123RF.com is a royalty-free microstock image library, that is also a targeted subscriber and community-based website. The 123RF.com platform gives photographers, illustrators and designers a chance to showcase their photographs, vectors, illustrations, footage and designs, allowing them the space to promote and sell their creations to an international audience.
Since its debut in June 2005, 123RF.com hosts over 18,000,000 stock photographs, vector illustrations, editorial images, footage and exclusive logo design featuring various genres and themes with over 100,000 contributing photographers and illustrators.
In year 2010, 123RF.com relaunched its website that offers faster response plus a modernized and sleeker interface furnished with several added features. A mobile-enabled website was also created to cater to clients who own an iPhone, iPod or other 3G enabled device.
The stock images available on 123RF.com are provided by contributing photographers and illustrators. Contributors can register for a free account with 123RF.com and submit their work. After submitting their photographs in JPG or illustrations in EPS, footages in MOV, WMV & MP4 or audio clips and music in IFF, MP3 (320 kbps, 44.1 kHz) & WAV (16-bit 44.1 kHz), the contributor must describe and keyword each content. Thereafter, the content will then be sent through an approval process that will take from 24 to 72 hours. Once approved, content will be made searchable on 123RF.com via a search engine. Customers who visit 123RF.com will search and then license these JPG or EPS files for commercial use.
Apart from providing stock images, 123RF.com is also an online community for designers and photographers to share their ideas through blog posts and interviews. The site features a Photoshop Tutorial contributed by experienced designers with tutorials ranging from intermediate to difficult levels. 123RF.com also offers Image Enlargement services to its clients.
123RF.com supports 12 major languages and it can be viewed in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Czech, Polish, Russian, Japanese and Korean.
Purchasers/Subscribers
Images of 123RF.com are licensed through credit or subscription packages. Credit offer users “pay-as-you-go” convenience while subscriptions provide affordable downloads for organizations that require fresh images on a daily basis. Files can be downloaded immediately, and used in almost any applications.
At the same time, subscribers of 123RF.com get to utilize the Corporate Stock Intranet (CSI) System. CSI allow users to organize, manage and keep track of image downloads through a personalized website.
All approved images are uploaded to the searchable online database. Images cost between 1 and 470 credits, depending on size and image collection (with credits ranging from $.21 to $1.00 USD each). Image size starts from Small up to 300MB TIFF (XXXL). 123RF.com also markets vector graphics made in programs such as Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand; or image editors like Adobe Photoshop.
123RF.com accepts transactions in major currencies like the US Dollar, British Pound, Euro, Japanese Yen, Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Czech Koruna, Renminbi, Korean Won, Hong Kong Dollar, Singapore Dollar and Malaysian Ringgit.
Contributors can apply by uploading their work through the website. The applicant must supply keywords and submit them to the 123RF.com inspection queue, where every image is examined and reviewed to ensure that it meets the standards of quality, marketability as well as the copyright and trademark laws. Once approved, contributors can begin uploading their work through the website. The contributor will receive up to 60% revenue from every credit image downloaded and flat rate of 36¢ for subscription downloads.
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