When choosing photography for your project, there are dozens of reliable online stock photography resources to help you. While we are happy to do the search for you (and charge you a reasonable fee for it), if you want to save a few pennies, you can do it yourself at the sites listed below. Some are cheaper than others, but they all offer great keyword search functionality.

comstockcomplete.com – This is comstock’s more affordable subscription service. For as little as $299 for a one month subscription, you can download all of the royalty-free images you need.

istockphoto.com – Istockphoto is a super cheap resource for quality royalty-free images with prices ranging from as little as $1 to around $20 per image. You prepay for credits. The cost per credit depends on how many you buy. The more you buy, the cheaper the credits. Be wary of super hot images (ones with a blue flame), you might see those in one of your competitor’s ads!

veer.com – Veer offers first quality, rights-managed and royalty-free images. Your best value is to find a disc of images that you like. It’s significantly cheaper than paying per image.

photoshelter.com – This newcomer to my favorites offers affordable rights-managed images. They offer alot of fresh work from up and coming photographers.

gettyimages.com – Getty offers a huge assortment of high quality images with web resolution images starting at only $49.