Something that I have taken notice of as of late is all the great photos that are out on the web. A lot of these images have me wondering how much it costs to take a shot like that. Or better yet how can I afford to have that great image on my site when I clearly don't have the money to do so. Well I guess the good news to that is that I have come across a way to finding some free images online.

Both iStock and Flickr offer a service on their site where customers can download free images. On iStock all that you need to do is log-in or create an account with iStock and you will be good to go. Every week iStock releases their "Free Photo of the Week", along with vectors, video and audio. Look for their “Free Photo of the Week” located at the top-center of the home page. The image from this article is an image I downloaded from iStock free files.

Flickr's services are a little more detailed but they offer a wide number of images that you can select from as long as you follow their instructions. Do the following:

• Log-in or create an account with Flickr.
• Select the "search" button next to the blank search box.
• On the next search page select the "Advanced Search" link next to the blank search box.
• From here scroll down the page 'til the "Creative Commons" section appears and select the box that reads "Creative Commons-licensed content" and again hit the search button located at the bottom of this page.
• This will bring you to a page with a bunch of images and a search box; Select any of the images or type inside of the search box and located toward the bottom of the selected image is a section labeled "Additional Information".
• Select the link "Some rights reserved" and the next page informs users on how and for what purpose the image can be used for.

I encourage people to go and check out both of theses sites and see what each one has to offer. Let me know how theses two sites work for you.