Stop Stealing!?!? Affordable, High Quality Photos are Within Your Reach
Are you a designer and wonder where to find high quality images? Are you using unlicensed pictures and images because you don’t know what else to do? High quality images aren’t nearly as expensive as you think! Some very talented photographers are leaving mainstream outlets and submitting their photographs to sites that sell directly to the end user. Artwork, photographs, images, background… every type of graphic you need are available in multiple sizes and file types.
Personally, I use two different sites, both have subscription packages (which is the best deal if you use lots of images) and sell individual images. Both start at just $1 for many images and are safe and secure. I have found both have VERY talented photographers and between the two, I can almost always find what I have in mind.
IStockPhoto.com
One of the oldest and most respected stock photo sites, IStockPhoto has thousands of royalty free photos from small, web based images to extra large versions of most images to be used in large print projects. They offer royalty-free stock photography, vector illustrations, stock video footage and Flash files.
Fotolia.com
Fotolia offers nearly 4 million stock images. They offer incredibly high quality images and some very talented designers. Fotolia is a bit less expensive than IStockPhoto on medium size images, but for web quality size images, both are similarly priced. They also offer great subscriptions packages for designers who need lots of images.
So now you have no excuse. Check out everything both these sites offer and don’t steal images ever again. With this high-end stock photos, you can stay legal and create amazing unique designs.
August 9th, 2008 at 11:29 am
I’d also like to add my personal favorite: http://www.sxc.hu/. Where all the images are free. The paid stock image sites often offer better images and a better selection but stock.xchng is free and often I find great images on it.