Stock photography resources

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I think we need a thread for stock protography resources. Please share the sites you are using for stock images and vector graphics.

Personally the best I've found till now is Alamy which has million of free to use photographies

Edit by Tim URL removed see below

guess the largest free portal by quite some way is http://www.sxc.hu/

sxc.hu is great, it's the only source of free stock images I use regularly.

I think we need a thread for stock protography resources. Please share the sites you are using for stock images and vector graphics.

Personally the best I've found till now is Alamy which has million of free to use photographies

free?

this is what I got:

0.9 MB   460 x 691   0.1 MB   US $ 85.00   

PS. maybe it would be useful id the modify and quote button are not side by side

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I think the prices are for the high resolution images, but they are free for the web use.

I think the prices are for the high resolution images, but they are free for the web use.

460*691 is not that big (and is the lowest res. they offer)

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Here is another one I just found on SU:

http://yotophoto.com/

[Alamy Images are NOT a free photo resource.]

I think the prices are for the high resolution images, but they are free for the web use.

Wrong,

Alamy Images are NOT a free photo resource.  Everything is SOLD as either licenced for a specific use or Royalty Free.  Even web use.   

Alamy are trialling a system like Getty where their spider crawls the web looking for stolen (not paid for) image use.  Getty regularly bill $thousands for stolen images so if you are using Alamy comps for websites I'd get them off pretty damn quick....

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Thanks for the info JayBee, and welcome to webdigity

Cheers,

Yep, I've read some pretty scary stories about guys being billed four figure sums for a 500px wide web image that was "borrowed" off Getty comps and their technology for sniffing out unauthorised use is getting very sophisticated and is being used by many of the major stock resources now.

Its well worth making sure that any "free" images you use are under a free to use commercially licence in order to avoid a nasty surprise further down the road.

Looks like an interesting site....I'm off to explore more

JayBee

Interesting, image recognition is pretty much still in its infancy I would be surprised if their hunting process is very automated, barring real stupidity like using the same name.

I use a lot of stock photos and sell a lot of photo's through stock photography sites most people who use my photos tend to crop and manipulate them, I'm guessing its the same with most photos this would make it very difficult to identify theft automated (it's why CAPTCHA are so good) only a byte for byte copy would work, unless you employ some other basic protections such as steganography (but this would only work if enough data can be extrapolated from the modified piece).

Still the moral is always check the licensing

As a photographer contributing to Alamy, I can tell you that my work and the work of other contributors is copyrighted and most definitely not free. I don't know what to make of someone suggesting--publicly, at that--that stealing from someone is a good idea.
If that's the only way you can do business, perhaps a different line of work is in order or at least a very large dosage of clue.

Whoa, MGS, no one here has ever condoned stealing in the form of copyright theft.

Nikolas did not realize that the site was not one that allowed free use; simple as that. If anyone needs to get a "dose of clue", that would be you.

How hard would it have been to simply say, "I'm a contributor to that site and the images are copyrighted and must be paid for."? Sheesh.

You might be a photographer but perhaps learning to read may help, Nikolas had missunderstood the licensing and was under the impression it was free, probably comes from the term royalty free.

He was not condoning stealing!

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Hope I wont go to prison for this

I just thought exactly what you said Tim. Maybe the site itself is a little misleading as I had the impression that the photos are free to use.

You might be a photographer but perhaps learning to read may help, Nikolas had missunderstood the licensing and was under the impression it was free, probably comes from the term royalty free.

He was not condoning stealing!

My mistake wasn't in reading comprehension but in thinking that terms widely used in the industry, like "royalty free", would be well-understood by practitioners. And that the pricing button and copyright statements were clear enough. If someone crawls through my window and takes my tv, I'm not likely to be placated with "the window was open so I thought it was okay!" In any case, let me say more diplomatically that Nikolas' suggestion wasn't a good one and we on the supply side watch each other's backs. I'm sure you folks don't like your work taken without payment or permission, either.  I have a lot of web designer and graphic artist friends and I know that's true. We all work hard and want to be able to make an honest living in our respective fields.

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I don't get it, what is the meaning of "royalty free photos"?

I thought those pictures are free to use and they were just selling the compilation (like the linux distributions)

Actually the site is incredibly missleading,

The phrase
To download comp, right click on the image and click Save Picture As...

Next to the picture and with little or no mention of buying except a small add to cart button,

So your analogy is a bit inncorect its more like having a sign on the window saying please come in...

I don't get it, what is the meaning of "royalty free photos"?

Royalty free means the photographer will not claim royalties (want to be paid per showing) of the photo
In this case its royalties like those of records or other art works

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.....
The phrase
To download comp, right click on the image and click Save Picture As...
.....

That's exactly what made me take a wrong conclusion about this site

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