hi all
I want to know where to get the free quality images to web site design.
Thanks

Not sure if there are pictures you are after here, but I have used a few from www.clker.com

thanks some nice cliparts will get here.

search in google FREE STOCK IMAGES ... You can read each pictures licenses before using them ! Most are very good !

The best place is stock xchng... go to sxc.hu

Lots of great free high quality photos.

Also try flickr creative commons

costs a little, but I like istockphoto.com

The best place is stock xchng... go to sxc.hu

Lots of great free high quality photos.

Also try flickr creative commons

I can second sxc.hu as I've used it in the past for a few of my independent projects. Good stuff.

And a third for sxc.hu. Best one I've found, hands down. If you find others, do share!

fotolia is great

sxc.hu and stock photos on Deviantart =)

I see stock.xchng is now owned by Getty Images (as are Jupiter, istockphoto and stockxpert.) That's enough reason for me to avoid them...

About 7 years ago I purchased in good faith a supposedly royalty-free image for a web site, but in 2008 Getty Images claimed they owned it as a Rights-Managed copyright image and charged us £1,200 in compensation.

With many image uploading/ sharing sites, you can never be 100% sure whether someone has uploaded a pirated image, and they then do a runner leaving you in the lurch. Shutterstock / Bigstock Photo are not free but the cost is very modest, so I use those.

I see stock.xchng is now owned by Getty Images (as are Jupiter, istockphoto and stockxpert.) That's enough reason for me to avoid them...

About 7 years ago I purchased in good faith a supposedly royalty-free image for a web site, but in 2008 Getty Images claimed they owned it as a Rights-Managed copyright image and charged us £1,200 in compensation.

With many image uploading/ sharing sites, you can never be 100% sure whether someone has uploaded a pirated image, and they then do a runner leaving you in the lurch. Shutterstock / Bigstock Photo are not free but the cost is very modest, so I use those.
That is crazy! I'm sorry to hear about that... I'm not a big fan of Getty either. It seems like they are creating a somewhat monopoly in the stock photo game. They have bought out all the most popular stock photo sites.

However I have been using sxc.hu since it was launched many years ago before being owned by Getty. It is a pretty good site as far as free stock photos goes, but you'll never get the quality or selection that you get from a paid stock photo site.

On another note... I was just reminded of another good site I found one time: everystockphoto.com. It will search sxc.hu as well as flickr creative commons and various other free stock sites and show results all at once. Pretty handy

^ Nice resource shared by webhoststudent. high 5 for everystockphoto.com.

I would avoid istockphoto and their whole family. They're awful, every year they raise rates and I've calculated something like a 750% markup in the last 5 years.

If you watch closely you can see they are plainly trying to convert the stock photo market into premium photos and trying to corner it.

I bought a ton of credits on stockxchange and they got bought. On stockxchange those credits could buy me a 1 for 1 stock phot at a certain resolution. These credits were converted to istock. On Istock it cost two credits for significantly lower resolution. They might as well have just come up and robbed me.