Hi all,

Another new development at BigStockPhoto (we're busy!) is the Free Photo Library. There have been some questions surrounding this.... I'll explain:

These are images we licensed specifically from the contributors for this use.  They are not coming at random from the BigStock collection. They are a separate collection fully licensed through the photo owners for this purpose. The shooters get some special consideration because their names and links to their portfolios are there for the world to see.

That said, if any of you are willing to contribute 10 or 15 images (not your lowest quality shots however, they should be reasonably good quality), please contact Liz at our Support Page and let her know the image IDs you would like to contribute. It could be great exposure, as the response to the Free Photo Library has been very good so far.

The concept behind this is of course, more eyeballs - and a small free images offering is a hallmark of almost all microstock sites as you know. Each of the images is only 72 dpi, 500px max size...  web resolution. Each has a small BigStock watermark, for recognition purposes.

That's it folks.. hope that clarifies things. Thanks again to all who contribute to BigStock.

Tim Donahue
Founder, BigStockPhoto