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First time I have seen your blog and what a great post that was!Remember the saying “Genius is 99 perspiration and 1 inspiration”So once you have a great idea you have to work hard to turn it into a viable product that doesn’t just exist in your head.

Very useful, thank you.

Another website with free images released under a public domain license: http:4freephotos.com

Check out http:www.photovaco.com too. They offer photos for both personal and commercial projects without any restriction. All photos are high resolution and free to download.

Interesting writeup and very helpful. You had some ones in there that I had never heard of but thought they were pretty good after checking them out. One warning I would say is always try to make sure that it is the copyright holder who has uplaoded the image and not someone who may appear to have stolen the image and then uploaded it. I’d also love it if you reviewed and added our site, http:www.cutcaster.com to your list. we are a new source of user generated photos and vectors that can be licensed royalty free and we set up our marketplace to be like the Nasdaw stock exchange. Stock Market — Stock licensing. Search http:www.cutcaster.com for royalty free photos, stock images, stock illustrations, clipart, vectors and free stock photography for advertising, publishing or web design. Download and find free stock photos and vectors for secure use in printing brochures, advertising, annual reports and electronic use on websites and presentations. Download free images at Cutcaster.

FreeStockImages.org is new and has original images.

you can get free blog photos with code to simply cut and paste into your post from http:www.valuestockphoto.com

This saves much trawling through the net - I've put a link to this section on our website for educators.

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Nice list. Used some of the links on my website. The list in the comments is good as well - though some of the images there require linkbacks to be legally used.

Great read and some useful tips. Thanks a lot.

Some good tips. Thanks for posting this.

www.img-x.com is a source of high quality roylty-free pictures for free. Most of them are made in Russia and France (this site includes terms like flowers; cities: Prague, Paris, Moscow, Novgorod, St.Peterburg, Pskov, Vladimir, Peterhof, Suzdal; russian churches; landscapes.

Well really a nice collection of resources for free imagery. But remeber that for a personalized job you need to hire a photographer.

I have found excellent images for my blog at the Andrew Prokos Photography website (http:andrewprokos.com). He allows you to use certain images for non-commercial blog posts in exchange for a photo credit which links back to his website.

Hey findcollegecards, sure you can use royalty free images without incurring in any legal trouble. Just make sure you specify whre you have taken the picture from and provide credit and link back to the author or source.

I have a question and I hoping you can help. If I download a royalty free image, can I use it on my blogwebsite without getting into legal trouble?

Hi! You can use my photos for free at http:freeartisticphotos.com - all of them are taken by me and made Public Domain Cheers, Husac

I found one photography search engine that meets the needs of all graphics designer and photo searchers. It has about 6 million photos! Please check http:xcavator.net

Nice photos under public domain can be found on www.publicdomainpictures.net It's one of my favorite

Hi, there's also a great new site for free stock photos at http:www.free-stock-photos.co.uk Cheers

Large collection of free photographs for private and non-commercial use - http:freefoto.ca. ~ 3000 pictures with keyword search.

Hi i found very nice source of free pictures: a rel=nofolow href="www.freepictureclick.com" rel="nofollow"free picturesa

For the best animal images, as long as you do not use them commercially, are here. Easily embeddable into your website, blog, or social network. animalplayer.com

This has got to be the most comprehensive list of pic sites in web-land. Now, what about the 'visuals'? Are there web sites that offer video that's free for the taking? And good enough quality to be useful?

thanks for the post... great resources

You can find website image headers at http://www.themeheaders.com

Hello I have a site that propose FREE photos, for personal and commercial use. Enjoy it!!

thanks for sharing... very cool resource indeed.

This is such an awesome resource for free images. Very detailed and comprehensive. I came across a few other blogs on the 'free images' topic, but not one as comprehensive as this. Thank you very much for putting in the effort.

I'm with Presentation To Video Converter http://www.geovid.com/Presentation_to_Video_Converter/

I've been trying to get on different websites at school but this stupid websense thing is blocking me from every little thing i try to get on.What should I do?

