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I’ve had a couple of people asking where I find the images I use as headers for most of my blog posts, so I thought I’d blast off a quick Friday post to explain.

I generally use the following resources for free and royalty-free images:

1. Stock.xchng - free and royalty free photos.
2. Flickr - using the creative commons attribution license. I’d suggest you read Skellie’s explanation here before you go swiping images from Flickr.
3. iStockphoto - in my opinion, the best online resource for cheap royalty-free images.

If I can’t find what I want on these 3 sites, I generally create the image from scratch or snap off a couple of photos. For client projects where someone less cheap than me is paying the bill, I’ll do a Google Image search and buy the image from any of hundreds of other stock image suppliers.

And finally, when all else fails (like today), I’ll just ‘forget’ to add an image all together…