Taking Stock of Stock Photos

As a photo editor and designer, we always have to ask the question ‘Where do I get the right pictures from?’ Until recently we used the traditional stock photo houses like ‘Getty images’, ‘Corbis’, ‘Jupiter images’, Alamy, etc. However we decided to explore the microstock world a little and was quite surprised about the quality of the pictures available on microstock. What we see as a problem of microstock sites is that the content of the microsites is very similar – you will find the same pictures on Dreamstime as on Stockxpert, Fotolia etc. We have listed my favourite microstock sites below – the 4 which are the most popular because they have the largest portfolios. We also added some smaller sites which we found interesting.

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Tags: Alamy, Corbis, Design, design federation, designers, Getty images, Jupiter images, stockphotos, Two Flat Whites

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