Where do you get cheap stock photos?

[borderlineokie]

I've been using istockphoto, but they are probably one of the most expensive.

Any recommendations?

Edit: As /@rsanchez353 pointed out, there was a pretty good post about it. User /@gmangoyan recommended this awesome feature of Google Images I didn't know about:
Google with the Advanced Search set to the right Creative Commons and large images gives great results.

 

[tafari]

@borderlineokie Jesus did istock really go up in price. I've got an account there since 2002 (past life in graphic design) and still have 26$ in there. If anyone knows how to transfer that to another account and want it PM me cause I'm never going to use it.

edit - 22$ for 10 credits.

It costs 12 credits to download the vector image I created over 10 years ago.

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-109316-snowboard.php?st=4f9896e

22$ for a fucking vector image? It's been downloaded 57 times. At current prices they've made 1311$ off of my vector image and they've paid me 22$.

BULLSHIT!

 

[torturedsoul]

@borderlineokie flickr.com but make sure you use the correct license, and google images, but make sure the license is clear for commercial usage.

 

[istanbul303]

@borderlineokie sxc.hu check the liscense, most of them are good for commercial use.

 

[soulsforchristministry]

@borderlineokie There's a good site that lets you search by keyword the billions of photos on flickr for Creative-Commons-licensed (i.e. often free to use if you include attribution though some are marked "not for commercial use;" do check; flickr itself has the ability to let you pay to use some photographers' work). I use it for my daily blog posts. http://photopin.com

 

[hudsonskv]

@borderlineokie Don't know exactly what you're looking for, but here are a couple I use. Problem is you can't really search, so if you're looking for photos of something specific, these are probably out.

http://www.gratisography.com/
http://unsplash.com/

EDIT: Just found http://www.splashbase.co/ as well, looks like it's pretty new but there's some goos stuff on there already.

 

[613jono]

@borderlineokie compfight.com. Only use the commercial permission ones.

 

[allevo]

@borderlineokie Stock Exchange - been a goto for free & permissioned photos for years.
http://www.sxc.hu/

It's now owned by Getty, and they don't add to it as much as before, and you get a lot of sponsored photos that cost (usually istockphoto, which they own too, but they are still pretty cheap), but it's a great source.

 

[guadalupepaz82]

@borderlineokie Stock photography is awful! Use photopin.com or this one: http://www.deathtothestockphoto.com/

 

[johndoe119]

@borderlineokie If embedding is all you need and Getty has just made a ton of images free to do so. Some restrictions, but I believe they're fine for blogs and social media.

 

[prodigal2013]

@borderlineokie here you go...

*http://compfight.com/

*http://picjumbo.com/

*http://unsplash.com/

*http://www.sxc.hu/

*http://search.creativecommons.org/

*http://www.morguefile.com/

*http://www.deathtothestockphoto.com/

Also, read this: http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/blog/where-the-best-designers-go-to-find-photos-and-graphics

 

[purposelychosen85]

@borderlineokie I've used freedigitalphotos.net in the past. Free if you give credit, and then from $3-$10 depending on the quality you would like if you don't want the attribution.

 

[rsanchez353]

@borderlineokie /r/web_design had a topic on this last month. People brought up several sources I had never heard of:

https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/1x9xxu/your_secret_stock_photo_source

 

[markrunbox4]

@borderlineokie I don't have any experience personally but a quick google search brought up six competing websites.

www.istockphoto.com
www.shutterstock.com
www.dreamstime.com
https://www.canstockphoto.com
www.gettyimages.com
www.bigstockphoto.com

Hope one of those helps.