Category Archives: Image search

500px – The Ultimate Website For Photography Enthusiasts

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500px is a photographic community powered by creative people from all over the world that lets you share and discover inspiring photographs.

Being an artist has never been easy, especially in today’s fast-paced digital age. Photographers can’t just be artists anymore; they have to be managers, accountants, marketers, assistants, web developers, and their own mean, lean, shutter-clicking machines. Too many things to handle? We sure think so! We started the company to help photographers get greater exposure, reduce some of the marketing headaches, and let creatives concentrate on what they do best. We love seeing amazing work and equally love promoting it! A sense of inspired community is also important to us. We believe that the way forward is through presenting, discussing, supporting, and socializing with like-minded people.

If you’re a photographer, 500px is your connection to a whole world of people passionate about images. It’s the place for you to upload your work and create a beautiful portfolio, interact with a talented and dedicated community, manage your own blog, vote on photos, and have your work reviewed in return. We promote all the best work through a variety of social media, giving you the exposure you need to move forward. Even if you’re not a photographer yourself, you can follow the photos of your favourite photographers, create lists of images that amaze you, express your opinion in comments and by votes, and perhaps find a photographer for hire. There are many possibilities and we think that you’ll enjoy exploring them. See for yourself.

Features:

  • A user-friendly website.
  • An ideal place for photography enthusiasts.
  • Lets you view amazing photographs.
  • Lets you share your own work.
  • Lets people vote on photos and leave comments on them.
  • Lets members share their descriptions and details of the equipment they use.
  • Lets site members interact with one another.

Visit: 500px.com

Stock.XCHNG – Free stock photo site

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Stock.XCHNG is under new management! Getty Images is proud to now wholly-own the world’s best free stock site. SXC has a long history and a great community, and we’re excited to grow with this unique site. We also have lots of expertise and experience to offer as industry leaders.

What does it mean to SXC users?

  • We’re committed to making all the files in the SXC collection safe and reliable, ensuring that any time you use a file from here, it’s with confidence.
  • The technology team behind iStockphoto, the world’s number one microstock site, will keep SXC fast, stable and secure. In fact, we’ve upgraded much of the hardware recently, and done a full security audit.
  • SXC will be part of a strong family of companies, meaning lots of opportunities for members at our brother and sister sites.

Most of all though, we want to keep doing all the things that have already made SXC the success it is, and see it continue to grow and thrive.

We’d also like to thank Peter, András, and their staff for the many years of dedication that helped make this such a great place. We wish them well in their future ventures.

To download material you have to sign up with Stock.XCHNG.

Visit: sxc.hu

Free images and Free textures

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Image After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.

In the imageafter.com ‘image’ directory you can expect free high resolution images of objects, places, animals, mechanics, insects, signs, circuits and plants etc. All stock photos can be freely downloaded and used in you commercial or personal works. The size of the images range from 1600×1200 to 2560×1920. Although some images are fit for wallpaper on your desktop, most images are raw unprocessed and sometimes even out of focus. This is done deliberately.

We could never determine what images are usefull or not for your projects. All images are in jpg or jpeg format. We do not recompress the images anymore. The way you see them thats the way they came out of our nikon digital cameras. However we did not made all the images on the site.

Currently only a small part of our collection is madeup by donations from visitors. This amount wil certainly grow in the future. People who donate images agreed to give up their rights to the images and that the images are theirs to give away.

Visit: Image After

 

View Google Image Search results as a slideshow

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This simple tool allows you to easily generate and view an online image slideshow based on search results from Google Images. The present version should be quite stable, but of course there might always be bugs.

The slideshow can further be customized by entering the “Advanced” tab on the site’s homepage. Through these controls you can control various aspects of the slideshow such as specifying dominant colors and a specific website for the images.

Features:

  • A user friendly web service.
  • Shows Google Image search results in a slideshow.
  • Lets you specify the website for the search results.
  • Lets you control the speed of the slideshow.
  • Lets you control the image size, colors, and other aspects of the slideshow.

Please note that this website and its makers are in no way affiliated with Google.

Visit: googleimageslideshow.com

Dynamic background pictures for your Android phone

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Display your favourite pictures, animations, webcams, galleries and websites as a live wallpaper! Create your own personal (animated) wallpaper with JavaScript!

WebLiveWallpaper is a free smartphone application, sized at 99KB and compatible with devices running Android 1.5 and later. Using the app you can set up any website as the background image of your phone. You can specify a website that regularly changes its images or you can specify the broadcast URL of a webcam feed. Next you select a refresh time for the app to fetch a new image from the URL.

Features:

  • A user friendly smartphone app that provides dynamic background image.
  • Compatible with Android apps.
  • Fetches new images from websites.
  • Puts these images as your phone’s background.
  • You can specify the refresh time.

Visit: market.android.com