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Courtesy of the mighty fine Photoshop Tutorials Blog comes a great list of sites offering free stock photos.
Please feel free to avail yourself.
Looking for free stock video? Francesco (a commenter) says try here
Hat-tip to Lee at Visual Being
Update: I had the wrong link attached to the photo on this post — apols, it now points to sxc.hu
The girl in the photo, by the way, is photo number 315032 (found after 2hours searching for it/her!) Photo by celiece
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A belter of a book and a 'must read' addition to any communicator's bedside reading table if they are serious about introducing social media into their communication plans. It includes a fabulous chapter on transparency and business (hint: you want to photocopy it and give it to your CEO!)
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Not just a book for academics, it's chock-full of great ideas on how to effectively and efficiently research your employees, customers, the marketplace and other stakeholders
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A fabulous book that gives a clear, clean overview of what Twitter is and WHY you should be engaging with it. THEN it goes into depth with so many tips and ideas that they should have sold the book for twice the price!
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LOL, I thought that was a phone number (not photo number) for a moment.
It isn’t free, but iStockphoto is nearly free, $1-$3 and you can get the photos hi-res. Thanks for the bead on some free stuff.
G’day Kami — thanks for that. I can’t remember where else I heard about iStockphoto, but someone else highly recommends them, too. $3 is an AMAZING price when you think I could pay 100 times that for one image from some stock places, or 30-40 times that for a Photodisc/Getty image. Incredible!
I have been using it for my magazine lately. It really has been a great way to spice up pages on which I normally wouldn’t buy any art. I buy original art, photos, etc., for the magazine all the time and pay $500 to $1,000 US for the stuff, so yes, iStockphoto has been “amazing.”
Any chance of seeing your magazine? Sounds really interesting – the use of high-res, expensive imagery always conjures up the thought of something actually worth reading, on the principle that if you have gone to all that trouble and expense then it must be worth it. Plus, I like your writing style so a (pdf) copy would be, methinks, a worthwhile read.
Sure, if you want to read about manufactured housing. I will try to pick a few things that might be interesting to you from a decidedly B to B magazine.
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