Image digest posts and Eye candy
Some of our most often downloaded images are also the most versatile: textures and backgrounds, with a bit of skill adding some text or using layer effects these images have the ability to really make your designs come to life.
The fickle world of design and photography has plenty of shot lived fads, but one of the major trends over the last few years is the growth of "non stocky" stock photos. You might have heard rumours of "the death to stock photos" :)
There is plenty of need for simple, colorful and easily recognized "stocky" images that can be used in any kind of design; but even the big microstock agencies are taking less about generic and more about "authentic" "natural" "realistic" "unstaged" (you would not be believe the amount of staging that goes into some "unstaged" photos!
Some of the latest free images uploaded for the Festive holiday season, all with a "glitter free" modern christmas style
Collection of free halloween theme stock images:
A selection of the tasty food stock images freshly added to stockarch by freefoodphotos.com
Summer Holiday mood board of free stock images, beaches, summer sunshine (or rain!) and fun
Transport and travel stock photos - a showcase of some of our finest free stock images featuring things on the move, public transport and aircraft...
The most popular images uploaded in the past 12 months are by far some of the best we've seen on the site since we opened. Popular images with our users continue to be conceptual, simple and cleanly composed with good color design and easy to read at small sizes used as teasers and previews (traffic from google images).
Here are a few free image ideas for the holiday season:
A small collection of beautiful beach scenes. All images available for free use with a creative commons license, click each photo for details of the author and attribution requirements.
