Get Inspired: Great Examples of Web Design with Heavy Use of Photos

May 30th, 2011 | 1 Comment | Posted in Graphics, Inspiration, Web Design

With all the great software available, combined with the overall good standard of peoples home computers these days, we often see more spectacular websites around. Having lots of pictures in websites was really a problem in the past as most of these sites took ages to download. Nowadays, thankfully, it’s different.

In this post we’ve put together a collection of some nice websites that we feel work really well with heavy use of photos. Have a look and let us know what you think!

Enjoy!

Prada

The Bow Valley Club

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Get Inspired: 45 Awesome Examples of Urban Photography

April 13th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Inspiration

For those that find photography inspiring, we’ve put together a collection of inspiring urban photos that have been taken by photographers all over the globe. Urban photography has many sub-styles, from retro and grungy to the more polished high tech and clean looks. In this collection we’ve put together a little bit of each. We hope these can inspire you when it comes to textures, lighting and maybe even color schemes.

Click on the images to open the original sizes in a new window.

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Need FREE photos for your designs? – 10 Great Places to Start!

July 2nd, 2010 | 5 Comments | Posted in Graphics, Resources, Various

If you’re an artist, designer, blogger – you most likely will run into the need for photos or textures. If you don’t have the budget to go to paid stock-sites, the good thing is that the free options out there are getting better and better!
In this article I’ve had a look at a whole bunch of free alternatives to save you some time and money.

Remember to read terms of use before using pictures though.

Here are 10 awesome places to start that can provide you with pretty much any kind of picture you want.
We hope these websites can be helpful for you – in your designs, when practicing your Photoshop skills and so on.

These websites are meant to give you a good variety of free photos. There are many, many more where they come from. If you start with these you should have most topics covered.
Enjoy!

Stock. XCHNG

Almost 400 000 pictures at the moment. This website is a favorite with many and I also use most of the pictures in my articles from this website. Most photos are good quality. Registration is required, but it’s completely free. Probably the biggest free stock photo website currently.

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