Background to Stock.XCHANG

This is a popular site to download free photographs. You do have to look carefully because on the pages that they show free photographs they will also show you ones that can be bought from istockphoto.com. It can be annoying thinking you've found the perfect picture only to find it's one that you have to pay for.

The images are listed under Subjects
[+] Abstract
[+] Architecture
[+] Business
[+] Computers
[+] Concepts
[+] Food
[+] Nature
[+] Objects
[+] People
[+] Places
[+] Seasonal and Events
[+] Signs
[+] Streets and Cityscapes
[+] Transportation
[+] World

Each subject is divided into categories, making it very easy to navigate.

Advantages

  • The number of completely free photographs
  • Has some tutorials posted showing how to change some of your pictures.
  • Able to save images in lightboxes

Disadvantages

  • Not as many pictures available as some of the other directories.
  • In some categories there are very few free pictures available
  • While many of the free photographs are very good indeed - quality not as good as paid ones.
  • Only has photos available. Many other directories offer a wider range of media.
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Alam Premium
Thanks for sharing, I didn't know about stockfree image.. I liked it..
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BIS Premium
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Glad you like it.
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Viterbi Premium
Thank you BIS.

I would just like to add a site specific to icons, instead of pictures (if anyone is interested to enhance the view of a website):

ICONSPEDIA: http://www.iconspedia.com/

It's all free and it has a very large database.
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BIS Premium
Thanks - I will reapeat what I have said to others. I will check out any of these other resources and then add a page.
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SquidooSlfMstr Premium
Great info "BIS." There's another source that you can use for FREE even for commercial purposes AND no attribution required! I just used some for a landing page header. Here's the Licensing Terms: http://morguefile.com/license/morguefile/
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BIS Premium
Thanks for this. I'm going to check out all the ideas that people have given me - and then I will add a page for them - so we have a really good resource for people.
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Incognito Premium
I second that - great training resource BIS. A new player in town that I've checked out is PhotoDune.net. They have a nice collection of stock images which I haven't seen replicated across other marketplaces.
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BIS Premium
Thanks for the compliment and for the tip. I have bookmarked them and will take a look and then I can add a page on.
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welshy Premium
Great resource again BIS, also very good how you've gone into some detail and not just listed a bunch of sites. Thanks
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BIS Premium
Thanks Craig. It's not a very long list but I wanted to be able to talk about sites that I've used myself.
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welshy Premium
I also use Clipart.com for paid photos and normally find what ever I'm looking for, I like them because the price is pretty good compared to other stock photo sites and they offer subscriptions like you pointed out.
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