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STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY SITES:STOCK IMAGES (royalty free & rights managed)
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List of Free Stock Photography Sites on the Net - Here is a list of sites on the net where you can download free stock photos.
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Age Photostock - Rights Managed and Royalty Free Images
Alamy - Hard to Find Rights Protected and Royalty Free Images from all the main photo stocks.
AlterStock
- A really great stock photography site. Through immersive
technology, choose backgrounds and overlying images to
create the perfect picture for your documents.
AP
Wide World Photos - This photo Collection is the
largest and most comprehensive of 20th century news and
historical photography, composed of millions of negatives
and prints and 700,000 images online.
Archivision - A major supplier of images on architecture, landscapes,
public art and design for educational use.
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Baby Stock - A comprehensive, all inclusive, one-stop shop for art directors' baby photo needs. The online databank contains thousands of high quality, creative and original images of babies in all situations. Great for stock photo research of all kinds of baby photos, stock photos of babies from births, to floating babies on white backrounds (my signature style), and close ups, babies sitting, crawling, standing, groups, playing, crying, with parents, with siblings, twins, children
Bill Latta - LattaSTOCK - Photography of Bill Latta
Black
Star - Corporate and Editorial Photography.
Photo Journalism, Assignment Photos, and Stock Photo
Bruce
Coleman Collection - A selection of images from
a superb collection of photographs from around the World
and beyond - the specialists in Travel, Nature, Space
and Scenics.
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Classic Photos - A choice selection of classic photos from Hollywood's Golden Age to the present: thousands of vintage photos of your favorite celebrities and sports pictures on an easy to navigate site with quick delivery time.
Comstock Images - Specialize in commercial stock imagery, especially model released "Lifestyle" and "Business" imagery. Comstock sells both Royalty-Free and Rights Protected images.
Custom Medical Stock Photography - Medical Stock Photo agency with over a quarter million medical, biomedical and scientific photographs and illustrations.
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DanBaileyPhoto.com - site offers stock image galleries, a digital stock photo catalog for downloading, a CD catalog that is free for graphic designers and information about my stock photography and assignment services.
DirectStock.com - The only print and digital source that unites art directors, art buyers and designers directly with photographers and illustrators.
Doctor Stock - The one-stop image resource for healthcare advertising and communications with thousands of rights-controlled images.
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Earth Water - These image files contain a wealth of subjects including sun-drenched to snow-covered travel destinations, marine life, wildlife, people enjoying sports & leisure activities and digital composites.
EyeStorm - eyestorm is an online gallery environment for exploring and buying contemporary art and photography.
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Food Pix - Licensed Stock Photographs and illustrations of food.
FotoSearch - Search royalty free and rights managed stock photos, medical clipart pictures, royalty-free illustrations, royalty-free motion stock video clips, royalty free vector maps, and background clip art imagery.
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Getty Images - The leading provider of imagery and film to communications professionals around the world.
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Halo Images - Halo Images collection of rights managed stock photography features photographic portraits, aged and vintage photographic images, landscape photography, travel and leisure photographic images, lifestyle photography, industrial photography, corporate photography, workplace photography, photographic collages, sepia toned photographs and photographic textures, backgrounds and elements. Experimental photographic techniques used include high key, blur, pinhole, ambrotype, vignette effects, cross processing, polaroid transfer, infrared film, and plastic lens.
Human Issues Collaborative - Specializes in providing non-profit organizations with cost effective stock photographs.
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Image Bank - A global leader in contemporary, rights-protected photography, illustration and film footage. Image Bank provides extraordinary imagery to the world's top ad agencies, advertisers and hot shops.
Images.com - Home of The Stock Illustration Source, Spots on the Spot,SIS Nostalgia Collection, and GraphiStock. The images are on-the edge photography and illustrations.
Image State - Welcome to the new imagestate.com - today's imagestate was once a number of image libraries such as Adventure Photo, Pictor, John Foxx, Images Colour Library and Zephyr. 2004 marks a new beginning in our life as one company - a new brand identity, a new imagestate.com and a whole lot of new creative thinking.
Index Stock - An expanded collection now includes Advertising and Commercial color, Editorial color and B&W, Vintage B&W, Retro color. All subjects including particular strengths in Western scenics, Caribbean and Southern USA lifestyle, New England, Agriculture and Retro Americana. Both traditional licenses and royalty-free images.
