royalty free photos using i stock/dreamtime?

plzhelpmesave!

Hi
Need to get hold of different quality images for a new business venture and have found these sites.
Anyone use them and what do you think? Seem to be reasonably priced - dreamtime is a bit cheaper but US.. does that make a difference?

Will be using up to about 100 images - possibly more in the next couple of months. A

Thanks in advance for any replies/experiences!

totalsolutions

iStock is well known and is US also?
Does it make a difference? no, but they can't spell so watch the artwork.

-TangleFoot-

Any of these do?

bonzer

If you use the Flickr advanced search you can search only for images that may be used commercially (option is down the bottom when you choose creative commons license)

http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?q=cd

My other advice would be do a bit of google image searching just to check the images you pick are not used absolutely everywhere on the web which can be somewhat embarrassing. There's also a site called TinEye that can check this to some extent but it's not that great yet.

M4RKM

sxc.hu is free and royalty free.

stockxpert.com is paid for and the "sister" site of sxc

istockphoto i find a bit pricey

and dreamstime i've used in the past and had no problems...





M

Sput2001

I've used quite sxc.hu quite a bit, too. Well worth a look.

fuzzball172

make sure you understand the license that goes with the images. Some licenses can be quite restrictive in what you can do with the images.

plzhelpmesave!

Thanks for all the replies guys! Will try sxc.hu (bit worried about any typo's though!!) and see how i go.

Need professional high resolution images that won't be used everywhere so will check out all your ideas and have a good look through everything.

Appreciate the help....

plzhelpmesave!

fuzzball172 wrote: »

make sure you understand the license that goes with the images. Some licenses can be quite restrictive in what you can do with the images.

Looking to use images with my logo and words on items that i will be selling... had a quick look re restrictions on quantities but won't be doing millions - well not sraight away anyway.....lol

Will look intoit perly before i buy any images though!

BikerEd

http://commons.wikimedia.org

Wikimedia Commons - the photo repository behind Wikipedia - has a huge number of images, nearly all of which are available for royalty-free commercial re-use. Some come without any conditions of use, others just need attribution which you can achieve by quoting the photographer's name in the image properties.

plzhelpmesave!

thanks bikered - will have a quick look.