In web design photos and graphics are essential to creating a beautiful web design form scratch. Whether you need a whole photo or just want a part of it, photos and vectors are instrumental to creating quality web pages. You have several options when looking for graphics or images to use including: stock photo sites and vector sites.

Web Design Photography

There are many ways you can find images on the internet. And unless you are running a business or professional stealing images from Google image search is no big deal. But for those who need photography they can sell or market, they need legal consent. If you obtain a royalty free image you can re use for any of your purposes without having to worry about legal repercussions. Below is a list of website you can use to obtain stock photography.

Paid & Free Stock Photography

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

Paid Stock Photography

http://us.fotolia.com/

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

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

http://www.fotosearch.com/

http://www.luckyoliver.com

http://www.dreamstime.com/

Free Stock Photography

http://www.picfindr.com/

http://www.everystockphoto.com/

http://yotophoto.com/

http://www.sxc.hu/

http://www.inmagine.com/

http://www.123rf.com/

http://www.bigfoto.com/

Images and Textures

http://www.imageafter.com/

Taking Pictures Yourself

If you don want to buy pictures you can take them yourself. While it is very hard to take professional quality photos you can do a very good job at home with a little education and a camera. Whether you own a film or digital camera you can produce the quality pictures you need for your web design. Below are several websites and tutorials that can help you learn the basics.

http://www.photography-basics.com/

http://www.morguefile.com/archive/classroom.php

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/techniques.htm

http://www.dg28.com/technique/index.htm

http://www.photoaxe.com/composition-in-photography/

Finding Graphics & vectors

Vectors and graphics are great resources for the web designer. Vectors are wonderful because of their extremely high detail and the ability to easily partition certain parts of the vector graphic.

http://www.vecteezy.com/gallery

http://www.freevectors.com/

http://www.bittbox.com/freebies/

http://www.vectorportal.com/

http://www.vectorvault.com/free_downloads.html

Logos, Icons & Ads

http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/

http://adsoftheworld.com/

http://www.iconbuffet.com/store/products

Fonts & Text

http://www.urbanfonts.com/

http://www.1001freefonts.com/