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FPG- FPG is a full-service stock photography agency using innovative, user-friendly technology including a world class online searching and commerce system; FPG offers a stock experience like no other.
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Illustration Works - The preferred source for stock art and stock illustration by exceptional illustrators.
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Kelly Paal Photography - Welcome to your source for artistic stock photography images. Here you will find a completely browsable database of photos. Interesting, artistic, and always unique if you are searching for an image for your website, or small business publication, then you\'ve found the place.
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Laughing Stock - Spirited Stock Illustration.
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Master File - High quality digital stock photography.
License photography and illustration online; download
high resolution images immediately
Midwest
Stock - A comprehensive photo resource library,
featuring rights-protected photography available for advertising,
marketing, display or any project requiring high-quality photos.
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NonStock - An alternative stock photography agency providing rights protected and flat rate digital imagery for clients to price, purchase, and download.
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Photis - Another PictureQuest worldwide exclusive! Photis represents leading stock and fine art photographers contributing materials that illustrate the "real life" aspects of business, lifestyle and imaginative concepts. Photis is photography made simple!
Photo Image House - Resource for stock photography, fine art prints and digital restoration services. photoimagehouse.com markets the talents of new photographers.
Photonica - Specializes in futuristic, technological images.
Picture Quest - At PictureQuest, you'll find the right image to fit your project and delight your clients. PQ helps you find rights-managed and royalty-free images painlessly and in less time, and its full-text search technology lets you use multiple keywords to get more accurate results without compromising speed.
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Stock Asylum - Start your rights-managed stock photography search at the Stock Asylum. Our web site includes all the resources you will need, including and independent online catalog of images by world class photographers, an organized list of quality stock distributors, up to date articles for creatives and other resources.
StockPhotoFinder.com - A stock photography search engine, a source for picture researchers and art buyers to find rights-managed photography and royalty-free stock photos for publication.
The Stock Solution (TSS) - A stock photo agency, representing the images of over 100 photographers. Our library of 200,000 images is available for use by publishers, businesses, and individuals. Our copyrighted images can be licensed for a variety of uses, i.e. brochures, newsletters, magazines, multi-media, display, and Web pages.
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Zephyr Images - Specializes in conceptual imagery. Search online for image or call and have Zephyr complete a custom search.
Rights-Protected / Rights-Managed Stock Photography
Rights Protected Stock Photography - A
Age Photostock - Rights Managed and Royalty Free Images
Alamy - Hard to Find Rights Protected and Royalty Free Images from all the main photo stocks.
AlterStock - A really great stock photography site. Through immersive technology, choose backgrounds and overlying images to create the perfect picture for your documents.
AP Wide World Photos - This photo Collection is the largest and most comprehensive of 20th century news and historical photography, composed of millions of negatives and prints and 700,000 images online.
Archivision - A major supplier of images on architecture, landscapes, public art and design for educational use.
Rights Protected Stock Photography - B
Baby Stock - A comprehensive, all inclusive, one-stop shop for art directors' baby photo needs. The online databank contains thousands of high quality, creative and original images of babies in all situations. Great for stock photo research of all kinds of baby photos, stock photos of babies from births, to floating babies on white backrounds (my signature style), and close ups, babies sitting, crawling, standing, groups, playing, crying, with parents, with siblings, twins, children
Bill Latta - LattaSTOCK - Photography of Bill Latta
Black Star - Corporate and Editorial Photography. Photo Journalism, Assignment Photos, and Stock Photo
Bruce Coleman Collection - A selection of images from a superb collection of photographs from around the World and beyond - the specialists in Travel, Nature, Space and Scenics.
Rights Protected Stock Photography - C
Classic Photos - A choice selection of classic photos from Hollywood's Golden Age to the present: thousands of vintage photos of your favorite celebrities and sports pictures on an easy to navigate site with quick delivery time.
Comstock Images - Specialize in commercial stock imagery, especially model released "Lifestyle" and "Business" imagery. Comstock sells both Royalty-Free and Rights Protected images.
Custom Medical Stock Photography - Medical Stock Photo agency with over a quarter million medical, biomedical and scientific photographs and illustrations.
Rights Protected Stock Photography - D
DanBaileyPhoto.com - site offers stock image galleries, a digital stock photo catalog for downloading, a CD catalog that is free for graphic designers and information about my stock photography and assignment services.
