Saturday, September 05, 2009
Looking for Free Stock Photos? Try Everystockphoto
WebWorkerDaily: "Text is much more compelling if you illustrate it with a photo. If you don’t have the time, or the skill, to take your own pictures, there are several free stock image libraries available; many WebWorkerDaily posts are illustrated with images from stock.xchng, for example. However, sometimes it’s hard to find exactly the right type of image, and jumping from one online stock library to another can take time. That’s where free meta-search engine Everystockphoto can help."
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This tool seems like that is would be very useful in most applications and make the looking much faster to find a photo that you were looking for
Interesting tool. I went onto the site to see what it is all about and it is really easy to use and returned a good number of results for some basic searches. One nice thing is that it tells you about the licensing for the photo and how you are able to use it. This is helpful because it allows you to narrow your search to photos with licenses that fit your needs. Overall, I think this site will become a nice tool to have around for many different projects.
I think sites like this are terrific, and are only going to grow in importance. It's great for sites like this to acknowledge licensing, while not being afraid of the copyrights - still indexing works to the extent that's legal. The way things are going lately, especially as more and more of our work is ending up online, we can't just go search google images and use whatever comes up first. Another good resource that I like for freely usable pictures is wikimedia commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page or the creative commons search at http://search.creativecommons.org/
I'm always looking out for collections of stock images--Google image search is what everyone thinks of first, but it is usually inadequate. I've been relying on Corbis lately, but I'm glad I stumbled across this article because Everystockphoto seems a little more complete.
I really think this is great! There have been many times where I've been creating websites or graphics for other uses and have had a hard time finding basic stock photos. While this doesn't site necessarily have "all free" photos, it's still a nice resource in that it provides the image AND license information. Oftentimes stock photo sites are very ambiguous and aren't very clear of the rights, leaving a user hesitant to use the image for anything. This looks like a great resource, and I definitely will add it to my bookmarks for research for shows and design projects.
I am definitely now joining this site. I've been looking for a good site for references when drawing (not that its too hard to google figures, but your results get a little muddled), and flickr usually fails me because the novelty of keywords allows the 'artists' posting to try and get as many hits on their work as possible.
The collections feature is also interesting for me--you might even get a whole set from an artists without clicking through a labyrinth of links to do so. The best part? I won't get yelled at for copyright infringement just for doodling something I stumble upon on the site.
Thank you for the resource! It's been bookmarked and saved. Freshmen, I recommend this for Susan Tsu projects in particular, but also for visual research. Just sayin'.
Sites like this are wonderful tools that compliment mainstream sites like google. Search tools on the internet have come a long way, and there are many more each day. Sites like this make projects easier (because they make things go faster) and help produce better results. Google and everystockphoto will provide different results with equally (most of the time) good results. I have bookmarked this site, and I cannot wait to use it for my next Susan Project.
Stock photos are an interesting phenomena and while I do enjoy having occasional access to them I really prefer taking my own photos. However that really isn't always a possibility and this organization has created a really clever (and legal) way to catalog images on the web. The idea of merely index the images is genius as nobody could possibly complain about copyright infringement. Now the only thing left to do is come up with a similar search engine for stock video footage. I do wonder though wither it is a good idea to link to such sites as filckr, because the results you find on that type of site are always unpredictable and takes a long time to filter through the useless junk. It's definitely a start though.
This website looks amazing. I've been using google images for years, but lately I've been getting increasingly frustrated with it. Not to mention that when you search for photos on google, you never know if they're in copyright. Everystockphoto seems revolutionary because not only do they provide free stock photos, but they also inform you about the licensing.
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