Ask HN: Where do you buy images for your blog posts?

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There are quite a few sites like istockphoto and fotolia - but the cheapest images are about USD 2 each (and the ones I liked were USD 9). There are other sites like "Flickr's Creative Commons pool" - but I did not find really good pics here.

Where do you guys buy cheap (or free) pics for your blog posts?

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I normally do not buy pictures for my blog posts, I try to shoot (or draw) them myself. They are not perfect then, but that's OK for me.

When I need pictures for a presentation (a conference talk, ...) I buy those at iStockPhoto. I always found the high quality images I was looking for there, and the price is reasonable. Even though I need a lot of images for my presentations - See an example here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiKvVO93YU8 (I shot some of the pictures myself, but several are from iStockPhoto).

Most of the time I just use Flickr. I search for what I'm looking for, then click the advanced search tab. Checking the "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content" limits the results to stuff that copyright owners are willing to let you use. Most of the time you just need a simple attribution with the image.

I use all-free photos from these places

http://morguefile.com/

http://www.photorack.net/

http://publicdomainclip-art.blogspot.com/

(found at article: http://webmarketingfree.com/free/royalty-free-photos-top-3-f...)

I use shutterstock.com - with their cheaper plan it works out at 2$ per picture up to 1000px wide which is usually great for blog posts. I like their search too.

You can find lots of free stock images on www.sxc.hu.

http://us.fotolia.com/ is a good place, cheaper than istockphoto but less options also.

Yeah. Fotolia does have cheaper pictures - but hard to find the variety that istockphoto has. Thanks.

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