acquiring images

[jhewak]

I am a new designer and am wondering how to best deal with my image needs. I do my own photography but still need high quality images occasionally.

Do you recommend subsribing to a service such as http://www.ultravertex.com/....or buying one offs, or buying a cd?

How do you charge your clients for images?

I would benefit from your experience.

Thanks,

John

[Webforumz Staff]

There's a number of free stock photo sites out there. As for commercial ones I'd pay per image and not use a service like the one you linked. Make sure you're getting the Royalty Free licensed photos.

Look for the stock photo sites with the most powerful search features. Going through hundreds of images by hand takes forever. Corbins and GettyOne come to mind.

[benbacardi]

www.sxc.hu

[autumn_whispers2me]

I also use my own photography, but when I need something else the BEST place on the web for outstanding and FREE (no ads or junk to put up with) site is the MorgueFiles.

http://www.morguefile.com

Just follow the above link and click on the "image archive" button. You'll see what I mean. I've spent hours on that site just checking out the photographs... better than any I've paid for!

This site is for photographers & web/graphic designers, and their stuff is all free, public domain, use-at-will. There's some really outstanding work there, and I have to say it's one of my favorite places.

The images are super HQ and has to be downloaded in zip format (most are around 1500 to 2000 pixels wide, for example).

No garbage, no ads, no stupid rules. Those folks are great. And they have a message board as well.

Have fun!!

[jhewak]

Thanks to all for this helpful info.

[autumn_whispers2me]

Best of luck on your designs.