I have a question that's been niggling me for quite some time now. It's to do with template designers using some lovely photography in their websites. Where do the source their pictures form? Because places like Istock & Getty are a 1 time license and the fee's to buy a multi license for a photo are extremely high, so it makes me wonder how $50 templates source such nice photography and legally have it replicated.

 

Can anyone advise please?

There are a lot of photo libraries out there that offer free photos but also very cheap photography. I'm a member of Dreamstime and with that site you register and buy credits and can then download images for a dollar each.

I tend to use http://www.sxc.hu/ a lot when needed, be sure to check each photos terms tho!

I tend to use http://www.sxc.hu/ a lot when needed, be sure to check each photos terms tho!

 

I second that motion

yeh i use sxc.hu alot it has some pretty decent stocks.

There are also stock photo search engines like YotoPhoto.com that provide results from multiple sources. The only downside is that the quality can be lower because they crawl personal photo sites like Flickr (but you get more results anyway!).

 

YotoPhoto also crawls Stock.Xchng, MorgueFile, etc. so there's good stuff in there.

It depends. If you're looking for tons for Vector images then you may have to pay for them, however, if you simply want stock photos, without any vector images, then you can probably get most for free. You just have to decide what quantity and resolution you want them.

I usually make my own photo's for projects , way more fun and no worries about copyright and things, I spend a lot of time traveling across Europe making pictures on holidays, so I got a nice stack of pictures waiting to be used

 

Wildo

I'm not really a camera man =p I hardly ever use my camera, mainly for images i need, if i need any,other than that, it goes off with me on holidays.

i use my camera. but mainly for random things and the built in isight camera on my macbook is awesome for random photo's.