Word guide
The words people search for when they want stock photos — spelled out letter by letter, with the misspellings we see most often.
S-T-O-C-K P-H-O-T-O-S
Stock photos are ready-made pictures licensed for use in websites, ads, print and social media instead of commissioning a new shoot. On Cheap Stock Photos every file is an 8K JPG you can download in one click.
Often typed as: stock photoes, stok photos, stockphotos, stock fotos, stock phots
See the spellingS-T-O-C-K I-M-A-G-E-S
Stock images is the broader term for licensed pictures of any kind, covering stock photos, renders and illustrations that are ready to download and use.
Often typed as: stock imges, stock imagess, stockimages, stock immages
See the spellingR-O-Y-A-L-T-Y hyphen F-R-E-E
Royalty-free means you download or pay once and then use the picture as often as you like without per-use fees. It does not mean the picture is free of copyright.
Often typed as: royalty free, royaltyfree, royality-free, royaltee-free, royalty-fre
See the spellingP-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H
A photograph is a still picture captured by a camera or, in the case of AI-assisted stock photos, produced to look like one. It is the long form of photo.
Often typed as: fotograph, photograf, photgraph, photogragh, photographe
See the spellingP-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y
Photography is the craft of making photographs. Stock photography is the branch that produces pictures in advance for licensing rather than on commission.
Often typed as: photografy, fotography, photgraphy, photographie, phtography
See the spellingL-I-C-E-N-S-E
A license is the permission that tells you what you may do with stock photos you download. The terms for this site live on the license page.
Often typed as: licence, lisence, liscense, licensce, lincense
See the spellingC-O-P-Y-R-I-G-H-T
Copyright is the legal ownership of a picture. When you download stock photos here you receive a license to use them, while the copyright stays with the site.
Often typed as: copywrite, copy right, copyrite, copyrigth, coppyright
See the spellingW-A-T-E-R-M-A-R-K
A watermark is a visible logo or text laid over a preview to stop people using it without permission. Stock photos downloaded from Cheap Stock Photos carry no watermark on the kept file.
Often typed as: water mark, water-mark, watermrk, wattermark, watermak
See the spellingA-T-T-R-I-B-U-T-I-O-N
Attribution is a credit line naming where a picture came from. Some libraries require it, but stock photos from this site can be used without any credit.
Often typed as: atribution, attribuition, attribusion, attrubution, atrribution
See the spellingR-E-S-O-L-U-T-I-O-N
Resolution is the pixel size of a picture, such as 7680 by 4320 for the 8K stock photos on this site. More pixels allow larger prints and tighter crops.
Often typed as: resolusion, resoloution, resoultion, resolucion, ressolution
See the spellingH-I-G-H hyphen R-E-S-O-L-U-T-I-O-N
High-resolution describes a picture with enough pixels for large prints and sharp displays. Everything on Cheap Stock Photos is delivered at up to 8K, which is high-resolution by any standard.
Often typed as: high resolution, highresolution, hi-resolution, high-resoltion, high-resolusion
See the spellingM-E-G-A-P-I-X-E-L
A megapixel is one million pixels. An 8K image at 7680 by 4320 holds about 33 megapixels, which is why the stock photos here print so large.
Often typed as: mega pixel, mega-pixel, megapixle, megapixal, megepixel
See the spellingJ-P-E-G
JPEG is the compressed image format used for the stock photos on this site. It keeps 8K files small enough to download quickly while looking sharp at high quality settings.
Often typed as: jpg, jpge, jepg, j-peg, jpeeg
See the spellingP-O-R-T-R-A-I-T
Portrait means either a picture of a person or a vertical orientation that is taller than it is wide. Stock photos tagged portrait on this site can mean either, so check the preview.
Often typed as: portrate, potrait, portait, portriat, portret
See the spellingL-A-N-D-S-C-A-P-E
Landscape is a picture of scenery or a horizontal orientation wider than it is tall. Most 8K stock photos on Cheap Stock Photos are landscape at 7680 by 4320 pixels.
Often typed as: landscap, land scape, lanscape, landskape, landscpe
See the spellingI-M-A-G-E-R-Y
Imagery is a collective word for pictures used together, as in brand imagery or stock imagery. It has no plural.
Often typed as: imagary, imagry, imageary, imagerie, immagery
See the spellingI-L-L-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N
An illustration is a drawn, painted or rendered picture rather than a camera capture. Some stock photos on this site lean toward illustration in style, and their tags say so.
Often typed as: ilustration, illustation, illustrasion, illustraion, ilustracion
See the spellingC-O-M-M-E-R-C-I-A-L
Commercial use means using a picture to sell or promote something, from ads to packaging. The license on this site allows commercial use of its stock photos.
Often typed as: comercial, commerical, commertial, comercail, commercail
See the spellingE-D-I-T-O-R-I-A-L
Editorial use means illustrating news, commentary or education rather than selling something. Stock photos here are AI-assisted, so editorial use must not present them as records of real events.
Often typed as: editoral, editorail, edetorial, editorual, editiorial
See the spellingC-H-E-A-P
Cheap means low in price. On Cheap Stock Photos it goes one step further, since the 8K stock photos are free to download with no account.
Often typed as: cheep, chep, cheap stock fotos, chaep, cheapp
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