DirectStock.com - The only print and digital source that unites art directors, art buyers and designers directly with photographers and illustrators.
Doctor Stock - The one-stop image resource for healthcare advertising and communications with thousands of rights-controlled images.
Rights Protected Stock Photography - E
Earth Water - These image files contain a wealth of subjects including sun-drenched to snow-covered travel destinations, marine life, wildlife, people enjoying sports & leisure activities and digital composites.
EyeStorm - eyestorm is an online gallery environment for exploring and buying contemporary art and photography.
Rights Protected Stock Photography - F
Food Pix - Licensed Stock Photographs and illustrations of food.
FotoSearch - Search royalty free and rights managed stock photos, medical clipart pictures, royalty-free illustrations, royalty-free motion stock video clips, royalty free vector maps, and background clip art imagery.
Rights Protected Stock Photography - G
Getty Images - The leading provider of imagery and film to communications professionals around the world.
Rights Protected Stock Photography - H
Halo Images - Halo Images collection of rights managed stock photography features photographic portraits, aged and vintage photographic images, landscape photography, travel and leisure photographic images, lifestyle photography, industrial photography, corporate photography, workplace photography, photographic collages, sepia toned photographs and photographic textures, backgrounds and elements. Experimental photographic techniques used include high key, blur, pinhole, ambrotype, vignette effects, cross processing, polaroid transfer, infrared film, and plastic lens.
Human Issues Collaborative - Specializes in providing non-profit organizations with cost effective stock photographs.
Rights Protected Stock Photography - I
Image Bank - A global leader in contemporary, rights-protected photography, illustration and film footage. Image Bank provides extraordinary imagery to the world's top ad agencies, advertisers and hot shops.
Images.com - Home of The Stock Illustration Source, Spots on the Spot,SIS Nostalgia Collection, and GraphiStock. The images are on-the edge photography and illustrations.
Image State - Welcome to the new imagestate.com - today's imagestate was once a number of image libraries such as Adventure Photo, Pictor, John Foxx, Images Colour Library and Zephyr. 2004 marks a new beginning in our life as one company - a new brand identity, a new imagestate.com and a whole lot of new creative thinking.
Index Stock - An expanded collection now includes Advertising and Commercial color, Editorial color and B&W, Vintage B&W, Retro color. All subjects including particular strengths in Western scenics, Caribbean and Southern USA lifestyle, New England, Agriculture and Retro Americana. Both traditional licenses and royalty-free images.
Rights Protected Stock Photography -F
FPG- FPG is a full-service stock photography agency using innovative, user-friendly technology including a world class online searching and commerce system; FPG offers a stock experience like no other.
Rights Protected Stock Photography - I
Illustration Works - The preferred source for stock art and stock illustration by exceptional illustrators.
Rights Protected Stock Photography - K
Kelly Paal Photography - Welcome to your source for artistic stock photography images. Here you will find a completely browsable database of photos. Interesting, artistic, and always unique if you are searching for an image for your website, or small business publication, then you\'ve found the place.
Rights Protected Stock Photography - L
Laughing Stock - Spirited Stock Illustration.
Rights Protected Stock Photography - M
Master File - High quality digital stock photography. License photography and illustration online; download high resolution images immediately
Midwest Stock - A comprehensive photo resource library, featuring rights-protected photography available for advertising, marketing, display or any project requiring high-quality photos.
Rights Protected Stock Photography - N
NonStock - An alternative stock photography agency providing rights protected and flat rate digital imagery for clients to price, purchase, and download.
Rights Protected Stock Photography - P
Photis - Another PictureQuest worldwide exclusive! Photis represents leading stock and fine art photographers contributing materials that illustrate the "real life" aspects of business, lifestyle and imaginative concepts. Photis is photography made simple!
Photo Image House - Resource for stock photography, fine art prints and digital restoration services. photoimagehouse.com markets the talents of new photographers.
Photonica - Specializes in futuristic, technological images.
Picture Quest - At PictureQuest, you'll find the right image to fit your project and delight your clients. PQ helps you find rights-managed and royalty-free images painlessly and in less time, and its full-text search technology lets you use multiple keywords to get more accurate results without compromising speed.
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Stock Asylum - Start your rights-managed stock photography search at the Stock Asylum. Our web site includes all the resources you will need, including and independent online catalog of images by world class photographers, an organized list of quality stock distributors, up to date articles for creatives and other resources.