VectorMagic is an online tool for converting bitmaps into vector art - just upload your image and it converts it right away. Try it out at: http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

Robin, we put up this new site that discusses PowerPoint to Flash, and also inserting Flash content in PowerPoint:

An earlier commenter asked if it is common to ask permission of people depicted in photos even if the photographer requires no attribution. Yes, because the law provides for that person to seek damages if they feel their reputation was harmed by the use of the photo. Look for something called a "model release," by which the person depicted gives their permission to use the photo. My site, PicFindr, searches several sites mentioned in this blog simultaneously from a single interface. Future plans include the ability to find only photos with model releases, as this feature is implemented by host sites.

http://www.vintagepixels.com Vintage Pixels is a large database of historical, high quality, free-for-use images which allows people to share their archived photos. You can download images for print, or use in graphic design, as well upload images to add to the ever growing album of vintage images. The best part - it's all free!

Vintage Pixels is a large database of historical, high quality, free-for-use images which allows people to share their archived photos. You can download images for print, or use in graphic design, as well upload images to add to the ever growing album of vintage images. The best part - it's all free!

I have just started this (http://www.photoabode.com/) online photo repository of my work. Pictures on this website are free for everybody, yes! including commercial purpose. Very high resolution images are available on pay per picture basis.

I offer my photos for free at http://www.picturesof.net/ as long as you provide a link back. Over 500 pictures as of January 2007 and more added on a daily basis.

more stock photo free sites: www.bluevertigo.com.ar/bluevertigo.htm

Wah!, what an exhaustive listings, i'm more than excited to find it. You have done one of the hardest work in the internet to share with us such a resource. Really you can say, your search for FREE Photography ends here. THANKS.

I really appreciate this list. Someone else on here mentioned www.microshots.org which I took a look at and found some cool stuff. I will definately be checking back.

[url=http://www.magellansalbum.com/gallery2/main.php]www.magellansalbum.com[/url] also want to mention this destination photo gallery that i came across the other day. their photos are very selective, and most of those are free.

large collection of museum arts images on this website: http://visipix.dynalias.com/index_hidden.htm

Piotr.Pix has a new URL. It's http://www.piotrpix.com

Very good list, I found another site on my search for free photos cheers Bob

There's www.microshots.org for close-up stock photography taken at 3-5cm.

Attantion a lot of foto, big page ;) http://www.areaface.com/images.php?countryId=-1

wow, this is a great list! I have also an image site to add http://www.pachd.com/free-images/ all free to use

stunning work.

This is an excellent list of websites. Thank you very much for your hard work and efforts.

A fantastic list of resources many thanks. Appreciate the time you have put into compiling the list.

Thanks for this article. Another licence free photos can you find at my site www.clickfreepic.de.

Wow! This is an amazing list -- a such great summaries of terms of usage for each of the sites. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this great resource. You can also find lots of copyright-free images on my web site at a http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/ . Thanks!

Incredible amount of work obviously went into this effort, know that I really appreciate it!

Wow! That is a huuge list with good information. Best regards mike.rinnan.com alamy photographer

Hi there! What a list, has to be the best on the net! Another site I like is http://www.freestockmagic.com Its new on the market, but looks promising, and all photos/illustrations are totally free!

keep creating... Kris

I have a lot of beautiful images from the West Virginia Forests. All are free http://www.forestwander.com

Free Range Stock (http://www.freerangestock.com) has thousands of high-quality, high-resolution stock images, and they're ALWAYS free. Keywords searchable, too! Take a look!

Check out Onutz Photo it has many images of amazing scenic views, winter scenes, nature and wildlife. You can download the photos or buy photo prints. The photos are available for commercial, educational and personal uses.

FreeLargePhotos.com has hundreds of photos free for non-commercial use that are 1,200 pixels on a side and can be obtained in higher resolutions by request.

Wow! This is really an impressive list of free picture sources. May I suggest our site to add to your list? NationsIllustrated.com - Offers a searchable directory of pictures from around the world. Browse, submit, download, comment pictures and send e-cards for free. Thank you.

Thank you so much! I was also looking for hours and when I found this site, it saved me many more! Great work!!!

Another site with royalty free images free of charge is http://www.kingdomgraphix.com/gallery and also a new stock site just getting started is http://www.image-cafe.net Feel free to check them out :o)

Robin, thanks! http://www.featurepics.com featurePics just started. They definitely give recognition to Photographers

Robin, thanks! http://www.featurepics.com featurePics just started. They definitely give recognition to Photographers

Just a note...you mention regarding PhotoRogue that "there are no terms on the site regarding the use of photos." If you dig through the site, you'll find on the Volunteer FAQ page that they are covered by the "Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs License" by default.

Bomb page mate i wasnt sure where to get free images before i came here, thanks.

Bomb page mate i wasnt sure where to get free images before i came here, thanks.

