Free Images from Google Image Search
I was just thinking about buying 500 or so iStockPhoto credits last week when I noticed their prices have gone up substantially over the last year. Getty Images is monopolizing the business and it’s nice to see they may have just met their match. They just lost most of my future business anyway, now that Google has released an option to use their image search feature to easily find free images — images that are allowed to be reproduced at no cost. There are a few other free image websites out there, however I feel a lot more comfortable using Google — not to mention having far more selection! I needed to get some more images on my blog — yeah, I’m cheap and don’t feel like paying $2 for images knowing 80% of the money isn’t going to the people who deserve it — the photographers, designers, artists.
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July 10th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Hi,
Thankx Buddy for making us aware about this. I am really need for free images.
Thx
Kedaar
July 10th, 2009 at 1:52 am
You’re welcome Kedaar
July 10th, 2009 at 5:59 am
I’ve been using other sources for most of my images - I use iStock a lot for commercial/client projects and also have a wide selection photos from my own photography studio… but that’s a really good find Reece. Thanks for sharing. I use google search nearly everyday and never noticed that. Gonna have a good look at it now.
Btw. totally agree and feel the same way about having to pay $2 for images when 80% or more don’t get seen by the photographers/artists.
July 10th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Yahoo! images search - images.search.yahoo.com - allows one to find photos on Flickr that the author allows reuse.
July 10th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for letting us know — I wasn’t aware of that