We all know, it is not really possible for all the designers to create every single image for every single website they design. And what’s the requirement for doing so, when the world wide web offers us so many better options. One popular contradiction is that suitable images are not always available for free downloads. Well, thats mostly because we do not go beyond the image searches made available to us by Google, MSN or Yahoo. Here’s a few places we can actually find good images that would help us save a lot of time and energy for the projects that require a fast delivery.

1. Ginipic
   With Ginipic you can search image search engines, photo sharing websites or your own local picture collections simultaneously. A whole new level of image search.



Ginipic – New Level of Image Search

2. FreeFoto
   FreeFoto claims to have the largest collection of free photos on the Internet. It features exclusive images found nowhere else on the web with new pictures being added every week.


FreeFoto - The Largest Collection of Free Photos on the Internet

3. TurboPhoto
   TurboPhoto claims to have 2000 photos free stock images divided in 10 categories.


TurboPhoto - 2000 Free Stock Images

4. oSkope
   oSkope lets you browse and organize items from Amazon, Ebay, Flickr, Fotolia, Yahoo!Image Search and YouTube in an intuitive way.


oSkope - Intuitive Visual Search Engine

5. Pixolu
   Pixolu digs deeper into the image search mechanism and allows to find more relevant images using the initial image results.


Pixolu - Deep Mechanism Image Search

6. Incogna
   It process the shape in every image and use this to build a large scale searchable visual index.


Incogna - Shape Based Image Search Engine

7. BioMed-Search
   Currently over 1 Million biomedical images are indexed. It indexes image captions along with the citations to these images.


BioMed-Search - Image Search for BioMedical Articles

8. FaceSaerch
   Enter a name and search faces.


FaceSaerch - The Face Search Engine

9. MultiColr
   With the Multicolr Search Lab, you can browse through 10 million of Flickr’s most ‘interesting’ Creative Commons images, and find ones that share the same colours.


MultiColr - Color Based Image Search

10. PicBrk
    Real time image search.
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PicBrk - Real Time Image Search

11. Picitup
    Content based image search service provider.


Picitup - Content Based Image Search