Microsotock provider Fotolia has launched PhotoXpress, calling it the world's largest free, premier-quality image bank. PhotoXpress offers creative professionals Royalty Free image licenses for personal or professional use – from Web site design and brochure illustrations to advertisements and editorial imagery.

"Small businesses, home businesses, consultants and students need images to help improve the look of their marketing campaigns and presentations. They struggle to find high-quality, affordable images for their company brochures, Web sites, advertising and newsletters. Today, the struggle is over," explains Patrick Lor, President, PhotoXpress North America. "PhotoXpress has created the largest free collection of high quality images on the web that allows these professionals access to the imagery they need – without the standard licensing costs associated to other sources that would make use of stock imagery cost-prohibitive."

At launch, PhotoXpress will feature a collection of more than 350,000 images and vector illustrations. Members will be able to license up to 10 RF images daily, free of cost. The images were sourced through a number of partnerships from throughout the world, and the image library will grow daily by the thousands as additional images are sourced.

Images in the collection span more than 22 categories, ranging from images of people in professional settings to scenic shots from around the world. All images have accompanying model releases and may be used for any personal, commercial or professional use.