How to Download Depositphotos Licence Certificates (Guide)

Depositphotos has been a major player in the stock media industry for over a decade, offering millions of photos, vectors, illustrations, videos, and music tracks. If you've purchased content from Depositphotos — whether through a subscription, on-demand credits, or lifetime deals — every download came with a licence agreement. That agreement is your legal shield, and this guide will show you how to find, download, and safely store every one of them.

Understanding Depositphotos Licence Types

Depositphotos offers two primary licence types, and the distinction between them matters significantly for how you can use your purchased assets:

• Standard Licence: This is the default licence included with most downloads. It covers common commercial uses including websites, blogs, social media posts, digital ads, presentations, and print materials up to 500,000 copies. You can use the asset in an unlimited number of projects. However, you cannot use the asset as the primary element of products for resale (posters, prints, merchandise) or in templates.
• Extended Licence: This licence removes the copy limit and allows use in products intended for resale. It's essential for anyone creating merchandise, print-on-demand products, templates, or items where the stock asset is a core component of the product being sold. Extended licences cost significantly more than Standard licences.

Your licence certificate for each download specifies which type you purchased. If you're ever challenged on your usage, the licence type is the first thing that will be examined.

How to Download Your Depositphotos Licence Certificates

The Acquisition Factor: Why This Is Urgent

Here's something that makes Depositphotos different from other platforms on this list: the company has undergone ownership changes. Depositphotos was acquired by VistaCreate (formerly Crello), which is part of the Vista group of companies. Platform acquisitions like this introduce real risks for users:

• Platform migration: When companies are acquired, user accounts and download histories are sometimes migrated to new systems. During migration, data can be lost, corrupted, or made temporarily inaccessible. Some users have reported losing access to older download records after platform changes.
• Terms of service changes: New ownership often brings updated terms of service and licence agreements. While existing licences should be honored under the terms in effect at the time of purchase, proving what those terms were becomes much harder if you haven't saved the original certificate.
• Feature and interface changes: Acquisitions frequently lead to platform redesigns. Pages you relied on to access your download history may move, change, or be removed entirely. A feature that exists today might not exist after the next platform update.
• Account consolidation: If Depositphotos accounts are merged with or migrated to another platform's account system, there's always a risk that some data doesn't transfer cleanly.

These aren't hypothetical concerns — they've happened repeatedly across the stock media industry. Getty Images acquiring iStock, Adobe acquiring Fotolia, Shutterstock acquiring Bigstock — each acquisition resulted in platform changes that affected user access to historical data.

Lifetime Deal Customers: Special Considerations

Depositphotos has historically offered lifetime deals through platforms like AppSumo and StackSocial. If you purchased a lifetime subscription, your situation is uniquely precarious:

• Lifetime deals are tied to the original terms at the time of purchase
• New ownership may or may not honor lifetime deal terms in exactly the same way
• If the platform migrates or restructures, lifetime deal accounts are often the first to face compatibility issues
• Your licence certificates are the most concrete proof of what you purchased and downloaded under those original terms

If you're a lifetime deal customer, backing up your licence certificates isn't optional — it's the only way to protect the value of your purchase.

The Math on Manual Downloads

Depositphotos power users — especially those on subscription plans or lifetime deals — tend to accumulate large libraries. It's common to have 500 to 5,000+ downloads in a mature account.

At 30–45 seconds per licence certificate download, the time investment looks like this:

• 100 assets: 50–75 minutes
• 500 assets: 4–6 hours
• 1,000 assets: 8–12 hours
• 5,000 assets: 40–60 hours

That's a full work week of clicking for a large library. And if you make even a single mistake — accidentally skipping an asset, losing your session, or miscounting — you may need to start sections over.