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Crestock in Microstock industry is best known for making sure that the images they include in their existing database are quality images. The company’s ambition is to offer its customers the best quality of images compared to what you have on Microstock websites while maintaining a reasonable price. In all, Crestock is a small website in big Microstock world.

File Types Offered
Crestock offers Standard Image files; Free License (Read about Free License) along with vector and flash files and also illustrations. The minimum price of single image is 1 credit. Approximate price of a credit in Microstock industry is $1.

One-Time Purchase of Credits
At Crestock, You can execute one-time purchase of pictures using credits program offered by Crestock. Under this program the more credits you purchase the lower would be the cost per image. For instance, if you purchase 100 credits, it shall cost you $90 where as if you go for 500 credits you would just need to pay $425.

Subscription Plan
Crestock offers 6 months subscription at price of $959. With this subscription program you can download 20 images of any format and resolution based on your requirement and average cost of the image comes to be $0.26 per image. 12 months subscription plan is available at $1,799 further lowering down the cost per image as low as $0.25. Read about Subscriptions…

Crestock Benefits
Careful screening of the pictures before being uploaded onto the website allows variety of original images along with quality maintenance. Annual subscription program allows you to purchase large images or vector files a cost of just $0.25 per picture or different supportable format. Crestock is cleanly designed and has user-friendly interface.

That was past. Now Crestock is changing the pattern of working and accepting majority of images everyday and starting to grow. Yet built in search engine does not show enough options to search for images

Crestock Weakness
Due to high quality parameters, majority images submitted by photographers were declined and only handful proportion of images was approved. In the past movement was not strong enough on website. As less traffic was visible on website it decreased image search options and even had a cut down on variety of images as well as photographers moved to different Microstock websites.

Our Conclusion
With Crestock, One-time purchase offer is very expensive as compared to other Microstock websites. Just in case, you are going for long term subscription then, you can buy large photos, vector files, illustrations and flashes at very cheap prices. If image quality is very important to you and you have plans to purchase a large number of images with a subscription program then Crestock is your cup of tea. Instead, if you are looking for a greater variety of pictures, or one-time purchase offer then we would recommend you to make price check on other Microstock websites.