If you can take professional quality photographs yourself then you already have a head-start. But, even then, you need to know how to work with those images to enhance them for use on the Internet…and change the file sizes so your web pages load quickly. See Resizing Pictures.

Here is another fantastic resource from Paige, with a huge list of PLACES TO FIND IMAGES ONLINE. Highly recommended!

The websites below specialize in pictures for websites and other advertising material and this list might come in useful if you need to get some inspiration as well.

Stock Photography Websites – Paid

http://www.fotosearch.com/

http://us.fotolia.com/

http://creative.gettyimages.com/source/home/home.aspx

http://www.dreamstime.com/

http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php

http://www.stockxpert.com/?ref=bow

http://www.luckyoliver.com

Stock Photography Websites – Free

http://www.bigfoto.com/

http://www.picfindr.com/

http://www.inmagine.com/

http://www.everystockphoto.com/

http://yotophoto.com/

http://www.sxc.hu/

http://www.123rf.com/

http://www.imageafter.com/

ImageSizer is a terrific little FREE  ‘Adobe Air’ application built to resize, optimize and rename a batch of jpg images, outputting them as a single compressed zip file – perfect if you want to e-mail a load of images off your digital camera, or upload a folder of images to your website or picture gallery – just drag, drop, fiddle with settings and press ‘Compress Your Images’.

Once the files are processed, you can simply drag and drop again to export all of your images as a compressed zip archive or a folder on your hard drive.

It’s really easy to use and install.

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This is a useful little FREE ‘Adobe Air’ application that is easy to install. It can be customized to suit many common requirements and is especially useful to batch process images for emailing or uploading to websites and picture galleries.

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