You can still obtain some decent free stock photos on sxc.hu, although many of the searches are filled with links to premium photos.
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#32Why do all of the photo's have Apple products in them? I would recommend displaying the license in which these high resolution photos can be used, because "free" isn't a license.
> Why do all of the photo's have Apple products in them?
Some people believe they become better humans for using Apple products. By showing it to the world they think that other people will agree.
It's exactly like the cross.
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#33My problem with stock photos is, people in them look like robots. Understandable, since they are usually not actors. Many times when they are talking, they don't look at each other but some crap object. When taking 20 variants of a scene, at least one should involve people talking with each other. That's what people usually do when they pose for a stock photo set for an hour.
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#34Also, Flickr has lots and lots of good quality CC and other free to use licensed photos.
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#35I love stuff like this - super simple solution to a common pain point. http://placeit.breezi.com/ is a very similar service with CC images.
This site is great. Does the image placement, and blending correclty
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#36Oddly, the first thing that I noticed is that the image of him typing at the keyboard has really bad chroma aberration (notice the purple around all the keys).
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#37Nice shots, but why not just submit them to Wikimedia Commons/Flickr/etc under Creative Commons license? Much better chance of people actually finding and using them, IMO.
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#38http://sxc.hu has a ton of free stock photos of varying licenses/quality. Also searching on flickr for cc'd images often will net you some good photos.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, thanks for the comment. Looking to add something now. Apparently this is the most 'open' and least restrictive of the CC licenses: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US but it still says we would need to attribute the author which we don't require.
There's also CC0 which puts the work into the public domain http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/
Awesome. Thanks. Added this text "do whatever you want" and linked to that license: http://cl.ly/image/3J0C3L1R301B
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#40So you took a couple of pictures (that appear to be Apple ads more than anything, as an aside)? I'm sorry if this sounds negative, but I find it completely disingenuous that you denigrate an entire industry and portray a pittance of images as the salvation. When you pay for a stock image, as an aside, a part of the value of paying is economic scarcity: That the images that you choose aren't blanketing every Wordpress…
Also having brand names in your stock photos have certain legal landmines, you should talk to your lawyer before using these photos.