image libraries

[twogun]

anyone out there know of any decent micropayment sites apart form istock and bigstock........need accessible images with new direction, these two site seem to be samey or am i searching for a needle in a haystack with regasrd to cheap good images......

[Pete33]

You could also try Corbis at http://pro.corbis.com/. Useful, if a bit pricey sometimes.

The other method is to Google for something that takes your fancy, and then perhaps to try and take your own photos to produce the same effect.

[PrintDriver]

He said 'micropayment' not 'line Bill Gates' pockets'. LOL. Corbis is very pricey.
But sometimes you can't find that image anywhere else.

Check out the Resources thread. Plenty of sites listed there somewhere. Unless they've all been bought.

[twogun]

thanks pete, herne bay eh! and theres me posting a thread the other day thinking i was the only brit on here, not only are there more than i thought but local too! im just outside sandwich!!

thanks for the tip, have used corbis, digital vision and all those before.....budgets dont always support image costs, istock etc proved to be great for a couple of months but the quality is not always there......

[Pete33]

If you're Bill Gates then Corbis is micropayment. :p

Hi Twogun. Yep my base is Herne Bay, although I also work elsewhere quite a lot. The wonders of the internet and re-routable phones means I can be pretty much anywhere in the UK or Europe.

It's a shame my budget doesn't allow me to work from a deck chair in the South of France, though...

[PrintDriver]

"If you're Bill Gates then Corbis is micropayment. "
LMAO. Yep you got that right!

[morea]

photos.com

[thesupe87]

I second that. They are like the bargain bin of all of the big boys.

photos.com

[cmont]

bigstockphoto.com

[Virgo Nightingale]

We use photos.com almost exclusively. For the price of one or one and a half photos from Corbis, you get a year's subscription. You can download I think up to 50 images a day at no extra cost, unless you need a fairly large photo (like 11x14 @ 300 dpi). The collection is pretty big, I generally don't have trouble finding what I need unless it's really specific or obscure.

edit: And it's all totally royalty-free and professionally shot (no so-so amateur submissions).

[PrintDriver]

11" x 14" and "fairly large" don't belong in the same sentence. LOL!

[twogun]

blimey, havent been around for a while and suddenly this reply pops up in me ol inbox!!

hows everyone doin?

[Virgo Nightingale]

11" x 14" and "fairly large" don't belong in the same sentence. LOL!
Well, faily large for the average-sized project. We don't get too many calls for the grande stuff.... ;)

[balou]

blimey, havent been around for a while and suddenly this reply pops up in me ol inbox!!

hows everyone doin?

Hey twogun!! We miss you. Hope you've been wayyy too busy to come play with us. How's the biz?

[beseech wanton]

www.dreamstime.com

[twogun]

hi balou, good to see you, biz is soooooo goood! hopefully i'll have time to catch up with you all next week sometime!!

[daSnarf]

http://www.fotolia.com/ isnt bad either