Shutterstock - Stock Photos

Name: Shutterstock - Stock Photos
Rating: 4.77507 (8487 reviews)

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Shutterstock - Stock Photos

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Shutterstock Inc.

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$16.99 – $179.99

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User Reviews for Shutterstock - Stock Photos

You pay hardworking professional photographers a couple cents??

A couple cents for hard work, uploading, a trained eye, a lifetime of education, tens of thousands of dollars in equipment that constantly needs to be updated and maintained, countless hours of editing, uploading, keywords, categorizing, and descriptions. Someone in this equation is very very greedy and taking what little bit of food in the best of times could be bought with the already low prices you paid out only to be slashed by 60% or more.. There is a big movement with all the photographers to contact all the photo buyers to explain our position of how we are being taken advantage of.. I have 15 years experience and over 3000 pictures on Shutterstock, thousand of hours spent getting my pictures on Shutterstock and I would have made more money today picking up a bottle off the road and getting the deposit on it.

Bc2socal, Jun 02, 2020

Stiffing the middle man

You thought getting paid 25 cents was bad. Just wait. SS just warned us in 6 days we’ll be getting compensated even less. Stating “Shutterstock aims to provide customers with competitive plans and pricing, while fairly compensating our contributors for the time and talent invested in the production of their work.” So now, making less than 25 cents and image is fair? For the sometimes hours of work I put into projects. This is absurd! Horrible excuse to insanely profit off of the ones make them all the money.

Brandilyon, May 27, 2020

DOWNLOADED PNG AND THEY DIDNT DELIVER

They promoted PNG file on their site over the app to find out the image has the shutter stock image on top and the checkers in the background after paying $40 for 4 images. Customer service said they’d give me a credit for 5 free pics and they didn’t neither will give you any money back for their lack of efficiency and error on their part. Oh, and if you call them they’ll be closed. If you have a project and are on a budget well, they can’t help you. This comment will stay this way to warn people of what they are getting selling products with their images on top and png checkers in the back promoting its a png when IT IS NOT. Neither they tell you that you need to have adobe photoshop to fix the image. What a joke.I am a business owner and as such I never tear my clients this way, especially if I’m at fault. I’ll make sure all my marketers know and are aware of such scam.

Christie888, Dec 22, 2018

Yes...IF the tables WERE turned

Kpedney’s inability to understand is should bring sympathy. Shutterstock advertises a FREE app & royalty FREE images. You don’t find out the expense until AFTER you’ve registered and given your personal information to SS to do with as they will. That’s the usual price of anything FREE on the internet. Not necessarily from one that exacts fees. There is nothing FREE on this site/app that I could find.There are plenty of websites that do offer FREE image downloads of varying quality. No one denies Kpedny or others the right to try to recoup the expenses they have in doing photography. The complaint lies in the false representation of “royalty FREE images” that still incur a significant cost.I’m deleting the app, cancelling my account and, if I plan to pay for images, I will buy them from a site that doesn’t misrepresent itself.What’s not to understand?BTW, do you know the music and movie industries also incur costs? I’m sure you don’t expect to download their content for FREE either.

firelance80, Nov 15, 2017

I can’t copy a link of a collection and paste it in my email without going to the web browser

I wish I could copy the link to my collection in the app!!!! Why can’t I do that I don’t see it anywhere!!! So now I have to go to the browser and login again just copy the link? Please add this feature! Please let me know where I can do this so I can change my writing for this app! OK I’m looking around to see that in the description it says you can share your collections I have an iPhone 12+ so maybe this is just a feature that has been disabled in this phone please let me know guys

Hunter Design, Aug 12, 2021

Disappointed

When I first got this subscription I was able to download and edit 10 images per month. I was happy to pay the over the top price of $30 a month for that privilege. This lasted three months, then all of a sudden the subscription has changed...I am only able to download select images and I am unable to edit in this app. In order to get most images I have to pay additional fees...WTH. With the changes that you have made this app is way too expensive and a complete waste.

jeseegrn, Mar 26, 2019

Overpriced and terrible customer service

For an image download service, Shutterstock is way overpriced. The only reason I tried Shutterstock was because I have to create presentations regularly, and I like to use stock images in my presentations. The images from Shutterstock are average, nothing spectacular. The free images available through MS PowerPoint are of the same quality. Shutterstock is too expensive for what you get. For $50/mo, you get 10 downloads. You can sign up for the annual plan at $30/mo, but trying to cancel is like pulling teeth. You also have to pay the difference between the monthly and annual if you do complete your year commitment. Don’t bother wasting your money!

kjlittlejohn, Feb 09, 2021

Great options, could use some flexibility

Been using Shutterstock for a few years for my business and I’ve really liked the selections overall. Finding the correct key words for the right photo can be a bit tricky but that’s probably not their fault as the photographers and searchers alike have to have the sane understanding and definitions in mind. I would like to see a bit more flexibility in subscription plans as I would forget to use my downloads for a month or two and just lose out. It would be awesome if they, or at least some could roll over to the next month. I’d say over the last couple years I paid double or triple by forgetting to download…which I get is on me, just would be cool if I could have used some anyways. Overall, good deal. I used the 10 monthly downloads plan.

Riverguidebarbie, Sep 22, 2023

Broken

This app used to be nearly flawless, but for the past couple of months a very important feature has been broken for the majority of images. When you tap on a picture to expand the size and have the ability to zoom, the screen turns black. This is happening to about 75%+ of the images. I uninstalled/reinstalled the app, but it still happens. iPhone 12 Pro with the latest version of IOS.

Silas00, May 19, 2023

Too Slow, Too Many Crashes

I use this app every day to peruse ideas when I’m away from my PC. I’ve had this routine for a few years now… Saving a file to a favorites folder sometimes takes several minutes. I’ve curated my favorites down to a dozen folders, yet it still takes forever to pull them up. Very frustrating to sit here watching the app plug away like cold molasses. What’s worse, typically after about ten minutes of using the app, it crashes and I have to start the waiting again. It clearly needs to be updated or streamlined.

The game god, Mar 29, 2023

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The best way to discover and purchase royalty-free images and videos on your mobile device. Browse over 310 million high-quality stock photos, illustrations, vectors, and videos from one of the world’s largest subscription-based stock library. Buy your content and share it easily—all within the app.

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