Illustrations

An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information (such as a story, poem or newspaper article) by providing a visual representation graphically.

8 places to search (multiple) free photo websites

everystock

All websites in this collection search photo sites and communities that offer free imagery. These come from many sources and are license-specific. Also check out the 10 best free stock photo websites for direct acces to the free photo resources. enjoy! Everystockphoto.com Everystockphoto.com is a license-specific photo search engine. They index and search millions of freely licensed photos, from various free photo websites, and present them in an integrated search. Everystockphoto.com Compfight.com This site is [...]

Stock Media Marketplace. Pond5.com

A marketplace for royalty-free stock video, sound effects, music, after effects, photos and illustrations. Pond5.com

Open marketplace for royalty-free media. Clipdealer.com

ClipDealer is an open marketplace for royalty-free media.On ClipDealer you will find a selection of stock video footage, photos, vector graphics, sounds and music in various resolutions respectively qualities. ClipDealer offer an easy and attractive fixed-price system, depending on the resolution, but regardless of what they are used for. There are currently 850,000 media on ClipDealer. Clipdealer.com

Affordable royalty-free photos, images, and illustrations. Warmpicture.com

Warmpicture is a collective of independent stock photographers producing premium quality royalty free images.  Warmpicture was founded in 2011 to combat rapidly rising stock image prices at leading agencies. Warmpicture.com

Free global multimedia share. Multimedia-stock.com

Multimedia-Stock is a perfect place for people who want to introduce themselves and their creative work to the world and for those who just want to enjoy in viewing or using that work for some purpose. Multimedia-stock.com

Royalty-Free Stock Photos and Illustrations. Depositphotos.com

Depositphotos is a source for premium royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vector art. If you are a designer, advertiser, photo editor, content manager or blogger, they have millions of high-quality photographs and vector images available at affordable prices to fill your image needs. Depositphotos.com

3000 free images section. Cutcaster.com/browse/freeImages/

Find top notch, authentic looking, and free images. Cutcaster is a royalty free photography and vector marketplace that connects image buyers with image sellers. Pay once, download the picture or illustrations, and use it forever even if you use it in other projects. This is Cutcasters Free images section. Cutcaster.com/browse/freeImages/

Royalty free media with over 5 million images. Matton.com

Matton offers royalty free media with over 5 million images, fonts, film, music, maps and illustrations. Images for all occasions. Browse through Premium, Value and Subscription images. News and special offers from Matton! Matton.com

From the makers of stock.xchng and Stockxpert. Stockfresh.com

From the makers of stock.xchng and Stockxpert. Download high quality stock photos, graphics and vector illustrations for affordable prices. Stockfresh.com

High quality historical and contemporary images. Imageenvision.com

Image Envisions mission is to provide publishers, designers, advertisers and anyone else that needs high quality historical and contemporary stock photographs, illustrations, and clipart. The Image Envision Library currently includes architectural marvels, American Presidents and First Ladies, Uncle Sam, Rosie the Riveter as well as real riveters, vintage and current military, and thousands of other miscelaneous images. Imageenvision.com

Unique clip-art from illustrators and cartoonists. Clipartof.com

Clipartof can be described as a stock image library offering royalty-free (rf) stock illustrations and clipart from professional illustrators and cartoonists. All images are available as posters and art prints as well as digital downloads. Clipartof also offers free image hosting, and clipart illustration collections. Clipartof.com

Stock imagery for every need and budget. Superstock.com

With over two million stock photos in their collections, SuperStock offers Rights-Managed, Royalty-Free and Subscription stock photography. search through millions of Contemporary, Vintage, and Fine Art photographs, illustrations, clip art and digital video footage, available at high resolution and for immediate download. Superstock.com

Low budget digital images and clip-art graphics. Featurepics.com

A stock image agecy offering royalty free photos and illustrations for sale and some even for free download. Special licences are available for blog publishers. Featurepics.com

Warranted commercial images. Vivozoom.com

Vivozoom is a new stock licensing site offering various image products. Their mission is to provide a quality service to the professional image buyer. With Pay-as-you go and Subscription purchase models, photographs and illustrations. Vivozoom.com

Digital content for as little as 1 dollar. Canstockphoto.com

Search Can Stock Photo for stock photography, photos, illustrations, picture clip art, royalty-free photograph images and stock video footage. The Can Stock photographers provide digital content for as little as 1 dollar. Buy cheap photographs and get immediate image file downloads or subscribe for a low monthly fee. Canstockphoto.com

The first metasearch engine for free photos and vectors. Freepik.com

Freepik´s aim is to gather all free, high quality graphics on the Internet and make accessing them quick and easy so you don´t have to waste your time searching manually through hundreds of websites. Freepik.com

A Getty images division. Photos.com

This stock photography website is a division of Getty Images—a leading creator and distributor of still imagery, editorial imagery, footage and music. At Photos.com you can choose from 2.6 million royalty-free stock photos and illustrations with releases—available as single images, image packs or subscriptions. Photos.com

