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December 26, 2014

19 Amazing Sites To Get Free Stock Photos

Filed under: Graphics,UX — Patrick Durusau @ 2:51 pm

19 Amazing Sites To Get Free Stock Photos (SideJobr)

From the post:

As you are building your website photography is always an integral part of web design. If you use google image search you will find crappy or low res images of staged people on the phone or shaking hands. These photos are not only going to cheapen your site but many cost money! Stop the insanity!

As a small business owner myself, having quality photos on my site is imperative to convey professionalism and get customers. Secretly, I am just a cheap person and hate to spend more money than is necessary and trust me, it is not necessary to spend money on quality stock photos.

In this post, we’ve created a list for you of awesome websites that have free stock photos.

This is not the end all – be all of sites and if you find others, please feel free to list them in the comment section.

Note: Most of these images fall under a creative commons license (just make sure you attribute properly) or are old enough that the photos have returned to the public domain. (This happens once the copyright on an image expires.)

Reading is a recent and acquired skill when compared to image recognition, which appears to be handled by hard-wired machinery in our brains. (obvious once pointed out) The upshot of that observation (which I read, did not independently discover) is that I have been trying to use more images/graphics in my posts. This post by SideJobr is a collection of some sources for free stock photos. May be useful for your presentations, website, blog posts.

If retitled: A Hadoop Tea Party, would this image be more memorable than the usual yellow elephant in a slide presentation?

hadoop-tea-party

From New Old Stock as: Elephant’s tea party, Robur Tea Room, 24 March 1939, by Sam Hood.

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