FAQ

UK Travel and Heritage Image Library - Licensing Photos

Can I use your photos for my own private purposes?

• You may use photos from the Britain Express website for your own personal use without acquiring a license. Acceptable personal uses include school assignments, family history, printing for your own enjoyment. If you put an imagew of ours online, please credit Britan Express and link back to us. If you print an image please credit the Britain Express website as the source.

Can I use your photos on my non-commercial web site?

• You may use low resolution thumbnail photos on non-commercial websites, if the photo is credited and you link back to Britain Express. Please enquire for any other usage.

Can I use a photo on my commercial website or for any other commercial purpose (e.g. brochure, magazine)?

• Yes. The details of photo licensing varies according to your intended usage.

To arrange photo licensing you will need to let me know

a) which image you want - file name or URL of the page on which you found the image

b) what your intended use is.

For publications this includes
1) circulation or print run
2) print size (i.e. cover, inside 1/4 page, etc.)
3) worldwide or geographic rights required

Technical

File Size

All images are available only in digital format, and were shot with professional camera gear. I don't compress original images; the samples you see on the Britain Express website are low resolution examples specially prepared for web publishing, and are not suitable for priinting offline.

In practice this means that file sizes of original images can be quite large - normal file size for an uncompressed tiff image may be 30 - 50 MB. Please consider whether you would like images available as downloadable files or sent to you on a CD. A 50mb image would take a very long time to download via a dial-up internet connection.

Colour Space

Files are saved in Adobe (1998) RGB colour space, which is the industry standard, so will need to be converted to CMYK for printing on a 4 colour press. Any printer or designer worth their salt will know how to do this!