Stock Images guide

Can I resell or redistribute stock images from here?

The license gives you broad permission to use stock images from Affordable Stock Images in your own work, including work you sell. What it does not do is hand you the file to pass on. Most questions about resale come down to that single line, so here it is spelled out as cases.

Yes, you can

  • Sell a printed poster, canvas or greeting card that uses the image. The product is the physical print you made; the buyer receives an object, not a file to redistribute.
  • Put it on a book cover, an ebook cover or an album sleeve, in print or digital form, and sell the book.
  • Use it on a client's website, in their brochure, in their app or in a campaign you are paid to produce. The client is your project; the license covers that project.
  • Include it in a template you sell, provided the image is decorative and the template is the real product. A landing page kit where the hero image is a placeholder the buyer is expected to swap out is fine. A "template" that is really a folder of images with a thin wrapper is not.
  • Hand the file to a printer, a developer or a teammate who is working on the same job. Collaborating on one project is use, not redistribution.

No, you cannot

  • Upload the JPG to another stock library, free or paid, under any name.
  • Sell the file itself, on its own or as part of a bundle. "Premium image packs", "curated collections" and "asset drops" are all the same thing: selling files that are not yours to sell.
  • Share a public folder of downloads. A cloud drive link, a torrent, a shared social album or a channel where members can grab the originals all count as redistribution, even if no money changes hands.
  • Bundle the images into a dataset, a training set or a fine-tuning corpus, or sell such a bundle to others.
  • Offer the image as a free download on your own site, even with credit.
  • Scrape or mirror the catalogue to host it elsewhere.

The test is simple. If the thing a person receives from you is the image file, unchanged and usable on its own, you are redistributing. If what they receive is your work that happens to contain the image, you are using.

Why the limit exists

A license is a permission to use, not a transfer of ownership. When you click Download JPG, the library grants you the right to make things with that picture. It does not sell you the picture. The rights stay with the site so that it can keep offering the same image to the next person under the same terms.

Redistribution breaks that arrangement in two ways. It puts copies into circulation under terms the site never agreed to, so a downstream user may think they hold a license they do not have. And it lets a third party collect payment, attention or data for something they did not make and do not own. Neither harms you directly, but both undermine the reason a free library can exist at all.

Grey areas, resolved

A social media post that features the image is use; you are publishing your post, not the file, even though a determined viewer could screenshot it.

A print-on-demand shop is use as long as the product is a print, a shirt or a mug, and the buyer cannot download the original.

A design delivered to a client as layered files, with the image embedded, is use. Tell the client that the image comes under this library's license so they know what they may do with it in future; it is polite and it heads off surprises.

A "free resources" page on your site that links back to the image page here rather than hosting the file is fine and welcome. Linking is not redistribution.

The full wording is on the license page, and if a case is not covered there, the answer is almost always found by asking whether the recipient ends up holding the file or holding your work. Related questions, including credit lines and editorial captions, are indexed in the FAQ.