Good place for stock photos?

[antizero]

I'm looking for a good place to snag some quality royalty-free stock photos. I want to have a nice large collection of images, anything under the sun, for use in graphics. I've been to nearly every "free images" site I can find, and I never find exactly what I'm looking for, or else the pics I do find aren't very "professional"...bad lighting, bad focus, poor image quality, inapproprate backgrounds, or just too outdated.

I don't mind paying a subscription fee, so long as I don't have to pay per image. I'd rather pay for some decent pics than have to sit down and do a Photoshop makeover on every single image I want to use to make it look professional.

[muijefr]

of 5000 pro quality photographs on sale for $5. I'm always rummaging around for book sales on slightly outdated software or outdated software. I'd offer some of my 5000 photos but the company that publishes it might get upset. I've searched them out and their photo URL is:
http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=photographs&sp-a=sp03092f00&sp-f=iso-8859-1
Scroll down to the 5000 photos entry. This was a search for photographs from their home page. I don't know how long this URL will be retained.

Their home URL is http://www.cosmi.com

P.S. I could not find a clue to ordering from this outfit - duh!

[antizero]

Yeah...what's up with that? I found the 5,000 photos thing, but there's no information or links on purchasing...? Weird.

[TERRELL]

Here's where I'm subscribed.......
http://www.istockphoto.com


Here's another :
www.corbis.com
(Not the best thoughj)

[antizero]

Wowsa! Thanks Terrell...these are great!

[Bad Hair Day]

Originally posted by JohnnyontheSpot
Wowsa! Thanks Terrell...these are great!
Just came across http://stock.d2.hu/index.phtml

Don't know if what they have will suit you, but the price is right.

;)

BHD

[antizero]

Oh wow...score again...even better! These are absolutely amazing! Very artsy (me likey).

Thanks BHD.

[Bad Hair Day]

Originally posted by JohnnyontheSpot
Oh wow...score again...even better! These are absolutely amazing!
Sure, on a 56k modem, they're amazing(ly)..............

SLOW!

:(

Pleased they're useful to you. Just let us see what you do with them, eh?

BHD

[antizero]

Ouch...I can see how it would be a drag on a dial-up. My cable modem loves this page (it's my new home page). I've downloaded nearly 100 images already, just to have lying around when I feel creative.

[dhom]

I'm looking for the same thing and just did a search for "clip art" at DealTime.com:

http://www.dealtime.com/xPP-Graphics_Publishing_and_Multimedia_Software-clip_art-14846_pc-license_category__search__standard

It looks like there are some good options in that list for vector-based clip art (rotatable within a program), but not a lot of good photographs.

[Edit] I take that back... I did a search for "photographs" in the Computers > Software category and found what I needed.

http://www.dealtime.com/xPP-Graphics_Publishing_and_Multimedia_Software-photographs~PG-2

[dhom]

I have an answer for me... :)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001XWNSS/qid=1125901485/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-2512546-2883944?v=glance&s=software&n=507846

Enough graphics there to actually find ones that match the color scheme of my site... cool. :)

[dhom]

I'm a science teacher, so I dug around the science and technology directories. I decided to keep the Mambo SolarFlare colors in the template, so I picked out all the orange photos and edited them in GIMP to remove the backgrounds. Doing all that searching on the Web would have been a lot of work, since I don't want to have to worry about Creative Commons licenses and that sort of thing. It floated my boat... but I didn't have a very heavy one to start with. :)

EDIT: Oh - I just understood the joke. <smacks head> :)

[Jaxon]

Like they say...you get what you pay for. Why buy images you may never use—no matter how cheap—owing to poor quality and content?

Check out LattaSTOCK ( http://www.lattastock.com ). It's a storehouse of professional quality photos. And...the rates are very reasonable.

[Croc Hunter]

Like they say...you get what you pay for. Why buy images you may never use—no matter how cheap—owing to poor quality and content?

Check out LattaSTOCK ( http://www.lattastock.com ). It's a storehouse of professional quality photos. And...the rates are very reasonable.I nearly deleted your post as spam/advertising, then I saw you are powweb hosted so I'll let it stand. Some nice pix there Jaxon.