[Designers] Where do you get stock photography for themes?

I often used istock.com but there are other places around google stock photos or stock pictures i am sure you will find what you need.

morguefile.com is a great place for free photos

you can try on search.creativecommons.org/

i use istockphoto.com and 123rf.com check them out

I definitely recommend www.istockphoto.com

using stock photos from istock on adult designs is in violation of your license's tos :P

Doesnt the terms actually say thats if u use a model in a way that can depict them as part of a sex act or something along those lines?

I find istockphoto great for all sorts of images, backgrounds, buttons anything which would be allowed anyways.

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Dreamstime

I got a lot of content from bigstockphoto.com.

They have rules on size and quality of their images, but for the most part are good.

They do not have any explicit material.

the answer!

ask a webmaster to buy some content.....

There are alot of companies like ours that have thousands of photos that could be sold.

Just contact any of the companies that have images displayed that meet your criteria, im sure they have more in their archives!