Hey All! I don’t know if this topic has already been addressed. If so, PLEASE redirect me! I’m trying to purchase stock images/graphics for our ads, site and facebook fan page… I’ve been using iStock and Dreamstime lately but I was wondering if any of you know of better sites to purchase good images at lower costs. Thanks!

@kimberlyjimenez, I mainly use Shutterstock, iStockphoto and Bigstockphoto.

http://www.shutterstock.com

http://www.istockphoto.com

http://www.bigstockphoto.com

@iamconsulting &   @claudiapoeckl  Thanks so much! I love these sites!  @lukaspleva You’re absolutely right, even though its not always feasable to use my own photos for everything, I will definitely try to incorporate them more often!

@kimberlyjimenez

Glad to hear!  One thing I found is that Fotolia.com has many of the same photos as dreamstime and istockphoto but for much less.  

@iamconsulting Yes to fotolia.com

There are a lot of free sites for backgrounds, textures and things like that. iStock is the best for professional shots, but they’re not cheap, that’s for sure.

I know this thread is kinda stale but here’s a few free image resources:

• http://www.sxc.hu/
• http://www.search.creativecommons.org
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

http://www.crestock.com are really good.

They don’t have the number of images of an istockphoto but they still have millions of images and often ones found on the 2 mega stock photo sites too.

The big thing with them is you can buy individual images starting at $1! And if you only need a small size you can get one in a small size and pay less!

I highly recommend giving them a go as they are good images and it is very cost effective!

Cheers

Scott

Istock has been raising their prices – I’ve been having some luck with http://www.123rf.com/