Free photo benefits

Hells no! Why should I offer my photographs for free?

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 1000 downloads (from different members) and upon approval from the photographer, the photo will be automatically re-integrated to the normal section of the Cutcaster marketplace and be offered for money.

* It's a friendly way to help those whose off-line use is not commercial.  They can download our web size images for free.

* 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 their destination for stock imagery.