Where to Buy 'Stock Art' for News/Mag Ads?

[that mike guy]

HEy,
Anyone know of any good stock art available? Either in-store or to buy and download online?

Stuff for small Newsprint / magazine ads....

We're making roughly a few hundred ads per issue, so I need a HUGE collection of "clipart-ish" (but obviously high-res) images. Ads are for everything from lawyer offices, health stores, oilfield companies, dental labs, etc...

Anyone have any advice?

thanks.

[D-Frag]

I use SXC for the majority of our stuff, it has always been a very rewarding resource.

www.sxc.hu

as for clipartish type stuff, you could always try stuff like this too http://www.shopping.com/xPO-Greenstreet_Software_10_000_ClipArt_Business~r-1~CLT-INTR~RFR-www.google.com

[morea]

there are some good links posted here:

http://www.graphicdesignforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42

[nclester02]

sxc is great

[Alan G]

John McWade has links to a couple of great clip-art sources on his site: www.bamagazine.com.

For photos, I agree that sxc can be a good source, but watch the quality. Most of the images are taken by amateurs, and I've often seen something that looked great in the thumbnail but was unusable because the focus was soft or the jpeg too compressed.

Fotolia and iStockphoto are similarly very good, but spotty on quality, so you have to pick and choose. They do have some seriously good photographers submitting work from Russia and other eastern European countries, though. Stuff you look at and say: "I wish I'd taken that!"