Wow! I've been using the Internet since back when it was still the ARPANET and I had no idea that one could buy royalty-free photos until just a few days ago.

I've been in real estate as a Realtor, property investor, and home inspector (among other professions) for over 30 years and have recently decided to convert all these Plain Jane articles that I have into useful Internet documents for my various Clients. So I was out trying to take some good pictures of mold the other day, but since I don't have mold in my own home, I got frustrated. So I came back to the office and did a search on mold and, out of the gazillionbazillion returns I got (shock!), one was dreamstime.com, so I checked it out. Well since then I've downloaded about 15 photos. Sure saves me a lot of time.

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I'm not sure I'm fully understanding the various licenses associated with these "royalty free" photos, so I thought I'd simply show what I had done with one to make sure I've done things on the up and up.

Here's a photo that I used, having purchased the smallest one:

I named those two individuals "Michael & Michelle" and took the photograph into CorelDraw, creating a "logo" for "Michael & Michelle" to use in a question and answer document concerning a new service for a home inspector trade association. The document in question with "Michael & Michelle" can be seen here:

http://www.abouthomes.info/NACHI/Marketing/0021-MIC-with-Michael-and-Michelle.pdf

It's a one-time document that can be viewed by about 9,000 people at http://www.nachi.org.