What is stock photography?
Stock photography is available photos that design professionals can select, purchase and use for commercial purposes. Stock photography differs from assignment photography because it is not custom made to a person's specifications. However, stock photos retain the professional quality that is often associated with assignment photography.

Why use photography when you design?
As a creative professional, you know the right image can make or break your design project. Photography, in particular stock photography, offers creative professionals a useful, affordable and stylish way to enhance their design work. If you're a designer looking for professional quality photographs that are quickly available and feature a diverse selection of subject matters and styles, then ZenonImages's stock photography might be the best option for you.

What types of professionals use stock photography?
All kinds of design professionals who rely on quality, convenience, choice and affordability of their images all use stock photography. This typically includes graphic designers, freelancers, art buyers, corporations, non-profit organizations and publishing companies. Practically anyone who is involved in any level of design will see the significant advantages of using stock images, as well as ZenonImages as their ultimate provider of stock photography!

What are the benefits of using stock photography?
Selection and quality. With stock photographs at ZenonImages, you'll be able to select many high quality images from our vast collection. Today more than ever, people are using stock photography. Stock photography offers many benefits to designers such as diversity, choice and convenience. And with stock photography, you'll find professional quality and unique photos.

What is royalty free stock photography?
It's stock photography that is licensed for unlimited usage after purchase. Once you purchase royalty-free stock photography, you can use and re-use their royalty free photos and CDs for as many different projects and clients as you wish without paying further licensing fees. "Royalty free" is actually a misnomer since royalty free stock photography is not "free". Rather, royalty free photos and CDs must first be purchased before any usage is permitted.

What are Credits?

Credits are basically tokens redeemable for images. Our credit packages start at $15 and they can be purchased online. For every image that you download, a set number of credits will be deducted from your account, according to the image resolution. You may download as many images as you like, each download costs one to three Download Credits. Some images however are only available by subscription. Please refer to the indicators 'C' and 'S' below the image thumbnail. These are indicators to help you differentiate whether the image is available only as Credits, Subscription or both.

What are the Minorpix Cards?

If you do not want to use your Credit card, You can buy credits via Minorpix Card. After you transfer the money to our bank account, Our Sales team will send you a Minorpix Card. You can find your username and password in this card. You can download your images by signing to web-site.

How do I purchase single images?

Our credit system allows you to pre-purchase a package of credits online and redeem them for images. Each image costs between 1 and 3 credits and credit(s) will be deducted from your account for every download depending on the file type and image resolution.

What are the Payment options?

You may pay by credit card (Visa, Mastercard or Amex), PayPal, cheque/check or bank transfer to our account. For credit card payment, you will have immediate access to download the files once your payment is confirmed. For the Minorpix Card, You should transfer the money to our bank account. We can only grant you access when we have received full payment. Please contact our sales support team for more information.

What is DPI?
It is used when referring to the resolution of a screen or printer. DPI stands for "dots per inch"

What is the resolution?
It is number of dots per inch (DPI) or pixels per inch (PPI) for a specific image, image scanner, or image reproduction device (printer)

What is image resolution?
It refers to the sharpness and clarity of an image; measured in dots per inch (DPI)

What is printer resolution?
It refers to the detail at which a printer will reproduce an image; measured in dots per inch (DPI)

What is image size?
It is the physical dimensions of an image.

What is pixel?
It is the smallest single point in an image.

What is RGB?
It is a color model or profile used when storing an image digitally. RGB stands for "red, gren, blue"

What is thumbnail?
It is a smaller version of an image file; used like a digital slide

What is lightbox?
It is an online area for compiling images to be viewed or e-mailed later.