Where can you find good images?

A lot of people ask me where they can get good-quality images, so I thought it would be good to have one post that I could bookmark and send out to people. I mentioned before that I use iStockphoto.com the most (as well as more expensive sites — though I do that much less now — and high-quality photo discs from Japan). A few people gave links to their favorite free or inexpensive sites as well. Below, then, are links to both inexpensive sites and sites offering free images in searchable databases (but check terms of use). The quality ranges from "excellent" to "not too bad." If you can suggest some other sites which have worked well for you (free or inexpensive "but good"), please let me know and I'll add them below after I check them out. The sites below are not necessarily in order of quality, though iStock is my favorite. (Updated August 22, 2006)

Inexpensive (but good)
(1) iStockphoto.com
One dollar for low-rez images and two-three dollars for higher-rez images. This is my favorite site.
(2) Dreams Time
About one dollar for high-rez images for members.
(3) Shutterstock
750 royalty-free downloads per month for $139 (US) subscription.
(4) Fotolia
One or two bucks an image.
(5) Japanese Streets
Excellent source for Japanese fashion, street scenes, people, and much more from right here in Osaka. About $1.50 per pic via paypal. 
(6) Photocase. A German site (English and German versions). Low-cost download options.
(7) Stockxpert. Great pricing and great images. Easy-to-use site. Uses credit system.
(8) ShutterMap.com. From $1USD to $4USD for high-rez.
(9) Creative Express (Getty Images). With Getty's Creative Express you can buy one-month or one-year subscriptions and download up to 50 stunning images a day. The Express catalog has 75,000 great Getty images. The license works differently for subscription, but this may be a wonderful option for the right project (check out the FAQ). I will be using this for certain.

Free (but not bad)
(1) Morgue File
Providing "...free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits.
(2) Flickr's Creative Commons pool
Search the myriad photos people are sharing on flickr by the type of CC license.
(3) Image*After
From their site: "Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture...and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial."
(4) Stock.xchng
Close to 200,000 photos. Some gems in there if you look.
(5) Everystockphoto. Indexing over 283,000 free photos.
(6) Studio.25: Digital Resource Bank.
(7) Freepixels. About 2000 photos.
(8) The Photoshop tutorial blog. This cool blog has a laundry list of free photo sites.
(9) Robin Good has a good page dedicated to helping you find good images.  

Fonts (free or cheap)
(1) 1001 Fonts.com. A lot of free fonts. You get what you pay for, but many are pretty good. Find by most popular, highest rated. Articles, message board, etc.
(2) 1001freefonts.com. 4000 fonts for $9.95 (download).
(3) iFree. This Australian site links to free stuff in Australia and worldwide, like fonts, freeware, etc.
(4) Indezine on fonts. There are so many font sites out there, I trust the folks at Indezine to narrow it down. They list about ten.
(5) HighFonts.com. Database of about 3000 free fonts.

("Elvis" image from iStockphoto.com)

Comments

[Marketing Mentor]

Great list of sites. I've never found good sources before. You've saved me much stress. Thank you.

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[Shane Thompson]

Jewelrysnap.com has reasonably priced ($45) photos that specialize in jewelry. It has probably the best or highest quality, "pure" jewelry stock photos on the internet.

[Cheap Stock Photo]

Another good resource would be Affordable Stock Photos @ ImageTrail(http://www.imagetrail.net). It is a search engine for stocko photography. It behaves like Google Images, except that it displays legal images instead of random images from the web. It indexes images from affordable sites such as CanStock, Fotolia and StockXpert. The best thing is that the search is quick (unlike Fotolia at this point).

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car transport, auto transport, car shipping, vehicle shipping

[lily]

your description is so clearly that I want to have a try.and I do like to recommend one software that can edit transparent or opaque icon and extract an icon from an EXE or DLL file.
,that is,Easy Icon Maker,http://www.qweas.com/download/graphics/icon_tools/easy_icon_maker.htm
have a good time!

[Matthias Feser]

There is an initiative for development and distribution of free fonts, which you may find here: http://www.designwritingresearch.org/free_fonts.html.
There are some lovely and elegant typefaces to be downloaded.

[Matthias Feser]

Sorry, I mangled the posted link above. Here is the link again:
http://www.designwritingresearch.org/free_fonts.html

Apologies, Matthias Feser

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[Rick Englert - PicFindr.com]

Lots of great resources listed here! Allow me to suggest another that you may find helpful: www.PicFindr.com is an image search tool that searches several of the sites mentioned here simultaneously. The results are compiled into a single page with links to the host site's individual photos, terms of use and search results.
For full disclosure, I am the developer of PicFindr. Thanks!

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