Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Free Photos
Bloggers, designers, and business users alike can find much to love about stock.xchng, a resource for free photos. The variety is astounding, the quality ranges from reasonably good to not so hot, and there are a number of different agreements restricting usage for some of the photos.
It is user created content--that is, the photographers put the pictures on the site themselves--so designers looking to use these photos in commercial, public are should be careful which pictures they choose. As far as I can tell, there are no model releases available.
Warnings aside, there are a ton of decent pictures here that can be used for a variety of projects. I personally have used stock from this site for internal documents and presentations.