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Where can I find free images for my website?

Listed below are a number of useful sites where you can find suitable images for your website.

Stock Xchng
http://sxc.hu/index.phtml

The huge Stock Xchng gallery contains over 100,000 quality stock photos submitted by more than 9,000 users! Images state whether there are any conditions attached for commercial use.

morgueFile
http://www.morguefile.com

The morgueFile contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site. To acknowledge the artist's accomplishments, we ask that you credit the photographer when possible. Any questions regarding liabilities should be directed to the specific photographer.

The archive contains at present over 55,000 digital images, which can be both searched and accessed via a well organised set of categories.

Design Packs
http://www.designpacks.com

Offers free, high quality image collections that can be used in both personal and commercial web design projects. Each collection features a group of 15 images that share a common theme. There are dozens of collections based on a variety of themes. New sets are added monthly.

Every DesignPack can be downloaded as a single ZIP file. File sizes vary between 3-5MB. You can browse the Image Catalogue to see what's available. Don't forget to read the Terms of Use before downloading.

PixelPerfect Digital
http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/index.php

An image archive offering more than 3,000 images free for commercial and non-commercial use.

Image*After
http://www.imageafter.com

Another large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from the site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.

Free Images has more than 2500 original free stock medium resolution photos in 58 galleries. For example, technology, transport and travel, nature, festive and seasonal, buildings, space, medical, food, home.

Yotophoto is a search engine for free-to-use stock photographs and images. These are images that are either in the Public Domain or released under generous Creative Commons, GNU FDL or similar licenses.

While some of the images are in the Public Domain, most are released under Creative Commons, GNU FDL or similar licenses. These licenses typically have some minor conditions of use (such as requiring that credit be given to the photographer). Yotophoto also offers resources and links to help users understand and comply with the license conditions.

Their philosophy has always been to cater not just to designers looking for fresh new image stock, but also those who are looking for images of historical, geographic, cultural or scientific significance. For this reason, Yotophoto will find images of varying quality- from historic turn of the century black and whites to modern cutting edge, artistic photographs.

And in case this list of free image sites isn't enough then Graphics 'n Graphic Design and Robin Good have extensive lists of free image resources.