Stock photos

[scwebsites]

Most of the time I either take photos myself or my clients provide photos. But sometimes I do need to purchase stock photos for web projects.

I use Fotolia and have found it to be really good, particularly because they also have illustrations, Vectors and even videos. I would like to have more options though because sometimes I just cant find an image that meets my needs.

Can any of you recommend any good stock photography companies that you use?

 

[lebowski]

http://www.sxc.hu/

http://www.stockxpert.com/

http://www.istockphoto.com

 

[Tricky1]

I had always used istock until I stumbled across http://www.123rf.com/ which seems to be alot cheaper with a great choice, £20 gets you 32 credits.

I just chose one large image which is 2503 x 1676 px for only 3 credits.

 

[sowhatever]

i use istockphoto.com and there are also a few free ones out there,just do a search on google.

 

[fish]

I currently use bigstockphoto.com

& sxc.hu before they were bought out by Getty images

 

[khalid]

Dreamstime.com for me

 

[Skinner]

I use dreamstimes mostly too, their small image can easily be increased by 50% without major loss.

Some of their illustrations are hella expensive tho. I've had the artists create me custom work for a few pounds more than the stock.

I keep looking at these 'stock dvds' that are like £10 on ebay, but I get the feeling they have just robbed em off the net and rightful owner would dbf me in the end.

 

[Fabster]

I use istockphoto.com.

But a tip is to contact a startup photographer near you. They will often work with you if they get credit on the website or if you promote them in some way.

 

[sowhatever]

You might also want to check tradebit.com ,some of the sellers do sell stock photos.

 

[seomixi]

Gettyimages.com the largest stock of photos

 

[soldol]

wikicommons
It is decent but does have varying licence agreements, and once I used a picture I thought was fine and ended up getting an email from someone who had found it somehow and wanted me to put a link up, so I just took down the photo.