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A Fast Way to Find Royalty-Free Images

November 4th, 2009 @ 8:00 am

Categories: Time-Savers, Web Tools

Tags: Tagging, Photograph, Rick Broida

A couple weeks ago Dave steered you to the Open Clip Art Library, a nice collection of royalty-free clip art.

Great, but what if you need actual photos rather than cutesy line drawings? Head to Cyclo.ps, a search engine for stock photo sites.

All you do is enter a search term, then choose one or more of the eight supported sites — including Flickr, Photos.com, and stock.xchng — to search.

If you end up using Cyclo.ps a lot, you may want to sign up for a free account. Doing so entitles you to saved searches, photo tagging, and thumbnail printing.

Much as I like the idea behind Cyclo.ps, I’ve actually had better luck with everystockphoto.com, which is what I use to find Creative Commons and other free-to-use images for Business Hacks. What about you? Do you have a go-to site for images? [via Lifehacker]

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    11/05/09 | Report as spam

    RE: A Fast Way to Find Royalty-Free Images

    Yes, I have used http://www.sxc.hu which has a fantastic, great quality, and wide selection of images. Some carry fees, but I have been using them for over a year for my web projects, and so far have been able to find images for free.

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