Thursday, April 15, 2010

Free Stock Photos for your Blog or Inspiration

We all know that find beautiful photos for our blog, project or inspiration is not easy.
The best way is producing the photo that you need by yourself but not everyone is able to do that. Better no photo than a ugly one! What to do in those cases?
Fortunately there are a lot of website specialized in distributing, for free or for a cheap price, all photo that you need.
I’ll list here several of them for your inspirational use.

Always remind to yourself of checking the right of use, the license on the photo. Some pictures could be free for any use, some others just for personal and not for commercial use. Other artists just require a link back for attribution. Pay attention to that and…good pictures!
gettyimages
http://www.gettyimages.com/
shutterstock
http://www.shutterstock.com/
If you sign up an account they allow you to download the photo and the vector image of the week for free.
istockphoto
http://www.istockphoto.com/SXCoffer
fotolia
http://it.fotolia.com/

stockvault
http://www.stockvault.net/

bigstock
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/
photos
http://www.photos.com/en/
crestock
http://www.crestock.com/
veer
http://www.veer.com/
dreams time
http://www.dreamstime.com/
pixmac
http://www.pixmac.com/
depositphoto
http://depositphotos.com/

Free use of the photos (link back and attribution required) for your blog

free foto
 http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
free images
http://www.freeimages.co.uk/

Free both for personal and commercial use

image after
http://www.imageafter.com/index.php
morgue file
http://www.morguefile.com/

Other stock photos

jupiter images
http://www.jupiterimages.com/
one eye land
http://www.oneeyeland.com/stock.php

Please, if you know any other good photo source leave a comment to the post. Thank you!