Alright, so I’m just getting into photo-shopping and being all enthusiastic about taking ‘angled’ artistic shots…

the end point is, an artist is only as good as his tools are, although I do note that there are many who do not share the same sentiments *giggles*. Whatever the case, here’s a lovely list of stock picture archives that would be of help, conceptually and well, mentally I guess.

All credits go to the valiant efforts executed and gathered by 1stwebdesigner.com!

1. Sxc.hu - the leading free stock photo site. If You don’t know about this site and call Yourself a designer, I’ll feel ashamed - MUST KNOW site offering an impressive collection of many high-quality photos taken by amateur photographers from around the world. There are more than 380.000 quality stock photos. If You are searching for something this is the first place where to look, totally my favorite one. 2. EveryStockPhoto EveryStockPhoto site is becoming more and more popular, now there are 4,4 million free photos! 3. MorgueFile One more site worth looking for. “This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photographs and reference images for either corporate or public use. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for illustrators, comic book artist, designers, teachers and all creative pursuits.” - Quote from their homepage. 4. Flickr Everybody know about this site with their main purpose as photo management and sharing application.  Great place for inspiration and searching for good photographs, but don’t forget to check  author’s license, before using them. 5. Deviantart Very popular community and also very good photos sometimes can be found there, but yes, don’t forget about license and asking authors first for their permission. 6. Kavewall All images are  separated in 18 different categories with really handy navigation. 7. StockVault More than 11,000 stock photos are available for now. 8. Image*After Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial and currently there are more than 20,000 free textures and images available. 9. CreatingOnline 10. AllDigitalDreamer 11. FreeFoto FreeFoto.com is made up of 122879 images with 157 sections organized into 3386 categories for now, pretty impressive indeed. 12. DreamsTime Over 4 million photographs are over here for free or 0.20$/image. 13. FreeRange All images are at least 2400 x 1600, and photos can be used for commercial or personal projects. 14. FreeDigitalPhotos 15. FreeStockImages 16. TurboPhoto 17. Visipix 18. FreePhotosBank 19. Cepolina Over 8,000 photos available for now, each photo can be downloaded in five formats - up to 1024×768px. 20. BigFoto This interesting site offers high resolution and really beautiful photos of continents. 21. OpenPhoto 20 different categories with high quality nature and architectural photos. 22. ShutterStock 4,9 million royalty-free stock photos with almost 80 000 new photos every week. 23. PdPhoto Several thousands of royalty free pictures here and free for use. 24. FromOldBooks FromOldBooks site offers scanned images, engravings and pictures from old books 25. FreeImages 2500 original stock photos for free. 26. DexHaus 27. PublicDomainPhotos More than 5,000 free photos out there and free for commercial use. 28. FreeLargePhotos 29. ImageBase Every picture is free to use and really high resolution - from 1600×1200 until 3072×2048px! 30. PhotoRack All pictures listed at PhotoRack are Free to use for personal and commercial projects. If You know some more good free stock photo sites, please share with us, to evolve our design community!!