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All right.
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So, where to find good photos?
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There are free and paid sources.
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My favorite free site is Unsplash.com.
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You have already used this in the assignments.
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There are many sites that offer free photos, but they're not fully free.
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They come with some copyright rules. Like you must credit the author. Or only for personal use but not
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for commercial use.
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Unsplash is truly free.
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You can do whatever you want with the photos. And you don't have to credit the author. Photos on Unsplash.com
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are very realistic looking. A lot of times they are submitted by individual photographers around
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the world and not by stock photo studios.
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For this reason, you get very realistic scenarios and people that look genuine and real. Well at least
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most of the time. Another decent free website that I use is Pexels.com. Pexels is fully free
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as well. No limitations.
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The concept and photo styles are very similar to Unsplash, but you get a bit more diversity here.
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Free photo sites have a downside though. Everybody uses them.
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And a particularly good looking photo will be used by a lot of people around the world.
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So the photos that you use in your web designs, can easily be used by a lot of other web designers for
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their websites.
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At some point when you go through a lot of these free photos from Unsplash or Pexels and other places,
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you start recognizing them in many different websites.
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And if the audience sees this photo being used on other websites too, it sort of cheapens the
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website.
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It's not that unique anymore. Although the same applies to the page stock sites. But because they are
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paid, significantly less amount of designers will be using these photos for their websites.
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Plus the stock sites have way bigger selection of photos than the free sites.
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So for this reason on well-paid projects, I would definitely recommend you to use paid sources instead
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of free photos.
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My favorite from paid stock site is iStock.
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They have one of the best quality photos. With realistic looking models and scenes.
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But of course you get fake looking photos here too.
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It's unavoidable as long as people are buying that crap.
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I can't really put an exact number on how much a photo cost on a stock site. Because it all depends on
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how many you buy, subscription plans, and sometimes on the image itself.
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iStock is a little on the pricier side. An image here cost between $9 to $24 . But then with
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bundles and monthly subscription, you can get pretty good discounts. Another good paid sources is
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Shutterstock and it's much cheaper than iStock. With their pre-paid plans,
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you get an image for $10 tops. Prepaid means buying a pack, like $50 for 5 images.
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For heavy users, you can get a monthly subscription, you'll get a certain amount of free images per
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month. That can come down to $3 per image and less. One of the cheapest, but decent options is
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Bigstock.com. Here the maximum should be about $3 per image with package bundles.
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Unlike others, Bigstock has a 7 day free trial, that gives you 35 images for free during
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that trial period.
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Keep in mind though, they ask for credit card details and you have to cancel it before the last day, or
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you'll get charged.
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Take all this pricing information with a grain of salt, because these are independent websites and their
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pricing can change very often.
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And also, it will depend on the country where you're from, or where you're checking the prices due to
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the taxes and VAT.
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But in the ballpark, this is how the pricing works for these 3 websites and many other paid stock
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sites.
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I have put the links to these websites both free and paid and a little more, in the resources page. So,
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you can feel free to check them out.