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Can You Resell or Redistribute Files From This Image Library?
You can sell things that contain these images. You cannot sell the images. That single sentence covers almost every resale question about this image library, and the rest of this page fills in the edge cases.
What redistribution means
Redistribution is passing the file itself on to other people as a file. Uploading a JPG to another stock site, posting it on a free-download page, zipping fifty of them into a "texture pack", sharing a folder link on a forum, or selling the JPG on a marketplace are all redistribution. In each case the recipient ends up with the same asset you downloaded, and the license does not permit that.
The reason is practical. Cheap Image Library grants a broad, free, commercial license because it controls the point of distribution. If the files spread through third-party sites, the license terms travel unevenly, attribution claims get invented, and someone eventually charges money for a file that was free here. Keeping distribution on this domain keeps the license honest.
What is permitted: images inside products
Using a file as a component of something you make is allowed, including for profit. The test is whether the buyer is paying for your work with the image in it, or for the image alone.
Allowed:
- A print-on-demand poster, mug, tote bag, or phone case with the image printed on it.
- A book cover, an album cover, a podcast cover.
- A website template or a presentation template where the image is a placeholder within a larger design.
- A printed calendar, a greeting card, a wedding invitation.
- A paid course, an ebook, a client pitch deck.
- An Etsy listing for a physical item that shows the image on the item.
Not allowed:
- Selling the JPG as a digital download, even at a low price.
- Listing the file on another stock or "free images" site, credited or not.
- Offering a bundle of unaltered files as a "resource pack."
- Selling a "printable" that is just the image at print size with nothing added.
- Including the files in a software product where users can extract and reuse them as standalone assets.
The printable case trips people up. A poster you print and ship is a product. A PDF containing the same image at 300 dpi, sold so the buyer can print it themselves, is the file in a wrapper. Add real design work, such as typography, layout, or a series concept, and it becomes a product again.
Templates and derivative work
Templates sit on the boundary, so the rule is explicit: substantial added work makes a template a product. A social-media template set where each image is cropped, color-graded, and composed with text and brand elements is fine to sell. A "template" that is the image with a single empty text box on top is redistribution with extra steps.
The same logic applies to edited versions. You may crop, recolor, composite, and retouch as much as you like for your own projects. What you may not do is publish the edited version as a new stock asset for others to download.
Team and client handoff
Sending a file to a coworker, a printer, or a client for the project you are working on is not redistribution. That is normal use. The printer needs the JPG to print the poster. The client needs it to approve the ad. Neither is receiving the file as a product.
If a client wants to keep using the image on future projects, they can download it themselves from the image library. The license does not transfer with the file; it attaches to anyone who downloads from this site. Point them to all images or the specific image page.
Quick self-test
Before you list something for sale, ask three questions:
- Is the buyer paying for something I made, or for this image?
- Could the buyer extract the original JPG and use it elsewhere?
- Would the thing I am selling exist without this image?
If the answers are "something I made", "no", and "yes", you are inside the license. If any answer flips, you are probably redistributing. When in doubt, browse a topic through tags, pick a file, and build something around it rather than on top of it.