What Is An Image Library ?

What is an image library An image library holds a collection of pictures photographs and images to be used by members of the public or companies subject to certain rules and laws. Uses vary quite dramatically. For example a picture of a sunny beach in Spain could be purchased by an individual to use as a print on their living room wall or by a tour company to place in their next holiday brochure.

The aim of an image library is to offer as many pictures or images as possible and cover as many aspects of photography and imaging as possible. Of course there can be a difference between a photograph and an image. A photograph is of course a photograph and everyone knows what a photograph is. It is a picture taken with a camera. However, an image can be something quite different. An image can still be a photograph depicting an image but it can also be a computer generated visual effect which is an image but not actually a photograph. Image libraries therefore offer a selection of photographs, pictures and images for various uses.

Let's look at some of those uses. Well look around you. What do you see? Everywhere you look you are bombarded with images and pictures. Whether it is television, magazine adverts, billboards, newspapers, the sides of buses, shop windows, the Internet, product packaging, holiday brochures, the visual image is KING! Images are used to sell everything! There is a vast market for images of every kind. Therefore the purpose of an image library is to fill that thirst for pictures by offering as many as possible to cater for the needs of all advertisers and picture lovers.