Cheap Stock Photos
One of the biggest secrets to a great website is the photos used in the site. I have put together a few links to help you out when searching for images to use on your website.
Fotolia is currently the smallest of the smallest stock photo websites around, with approximately 125,000 photos in their database.
However, they do have all the usual functionality as far as their site is concerned. In fact, for good or ill, Fotolia is more ‘web 2.0′ than their competitors, with tag clouds and a ’suggest’ feature built into their search engine, which is actually pretty useful if you’re not quite sure what search terms to use.
They also provide email alerts and RSS feeds for your searches, although I’m not sure how useful this would be.
Prices start a little cheaper than their two competitors, at $1 per image (although for web usage, prices can go up to $50 - not that I found any images at that amount). They also have an affiliate program for members.
Another great stock photography website is Big Stock Photo . It looks and works pretty much like iStockphoto, which is certainly no bad thing.
Their selection is good with over 150,000 images to browse through (although iStockphoto just hit the 500,000 milestone), and the quality is very good. Take a look at the most popular photos to see what I mean. They have all the usualy categories, advanced search functionality, lightboxes, etc, that you would expect to find (although I was surprised to see a sexual category!)
Pricing is about the same as iStockphoto, with a similar discount if you order download credits in bulk.