Book Designer David Moratto, book cover design and interior book design pages
Online image source
ONLINE IMAGE SOURCES FOR YOUR BOOK COVER DESIGN
AND YOUR INTERIOR BOOK DESIGN PAGES
As a book designer online image websites are a good source when creating book cover designs or images that might be used within the interior book design pages.
Online image websites provide 'Royalty-free images'. Royalty-free is a term employed in negotiating the right to use creative content such as images for commercial use. Royalty-free Images can be used with no limit on time, copies or geographical location. Some companies will have a limitation to 500,000 copies - an 'Extended Royalty-free' license is available that can eliminate the 500,000 copies limitation agreement to unlimited.
'Rights Managed images' are also available which lets you customize the image license to protect yourself so that another person doesn’t use the same image as you do for the same purpose for a certain amount of time.
RECOMMENDED SOURCES
Below is a listing of online image companies that I use.
iStockphoto is one of my favorite online photo websites. They allow you to create and name multiple folders called ‘Lightboxes’ which you can save as many photos as you wish into the Lightbox(s) you’ve created - a great way to organize multiple jobs. You can also email any Lightbox directly to anyone and that person can view the photos saved in that Lightbox.
Dedicated to only art. Search for rights managed and royalty-free stock art.
Search for rights managed and royalty-free images. Use the ‘Flash Browser’ to view your searches as a slide show.
Search for rights managed and royalty-free images.
Search for rights managed and royalty-free images.
Search for rights managed and royalty-free images.
Search for rights managed and royalty-free images.
Search for rights managed and royalty-free images.
Search for rights managed and royalty-free images.
Search for rights managed and royalty-free images.
The British Library, Images Online
Includes manuscripts, rare books, musical texts and maps spanning almost 3000 years. The range of images that are available include illustrations, drawings, paintings and photographs.
Wikimedia Commons is not a traditional online image source. I use it for searching vintage images. They have a great resource of original photographs such as the photo displayed on this webpage which the author has allowed anyone to use. They also have an extensive Public Domain image liberary.
Public Domain is a category of text, documents and images that are no longer protected by an active legal copyright. They have become public property. On the Internet, material in the public domain can be freely downloaded, copied and reused for personal and commercial use.
Creative material usually ends up in the public domain in one of two ways.
- Some creators relinquish their copyright and donate their work to the public domain.
- Works can also fall into the public domain if their copyright has expired.
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