Icons for applications is like Salad dressing without it either desktop or web applications is tasteless and as it is always said “A picture is worth a thousand words” and if you are a website owner or designer then you should use icons where appropriate to deliver ideas to your visitors or catch their attention.
In this article I will list a few links where you can visit to search and download professional free icons and if by the way you are an icon designer as well then I will direct you to submit your icons on some websites that accepts submissions. You can always buy professional icons from websites like graphicriver.
If you are a Designer then you are always in need for high resolution and very clean and professional photos for your designs, weather you are designing a website, a print or a presentation. In this article I will share with you a handful of resources and websites for Free stock photos or as so called Royalty Free photos, and payed stock photos.
Let us begin.
Free Royalty Photos, for personal and commercial use:
Stock.XCHNG with 330943 photos online a lot of categories and a search feature, requires free registration.
BurningWell is a repository for public domain (free for any use) images. You are free to download, copy and use the photos you find here for any purpose.
They offer free, high quality image collections that can be use in both personal and commercial web design projects. Each collection features a group of 15 images that share a common theme. New sets are added monthly.
Stockvault.net Stock Photos, Tutorials, Templates and Textures.
Search for free-to-use images. Yotophoto is now indexing well over a quarter million Creative Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and various other ‘copyleft’ images.
Professional Royalty-Free Stock Photography by Subscription. With a Photos.com professional royalty-free stock photography subscription you pay one fee and download what you need from the collection of more than 350,000 professional quality stock photographs and photo objects, up to 250 photos per day.
The FotoSearch image search engine saves you time by allowing you to search over 2 million images from over 100 stock photography, stock illustration, and video stock footage publishers at one website.