using stock photos
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be careful with what you buy, in regards to stock photo. You aren't always buying unlimited use of the image. Stock photoraphy breaks down into two camps, royalty free and paid royalties. The quality of the the images is usually far superior for paid royalty photos. Paid royalty photos mean you buy the rights to use that image for a certain amount of time and in specific media (eg if you buy an image for a local ad campaign that is running for one year it won't be as expensive as you buying the image for a national campaign and the website) Oh and the paid royalties part means that the photographer gets paid when you buy the rights to use that image.
Royalty free means the photographer sold the image outright to the stockhouse and won't get royalties whenever the image's rights are sold for use. Most of these images that you find on a cd you can use however and whenever you please, but make sure of that when you buy them. I've heard of agencies and designers getting sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars for illegal use.