Can you resell flower stock photos you have bought?

No, you cannot sell the file. Yes, you can sell things you make with it. That sounds like a fine distinction and it is actually the most important idea in the licence, so here it is in detail.

What you may not do

The photograph itself is never the product.

• Do not upload it to another library, marketplace or free-image site, paid or unpaid.
• Do not bundle it into a download pack, a collection, or an asset archive, even alongside your own work.
• Do not ship it inside a template, theme, preset, mockup or design kit as an included file.
• Do not sell it as a print-on-demand item where the picture is the entire product with nothing added.
• Do not use it to build or sell a dataset, or to train a model.

Each of those makes the download the thing being purchased by someone else. That is the line.

What you may do

You may sell any work in which the photograph is a component of something larger that you made.

• A poster where the picture sits under your typography and layout.
• A book cover, an album sleeve, a magazine spread.
• Packaging for a product you sell, at any print run.
• Merchandise carrying your design, where the flower is part of that design.
• A website, an app or a campaign you build and invoice a client for.
• A framed print you sell, provided the piece is a composition of yours and not a straight reproduction of the file.

That last one is where people most often need a ruling, so to be blunt about it: a gallery print of the photograph, unaltered, sold as a photograph, is reselling the file. The same photograph as one element of a collage, or overprinted with your own work, is not.

Client work

If you are an agency or a freelancer, buy the licence for the project and treat it as covering the delivered piece. Your client may keep using what you delivered indefinitely. They may not take the original file out of your handover and start a second, unrelated campaign with it; that is a new use and needs its own licence.

Passing the raw file to a client as part of an asset handover is the case that trips people up. If they need the original for future work, buy them their own licence. It is one hundred dollars and it removes the ambiguity entirely.

If you are unsure

Ask before you print. Describe the use in two sentences and we will answer plainly.