What do you rather see.....?

This is not such an easy answer to give as I do not want to hurt anyone's feelings. To be honest, I sometimes quickly go past pages that feature stock photos. To me personally, scrapbooking is for recording memories.
I do understand and appreciate that there are a lot of digital artists who like to create art and enjoy doing it with someone else's photo. It is only on rare occasions I would use a photo that is not my own ( or my mother's old photos etc) and that is mostly for Artjournaling or Scripture Art or to use a scene photo as a background to a page or a photo of a place from my past that I want to add to a page to help set the scene.

 

I am a lover of memories too, and when I see stock photos, or repeats, I do find myself looking closer at the design.

If the photo (stock or real) is eye catching, that can sometimes distract from the product on the page to me.

I can lose myself in a happy moment.

It is very hard to say ALWAYS to this, as sometimes (especially in art journaling) a photo doesn't work.

My whole outlook, is the person has found JOY in creating, and to me the creating is the best part. My family gets the overflow of that JOY with books.

 

I love seeing pages that document a family memory. I also love Art Journal pages with stock photos or no photos. For me, the traditional scrapbook page is much harder than the art journal page. I don't mind seeing a photo more than once - I've done that too. Picking a photo (and it usually is one photo for me) is the absolute hardest part of the process. I guess my feelings are that I scrap memories and that makes me happy and I scrap art journal pages just to create and that also makes me happy. If you don't have photos ... go for the stock photo! That sure was a ramble!

 

I like beautiful pages period!!!!!!!! I don't focus on whether it's a stock photo or not. I understand that some, may not even have family and just enjoy creating. Or perhaps they are sensitive about sharing the family on the internet so they only use stock photos or photoless.

I love the art form as a whole. If you create with repeat photos or stock and your page catches my eye I will go in for more detail.

 

Quite frankly I would have no idea whether someone is using a stock photo or not.

I do sometimes scrap photos multiple times. Sometimes it's because my style has changed so I like to revamp the style. Sometimes it's to try a new technique.

I have some online friends who are fabulous photographers. I have frequently asked permission from them to scrap their photo.

 

I second this. And what Anne said:

 

I'm okay with both stock and personal photos. I too started with the intention of recording memories, but in recent years I don't take as many photos so will go back and re-scrap a photo especially if it is one I love. I scrap stock photos as well for the art of it. When I was CTing I didn't always have a photo to compliment the kit I needed to work on so I would use stock photos. Either way I love creating a layout that speaks to me, whether it's documenting history or feeding my soul.

 

When I read your first post, I really did just giggle! (No actual coffee spitting, though, lol!) I was supposed to be grading tests but I took a break to check out TLP, which is why I could only answer in an emoji. Now I'm done grading (yay!) and I just want to say that I am so very happy that you found a new backup plan that works for you. (And I'm glad they helped you out!) I've missed seeing you around here, my friend...but I'm glad my nagging helped you!

 

If you use stock photos, you need to make sure they are allowed for commercial use. There are a lot of free sites with photos that allow personal use, or educational use, but if a designer is advertising with the product, that is usually not allowed by the terms of use without a separate credit to the photographer, or not allowed at all. A designer I worked with previously got in trouble for using a CT page with a stock photo without permission.

In school, we are encouraged to use our own photos as much as possible because of copyright issues. There are times that stock photos are great, just be careful of the terms of use.

 

Repeat photos~ and maybe some more of your wonderful photo-less pages??? You could take this time to tell some wonderful stories that you haven't the photos for.

 

I don't mind....scrap whatever you like! The inspiration comes from the page ideas. we should totally do a new challenge this year..."Scrap MY photo". Anyone can upload a photo and see how others might scrap it.

 

Personally, I would choose repeat photos- as other ladies have mentioned- there's just something off-putting to me with stock photos. HOWEVER- art is art- and ultimately it's your layout- so I say do as you please!

 

I don't have a problem with seeing stock photos and I'd probably never know it if you used repeat photos. I just enjoy the art form and don't pay much attention to those things. So, "scrap on"!

 

Repeat. I don't see any point in scrapping stock photos unless it is to demo products. I can spot a stock photo a mile off.

 

I agree you need to scrap what you like.. without children or pets, sometimes I do not have something that fits a kit I am using or the CT so I use free stock photos, but I have rescrapped older personal photos as I love them. If someone is not happy with my rescrapping of my photos, well I cannot help that. I am in the department of not placing some of my family members in my pages for privacy issues, so therefore I scrap with what I want/have.

The main thing is enjoy the process my friend I do agree though if you scrap using a stock photo you need to make sure it is "free" re copyright. I also ask permission of my brother and sister in law if I use any of their photos.. Most of the time I use my own.

@MrsPeel sometimes I use the same photo, just cropped differently and it looks like another photo!!

 

ooh I like this idea!!! We should do that in February!