[Toolkit] Looking for a pretty picture?

We're always on the lookout for a good picture - whether it is for website, header image or presentation. Here's a list of where to look for images and icons.

Free Images. (move over, Mr. Getty)

My first search is on Flickr's CC pool. And usually the last, because I find what I need here. Change the sort order (recent, interesting) for completely different results. Use it as you like as long as you give credit.

Image After has a fairly large collection of photos and texture, which is free for personal or commercial use.

everystockphoto has a service that looks across sites for CC photographs. It has indexed over a million pictures so far. A good place to start searching for pictures. An account here can also give you bookmarking capabilities.

The photoshop tutorial blog has a list of free photo sites too.

Icons

Iconfinder.net has been around for years now, and I use this to look for icons. I only wish they would have some common groups or a "related icons" feature to make it easier for a user to find other icons with a similar look and feel. E.g., if I need icons for a website and I search for "home" it should somehow show me related icons (typically home, about, products, services, contact, careers, sitemap are on a website) with the same look and feel so I can pick those up immediately without having to eyeball through other search results.

Got this in a mail from Upma (that really triggered this post). A set of resources of icons. A lot are Mac-inspired/Mac-intended, but there are good web and Windows ones as well. I like the rss icon set in this one.


Please post a comment with your opinion on these or any other you may have used. I'll add to this list as we find more resources too.