Alamy Reviews 313

Site is a scam. I've noticed they steal free public domain images from the US Department of Defence and then sell them as their own.

Alamy is a scam. They share photos produced by the military that are completely free, public domain, and they charge money for them. If you are interested in a military photo on Alamy, go to Dvidshub.net and search the caption of the photo and you can download it for free. I am so tired of this website making a profit off of my photos, which are public domain.

Alamy wants a 17MB jpeg file to be able to be a contributor. Mine have never gone over 7 to 8 and are usually 5 or 6mb. Get ready for 99% of your submissions rejected and also watch for your photos to show up on sites. IMO they steal them and sell them off overseas.

Stock photography - This is a really awesome place to get stock photography, or just browse through pictures, I spend hours on it.

As a published photographer I can only advise anyone to stay away from Alamy. They are unethical, they are liars and they will not hesitate to take advantage of photographers lying, and manipulating contractual terms beyond legality.
They are a disgrace for the photography community.

Wouldn't use them. As a former contributing photojournalist they erased all my news reportage from history after I complained about their business practise. Google them, look for the PressGazette article from October 2018.

Trustworthy royalty free image company with strong market position. As a photographer I can only recommend Alamy.

I have many images on Alamy and also a number of sales. View images by Max Grizaard on Alamy. Well done keep up the good work.

Awful quality.
Paid picture's quality appeared to be exactly the same (bad, very low resolution) as free picture in the internet, unfortunately.
Do not believe you can find here something good.
Do not waste your money here.

Well... it is my first time when i use a stock website to sale some pictures... and i was really curious about how is working... I have the account since 3 months and over 700 pictures ... and different kind of pictures, and no one picture sold until now. I am just wondering if Alamy is really popular, if is a popular source of sailing/buying pictures ...

Huge disappointment.
Spent hours looking for just the right kind of effects for a picture (which was really difficult due to way of searching for these kind of things).
Finally found what I was looking for, and bought the picture only to find out that the picture was NOT with transparent background. What on earth would I need glowing stars with checkered pattern in the background for!?
That's €9.99 right out the window!

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I have found Alamy to be the best among the lot to sell images. Alamy has a wide customer base which provides better exposure to my images. The image manager provided by Alamy is very simple to use and provides handling of images with ease. Also the payments for the sales are received without any hassle.

This website is hilariously awful. I don't know if they pay living artists for their work, but they try and take medieval images that are available for free on the Internet, slap their watermark on top, and get you to pay for the download even for personal use. Jokes on them since I can save the same image in fantastic quality from sources like Wikipedia without the watermark and use it however I want. I can't help laughing at how pitiful their business model must be if they think this is a good idea. I'm sure they're doing it with famous art from other centuries, too. They're not worth the time bothering when a quick Google search can get you the same image for free.

Probably weirdest service I’ve ever experienced.
My photos was requested to be deleted but they wasn’t until I closed my account that took ~4 months. Also for sold photos money never arrived, but support team was tellig me that they were transfered. Interesting fact I never added any bank details or PayPal details on my account so money could not be ever transfered.
Support was so rude they were responding as robots without any clear explanation.
So I never received any penny and my photos was used for commercial purposes.
I would suggest to avoid this service especially for new users.

great price. Getty images charge hundreds for an image, just for personal viewing... Thanks to Alamy, I was able to gather my references.
They do have a lot high-resolution images, but some low-res mixed in as well. They are kind enough to refund if there's a problem, but I wish they can filter and check their images more, so I don't have to keep buying and getting refunded. Save trouble for both of us.

I bought two images from this site, and the site took my money and never gave me a way to download the images that I had rightfully purchased. However, everything was resolved very quickly with the amazing and polite customer service.

Excellent collection of high quality pictures to suit our requirements.

Lots to pick from. I found just what I wanted at a very reasonable price. Will be my go to for images from now on.