Question 1

How do you spell stock photos?

Accepted Answer

Stock photos is spelled S-T-O-C-K P-H-O-T-O-S, as two words with a space between them. The plural of photo simply adds an s, so photoes is wrong. Search engines treat stockphotos as one word and may miss the stock photos you were looking for.

Question 2

How do you spell stock images?

Accepted Answer

Stock images is spelled S-T-O-C-K I-M-A-G-E-S. Write it as two words and keep the e in image before adding the s. On this site the phrase overlaps with stock photos, since every download is a still picture in 8K.

Question 3

How do you spell royalty-free?

Accepted Answer

Royalty-free is spelled R-O-Y-A-L-T-Y, a hyphen, then F-R-E-E. The hyphen joins the two words into one adjective, which is why the phrase royalty-free stock photos reads as a single idea. Royality with an extra i is a common slip.

Question 4

How do you spell photograph?

Accepted Answer

Photograph is spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H, with ph at the start and at the end. Ten letters, no silent e. When you talk about several of them in a catalog you are talking about stock photos, the short form used all over Cheap Stock Photos.

Question 5

How do you spell photography?

Accepted Answer

Photography is spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y, which is photograph plus a final y. Keep both ph pairs. Stock photography and stock photos describe the same field from two angles, the craft and the files it produces.

Question 6

How do you spell license?

Accepted Answer

License is spelled L-I-C-E-N-S-E in American English, and that is the spelling used throughout this site. Licence with a c is the British noun, so it is a regional variant rather than an error. Whichever you type, the terms for our stock photos are at /license/.

Question 7

How do you spell copyright?

Accepted Answer

Copyright is spelled C-O-P-Y-R-I-G-H-T as a single word. Think of the right to copy, not the act of writing, and the spelling falls into place. Copyright and license are different things, and stock photos always involve both.

Question 8

How do you spell watermark?

Accepted Answer

Watermark is spelled W-A-T-E-R-M-A-R-K, written as one word. Writing water mark as two words is the most common mistake. The JPG stock photos you download from this site are clean, so the word only matters when you compare other libraries.

Question 9

How do you spell attribution?

Accepted Answer

Attribution is spelled A-T-T-R-I-B-U-T-I-O-N, with two t's near the front and the standard -tion ending. Dropping one t is the usual error. You are welcome to add an attribution when you use our stock photos, but the license does not demand it.

Question 10

How do you spell resolution?

Accepted Answer

Resolution is spelled R-E-S-O-L-U-T-I-O-N. Every letter appears once and the ending is -tion, the same as attribution. The resolution of the stock photos here is listed on each image page beside the Download JPG button.

Question 11

How do you spell high-resolution?

Accepted Answer

High-resolution is spelled H-I-G-H, a hyphen, then R-E-S-O-L-U-T-I-O-N. The hyphen belongs there whenever the phrase sits in front of a noun. All the stock photos on this site qualify, since the largest download is 7680 pixels wide.

Question 12

How do you spell megapixel?

Accepted Answer

Megapixel is spelled M-E-G-A-P-I-X-E-L, written as one word. Keep the -el ending from pixel; -le and -al are both wrong. When people ask how many megapixels our stock photos have, the answer is roughly 33 for a full 8K file.

Question 13

How do you spell JPEG?

Accepted Answer

JPEG is spelled J-P-E-G, normally in capitals because it is an acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group. The file ending .jpg is the same format with one letter dropped. Every download here is a JPEG, which is why the button says Download JPG on all our stock photos.

Question 14

How do you spell portrait?

Accepted Answer

Portrait is spelled P-O-R-T-R-A-I-T. The tricky part is the ending, which is -ait rather than -ate, and the r that follows the t. Search for portrait stock photos and you will find both vertical crops and pictures of faces.

Question 15

How do you spell landscape?

Accepted Answer

Landscape is spelled L-A-N-D-S-C-A-P-E as a single word ending in a silent e. Dropping the d, as in lanscape, is the usual mistake. The word describes both a subject and a shape, and the majority of stock photos here are landscape-shaped.

Question 16

How do you spell imagery?

Accepted Answer

Imagery is spelled I-M-A-G-E-R-Y, seven letters, with the e of image kept before the r. Imagary with an a is the common slip. It is a mass noun, so you would say the stock photos here provide fresh imagery, not imageries.

Question 17

How do you spell illustration?

Accepted Answer

Illustration is spelled I-L-L-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N with two l's right after the first i. Dropping one l is the most frequent error. On Cheap Stock Photos the term shows up as a tag alongside the photographic stock photos.

Question 18

How do you spell commercial?

Accepted Answer

Commercial is spelled C-O-M-M-E-R-C-I-A-L, with two m's and a c in the -cial ending. Comercial with one m is the classic mistake. Commercial use of the stock photos here is covered by the license, so you can put them in ads and on products.

Question 19

How do you spell editorial?

Accepted Answer

Editorial is spelled E-D-I-T-O-R-I-A-L, which is the word editor with -ial on the end. Editoral, missing the i, is the usual typo. Editorial and commercial are the two big categories for using stock photos, and both are allowed here with the caveats on the license page.

Question 20

How do you spell cheap?

Accepted Answer

Cheap is spelled C-H-E-A-P, five letters with ea in the middle. Cheep is a real word but it belongs to birds, and chep drops a letter. If you typed cheap stock fotos, the phrase you want is cheap stock photos, which is exactly what this site is named after.

How to spell stock photos terms — and the misspellings people search for