Free Images at Cutcaster
Free Section
All our photographers and designers have the choice, but no obligation, to offer their images for free to members of Cutcaster if Cutcaster does not accept the images. This is totally up to you. If a member offers their image in the free section, the photograph will be accessible via the Cutcaster 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 section. If you donate 100 or more 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.
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 with Cutcaster to protect their identity if desired. They may make this change by logging into their account and editing their My Profile information under the Member Home page.
Free section download limits
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 300 free photographs per month (a maximum of 10 per day).
To add a photograph to the free section
Photographers and designers can decide 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. If they don't want to add it to the free section they can remove it from the reject area by clicking on the remove button.
To withdraw a photograph from the free section
The photos that you submit to the free 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.