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“They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. And in design in
general and web design in particular, this is very often the case.
Finding that image that just gives your layout that extra bit of style
can often make or break a design.

I remember when I just started
out in the web design industry around 7 or 8 years ago, finding these
images was a real problem. It was not that there were no good stock
image houses out there, the problem was the price. As a freelance
designer, paying upwards of $149.00 for a single image was not an
option especially as the client has not yetok'd the design concepts. Those were difficult times for sure.

Gladly
those days are long gone now and these days we are spoiled for choice.
With iStockPhoto coming onto the scene and revolutionizing the royalty
free stock photo market and array of new business has followed suit and
even some of the previously ridiculously expensive stock houses have
adopted similar strategies. In this article I will list some of the
stock image sites that I find really provide awesome quality for the
price and also have genuinely unique images.” source...