Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

One of of the most popular free stock photos site – Morgue File. The idea to build the web’s morguefile was conceived by Michael Connors as a college student in 1996. The term “morgue file” is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file that holds past issues flats. Although the term has been used by illustrators, comic book artist, designers and teachers as well. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.morguefile.com/
License: License Free

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Public-Domain-Photos.com contains over 5,000 high resolution free photos for personal and commercial use. You may use these images for any purpose, but if some photo contains logos and products you need to be careful. Using someone else’s trademark commercially can get you sued. They have some cliparts you may find useful as well.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://public-domain-photos.com/
License: License Free

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Thousands of royalty free photos for websites, PowerPoint presentations, newsletters, forums, blogs, schools and homework in FreeDigitalPhotos.net. All images can also be used for artist’s reference, and video productions. All royalty free images may be used for commercial and non commercial work – If you use a free image on a website, you must place a text hyperlink on that website to FreeDigitalPhotos.net. This includes forums, blogs and networking sites such as MySpace. Many images are now available in higher resolution for $5 or $10 (depending on image size). Your photo can be downloaded instantly following secure online payment.

Requirements: Terms of Use
Demo: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
License: License Free

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Yotophoto is a search engine for free-to-use stock photographs and images. These are images that are either in the Public Domain or released under generous Creative Commons, GNU FDL or similar licenses. Originally an experiment to facilitate easier image searching of the Wikipedia, Yotophoto eventually expanded to index other well known free image sites. Today, Yotophoto indexes over a quarter million free images. They index various sources of free imagery on the web including Flickr, Wikipedia, Stock.Xchng, Morguefile, Pixelperfect Digital and OpenPhoto.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://yotophoto.com/
License: Creative Commons License

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Still paying for your photos and images? Forget royalty-free – try totally-FREE. Photogen stock photos are now Free for commercial and personal use. The Photogen Free stock photo gallery is constantly being updated with new photos and images. All images are checked for quality and suitability before going live on the site.

Requirements: Terms of Use
Demo: http://www.photogen.com/
License: License Free

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Are you having difficulty of seperating objects from an image background or basic layer? Planet Renders are offering to save you time and money by performing this task for you, allowing you (or your designers) to spend more time on the creative aspect of your project.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.planetrenders.net/renders
License: License Free

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Stock.XCHNG is a leading FREE stock photo site. Browse through the categories of the huge gallery containing over 250.000 quality stock photos by more than 25.000 photographers! Need a pic for your commercial website design? Looking for inspiration? Take a look at Stock.XCHNG.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.sxc.hu
License: License Free

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We need some professional and high quality stock photos for our web site. StockVault.net provides us a free stock photos gallery. Browse and search the photo gallery of over 7.000 royalty free, high resolution stock photos, templates and logos to use in your personal and educational design projects.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.stockvault.net
License: Free for Personal, Educational and Non-Profit Projects

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