Search free images, free photos and free vectors at Cutcaster

Cutcaster is introducing a "free" section to the site and I wanted to outline a few of the details surrounding it. It is still in the early stage and I am open to anyone who wants to offer images in this section and to hear any suggestions for making it better. You will notice that you can now submit images that were not accepted by Cutcaster and sent to your "reject" tab in the upload area to a free section or you can remove them from the site. This is your choice.

Free image and photos Section

All our photographers and designers have the choice to offer their images for free to members of Cutcaster if Cutcaster does not accept them. This is purely up to you. If a member offers their image to the free section, the photograph will be accessible via the search engine in the free photo section of the site, the watermarked thumbnail preview will be indexed by Google and will be linked to the contributor’s studio where they are selling their full price images.

Photographs voluntarily proposed for free by their author (selling price Web = 0 and print = 0) and accepted by Cutcaster will be considered as free photographs and their authors will thus enjoy the advantages of the free image and vector section.

If a photographer or designer wanted to offer their images in the free section, they could do so under a different name than their Cutcaster account name. In essence, a photographer/designer may have two aliases on the site to protect their identity if they desire.


Hells no! Why should I offer free photos at Cutcaster?

It is your choice but these are why it will benefit you and the community.

* To develop community: offering free photos will draw a large number of people some of whom will spend money thus benefiting the whole Cutcaster community. We need to increase the number of people who are downloading images and licensing images to Cutcaster and this will help.

* If you donate 100 free images to the Free section you will receive an extra 5% of sales from your purchased files. So 45% for non exclusive and 55% for exclusive images. If you donate 1000 or more free images to the Free section you will receive an extra 10% of sales from your purchased files. So 50% for non exclusive and 60% for exclusive images.

* When a photo in the free section exceeds 100 downloads (from different members) and upon approval from the photographer, the photo will be automatically re-integrated to the normal section of the Cutcaster database.

* It's a friendly way to help those whose off-line use is not commercial.

* Get feedback on how your images are used in the comments section of the free downloads page. means a lot to many of our contributors who simply would like to know how their work is used.

* As a contributor you get unparalleled exposure for your work.
Every day thousands of graphic designers, creative directors, web developers, web publishers and webmasters from all over the world come to Cutcaster as a destination for stock imagery.

I want to download free images and photos. How do I do it at Cutcaster?

The people downloading the free photographs must be a member of Cutcaster and must agree to observe the conditions of each license and contract. Moreover, a member cannot download more than 100 free photographs per month (a maximum of 10 per day).

To withdraw a photograph from the free section

The photos that you submit to the free image section are always yours and you retain the copyright. If you choose to take them off the free section, you can do so at anytime by going into your studio and clicking on the free tab above your preview thumbnails. This will take you to the free section in your studio where you can click on the “x” underneath any of the thumbnails that you wish to remove from the site.

To add a photograph to the free section

Photographers/designers must decide before hand to add pictures to the free section in the event their pictures are refused by our editing team as long as the image was not refused for legal or moral reasons.

Please let us know any suggestions you may have. This is for everyone's benefit and will help the entire community. We are asking for your help and hard work. We are not suggesting that you should give your content away or that it is somehow worthless (it is not at all otherwise we would just remove it completely from the site) but this is to help bring in new buyers who don't know about Cutcaster. You will always retain the rights to it but this will help.

Here is a link to the Free image licensing agreement.