Try CAPL for a visual lexicon, this one's in German, French and Russian coming soon. www.washjeff.edu/capl/

Try CAPL for a visual lexicon, this one's in German, French and Russian coming soon.

http://www.alvit.de/handbook - Vitaly Friedman's list on license-free photos

Thanks for such great resources!!! I would also add www.fotolia.com , they have high quelity free images also

Thanks for such great resources!!! I would also add www.fotolia.com , they have high quelity free images also

Thanks God I found this site.. Such a nice site and really, really helpful..

Thanks a lot. it's really helpful.

I think I just found King Tut's treasure again. Thanks!

A photographer friend of mine recommended http://www.totallyphotos.com (mainly because she sells her photos there) and although they are relatively small, they have some great shots. There is also an image request service (which I haven't used yet), but I did find what I'd spent ages looking for (sadly not taken by my friend though!).

Great site thanks a bunch, i was lookign for hours for free images untill i found this. http://webreviews.ca

Great site thanks a bunch, i was lookign for hours for free images untill i found this.

You might also like fromoldbooks.org, where I have hundreds of high resolution royalty-free images (mostly public domain) scanned from old and out-of-copyright books. There are pictures of castles, cherubs and printer's ornaments, alphabets, symbols, maps and plans, and much more. [I hope you only get one copy of the comment; it doesn't seem to be showing up and I get a Perl error]

You might also like fromoldbooks.org, where I have hundreds of high resolution royalty-free images (mostly public domain) scanned from old and out-of-copyright books. There are pictures of castles, cherubs and printer's ornaments, alphabets, symbols, maps and plans, and much more.

You might also like fromoldbooks.org, where I have hundreds of high resolution royalty-free images (mostly public domain) scanned from old and out-of-copyright books. There are pictures of castles, cherubs and printer's ornaments, alphabets, symbols, maps and plans, and much more.

hey thanks for your article i have been searching for such websites..you made it easy for me..thanks a lot

Choosing a right graphic can be very important for internet web site marketing. Be sure to not overdo it though. Nice site.

Here's another site that might be useful.. Have used some of the images for my website http://www.free-stockphotos.com

Be carful with flickr. Although you're free to browse the photos and look, you aren't necessarily free to take and use them. http://www.vlan9.com

Royalty free stock photos, images bank, stock photos available for print and multimedia. http://www.pixel-load.com

Hi,We are building a collection of free for use photos, feel free to download and use them http://media.lytecube.com

hey thanks for your article i have been searching for such websites..you made it easy for me..thanks a lot

While I think that Iphoto would be a good choice, it could be said that shutterpoint would take the cake with variety. You will find that most if not all of these outfits will not allow people to merely take these pics without some sort of compensation. Still looking for a library that is not only free, but extremely comprehensive. Take Care, B. http://loan.valueprep.com

Francesco Nice work

Image Search Engines http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/Images_Search/

Wikipedia:Public domain image resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources

Sorry that i can't trackback to here!

