Searching Stock photos

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Schraalhans Keukenmeester
Jun 19, 2007
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I’ve been asked to create a website for a spa/wellness center. Now I am looking for a dozen or so related photos. I’ve spent quite some time browsing a couple of stock photo sites, and discovered how hard it is to find what I want. Most collections seem randomly organized.

Like most fields of expertise I expect this is hard for a newbie and easy as pie for routiniers.

I bet quite a few people frequenting this ng have had their own experience finding suitable (stock) photos for their projects/customers.

Can anyone recommend sites that are easy to browse enabling one to get to the on-topic goods in a straightforward manner without having to spend hours and hours leafing through thumbnail pages? Perhaps a good technique on how to best approach this?

Thanks for your kind help in advance.
Sh.

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ronviers
Jun 19, 2007
On Jun 18, 11:13 pm, Schraalhans Keukenmeester
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Can anyone recommend sites that are easy to browse enabling one to get to the on-topic goods in a straightforward manner without having to spend hours and hours leafing through thumbnail pages? Perhaps a good technique on how to best approach this?

Thanks for your kind help in advance.
Sh.

Hi Sh.,

I like these two – because they’re free.

http://www.sxc.hu/home
http://morguefile.com/archive/?MORGUEFILE=celdsrdum7gpnik4pn gi07drm2

But if you are willing to pay then

shutterstock.com
istockphoto.com

are popular but I have not tried them.

Good luck,
Ron
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Schraalhans Keukenmeester
Jun 19, 2007
At Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:06:02 +0000, let h(is|er)
monkeys type:

On Jun 18, 11:13 pm, Schraalhans Keukenmeester
wrote:

Can anyone recommend sites that are easy to browse enabling one to get to the on-topic goods in a straightforward manner without having to spend hours and hours leafing through thumbnail pages? Perhaps a good technique on how to best approach this?

Thanks for your kind help in advance.
Sh.

Hi Sh.,

I like these two – because they’re free.

http://www.sxc.hu/home
http://morguefile.com/archive/?MORGUEFILE=celdsrdum7gpnik4pn gi07drm2
But if you are willing to pay then

shutterstock.com
istockphoto.com

are popular but I have not tried them.

Good luck,
Ron

Thanks for the links Ron, didn’t know there were free ones available. I’ll have a look. In the end for this site it’s not a big deal if I have to shell out some cash, customer’s willing to pay for them. But he’ll of course like to hear there might be freebees. And a happy customer is a returning one, which makes me a happy camper as well.

Thanks again!

PS I finally found out how to narrow selection in istockphotos. Just missed the search thingy I guess, or thought it wasn’t what I was looking for.

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ronviers
Jun 19, 2007
On Jun 19, 3:16 am, Schraalhans Keukenmeester
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Thanks for the links Ron, didn’t know there were free ones available. I’ll

Hi, Schraalhans,
The thing with the freebie sites is that at first they look great but once you start trying to use the photos you begin to notice little things, usually compositional, like the eyes pointing in slightly the wrong direction or a shadow or merge. Usually they are pretty good technically though. Sometimes I go to shutterstock.com and dream about having access to their excellent photos and images. Shutterstock has a lot of vectors too.

Good luck with your project,
Ron
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Rama
Jun 19, 2007
Can anyone recommend sites that are easy to browse enabling one to get to the on-topic goods in a straightforward manner without having to spend hours and hours leafing through thumbnail pages? Perhaps a good technique on how to best approach this?

Thanks for your kind help in advance.
Sh.

I love this one: http://stockxpert.com/

The images range from $1 to $10 and they have a great selection (photos as well as some vectors).

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