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I'm always on the hunt for free stock images to use while I design, what are some good resources?

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+1 for great question. I will hit those sites before rush to iStock :) – Sisir Aug 1 '11 at 7:06

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http://browse.deviantart.com/photography/

http://www.sxc.hu/

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

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net

http://www.freefoto.com/

http://www.morguefile.com/

http://www.stockvault.net/

And over thousands of free stock images

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+1 sxc.hu is a good site. – Lazer Jan 5 '11 at 10:44
:) I often visit sxc.hu and dA – Atif Mohammed Ameenuddin Jan 5 '11 at 12:45
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This contain many interesting things: bluevertigo.com.ar – Littlemad Jan 9 '11 at 23:14
+1 for the link :) – Atif Mohammed Ameenuddin Jan 10 '11 at 5:15
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Careful about using stock images form deviant art. Most of the photographer doesn't allow to use images out of deviant art. Check license before using and also it will be great if you can have a written permission from the photographer. That will help you stay out of trouble if photographer changes the license later. – Sisir Aug 1 '11 at 7:02
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This hasn't been posted yet:

http://www.veer.com/products/free/

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Veer is good. :) – JFW Jan 8 '11 at 2:54
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http://www.iconfinder.com/

Robust icon search engine, with licensing filters.

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Brilliant! Great search utility for icons and png's ! – awe Jan 10 '11 at 10:07
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While not exactly a stock site...

Flickr & Creative Commons

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.

  • Attribution License
  • Attribution-NoDerivs License
  • Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
  • Attribution-NonCommercial License
  • Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
  • Attribution-ShareAlike License
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Find Icons
Find Icons is a great search site where you get a lot of hight quality hits when you search. You can download the icons in different formats, including multi-resolution icon if available for the particular icon.

You can also filter on size range, icon color and licence type. Also you can sort by different criteria, and set different background on the previews.

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http://www.photl.com/

The photos on this site are pretty good and of various sizes

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Creative Commons Search:

http://search.creativecommons.org/

This search will allow you to access images that you're free to adapt for commercial purposes.

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