The two currently available Pearl Cards™ decks consist almost entirely of public domain images. Future decks, however, will feature original art whose creators will be paid royalties for their work. (NOTE: there's now a new option to simply sell us your work for an upfront price. Download the artists guidelines document for more details.) If you're a photographer or visual artist and you'd like to contribute to a future Pearl Cards set, here are some general facts and guidelines: The royalty will be $0.10 per image per deck. So, for example, if an artist contributes three images to a set, and we sell 10,000 of those decks, that artist will earn $3,000. These new decks will sell for $5 more than the basic ones. At 50 cards per deck, this means that all the extra profit generated by the original art will be going to the artists. Artists will also earn royalties for other types of products that might be introduced in the future utilizing their images. (For example, t-shirts or coffee mugs.) The royalty percentage will depend on the item and its price, but in general, the artists involved will earn roughly half of the profit margin. Those who prefer can opt to sell us an image outright. See the artists guideline document for more details. If you have existing images you'd like to submit, send them on in! (In low resolution format, please.) If you're thinking of creating something new specifically to submit, feel free to run the idea, or a rough sketch, by us first. We'll be happy to let you know if we think it could work for us. Our rough plan for the near future is to release two new decks within the next year: A general set whose images don't need to be child-friendly in terms of visual sophistication or content. (Like the Add-on set compared to the Basic deck, only perhaps more so.) A deck consisting entirely of images submitted by published children's book illustrators. (So if you are one, please let us know when you contact us. In addition to paying you royalties, we'll cite as many of your titles as we can on each card that bears your work.) If you're still interested in submitting images for a Pearl Cards deck, click here to download more detailed technical and artistic guidelines.