http://www.openclipart.org/

Robin thanks for your interesting article, here are my favorite Stock sites: http://www.tofz.org/index.php http://server9.49pm.com/ http://www.9x13.de/ http://bildersuche.abacho.de/ http://www.alltheweb.com/?cat=img&cs=utf-8&q=&_sb_lang=de+fr+it+en http://www.artografika.de/bildarchiv.html http://de.altavista.com/image/default?qbmode= http://www.bluevertigo.com.ar/bluevertigo.htm http://www.buzznet.com/ http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/ http://pro.corbis.com/default.aspx http://search.creativecommons.org/ http://www.creativepro.com/eservices/imagegrabber http://www.dino-online.de/static.html?dir=Suchen/Bilder-Suche&dino_page=bildersuche http://www.ditto.com/ http://www.ecb.int/ http://firma.eniro.dk/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/search/ http://www.fotocommunity.de/ http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/display/1660748 http://www.fotos.de/ http://freedigitalphotos.net/ http://www.freeimages.co.uk/ http://www.freephotos.com/ http://www.geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/photos.htm http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp http://www.freemediagoo.com/ http://www.gettyimages.com/source/browser.asp http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/homeCreative.asp http://www.mausmalerei.de/index.htm http://www.photocase.de/ http://freefoto.blogspot.com/ http://www.imageafter.com/ http://image-crawler.de/ http://igi.imagegrabber.com/imagegrabber/ http://www.stahlseite.de/fo1.htm http://www.istockphoto.com/ http://www.istockpro.com/file_closeup.php?id=99772 http://www.istockpro.com/file_search.php?action=color&color=6,6,4 http://ixquick.com/deu/ http://www.ixuz.com/travel/html/index.php http://www.keystonepressagency.com/ http://www.keypix.de/data/deutsch/frameset.html http://www.morguefile.com/ http://www.morguefile.com/ http://www.openphoto.net/ http://www.openphoto.net/ http://orangetrash.d2.hu/index2.html http://www.ourmedia.org/ http://www.particularities.net/index.html http://www.pbase.com/ http://pdphoto.org/index.php http://gallery.photographyreview.com/ http://www.photo.net/ http://www.photo.net/gallery/ http://www.photoblogs.org/ http://www.photocase.de/pic_display.asp http://www.photolink.de/stock_agencies/B/b.html http://www.photorogue.com/ http://www.picsearch.com/ http://www.picstyle.de/ http://www.bigfoto.com/ http://piotrpix.piotrdesign.com/ http://pix.halal.dk/ http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/ http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/ http://www.pixelquelle-magazin.de/ http://www.pixelquelle.de/index.php http://www.premium.de/cgi-bin/wspd_cgi.sh/WService=ws_pwsrf/wshop/aws000-000.w?prog=aws100-000 http://www.punchstock.com/store/main http://stock.reh3.com/ http://www.ritzcamera.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/HelpView?storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&langId=-1&contentId=BigPrint+Gallery http://www.inmagine.com/ http://www.shutterstock.com/ http://www.free-image.net/ http://www.comstock.com/web/default.asp http://stock.diwiesign.com/main.htm http://www.sxc.hu/ http://www.stockvault.net/ http://www.02designs.com/stock_img/index.php http://www.unprofound.com/pix/ http://www.vismedia-online.com/ http://www.flickr.com/ http://www.webshots.com/ http://www.wireimagestock.com/ http://www.aboutpixel.de/ http://www.foodpix.net/ http://yotophoto.com/ http://www.zefa.de/index.html http://www.mfx.de/index2.html

This page collects tons of copyright free photo websites: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=189815

If you are looking for selection and low prices, I recommend http://www.shutterpoint.com

These are nice, I've found some of these before, what I've always struggled to find however is illustrations for free in vector format or large bitmaps. All i can find is very small horrible gifs.

While not free, i would also mention istockphoto, which has professional quality images starting at $1. The peace of mind of knowing you have quality photos with absolutely no copyright or licencing problems is worth the small price

Great site , true hi-resolution stock images for free. www.realimagebank.com

Excellent stop. Just bookmarked.

YotoPhoto.com allows you to search most of the above sites (plus wikipedia) at once from a single interface. Over 50,000 free images are currently in the index. -M

Hi, you can find really dirt cheap stock photography at www.shuttermap.com as well for under $5... all high res. Most of their images are from Asia, and they have a unique vision which is Framing the World through images!

Another one: 1000+ free nature photos http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto

oops - i mean ShutterStock

you can also try shutterstock - http://www.shutterstock.com

This is an awesome list of sites, thanks! I doubt the answer is 'yes,' being that these two sites are not free, but I'll shoot anyway -- has anyone tried either of these 2MB stock photo subscription sites? comstock1700k ($799, 6 months, 25,000 images) photos to go unlimited ($99, 6 months, 55,000 images) They advertise 25,000 and 55,000 photos, respectively...seems a good deal (though not free!) Anyone have experience with either? Or know of any other "lo res" subscription sites?

Another great site here: http://www.ixuz.com

I've used freedigitalphotos.net a few times. Completely free stock photography

the leading free stock photography site: http://www.sxc.hu

Another one: http://www.freephotos.com/

This great site provides genuinely free pictures for websites, newsletters and documents etc. They can be used for commercial and non-commercial use.

Outstanding! I only knew of Stock.Xchng before reading this article. Thanks for all the great resources.

Loads of public domain photos at http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/ Mostly stock NASA and wildlife photos.

Be carful with flickr. Although you're free to browse the photos and look, you aren't necessarily free to take and use them. Contact the photographer if it isn't clear.

Not really a stock photo site, this would probably be your last resort ditch effort to obtain a specific photograph. http://www.photorogue.com/ lets you request a photograph, and a photographer will try to fulfill that request for you.

Morgue file requires that you obtain permission from people depicted in the images. Is that a common procedure and it is it a smooth procedure to follow?

You can find public domain photos here: http://pdphoto.org/