Comments on: 27 Free or Inexpensive Royalty Free Photo & Illustration Sources

By: Patrick Schriel

Patrick Schriel — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:53:04 +0000

As I am a relative new blogger (and still working on the site) I was looking for a list where to get photo’s that go well with my posts. Thank you! I have bookmarked the list and will check out each of the sites.

By: aaron | scrubs music

aaron | scrubs music — Sat, 02 May 2009 04:43:41 +0000

I’ve used several of these, I usually just end up at iStockphoto if I can’t find something descent on flickr. Plus a lot of your free options are great for web graphics but a little low quality for high dpi design.

Still, great list. Consider it bookmarked.

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:43:55 +0000

This is what I have been looking for. Thanks for compiling an excellent resource. Oops, I used to take pictures straight from google. Now I know better. Thanks. Bookmarked.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:35:25 +0000

Very good list, found your blog via Twitter! I hope it’s ok to tell you about our image agency, YAY Micro!

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By: Tracey Grady

Tracey Grady — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:52:59 +0000

Great list, Char.

On the question of attribution, I personally think that this means naming the source in the publication (blog, print or other) where the image or artwork has been used.

Like A Friend (above), I download CC-licensed photos from flickr then upload to my Wordpress blog and link to the original flickr page, but I also name the source directly underneath the photo.

By: Char

Char — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:06:22 +0000

Adam – the article at Leah’s site that I linked to gets more into the Creative Commons issue. I didn’t really address it much here but recommend you read Leah’s article.

Friend – hotlinking is where you copy the image location from another site and insert it into your post so that the original source is actually serving up the image. If you save the image to your own computer then upload and attribute, you are usually ok.

By: A Friend

A Friend — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:58:22 +0000

This is a very useful list. We have a young blog and have so far only used Creative Commons licensed flickr photos.

The hotlinking thing disturbs us a bit. What we have have done with the couple of photos we’ve used from flickr users was download the photos, upload into our own wordpress blog (we don’t know really where the photos go, but they’re there), then when the photos are displayed, we hyperlink to the source as our way of attribution. We don’t do any more attributions beyond this.

Is this similar to hotlinking? Are we doing enough attributions?

By: Adam Kayce

Adam Kayce — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:13:16 +0000

Yep, great list; thanks for compiling these. I’m a little surprised you didn’t get into talking about the Creative Commons (although perhaps the link you gave did; I haven’t clicked it yet).

I get pretty much all my images for my blog from Flickr’s Creative Commons search (click the ‘advanced search’ button, and look at the bottom), and everything else from Stockxchng (which you have on the list). Love those guys.

I’m looking forward to exploring more of these – thanks again!

By: web design london

web design london — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:34:14 +0000

Wow you have been busy!
I never knew most of these existed and usually just buy from Istock

many thanks for sharing!

By: shaz

shaz — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:57:30 +0000

great list Char, thanks!