Stop the Presses-Best Photo Sites Ever!

OK, I know I’ve listed some other royalty free picture sites and said they were great, but I was wrong.

These sites are the ones that are REALLY GREAT. I was browsing around Wikipedia and found they had an entire article on royalty free photo sites (scroll down to the bottom where it says collections). And there they were-two different sites that are AGGREGATE SITES of the other royalty free photo sites. BINGO!!!

Now I can go to just two sites, type in my search term and have it search multiple sites for me. BONUS.

PicFinder searches Morguefile, Image*after, dreamstime & stock.xchange. Click on the image you like and it takes you to the parent site where you can check the exact terms of the agreement and download the picture.

YotoPhoto is an internet search engine specifically for free to use stock photographs and images. It searches various sources of free imagery on the web including Flickr, Wikipedia, Stock.Xchng, Morguefile, Pixelperfect Digital and OpenPhoto.

I know that the bloggers out there know exactly why this is exciting. Finding photos is hard (not as hard as taking good photos, but still pretty hard). Those of you out there who do not blog yourselves might be thinking “Jenn, why do I care about this”. Well, I’ll tell you. Most of these images are available for use in many forms. Some of them are even allowed to be used in commercial applications.

So if you are making any kind of poster, flier, newsletter, ticket, thank you note, card, calendar, pamphlets, CD label, recipe card. . . . you could probably use some of these pictures to make your finished product look more professional. Just about anything that is printed out can be spiffed up with free photographic images. There are business applications, non-profit/church/charity applications, craft ideas (think of what a digital scrapbooker could do with some of this stuff!) and even ways that a homeschooler or teacher could apply it.