Alamy Reviews

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I have been a stock photo contributor to a number of websites for a while now and while doing so I have found that sometimes the odd photo slips through with a minor blemish (e.g. a leaf may be ever so slightly soft). This company will absolute destroy you for that. If you make any error at all, you will be locked out for 28 days. No ability to correct, no ability to make the change during the 28 days. They just hold you in "Quality Control" until the time is up. Compare this to other high quality stock photo websites like Shutterstock, which is an immediate turn around to let you process through everything as quickly as possible. Their excuse of a reason behind this policy is laughable too that it "makes you check your work extra carefully before uploading", seeing as the reasons for failures are often arbitrary and nonsensical, with a not insignificant number of images I have uploaded to other sites that were accepted being rejected by Alamy for no reason.

You have to contact them to close your contributor account and they just ignore you and don't respond. I don't know what to do any more and will have to waste my time and money hiring a lawyer just to do something as simple as shutting my account. Absolutely pathetic.

THESE PEOPLE STOLE MY MARINES PICTURES AND ARE SELLING THEM FOR MONEY THEY ARE EVIL!!!!!!!

They steal the pictures of dead veterans and profit from them..

Full of wrong information days and weeks after DPA did correct false information. Did not react on mails or calls. Don't trust them.

I wouldn't trust this company at all. I've found my own public domain work being resold on this company, and heard this same story from others.
Very shady company.

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 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.

As a photographer who has a number of images with them (as well as other well known stock image companies) I think the payment system is poor. It takes ages (months) to get paid due to there finance agreement with customers, unlike other companies I could mention, if I hit a target I will get paid the following month. Not the case with Alamy. Very disappointed with them

I am very concerned about the copyright practices of this company.

They are selling images of a 19th Century painting that I own the original of (by my ancestor). There is no reference as to how they obtained a photographic image of it, or who submitted it or where it came from. The artist may have passed away over 70 years ago and the painting itself may be out of copyright, but the photographic image itself must have been taken more recently and distributed for monetary gain without permission of the owner of the painting.

Images of historic paintings such as these may well be in the public domain, but should be "All rights reserved" i.e. used for non-commercial research and private study use only. Not for commercial gain by unscrupulous people. I am not happy that someone is anonymously making money in a dubious manner from my family heirloom.

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.

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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.