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Photos
This page provides a compilation of free photos online, stock photos, free online photo resources, and other sites where you can get photo content for digital scrapbooking.
Introduction
Stock Photos
Free Images
Photo Communities & Resources
Free Textures
Image Searches
Introduction
You have to be careful when you get photos from online sources -- these concerns stem from concepts like copyrights, royalty free, fair use, etc. This page does not intend to get into all this stuff -- but you can find more information at:
Several of the free websites allow you to download free images for non-commercial
usage, although many even allow unrestricted commercial usage as
long as any content is not redistributed or resold. On the other hand, most of the stock photo sites sell images on the royalty free concept -- you pay either for a single image, or you subscribe to their collections.
Whatever be the case, make sure you read every disclaimer or
agreement on a site before you download from to make sure that
no copyrights
are being infringed. If any copyright info is not clear or obvious,
you can always email a contact address to find out more.
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Stock Photos
Here are a few links to well known stock photo sites:
- Indezine Photos is powered by BigStockPhoto - you can now actually buy just one picture for $1 or 2 rather than subscribe for an entire month or year.
- Shutterstock -- sign up for a cost-effective subscription plan and download 25 images every day (that's 750 each month!) with no hidden costs.
- Fotolia contains over 3 million stock images.
- Absolutvision provides stock images in both JPEG2000 and JPEG format -- they also provide a new free image each week
- iStockPhoto allows you to search from royalty free stock photos, vector art illustrations, Flash movies, and videos.
- Matton has an extensive library of digital stock photos as single images, CDs, or direct download.
- PhotoSpin allows you to choose from stock photos, illustrations, fonts, and clip art.
- Jupiter Images is a consortium of many sites that allow you to download stock images, royalty-free stock photography, etc.
- Inmagine provides more than 2600000 stock photos ,images, photographs and pictures.
- Getty Images allows you to search over 600000 digital stock photos and on-line stock photos of creative and editorial imagery and films.
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Free Images
- morgueFile is
a public image reference archive that allows both private and commercial
usage of images.
- Yotophoto indexes several "copyleft" sites and provides a unified
search interface.
- stock.xchng contains
thousands of free photos that you can use for both personal and
commercial purposes.
- Microsoft's Clipart
and Media page has an extensive selection
of free images to download for users of Microsoft Office applications.
- FreeFoto.com is
among the largest collections of photographs for private non-commercial
use.
- At Backgrounds Archive, you can download free tileable
and desktop backgrounds and wallpapers in both widescreen and
regular resolutions.
- Free Images is
a resource of photographic images for free use on websites and
printed materials.
- Imageafter is
a free images and textures database for both personal and commercial
usage.
- Gimp-Savvy has
more than 15,000 free photos and images consisting of over 1Gb
of data.
- Bigfoto provides
royalty-free images for non-commercial use.
- The NSSDC
Photo Gallery has space related images including photographs
of planets, astronomical objects and space missions.
- Images
of the World has an extensive selection of low-res travel
photographs.
- Free Stock
Photos contains photographs from a variety of sources - the
images are royalty free for personal and non-profit use.
- Intuitivmedia is
no longer free, but they do have a low priced subscription model.
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Photo Communities & Resources
- Webshots
Community has photographs submitted by members from all over
the world.
- Flickr is an online photo community owned by Yahoo!
- Photo-Guide has
links to several image repsitories including both commercial and
non-commercial sites.
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Free Textures
- You'll find over 800 tiled textures at the Ppted background
archive (not free).
- In Texture provides
royalty free textures for private and commercial use.
- The Forrest.cz
texture library has excellent collection of textures available.
- Mega-Tex Studios has downloadable textures for 3d builders
and skinners
in various
categories.
- The Texturator site
has tiled realistic textures.
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Image Searches
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