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WebForging · 09-22-2005, 03:51 PM

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Welcome to Stock.XCHNG, the leading FREE stock photo site!

Whether you just want to browse our huge image gallery or want to share your personal photos with others, this is the site for you!

Browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over 100.000 quality stock photos by more than 9.000 users! Need a wallpaper for your desktop? Need a pic for your commercial website design? Looking for inspiration? Have a look around.

Share your photos with fellow designers! SXC is a friendly community of photography addicts who generously offer their works to the public free of charge. If you have some nice photos that you'd like to share with others, join us!

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Regards,
Keith

brianmn · 10-22-2005, 10:01 PM

That is a great site, now i don't have to worry about photos if i take them off of google images.

Now i can find everything i want on this site (well hopefully everything i want)

Many of those photos are really good.

Didoz · 10-23-2005, 07:39 AM

woow very nice! always i use google for images.
Thanks

saurab · 10-23-2005, 09:51 AM

wow that's excellent. Can you use these images in a commercial travel site as stand alone photos ?

WebForging · 10-23-2005, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by saurab

wow that's excellent. Can you use these images in a commercial travel site as stand alone photos ?

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Regards,
Keith

saurab · 10-24-2005, 03:40 AM

Thank you Keith. In fact, I was looking for free stock photos.. so this is very useful information for me. I am in the process of developing a huge asian travel site... and was thinking of paying up $239 odd for a 1-month subscription to photos.com (part of JupiterMedia). This gives me a new direction to think ..... Probably, there are many more free stock photo sites out there ....

If I find some more, I'll post here for everyone's benefit.

regards,
saurab