What is Fotolia?
Fotolia is an online media marketplace where users can browse, search and purchase royalty-free stock photos, illustrations, video clips, vectors, and music files for both personal and commercial use. It was founded in 2005 in France and acquired by Adobe in 2014.
Fotolia provides a library of over 100 million files including photos, illustrations, vector graphics, videos, and music tracks. The files are created and uploaded by a global community of independent contributors. Users can search the library using keywords, categories, colors, orientation, people, and more.
Once users find the files they need, they can purchase on-demand access with options for different resolutions. Fotolia handles all the licensing so files can be used for commercial projects without worrying about copyrights. Contributors earn royalties each time their work gets purchased.
Key features of Fotolia include:
- Over 100 million royalty-free media files
- New files added daily from global contributors
- Powerful search and filtering tools
- On-demand purchasing of individual files
- Various licensing options for personal, editorial, and commercial use cases
- Support for bulk purchasing and subscriptions
- Integration with Adobe Creative Cloud
With its comprehensive library and flexible licensing model, Fotolia is used by creative professionals, advertisers, web designers, app developers, publishers, and more for sourcing graphics, images, videos, and music.
500px, Getty Images, Shutterstock, Pexels Videos, Visual Hunt, Adobe Stock, Depositphotos, Negative Space, VectorStock, Tiling Textures, motosha, findA.Photo are some alternatives to Fotolia.