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LIST OF ROYALTY FREE IMAGES & STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY SITES & PHOTOS

DEFINITION OF ROYALTY FREE IMAGES
• The buyer pays a one-off fee - they do not have to pay royalties to contributors on a use-by-use basis.
• The buyer will not know who else is using the image.
• The buyer should check that the image has the appropriate releases before using the image where a release is required

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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."

1 Stop Stock - Offers 1 million+ Stock Photography Photos, royalty free photos and images searchable under one site.

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.

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.
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.

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.

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.

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."

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

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.

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.

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.

New Image Research - laboratory of conceptual art and design.

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.

OzImages Stock Photography - OzImages offers a comprehensive range of stock photography and photographer research services to genuine photo buyers.

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

Rubber Ball - digital stock photography of people and lifestyles on CD-ROM.

ShutterStock : Royalty free stock photography

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.

UKStockImages - UK based royalty free stock library. All UK models in UK locations. All images exclusive to the site and available for online purchase.

DEFINITION OF ROYALTY FREE - This is a simple form of licensing. It is your responsibility to check whether a model/property release exists and whether the usage you are using it for requires a release.

• The buyer pays a one-off fee - they do not have to pay royalties to contributors on a use-by-use basis.
• The buyer will not know who else is using the image.
• The buyer should check that the image has the appropriate releases before using the image where a release is required.