I'm assuming we have all heard of the wonderful website Creative Commons and how it makes searching for pictures, video, and music that other people have so generously made free (with attribution at times) to the public extremely easy. However, it also has a limited source of websites from whence it can pull/send you to, making it hard to find exactly the right picture you really really wanted for that one project, meaning you'd have to start all over again from scratch because you needed that picture for that specific idea to work and ~whew~ the stress of it all.
Well, I might have just found the solution to your free-for-use picture (yes, only picture, sorry guys) searching problems.
There is a nice little post of 20 Websites to Find Free High-Quality Images on Hongkiat.com and let me tell you, these websites have some absolutely gorgeous photos. And they're all free (some with attribution of course). Really need a food picture of the ilk put in food magazines? This list has a site for you! How about something retro? Something scenic? A picture with a certain dominant color (yeah, one of these sites lets you search by color, what a cool idea)? All of these are located in the list I linked above (I'll put it here too, just for your convenience).
So, the next time you're freaking out about not being able to find that perfect picture, hopefully you'll remember this post, take a deep breath, surf those sites, and create the best project you possibly can!
Thank you for sharing this. There are some beautiful photos on these sites.
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