StockPhotoFinder.com - A stock photography search engine, a source for picture researchers and art buyers to find rights-managed photography and royalty-free stock photos for publication.
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The Stock Solution (TSS) - A stock photo agency, representing the images of over 100 photographers. Our library of 200,000 images is available for use by publishers, businesses, and individuals. Our copyrighted images can be licensed for a variety of uses, i.e. brochures, newsletters, magazines, multi-media, display, and Web pages.
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Zephyr Images - Specializes in conceptual imagery. Search online for image or call and have Zephyr complete a custom search.
Royalty-Free / Low Cost Stock Photography
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**Stock Photos by PhotoSearch - Search more than 50 Stock Vendors ... Royalty Free Animated Photos by PhotoSearch
**Big Stock Photo - Beautiful, royalty-free, low-cost stock photography for web developers and graphic design professionals. Use our photos on your websites, templates, marketing, sales or practically any use at all.
**Free Digital Photos - Free pictures for websites, newsletters and documents etc. For commercial and non-commercial use. There is no registration required or forms to fill in. Hundreds more photos are being added each month. The photos are web quality and are intended for web designers, or for use in any document, newsletter or presentation."
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1 Stop Stock - Offers 1 million+ Stock Photography Photos, royalty free photos and images searchable under one site.
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A Frame Photo - picture library specializing in surf and beach images, including waves, surfers, landscapes, flowers, portraits, sunsets, kids and beach culture.
Age Photostock - Rights Managed and Royalty Free Images
Alamy - Hard to Find Rights Protected and Royalty Free Images from all the main photo stocks.
ArtBitz - The Designer's Stock Resource! We offer affordable royalty free stock design elements.
ArtLex - ArtLex is a dictionary of art for everyone interested in art production and its history. You will find articles on thousands of art terms, along with terrific images, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web.
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Big Stock Photo - Beautiful, royalty-free, low-cost stock photography for web developers and graphic design professionals. Use our photos on your websites, templates, marketing, sales or practically any use at all.
Brand X - Unique Royalty Free Images - site has a nice look, a little hard to search.
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Call Of The Wild Photo - Private collection of high quality Royalty Free Stock Photography available in both high-resolution for print and low resolution for web based projects. Specializing in Oregon, outdoor, scenics, and floral photography. Commercial license high resolution images to 2400 x 3600 pixels. Secure online ordering with electronic delivery.
Comstock Images - Specialize in commercial stock imagery, especially model released "Lifestyle" and "Business" imagery. Comstock sells both Royalty-Free and Rights Protected images.
Corbis Images - Enjoy over 1.6 million images online - the largest digital collection on the web. Enjoy royalty-free or traditional licensing of images.
Creativity 103 - This site currently contains almost 200mb of free abstract digital photos and backgounds ready for you to download.
Creatas - Creatas provides high-quality, royalty-free stock photography, illustration, and footage, as well as design tools such as Pantone, Linotype, and FontHaus. Its vast library brings together the world's most highly recognized and highly-regarded brands, providing innovative, compelling, and thought-provoking images.
Cyber Photo - Supplier of professional hi-resolution and super hi-resolution royalty-free digital images.
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Deadline Pictures - Deadline Pictures is a photostock agency, launched on March 2000, with the purpose of making alternative photography available for designers. As a new-born company we only use the ideal medium for distributing pictures: the Internet. Fast, cheap, 24 hours a day.
Dexhaus - A supplier of hard to get, experimental, world-class photography.
Digital Vision - Digital Vision is a leading producer of digital content for the creative community. Our goal is to help creative people create more easily.
Dreamstime - Photographers and designers using film or digital equipment are enabled now to sell their portfolio of images online. Dreamstime.com aims on creating a powerful photo community, providing royalty free images and royalty free stock imagery or photos to DTP designers, web designers, photos for printing brochures, advertisements, magazine or newspaper ads, and electronic use on websites or Flash interactive animations.
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Epictura Stock photography Image Bank - Online searchable library of royalty free images. Collections of CDRoms and instant download of high resolution, ready to use photographs and illustrations.
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First Light - Rights-managed and royalty-free, plus a whole extravaganza of other exotic treats.