Free photos and Clip-art. Public-domain-photos.com

Public domain pictures offers a collection of approximately 5000 free photos and 8000 free clip-art images. All photos on this site are public domain. You may use these images for any purpose, including commercial. Public-domain-photos.com

Professional Royalty-Free digital stockphoto agency. Inmagine.com

Inmagine is a supplier and distributor of Royalty-Free digital stock photography in the world. It represents more than 10 million RF-stock images from over 100 collections, one of the biggest Royalty-Free publishers in the market today.  Inmagine provides a one of a kind 24-hour service throughout their offices all over the world. Inmagine.com

Stock Photos, Stock Illustration, Fonts. Veer.com

Veer provides elements for design and creativity. A new perspective on royalty- free stock photos, and illustration, as well as typefaces and stylish … Veer.com

Free vector graphics, art, icons and patterns. Vecto2000.com

At Vector2000.com you can get high quality free vector graphics, vector art, vector icon and vector patterns to download, or upload your own! Vecto2000.com

A whole new kind of image subscription. Thinkstockphotos.com

Choose from Getty Images, iStockphoto and Jupiterimages collections of royalty-free photos, vectors and illustrations. Download up to 25 images a day with a subscription. And once you’ve used an image, you can keep using it – over and over – in future projects. Thinkstockphotos.com

A growing player in micropayment Stockphotography. Crestock.com

Crestock is a growing player in micropayment royalty-free stock photography, helping clients with small budgets find creative images for their projects. With a fast and reliable image upload system, Crestock also gives photographers and illustrators a great platform for licensing their creative work. Crestock.com

Rights-Managed and Royalty-Free photos and illustrations. Masterfile.com

Masterfile is a visual content provider – a stock photo agency – with a large collection of Rights-Managed and Royalty-Free photos and illustrations by world-class artists covering a wide range of subjects. The Masterfile images are acquired under exclusive contract from professional photographers and illustrators. Masterfile.com

Affordable Stock photos for everyone. 123rf.com

123RF.com is a royalty-free microstock image library, that is also a targeted subscriber and community-based website. The platform gives photographers, illustrators and designers a chance to showcase their photographs, vectors, illustrations and designs, allowing them the space to promote and sell their creations to an international audience. 123rf.com

Professional stock and commisioned illustrations! Illustrationsource.com

Ready-to-license. Over 1,000 artists. Over 80,000 images. From hand-drawn to the latest digital techniques, from simple objects to complex concepts. Choose from stock or get original art custom created by a select group of America’s top commercial illustrators, whose experience and talent are perfect for any assignment from editorial to advertising to packaging. Illustrationsource.com

Second largest user database in microstock! Dreamstime.com

Dreamstime provides imagery to an infinite gamut of clients in the creative market from independent customers in the private sector to Fortune 500 companies (including the world’s largest advertising agencies, national and international magazines, film and television production companies). Dreamstime.com

Subscription-based stock photo agency! Shutterstock.com

Shutterstock is one of the biggest subscription-based stock photo agencies in the world. Every day thousands of photographs, illustrations, video footage and vectors and are added to the collection of premium, royalty-free images. Select the subscription plan that’s best for you and start downloading. Shutterstock.com

Creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals. Corbisimages.com

Corbis is a creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals, providing a comprehensive selection of photography, illustration, footage, typefaces and rights clearance services. the company helps the creative community make distinctive advertising and publishing for the Internet, magazines, newspapers, books, television and films. Corbisimages.com

A massive selection of stock photos. Alamy.com

Alamy describes itself as the biggest online agency in the world, providing a one stop shop for photographers. It’s anticipated that it will have at least 27million images by the end of 2011. Alamy has a global network of suppliers, including 569 international picture agencies and over 25,000 photographers. Content spans cutting edge creative stock, editorial, news, sport and entertainment imagery. Alamy.com

10 Million downloadable images by subscription! Clipart.com

Clipart.com is  the largest collection of royalty-free clipart, photos, vinyl-ready images, Web graphics, illustrations, fonts and sounds offered by subscription on the Web. Great for: Web sites, newsletters, brochures, advertisements, announcements, labels, e-greetings, Web templates, vinyl cutting, routing, engraving, screen printing, mechanical embroidery, holidays and more. Clipart.com

Affordable Royalty Free Stock photography, illustrations, video and more. iStockphoto.com

iStockphoto is a royalty free, international microstock photography, illustration, audio and video content provider operating with the micropayment business model. Images cost between 1 and 150 credits, depending on size and image collection (with credits ranging from $.95 to $1.50 USD each). istockphoto.com

Distributor of still imagery, footage and multi-media products. Jupiterimages.com

Jupiterimages offers a wide range of premium, royalty-free images, rights-managed and stock illustration  from Getty Images and 50 other premium-quality collections. Jupiterimages.com