Stock Photography for the Web

Mezzoblue has a short post up discussing stock photos and how there’s really a difference between how they’re used for print media and for the web.

It’s interesting enough in its own right, but mostly, I just want to use this as a sort of a ‘bookmark’ for myself for the future.  Eventually, I plan to do a redesign of the site and I definitely want to make use of some photos since—let’s face it—my designs tend to be a bit less than exciting in general. [shrug]

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Yep, Greg pointed me to iStockPhoto the other day, and it’s a good find.  Since there aren’t any models and studios involved, you can get generally high quality images without having a $200-$500 licensing fee.

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For myself, i think if i had paying projects, i too would use something like iStockphoto. Sometimes you might need a random image of a dog biting someone at 300dpi. The main thing that draws me to the site though is not having to pay enormous fees for a subscription. Buying only what you need is how it should be.

I acutally found iStockphoto when i was working with Derek, and now in all my Graphic design magazines, i see it mentioned a lot by readers. when the time comes, i can see myself using it.

I use istockphoto and another service called Dreamstime both as a designer and as a photographer.

Dreamstime pays more:

But if you are at all interested in Istockphoto, go buy some credits before they go up in price.

I can add that if someone wants to sell stock photos, use
ShutterPoint Stock

Both Inmagine and
123rf are not free but they contain of a wide varieties of royalty free stock images which are suitable for web design.

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