FotoSearch - Search royalty free and rights managed stock photos, medical clipart pictures, royalty-free illustrations, royalty-free motion stock video clips, royalty free vector maps, and background clip art imagery.
Free Foto - FreeFoto.com is the largest collections of free photographs for non-commercial use on the Internet.
Free Images - FREE digital photographic images for web, dtp, and design. Royalty and cost free stock photos.
Free Digital Photos - Free pictures for websites, newsletters and documents etc. For commercial and non-commercial use. There is no registration required or forms to fill in. Hundreds more photos are being added each month. The photos are web quality and are intended for web designers, or for use in any document, newsletter or presentation."
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Getty Images - The leading provider of imagery and film to communications professionals around the world.
GraphicObsession - 500 000 royalty free images online, 30 000 character fonts, more than 7000 video
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Highway Images - Highway Images offers 50,000 35mm stock photos depicting interstate transport and specialized hauling by Class 8 tractor-trailers in settings throughout the U.S.
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Image 100 - premier royalty free stock photography and images for the advertising, design, corporate, publishing and new media professional.
Image Source - A market leader in Royalty Free photography. Image Source offers instant access to thousands of contemporary images ready for creative use. The collection is growing daily with more images, more subjects, more style.
Image State - Welcome to the new imagestate.com - today's imagestate was once a number of image libraries such as Adventure Photo, Pictor, John Foxx, Images Colour Library and Zephyr. 2004 marks a new beginning in our life as one company - a new brand identity, a new imagestate.com and a whole lot of new creative thinking.
Index Stock - An expanded collection now includes Advertising and Commercial color, Editorial color and B&W, Vintage B&W, Retro color. All subjects including particular strengths in Western scenics, Caribbean and Southern USA lifestyle, New England, Agriculture and Retro Americana. Both traditional licenses and royalty-free images.
ImageState - Known for its original, stylish imagery and the professional way the company always incorporates the latest digital techniques into their products, John Fox Images has more than 15,000 professional royalty-free stock images.
Intuitivmedia - Buy unique high resolution images at affordable prices. Quickbuy and instant download single photos for only $5.95 ! Our One Year Subscription for only $79.00 give you download and use access to all our royalty-free images.
iStockphoto - iStockphoto members buy/sell high resolution, royalty-free stock photos for just $3.00 or less each.
IT Stock Free - Check out the exciting new royalty-free images from IT Stock Free, one of the world's prominent independent picture producers. IT Stock Free's leading international photographers place emphasis on images that are contemporary and creatively fresh.
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LiquidLibrary - LiquidLibrary is the refreshingly different design resource that includes unlimited access to over 75,000 high-quality, royalty -free photos and illustration, and a Media Mix consisting of lively, energetic music tracks, attention-getting motion, and professional PowerPoint templates.
A Luna Blue - Stock Footage and Image Library. A Luna Blue provides highly creative royalty-free stock footage and photography. Digitally produced for broadcast, desktop video and all new media. Available on QuickTime CD, DVD and file download.
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New Image Research - laboratory of conceptual art and design.
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MediaBakery - Media Bakery provides royalty free content and media licensing services to businesses around the globe. Combining an aggregated collection of Royalty Free publishers, broadband and internet technologies with one of the world\'s largest royalty free publisher sources, Media Bakery is transforming the way royalty free media is searched, purchased, and delivered. The privately held Company is headquartered in Carpinteria, California.
Morgue File - A place to keep post production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
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OzImages Stock Photography - OzImages offers a comprehensive range of stock photography and photographer research services to genuine photo buyers.
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Photo Essentials - Select from thousands of high-resolution royalty-free images, including premium quality model-release assignment photography. Ideally suited for use in advertising, brochures, reports, multimedia, websites, books, packaging and more.
Photosphere - PhotoSphere Images provides royalty free digital stock photos on cd and online downloading
PhotoSpin - Subscription based royalty-free photos, illustrations, fonts, film and sound. Pay annually and get unlimited downloads of over 100,000 available images.
Picture Quest - Filled with digital content including stock photography, pictures, illustrations, maps, graphics, royalty free photography & other design images, PictureQuest stock photography agency has a photo research service to find digital photos & specific graphics.
Picture Station - We both love the web, photography, and design. One day we just figured that web pictures are numberless, but rarely reasonably priced. Hence we started Picturestation.
Pictures of London - Images of London fro the design and editorial markets. Small but effective library
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Rubber Ball - digital stock photography of people and lifestyles on CD-ROM.
