Great sites for stock photos

Great sites for stock photos

istockphoto.com: This is the site I go to first. The search capabilities are great, the selection is vast (and growing) and you can even search by color and composition. (If you want to run your text along the right side of a photo, you can search for photos that have open areas along the right side, for example.)
shutterstock.com: Another excellent (and vast) collection of high-quality images.
dreamstime.com: I haven’t used this much, but it looks promising. It claims to have the least expensive stock photos, and the quality looks good.

Free stock photos

stock.xchng: The granddaddy of free stock photo sites. The free offerings are shown along with tempting paid offerings from a sister site, but if you can resist the urge to upgrade to paid, there are plenty of good images here.
morguefile.com: Don’t let the name fool you. A morgue file, as I learned in art school, is where one keeps photo and image references to be used in the future. This is the Internet’s morgue file, and is assembled by creative people and freely shared.

Remember smaller, independent stock photo sites

photoshelter.com: One of my favorites. A smaller selection than the sites above, but the quality is great, and, depending on the license you select, you won’t have to worry about seeing the image you bought used elsewhere. 
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