May I use these photos and/or textures for free?
Yes, the textures, photos and reference images/photos may be used for free in 2D or 3D computer graphics, movies, printed media, computer games, 3D models and web design. When bundled with a 3D model, scene, part of web-theme or flash site you are allowed to sell it as a package. Reference photography/images may not be used in any commercial work as part of the creation. Those images are made for a purpose of giving you ideas, inspiration and knowledge of how certain things work/look.

No permission is granted to sell or redistribute the photos, textures or reference images provided by minduary.com or artiquest.com as a competing product, even when the images are modified. Please do not redistribute or sell photos, reference images or textures by themselves, or as texture packs, or as clipart, or as material packs, or as scrapbooking packs, or as any other pack.

May I use your photos, reference images or textures in printed media?
Yes. You are free to use the textures and photos  in printed media, such as magazines, CD covers, DVD covers, books, advertisements, and flyers. However,  reference images (under category references) are not allowed to be used in commercial printed media, as this images are provided for reference purposes only (inspiration, ideas, knowledge)

May I use your photos and/or textures to design websites?
Yes. You are free to use the photos and the textures for (commercial) website design. Reference images, however, are intended to be used only for inspiration purposes and my not, even if modified, used in any web design.

Do I need to pay royalties when I use the photos and/or textures?
No. Minduary.com and Artiquest.com is distributing this material free of charge. There is a premium membership that does give some benefits (like bigger resolution and downloadable packs), but besides that, these sites are absolutely free.

Can I use the textures, the photographs or the reference images to create digital scrapbooking materials?
No. The images may not be used for digital scrapbooking. As you can read in the license, the images may not be redistributed as textures or as derived products. Scrapbooking packs generally consist of cutout versions or layered versions of the textures. They are derived products; thus you would be reselling a derived product. To make it crystal clear: You may not use the images for ANY kind of digital scrapbooking work.

Can I sell the textures, the photographs and/or the reference images in Second Life?
No. Textures, photographs and/or reference images from Minduary.com and/or Artiquest.com may not be resold in Second Life (not even if you modify the image).

Can I create materials for my render program using images from Artiquest.com and/or Minduary.com and redistribute these materials?
No. You are not allowed to redistribute materials created with images from Artiquest.com and/or Minduary.com.

I want to use a texture or photograph on a billboard. Do you have higher-resolution versions of these textures?
Please, contact me at support@artiquest.com. There might be some higher resolutions for some images, which are not presented on these websites.

Do I need to add credits or a link to this website when I use these textures or photographs?
Credits or a link are always appreciated, but they are not required.

May I use your textures, photographs or reference images to make a (commercial) computer game?
Yes, with the exception of Open-Source projects. See below. Reference images may be used for inspiration purposes only.

I have used the textures and/or photographs on a 3D model/scene. Am I allowed to sell the model/scene and textures as a bundle?
Yes, under the following condition: You have customized the textures for the 3D-model or scene, and you are selling the model and texture in one package. Please add the following text in the documentation accompanying the model:

“One or more textures on this 3D-model have been created with images from Artiquest.com. These images may not be redistributed by default. Please visit artiquest.com for more information.”

I have used some of the textures to create a map for a computer game. May I distribute this map?
Yes, provided the textures are used in the map. In that case, you are allowed to bundle them and distribute them as a package. Please add the following text to the documentation of the map:

“One or more textures on this map have been created with images from Artiquest.com. These images may not be redistributed by default. Please visit artiquest.com for more information.”

May I put some of your textures, photos and/or reference images on my own website?
Redistribution of the textures is not allowed. Please keep the textures in one place (these sites). That way everybody knows where they came from and what the license terms are.

May I create a texture pack with these textures, photos and/or reference images and sell it on TurboSquid/Cornucopia/Second Life?
No. You are not allowed to sell or distribute textures created with these images. To make this extra clear: Modified or not, images may not be redistributed or sold as a competing product (textures, photos, reference images)! This is a very common clause in the license agreement of almost every texture and stock-photography website. If you wish to profit from selling texture packs or scrapbooking elements, your only option is to get a camera and photograph your own textures.

Do these textures, photographs and/or reference images fall under an Open-Source license?
No. These textures fall under theArtiqeust.com and Minduary.com Terms of Use License.

May I use these textures, photographs and/or reference images in my Open Source (Creative Commons, GPL, etc) project?
No. These textures may not be used in Open-Source projects. The licenses are not compatible. Almost all Open-Source licenses allow redistribution of the materials, and redistribution is not allowed for these textures, photographs and/or reference images. You may use reference images for drawing insperation for your Open Source project, but that is where “you may” ends.

I have spend hours extracting a texture, photo, reference image from its background. Surely I can sell it, now that I have spend so much time on it, right?
No. Even when you modify the images, you are not allowed to sell them.

You say mass-downloading is not allowed: What do you mean by mass-downloading?
That’s when you try to download the whole website to your computer, including thumbnails and html files. Attempting to download this many pages would use up a lot of bandwidth and would make the site slower for everyone else. Anybody trying to mass-download will have his/her IP banned automatically.

How does the quota work? Is it daily, monthly, or permanent?
The quota system calculates the amount you have downloaded in the previous 24 hours. There is no daily reset at any particular time. If in the previous 24 hours you have downloaded more than 15MB, you have exceeded your quota and are prevented from any further downloading.

I downloaded nothing today, but the site says I have used up my quota! How come?
Most likely you have downloaded some textures yesterday. The quota system looks at the previous 24 hours. Downloads from yesterday still count.

Do members have access to more textures, photos and/or reference images?
No. Everyone can download the same textures, photos and/or reference images. Members do have access to larger versions of some limited content and for some material available in packs.

Is it possible to contribute my own textures?
Yes. Please, contact me to arrange the contribution of your textures.