Well, I'm planning to launch a free wordpress themes site. Now I'm busy with making themes. However, I have a problem with the resources, I mean the pictures. I found that it's very hard to get good copylefted pictures, that makes me annoyed. Anyway, expense is still considerable. As my themes will be offered for free, I'm not going to spend too much money. I checked the layered PSDs, oh my god, I don't think I could afford that. So there's only one choice for me - copyrighted photos. And now it's the problem: I check some sites that sell photos online, such as http://www.vizero.com/ http://www.photostockplus.com/ http://www.shutterpoint.com/ I found that some of the photos are very good, but the price is pretty expensive. Meanwhile, an account for a period of time is much more cheaper, but I'm afraid it's not that worthy if there's only a fraction of good pictures. What do you guys think of this? Is there another choice which is evne better? Or could you tell me some good sites for selling copyrighted photos? Thanks!
go to www.sxc.hu then register and go to advanced search select under restricted OK na NO and type something you like in as the keyword you will get bunch of free images to use in your templates there is 350 000 stock images for free with about 30000 photographers... p.s. also buying images is great. you get images, photographers get money and motive to make more and better images... so if you like you can check this two sites i think they are the bests www.fotolia.com www.stockxpert.com
why not try your hand at shooting your own pictures? at least you're in command. but i agree with H3llas, the industry of buying photos inspire photographers to keep shooting
Good advice! However, I don't think I have a sense of photography. On the other hand, guess I should put my energy in making more well designed themes, as well as site promotion, rather than doing this. Well, that's also the reason I'm looking for sites that sell photos online.