09-29-2010, 08:03 AM
The only thing stocks & renders have in common is that they are both often used to create signatures & other graphic images..
A stock, plain and simply is a photograph that can be used for commercial purposes.
A render, is a computer generated image which is implemented into the "final image".
Nothing to do with backgrounds, etc.. It's just that generally, for creating signatures, the render would be a transparent image of usually some sort of game character. And a stock would usually be a photo with a background that you can add effects and such to. Not always the case though...
Stock isn't actually a "graphic design" word at all... It's a word photographers use.
A stock, plain and simply is a photograph that can be used for commercial purposes.
A render, is a computer generated image which is implemented into the "final image".
Nothing to do with backgrounds, etc.. It's just that generally, for creating signatures, the render would be a transparent image of usually some sort of game character. And a stock would usually be a photo with a background that you can add effects and such to. Not always the case though...
Stock isn't actually a "graphic design" word at all... It's a word photographers use.