IMPORTANT NOTICE: Stock images/photomanipulation

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Heya guys The-Average-Alex here.

So we still vote on all photomanipulation submissions, and the lovely StarsColdNight has noticed that a lot of you have not been providing links to the stock images used, and also that many of you have been using non-stock images in your artwork. We uphold deviantarts rules on the use of stock imagery so we have decided to post a list of stock sites that we will accept as well as stock sites that we will not accept.


Accepted sites

:bulletblue: deviantart.com (only from the stock section)
:bulletblue:123rf.com
:bulletblue: fotolia.com
:bulletblue: freeimages.com
:bulletblue: pixabay.com
:bulletblue: freestock.ca
:bulletblue: rgbstock.com
:bulletblue: Dreamstime.com
:bulletblue: Shutterstock.com
:bulletblue: Gettyimages
:bulletblue: photodune
:bulletblue: istockphoto

Sites that we are iffy about
:bulletorange:wikimedia.org
:bulletorange: MorgueFile

sites we won't accept
:bulletred: mediamilitia.com
:bulletred: mrg.bz
:bulletred: itsphotoshop.com
:bulletred: brushlovers.com
:bulletred: imageshack.com
:bulletred: model-kartei.de (seriously no)
:bulletred: srv1.jpg.co.il
:bulletred: vipad.fr
:bulletred: blogspot.com
:bulletred: Model Mayhem (seriously no)

Special notes

Please note that we will accept images that use stock from other stock sites aside from the ones listed as acceptable, this is just a guideline showing some of the sites that we trust and also ones that are not acceptable



If you use a "render"/"tubed" image (an image that has been cut out from its original background) of any anime/manga/videogame artwork you work will be declined. Also any "render"/"tubed" images of celebrities/internet personalities/adult entertainers will be declined as well.

If you do not include links to the stock images used your work WILL BE DECLINED. we have made this very clear over the past four years, StarsColdNight still sends out hundreds of messages each week asking for links to the stock images used.

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dreadfuldark's avatar
So I have to put a link to every image used? It is not enough with a link back to the stock profile?