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.

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