Zombie Benefits:

Buy and sell quality stock images, mix with like minded creatives, submit and showcase your own personal portfolio of creative work and enjoy the other luxurious benefits of being Zombified.

Are you a Buyer of stock images?

Stock buyers can access well over 1.5 million quality stock images which are priced at deliciously competitive level and are, for some, just too tempting to resist.

We’re adding thousands of new images each week so the site remains fresh, funky and fun to work with. Browse our image community and see what other like minded creatives are up to. You never know where the next big idea comes from!

Are you a Submitter of stock images?

Any creative can join Not For Zombies and add photos, illustrations, vector art and other types of digital images suitable for stock photography to our online collection of stock photos. Sell this work as Royalty Free imagery to our global audience and earn real cash.

Are you Creative and need somewhere to showcase your work?

Make use of our 50mb of free space for your personal portfolio area. Use this area to display (images) of your creative work and share this with friends, family, colleagues or potential employers.  Why not use this forum to show case your creative talents or even sell your work to potential buyers from around the world.

Your personal portfolio is designed to show case work that is not suitable to sell under a royalty free license (what is suitable for royalty free licensing). We’re even thinking art, sculpture and even installations show it to a Global audience and see where it can take you.

Joining Not For Zombies is easy and free and packed with loads of benefits:

·          You can register as a buyer or submitter for free

·          You don’t have to add any royalty free stock to obtain personal
            storage space

·          Control your own portfolio buy adding and removing images,
           it’s all under your control

·          Create your own personal area to showcase and sell unique
           creative work

·          Your own pro-style sub domain
          (http://www.Not For Zombies.com/USER/USERNAME)

·          Extensive community features including discussion forums and
           industry news

·          Access to a global audience of consumers of creative products.

 What we do for our members:

·          We provide an e-commerce store-front for selling stock photos
           and limited editions

·          We advertise and actively promote to professional creative
           companies and photo buyers

·          Advanced Google optimisation strategies to gain world-wide 
           exposure

·          Provide customer service

·          Manage all interactions and securely deliver images to buyers

·          Protect copyright with watermarks

·          40-60 % payout from sales paid to you by checks or PayPal

Get Zombified today and start selling your photos and creative work to publishers, web designers, advertising agencies, design houses and creative professionals from around the world.

NFZ’s quick guide to image licensing:

Image Licenses Rights

When you acquire / purchase images, illustrations, vector art or other visual content you will also have to acquire a license to use that content. When buying images you do not actually buy the image itself, but the right to use that image and these are usually referred to as “usage rights”. Usage rights are defined in an End User License Agreement (EULA).

Does an image really need licensing?

Absolutely, yes, certainly, without question! All photographs, no matter where you get them from, have a copyright! Our role, as a Photographic library and image distributor, is to select and compile image collections for your convenience but we also provide a secure and legal environment for you to source and acquire properly licensed content. We will also advise you on all issues of licensing whether it’s for commercial, editorial, in-house or education usages.

Because the internet has made it easier to find and acquire creative content a popular misconception is that copyright and image licensing is no longer important. Which is obviously not the case and people are increasingly seeking ways to protect their rights.

Image Licensing is here to protect you and your client’s interests.
Photographs, illustrations and other creative content is protected from theft and misuse by international copyright law, thus ensuring the rights of the image owner, the people or property depicted on the image and the rights of the distributor are protected.

When you acquire a quality image from an authorised image library you are also acquiring the image license which clearly sets out what the image can legally be used for.

As a creative professional this level of security is important to safeguard the integrity of your business and your relationship with your clients. Your clients rely on you to guide and direct them in their creative decisions and we are all responsible for informing and educating them.

When clients complain about the cost of an image (and they do) it’s important to explain to them they are acquiring a quality product, properly licensed and this will protect them.

• Two primary types of stock license:
  
  Rights Managed
  
  Royalty Free

IMAGES FOR ADVERTISING: what you need to look out for as a minimum:

Check that the following releases are available:

• Model Release: This means that the model agrees to let his or her
image be used for the purpose of advertising or promoting products and services.
• Property Release: This release covers protected brands, logos, design, architecture etc. These are required if they are easily identifiable and depicted on a photograph.

NFZ guide to making money from your creative work:

Including: Photographs & vector artwork

Your creative work could be worth money.  With the boom of technology and the easy of loading and presenting copyrighted material online, the stock photography industry is a perfect environment for people to unlock value in their creative work.

Not for Zombies provides an safe online environment for you to host and publish your creative work. We are skilled retailers of stock images and drive large volumes of traffic to our site.  We license the use of your images and remit a royalty royalty payment to you for dowmloads of your images.

(For information on Licensing please see our Guide to Stock Photography).

The interface between you and the customer is web based, providing an easy-to-use environment for you to upload and manage your content.  This in turn provides customers with an easy search,  selection and download mechanism.

Filtering and Choosing Photographs
When you are considering your portfolio, it is important for you to consider the following point: does your photograph has a value as an illustration, or as a concept, or idea that a customer can benefit from?

For example, a photograph of a businessman in a suit climbing a mountain will sell better that a shot of a mosquito on a pinhead.

A lady holding a disk in one hand and a handful of dollar notes on the other hand, will sell better the a photograph of a hippopotamus chasing a crocodile.

It’s important to remember that this has nothing to do with the quality of the photographs. Not for Zombies and our customers are looking for clear ideas and concepts that their clients can use.

Preparing the Photograph
Before uploading your photographs to Not for Zombies, you need to make sure you comply with our image guidelines.

A stock photo is an image that someone could conceivably want to use for something. Imagine if you’ve taken a photo of a pretty girl holding a mobile phone to her shoulder, and typing on her laptop at the same time. If you have a model release for the picture (i.e. if the model doesn’t mind her photo being used, and you’ve got a piece of paper confirming that), there are a thousand and one uses for the picture. A newspaper may be doing an article about stress. A magazine may need an image to illustrate the dangers of mobile phone use. An job advert might need to appeal to a female audience. The possibilities are endless, but key to all of this is your photo.

Choosing Keywords
If you don’t index your photographs with good keywords, you will never get good exposure. You are competing against more than one million pictures and about 5,000 photographs added each week.

Put a lot of effort into the keywords that you use. If you have good pictures that customers can use, attaching good keywords will give you the best rating and maximum downloads. So, how do you select your keywords? The best way is to look at similar photographs uploaded by other users to get ideas. You can also use a thesaurus to find synonyms. Do not use keywords that make no sense or have no relevance to the image.

Getting Paid
Once you have accumulated a fixed amount of money you can get paid. Usually this amount is between $75-$100. You can get a cheque, bank transfer or use paypal.