Where do I find pictures and photos for my website?

Question - Where can I find royalty free and copyright free pictures and photos I can use on my website?

Answer - There are many resources where you can find stock photos and pictures for your website.

Make sure you have permission from these sources and abide by their rules if you use any of their pictures. Many thanks to one of my coaching students for supplying this comprehensive list...

Photographs

All Royalty Free (they have artwork too) -

http://www.allroyaltyfree.co.uk/

AltaVista Photo Finder (click on the images tab) -

http://image.altavista.com/cgi-bin/avncgi

BigPhoto -

http://www.bigfoto.com/

Free Images -

http://www.freeimages.co.uk/

Free Stock Photos -

http://www.freestockphotos.com/

Free Stock Photos -

http://free-stock-photos.com/

FreeFoto.com -

http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp

Geek Philosopher -

http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/photos.htm

Morguefile -

http://www.morguefile.com/

Picsearch -

http://www.picsearch.com/

Stock.xchng -

http://www.sxc.hu/

Stockstash -

http://www.stockstash.com/

Yahoo! Picture Gallery -

http://gallery.yahoo.com/

Artwork / Animation

1,001 Free Fonts -

http://www.1001freefonts.com/

Animations ($7.95 for a week) -

http://www.animations.com/en/index.mc

Aon Celtic Art -

http://www.aon-celtic.com/cfreeware.html

Barry's Clip Art Server -

http://www.barrysclipart.com/

Castletrash Clip art (medieval, Egyptian, fantasy clip art on CD's) -

http://www.castletrash.com/index.htm

Clip Art ($7.95 for a week) -

http://www.clipart.com/en/index

CoolArchive -

http://www.coolarchive.com/

CoolText.com (create logos and other cool stuff) -

http://www.cooltext.com/

Crystal Cloud Graphics (spiritual graphics) -

http://graphics.elysiumgates.com/

Dinc! (Retro fonts and clip art) -

http://www.girlswhowearglasses.com/info.html

Flash Components ($24.95 a month) -

http://www.flashcomponents.com/

FontFreak (fonts) -

http://www.fontfreak.com/index2.htm

Free-Graphics -

http://www.free-graphics.com/

FreeGraphicLand.com (links to other graphics sites) -

http://www.freegraphicland.com/

Gif.com -

http://www.gif.com/

Graphics Hunter (links to other graphics sites) -

http://www.graphicshunter.com/

Homepage Tools -

http://www.homepagetools.com/

House Ravenscroft (Celtic images) -

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/3374/index.html

Rowan's Icons (Celtic images) -

http://www.conjure.com/ICON/icons.html

Top20Free.com (links to 20 graphics sites) -

http://www.top20free.com/

Additional Resources

http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx

http://orangetrash.d2.hu/

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/

http://www.freestockphotos.com/

http://www.farmphoto.com/

http://www.sxc.hu

http://www.dieblen.de/ - use google to translate

http://www.freeimages.co.uk/

http://www.mediaphoto.com.br/index.php?leng=eng

http://gallery.hd.org/index.jsp

http://gallery.yahoo.com/

http://www.photolibrary.fema.gov/

http://www.photolibrary.fema.gov/photolibrary/index.jsp

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html

http://www.visipix.com/

http://photobox.ru/

http://www.photocase.de/

http://www.morguefile.com/

http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/

http://www.imageafter.com/

http://kepek.creart.hu/index.php?oldal=1&kat=1&nyelv=en

http://www.freemediagoo.com/

http://stock.kriegsnet.com/

http://unprofound.com/pix/

http://www.niblack.org/imagebase/

http://aarinfreephoto.com/

http://blackat9.tripod.com/

http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp

http://www.photos.external.lmco.com/

http://www.im-visions.com/

http://www.stock.b-man.dk/

http://www.photo.net/stock

These sites are not free, but they are of very high quality. These are the libraries that the agencies use when in a pinch.

www.liquidlibrary.com or www.liquidlibrary.com/dgm give you a special promotion.

www.comstock.com

www.digitalvision.com (distributor of many, many brands)

www.photosearch.com (distributor of about 20 different brands)

www.creatas.com