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Just curious where everyone grabs their images.

I use istock, shutterstock and morguefile for mine….

istock, sxc.hu and stockxpert.com

shutterstock is good when you need loads, for the occasional photo i use stockxpert

When I can’t source/take originals, I use istock and 123royaltyfree. For bigger (more expensive) jobs I’ve used Getty Images, PhotoLibrary and some other specialty libraries.

I recently disovered a site I wasn’t using before… LuckyOliver.

flickr.com is a good one.

Flickr can indeed be a good source, but you need to be very careful on Flickr.  Most of the images up there are not released under a license that would allow a developer to download the image and use it in their own application, even if they modified it first.  You need to be careful to grab public domain images, or otherwise appropriately licensed images (some Creative Commons or get the authors permission).

Flickr can indeed be a good
source, but you need to be very careful on Flickr.  Most of the images up there
are not released under a license that would allow a developer to
download the image and use it in their own application, even if they modified it
first.  You need to be careful to grab public domain images, or otherwise
appropriately licensed images (some Creative Commons or get the authors
permission).

Hi Derek,

Over five years ago, a friend of mine needed and image. He surfed, copied and
used the image on his site. The original owner took the hump and informed my
friend’s web service provider. The result was that the site was down for a
month and he had no access because his web host also owned the URL.

Moral of the story is to separate your URL and site provider.

Cheers,

John_Betong
 

Yup, hence my advice to only use images you are sure you have the right to use.

Hey this is a great thread, thanks for the new bookmarks. I’m starting to get involved more and more into front-end stuff, it’s really a blast. Hope I’m not joining the band-wagon too late to get my skills up to par with the big boys. 😊

Do any of these sites provide animated gifs? I’m looking to write some functionality to one of my pages in a CI application I’m writing using jQuery’s droppable widget (http://ui.jquery.com). Essentially what I’m doing is dragging images over a garbage can, and I’m looking for an animated gif (almost resembling that of OS/X’s when you drag items over a trash can) to trigger after the image has been successfully deleted via an ajax call.

Do any of these providers have something similar? 😊

Cheers!

- sf

I just did a quick search and there appears to be a website that builds these loading animations for you to download (http://www.ajaxload.info/).  There’s a website for everything these days 😊.

That’s for progress bars, Neovive. 😊

I’m looking for more like an ‘effects’ type animated gif gallery. Sort of a dynamic version of what the folks showcased above with the likes of iPhotostock, etc. 😊

Thanks though for taking a look ....

- sf

http://www.inmagine.com/

is the best i have found