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

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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10 Awesome and Handy Online Image Editors for Designers and Creatives

In this article we will show you 10 places online where you can edit your images. This can be very useful if you don’t have any proper software, if you’re on a different computer – or just need a quick and easy way to get some basic tasks done. This could be resizing, cropping and other options when heavier options aren’t really necessary. Some of these will even allow you to work with text and store a back-up of your images online.

Free Online Photo Editor

Re-size, rotate, use filters and effects. Very easy and versatile.

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15 Best Photoshop Filters and Plugins for Digital Photography

The more designers learn, the more resources and tools they need. And because a lot of designers have picked up photography, it’s important that we can make use of these skills and expand their quality through the use of Photoshop of similar applications. This is why we’ve compiled a list of the best Photoshop Filters and Plugins for Photography. Let us know which one’s work best for you!

Black and White Studio

This Photoshop plug-in turns Photoshop into a digital darkroom for black and white. Use the light sensitivity of films (Tri-X, etc) for exact grayscale conversion and contrast editing. Multigrade, exposure stops and colored lens-filters have been copied in this digital darkroom. The Black & White Studio plug-in works with these image modes (Windows and Mac)…8 & 16 bit / channel: RGB, Grayscale, Duotone, CMYK
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