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ShutterStock : Royalty free stock photography
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Think Stock - Thinkstock is a vibrant community of stock web sites. Each site in this community is dedicated to providing exceptional imagery within specific content niches.
Time Tunnel - Vintage illustration and stock photography for the graphics professional; Specializing in fun, royalty-free collections of pinup art, pulp and comic book cover art, vintage labels and textiles.
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UKStockImages - UK based royalty free stock library. All UK models in UK locations. All images exclusive to the site and available for online purchase.
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This article was written by the very talented, Mark Misenheimer of Misenheimer Creative, Inc. Mark is an expert freelance graphic designer who has been in the design business for years. He has documented the design of a logo from start to finish in order to help other graphic designers. I know that you will learn something from this tremendous logo design article.
The Graphic Design industry is very competitive, and trust me, it can certainly get stressful and frustrating at times. However, it doesn?t always have to be that way. Here, I have broken down my design process. This is how I create my design layouts from start to finish. Basically, with some focus, structure, and a little bit of talent, creating rewarding and professional design work can be produced more efficiently and with less stress.
As a designer everyone has experienced a point where they just can no longer think of anything worth while. It?s in these situations when you have to reevaluate your perception of what works and what doesn?t. Use the following 20 tips to avoid and get through a tough designer's block.
Graphic Design and Typography are deeply connected. For that reason, I figure that most of you are going to love these free online font and type tools. Most, if not all, of these are very useful and I recommend that you use them when you have a chance. Below you will find the huge list of free browser-based font and type tools.
I have found a load of design related podcasts that I am sure will peak your interests. Just think of it as radio shows geared towards you and your love of design. You will even find Podcasts on Photoshop, Illustrator, Typography, Freelancing, as well as Web Design and Graphic Design.
I love Vector Magic, a free online vectorization tool. It is a really cool browser-based tool that can be used to turn a photograph into an illustration. It doesn't always succeed in getting that look that you might be looking for, but it does a pretty good job. I usually just use it to play around with photos to see what Vector Magic can do with it, but it also can be very useful if you want to convert a photo into an illustration. I started to wonder how many other vectorization tools and software packages there were out there and I was surprised to find out that there are a ton o them. Basically, most of these tools turn Raster / Bitmap / Photo Images into Line Art / Illustrations / Vector Art.
I am in love with vector shapes right now. I think they are so handy to have around when you are building a site. The way that you can stretch vectors without creating jaggy edges, makes them incredibly useful. Most of the time I just land up breaking them apart to use a curve that I like. I also love using them for as badges or buttons on web sites. I have collected a huge selection of free custom Photoshop shapes. If you download every single one of these, there are probably close to 15,000 free Adobe Photoshop shapes. There are more to come in Part II. Enjoy.
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.
Whether you?re right out of high school, a Mom looking for a career she can do from home, recently out of the Military or simply someone who feels they have a knack for design and is ready for a career change, consider that you have a few options on how to gain the skills you will need to pursue your dream job. But first, ask yourself some questions
As Graphic Designers, we are all creative individuals. I thought that most of you would love to know about all of the fantastic online drawing and painting tools that are available online. Not only are they fun, but they are also quite useful for sketching out some of our ideas. Some of these tools can also be used as design collaboration tools to use with your co-workers, clients, friends, teachers, and family. Enjoy and don't hesitate to send me links to online drawing tools that I might have missed.
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6 Million Downloadable Clipart Images for Graphic Designers
The Clipart.com collection of more than 10 million royalty-free clipart images, photos, illustrations, fonts, sounds and Web graphics provides creative professionals with the most choice at the best price. With a Clipart.com subscription, you pay one fee and download what you need.
May 27A New and More Accurate Search Engine for Finding Free Clipart
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.
Apr 26Podcast for Freelance Graphic Designers
Lindsay Marsh, owner of Marsh Graphic Design has created several audio and video podcasts she calls the Freelancer. They cover various topics related to the freelance graphic designer. She plans on doing these pretty regularly and from what we see there is a lot of potential here. I suggest you check them out. The [...]
Mar 7Hot in Graphic Design - A Superb Guide to Designing With Black
A Superb Guide to Designing With Black Many of the people who visit All Graphic Design are Graphic Designers and many of you are Web Designers. If you are a Graphic Designer, than you most likely know that many things can go wrong when sending your files to be printed. For one thing, colors never look [...]
