Anyone know any good free stock photo sites?

Question

Anyone know any good stock photo sites that are free?

Answer 1

Legally you cannot use a photo you find on the web with out the photographer's permission.

Stock photography websites contain thousands of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific uses. A customer who uses stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time, effort and money. Typically publishers can either purchase exclusive rights to a single image or they can purchase a subscription of sorts. The subscriptions allow publishers to download a limited number of photos over a specified period of time.

Stock photo websites allow webmasters, marketers and publishers to locate pictures for their marketing and promotional materials without the hassle of organizing a photo shoot. With copyright laws businesses must be very careful in using unlicensed photos.

There are also risks to using "free" photographs. Many of the free websites contain collaborative works from multiple photographers and artists. While the websites attempt to monitor the images in their collections in violation of copyright laws, there are no guarantees. If you opt to use photographs or images from a free portal, it is important to keep this in mind.

Here is where you can find some inexpensive stock photo directories:

http://www.small-business-software.net/s...

Goodluck

Answer 2

Photobucket

Answer 3

istock has stuff for like a buck and up

Answer 4

http://www.sxc.hu/

http://www.gettyimages.com/ (I'm not sure about this, but I'm assuming the royalty free images should be free, but I may be wrong.)

http://www.deviantart.com/#catpath=resou...