk, wattermark, watermarc
See the spellingA-T-T-R-I-B-U-T-I-O-N
Attribution is a credit line naming the source of an image; it is optional for stock pictures from this site.
Often typed as: atribution, attribition, attrubution, attributon, atrribution
See the spellingR-E-S-O-L-U-T-I-O-N
Resolution is the pixel size of an image, such as 7680 by 4320 for 8K stock pictures, and it determines how large the file can be printed.
Often typed as: resolusion, resoloution, resolutoin, ressolution, resolutin
See the spellingH-I-G-H hyphen R-E-S-O-L-U-T-I-O-N
High-resolution describes an image with enough pixels for large prints and sharp displays; 8K stock pictures qualify comfortably.
Often typed as: high resolution, hi resolution, high-resoltion, highresolution, high-resolusion
See the spellingM-E-G-A-P-I-X-E-L
A megapixel is one million pixels; 8K stock pictures at 7680 by 4320 contain about 33 megapixels.
Often typed as: mega pixel, megapixle, mega-pixel, megapixal, megapiksel
See the spellingJ-P-E-G
JPEG is the compressed image format used to deliver stock pictures on this site because it keeps files small while preserving visible quality.
Often typed as: jpg, j-peg, jepg, jpge
See the spellingP-O-R-T-R-A-I-T
Portrait is a taller-than-wide orientation, and also a picture of a person; both meanings appear in tags on stock pictures.
Often typed as: portait, potrait, portrate, portriat, portraite
See the spellingL-A-N-D-S-C-A-P-E
Landscape is a wider-than-tall orientation and also the subject category for scenery; most stock pictures here are landscape format.
Often typed as: landscap, landscpe, lanscape, land scape, landskape
See the spellingI-M-A-G-E-R-Y
Imagery is a collective term for pictures considered together, so a catalogue of stock pictures can be called stock imagery.
Often typed as: imagary, imagry, imaginery, imagerey, immagery
See the spellingI-L-L-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N
An illustration is a drawn or rendered image rather than a camera capture; some stock pictures here are illustrative rather than photo-realistic.
Often typed as: ilustration, illustation, illustraton, illistration, illustrasion
See the spellingC-O-M-M-E-R-C-I-A-L
Commercial use means using stock pictures to sell or promote something, and it is permitted under this site's license.
Often typed as: comercial, commerical, commersial, comercail, commercail
See the spellingE-D-I-T-O-R-I-A-L
Editorial use means illustrating articles, reports, and commentary rather than adverts; stock pictures here may be used editorially as long as captions stay honest.
Often typed as: editoral, editorail, editiorial, editorual
See the spellingC-H-E-A-P
Cheap means low in cost; on this site it describes stock pictures that cost nothing to download and use.
Often typed as: cheep, chep, cheapp, chaep, cheap pictures
See the spelling