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Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios
Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios This is a post on Astheria Design Blog that is in response to a previous post called "?My Last Portfolio Sucked, Yours Might Too"?. This articles includes pictures and links to Design portfolios that were designed with a goal in mind. All of these design portfolios have one thing in [...]
Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Some Online Printing Services I?ve Used
Some Online Printing Services I've Used - Personal Commercial Printers Review Whether you are a Graphic Designer or a Web Designer, we all need to use commercial printing services every once in a while. All freelancers, in fact, need to use printing services to print items such as business cards, printing labels, envelopes, letterhead, marketing materials, [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume?
Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume? I have always been told that utilizing design within a resume is the wrong thing to do, Graphic Designer or not. So when I saw this article title, it caught my eye and I had to read more. However, the author of this article doesn't agree with [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - List of 120+ Free Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs
List of 120+ Free Adobe Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs I was excited when I found this huge list of free Adobe Photoshop actions, and I am guessing that you will be excited as well. Actions are the best way to speed up Photoshop tasks that you do on a regular basis, such as change an [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Logo Design Trends for 2008
Logo Design Trends for Graphic Designers in 2008 As a Graphic Designer, you might not think that trends are important when it comes to designing a logo. However, as you can see if you look at design archives, the art of Graphic Design changes. As a designer, you will need to keep on top of these [...]
Feb 27Hot in Graphic Design - Which Mac Should You Buy if You are a Graphic Designer?
Which Mac Should You Buy if You are a Graphic Designer? As a graphic designer, you might be in need of a new computer these days. If so, and you are interested in buying a Mac, which Mac should you buy? This is a question that is consistently posted on every design form across the net. [...]
Graphic Design for Climate Science Film
I prefer to work with designers located: Santa Barbara preferably, but will consider others. Number of pages (approx):infinite My Industry:motion pictures Am producing film on climate science unde? Client is in Santa Barbara, CA
Website and Logo Design for Home Theater
would like to work with a designer from Denver or surrounding areas. Number of pages (approx):1-6 My Industry: Audio/Video We will be ready to start tomorrow. I want to incorporate a crest logo i? Client is in Aurora, CO
Graphic Design for Advertising
Number of pages (approx):2 My Industry: mortgage The ads will be approx 8.5 X 11. I need two ads done. I can send an example. I would just need to change some of the verbiage. I'd need it avai? Client is in Tempe, AZ
Front End Web Design Needed
We need web page designed. This web page will integrate with a proprietary backed application designed in AJAX. The backed is already developed and integration will be done by ourselves. About 3 or 4? Client is in Coumbia, MD
Master Form Design InfoPath Visual Desig
We need: Master Form Design InfoPath (Visual Designer) within our CI. we use forms from Formdesk. (www.formdesk.com) We change on InfoPath and need from a designer a master "template" for all forms.? Client is in Baar,
Web Design: Promotional Products
Number of pages (approx): 3 or 4 not really sure. My Industry: Promotional Products Will probably need at least some graphics designed for the site. No functionality. How many pages do you expect ? Client is in Sherman Oaks, CA
Web Design: Fraternity
Number of pages (approx): 5? My Industry: information We have some graphics that we can use. We would like it to be similar to ucasigep.com. We would like to get an interactive calendar for the site? Client is in Texarkana, TX
Logo Design for New Clothing Company
I am designing T-Shirt and Hats and other apparel but I want someone to create a very cool logo that goes with my trademark "_____" the objective is to duplicate successful companies like the "Life is? Client is in San Francisco, CA
Website Design with Medieval Theme
Number of pages (approx): 12 I need a template for: something like this but a little more medieval http://www.templates.com/preview/flash-templates/ft-2231.html I have a large pic of a medieval to? Client is in Lav Vegas, NV
Web Design: Visual Merchandising Consul
Number of pages (approx):6 My Industry:Merchandising I can do the graphics, with no functionality. I have domain and hosting. ? Client is in Collierville, TN
Logo Design for Non Profit Youth Center
We have a design we are interested in developing: 4 different colored squares that make one big square (like a 4 pane window); each box has a design inside that indicates a service we offer (i.e. book? Client is in Los Angeles, CA
Graphic Design for Certificate
The size for certificate will be A4? Client is in Stip,