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How Photo-key.com works
About subscriptions
Photo Specifications
About royalty free
Searching for photos
Downloading photos
Purchasing special resolution photos
Using lightbox
Managing my account
Recommended Configuration



How Photo-key.com works

Photo-key.com is a subscription-based web site, where thousands of royalty free images are available on-line to help you to find out your favourite ones for professional purposes, for supporting your hobby, or for any other reason where you need very high quality images.

The content of our web site grows periodically, due to the addition of new photos each month. Visit the "What's new" section to find the last photos added.


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About subscriptions

Subscribing means paying only once for accessing, as often as you like, every image in our collection.

We currently manage subscriptions for one month, six months or one year. Once you subscribe you may download all the images you like up to a maximum of fifty (50) per day for as long as your subscription runs. The main reasons of this limitation are the following:

  • We need to maintain site performance in order to provide a good level of service to our customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
    If everyone downloaded excessively, our servers would not be able to keep up!
    In our opinion, 50 images per day are considered "reasonable" and for most projects more than enough.
  • To better protect our content from piracy, we need to limit the proliferation of our content.

The table below shows the current prices according to the associated subscription time period:

 Subscription time Price
 1 month EUR79 / USD103
 6 months EUR169 / USD220
 12 months EUR249 / USD324

 


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Photo Specifications

Every photo is available in four sizes: multimedia, media, high and special resolutions. This table summarizes the specifications of each one:

 Resolution Dimension Print Size (aprox.) Price
 Multimedia 800px 7 cm Included
 Media 1900px 17 cm Included
 High 2800px 24 cm Included
 Special 4000px 34 cm EUR99 / USD129

Note: Special photos have a additional cost of EUR99. The price of the rest of the categories doesn´t have any charge to the subscription price.

We will send you periodically a notice on the day your subscription expires, but we will NOT automatically renew you.

You ARE authorized to use Photo-key.com images on behalf of your client or employer for the purposes outlined in our Terms & Conditions.
You are NOT authorized to make the images available to your client outside a layout or product.


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About royalty free

Managing royalty free images means that once you download an image, it's yours to use forever, even after your subscription expires, obviously if you respect our Terms & Conditions.

Royalty-free images are not priced based on the number of copies produced or sold, but on a single one-time license fee, paid to Photo-key.com.

You cannot share username and password, our license covers only you as subscriber. Photo-Key.com manages agreements for multiple users as user corporate licenses. If you need more information, please send us an email at phk[arroba]photo-key.com

After your subscription has expired:

  • You're NO LONGER authorized to download images from Photo-key.com.
  • You ARE authorized to use any image you downloaded during your subscription after your subscription has expired. Photo-key.com grants you a non-exclusive, permanent, non-transferable license to use the images for the purposes outlined in our Terms & Conditions.


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Searching for photos

At the top frame of every window, there is a search bar containing:

  1. The text box where you may insert any word/s you wish to search.
  2. The button that you have to click to start your search.
  3. Three alternative options (Or, And, Exact) that are significant when you wish to search for more than one word.
  4. A selection box which allows you to choose a specific category for which to execute your search.
  5. Four complementary options (B/W, Color, Vert, Horiz) that allow you to detail some characteristic of the photo/s you are searching for (black & white, color, vertical and/or horizontal photo/s).
  6. The number of rows that will be displayed as a result of your search.

In order to help you to search, we have introduced the following sections:

  1. The "What's new" section where you may find the latest photos added. You can access this section by clicking the button on the home page, by clicking the link on your personal home page (after logging in) or by inserting the word "NEW" in the text box of the search bar.
  2. "Random Search", that executes a random search of photos in our database. You can access this section by clicking the button on the home page, by clicking the link on your personal home page (after logging in) or by inserting the word "RANDOM" in the text box of the search bar.
  3. "Themes Collection" that every month proposes our latest suggested themes collection. You can access this section by clicking the relative link on your personal home page (be sure to be logged in).

We have also introduced another feature which automatically makes your search easier and more intuitive. To display each photo simply pass over its thumbnail with the mouse cursor.


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Downloading photos

Every subscriber of Photo-key.com can download multimedia, medium, and high-resolution photos. To do this:

  1. Be sure you are logged in.
  2. After performing your search, click on the thumbnails in the search results form.
  3. Click Download to the right of the appropriate resolution. A larger version of the image will appear in a new browser window.
  4. Right-click the larger image.
  5. Select Save Picture As
  6. Click Save in the dialog box that appears.


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Purchasing special resolution photos

To purchase a special resolution image:

  1. After performing your search, click on the thumbnails in the search results form.
  2. Click Purchase to the right of the special resolution.
  3. Follow the instructions to complete your purchase.


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Using lightbox

Lightbox is an area where you can store and review photos while you're browsing the site searching your favorite photos. Only one lightbox at a time is available for each user. Please note that lightbox is not a temporary area and the items stored do not disappear after your visit.

To add items to the lightbox, perform a search and click the "Add to Lightbox" button.


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Managing my account

You can later modify all the information you've provided when filling in the subscription by accessing your account section. Every change will be stored in our database and our application will keep you updated sending you an email to the email account you've specified. For this reason it's very important to provide an email account updated and running and that you access frequently.

You may modify your account information before login. For security reasons, every time you access your personal info ("My Account" and "Change Password" sections), you must insert your username and password again.

We also give you the opportunity to check and manage the latest photos you have downloaded from Photo-key.com. To do this simply login and click the "Last Download" link on your personal home page.



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Recommended Configuration

The recommended browser to use with Photo-key.com is Internet Explorer version 6 or above.

The recommended browser configuration is the following:

  1. JavaScript must be enabled.
  2. Cookies must be enabled.
  3. Check for newer version of stored page every visit to page.
  4. Do not click Refresh/Reload button and do not press F5 key. This will automatically close your session.

Please contact us at phk[arroba]photo-key.com if you detect any error using this site or if you have different needs.

 
NOTE: Photo-key.com expresses its contents in English. In order that this does not suppose an obstacle at the moment of understanding both the functioning and the legal politics that this site adopts, we invite you to choose the option of the language that better adjusts to your case.
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