Tools

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 [...]

Free hosted Pictures for your blog. Acobox.com

Their service provides you with high-quality FREE pictures hosted by Acobox to paste into your web blog page. A simple Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v: will do the trick. Images sizes variesfrom 100px to 500px. Acobox.com

Search multiple stockwebsites at once. Spffy.com

Spffy.com brings together stock photos, illustrations, footage and video available for licensing from a sellection of stock sites. You can search multiple stockwebsites at once by selectRoyalty Free, Rights Managed and News/Archival images Spffy.com

Keyword statistics search tool. Picniche.com

picNiche is an easy to use keyword search tool for assessing the supply and demand of online stock photography images from microstock sites. You search for a keyword phrase such as ‘business man’ or ‘orange socks’ and the search system assesses the sales statistics (demand) for images found relating to that search, along with the competition (supply) for that phrase, and returns a rating indicating the likelihood of making a sale as a result of [...]

Visual image search engine. Cydral.com

Cydral is a text, similar and reverse image search service. 
The pictures are reduced and may be protected. You must obtain the appropriate permissions to use this material from the owners. 
Images submitted to Cydral for searching are not added to the Cydral index. Cydral.com

Your Guide to the Entire Spectrum of Stock Photography. Budgetstockphoto.com

Guide to finding stock images, showcasing the best stock photography on the net. As well as commercial stock photo libraries we also review the best in free images, PD and Creative Commons archives. Budgetstockphoto.com

Search 1,040,000 high quality images from Flickr. Behold.cc

BeholdTM is a search engine for high-quality Flickr images. It aims to answer your queries based on what is inside the images — at the pixel level. It offers a completely new way to search for images, using techniques of computer vision. With behold you can filter your search for pictures that are free to use and modify commercially. Behold.cc

Photo search engine for multiple Stock agencies. Imagetrail.net

ImageTrail is a photo search engine that indexes multiple professional stock image agencies for easy searching. All images shown are available for purchase and download. Most images are available for $1.  All images indexed by the ImageTrail search engine are professional and legal to be used for personal or commercial purposes. Imagetrail.net

Search multiple pro-stockphoto websites at once. Stockphotofinder.com

StockPhotoFinder aggregates the largest quantity of professional stock photos in the industry, nearly 30 million images as of Fall 2006. It makes these images available via its public search engines and via private, customized sites for corporations. Stockphotofinder.com    

Search 10 million Flickr.com images by colour. Labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/

This excellent colour search tool from Idée Multicolr Search Lab extracts the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Idée Lab is using the Piximilar visual search technology to search the entire collection by selecting various colours. Labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr

Excellent stockphoto contributers tool. Stockphotokeyworder.com

Stock Photo Keyworder is a totally free and easy tool created to help you in a very boring operation: to find keywords to describe your images before uploading them on stockphotos websites. Discover how it’s fast and easy! We really hope that it can help you. Stockphotokeyworder.com

Online photo management and sharing application. Flickr.com

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community created by Ludicorp and later acquired by Yahoo!. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media. It currently hosts more than 5 billion images. Flickr.com

The place to store, create, and share your photos and videos for life! Photobucket.com

Photobucket is the premier destination for sharing, linking and finding photos, videos and graphics. Host all your images and videos for free, then share them by email or on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and more. Your free account can store thousands of photos and hours of video. Photobucket.com

Online generated placeholder images for every case. Lorempixum.com

Placeholder Images for every case. Webdesign or Print. It’s simple and absolutely free! Lorempixum provide a service that generates placeholder images based on image size and by choosing from a range of mainstream popular photography topics! A great service to web developers and designers to speed up their workflow while developing websites. Lorempixum.com

More Creative Ways to Find Photos

Browse by Colour labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr Search 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr by Color labs.ideeinc.com/multicolour Search 3 million Alamy Stock Photos images.google.com Search Google images by color (green). Browse by your uploaded image labs.ideeinc.com/upload Browse by color/texture/similar images tiltomo.com tineye.com Upload an image and Tineye will find all lookalikes similar-images.googlelabs.com Find an image by keyword and than you can view the images that look the same. made possible by Google Labs [...]