Free Stock Images?

I am starting to design a few templates just to see what I can come up with. I need some stock images or something to make the templates look good. At this point since I’m just messing around, I don’t want to sign up for a subscription to anything.

I’ve searched on Google and I find hundreds of misleading results stating “FREE!!! Stock Images”. I go to the website and they have nothing there for free.

Does anyone know of any websites that actually have some free stock images you can use in template designs? I don’t plan on selling any of these designs, I just want to see if I can design anything. If I decided to sell anything, I would replace the free images with something I had permission to resell.

I don’t even care if the images have watermarks on them. I just want something for place holders for right now.

You’re running into the “royalty free” images. You pay a one-time fee and they’re yours to use.

Actual free stock images are out there also. Probably the best source is stock.xchng.

Thanks,
It looks like there are some I can use from that website for now.

Morguefile.com is a source of completely free stock photography

Ya i have run into that alot also. Everyone thinks theres free images but someone has to get paid, its pretty cheap still for most of those places for great photos.

you could work your way through this collection
http://www.bluevertigo.com.ar/bluevertigo.htm :wink:

or this smaller one

or this even smaller set of sites
http://newevolutiondesigns.com/8-amazingly-free-stock-photo-websites

like others, I’ve used http://morguefile.com/

while these may help you
http://imagebase.davidniblack.com/main.php
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/
http://stockvault.net/
http://freerangestock.com/index.php