Design Resources : Picfindr

By Jennifer | Mar 19 2007 |

This is a new free service that I heard about at the weekend. It’s a search engine for free stock photography that you can use commercially. There are already several free free stock sites such as Image:After , MorgueFile and the great SXC.hu, but Picfindr should make it that little bit easier and quicker to find images.

As it mentions on the site, the service is neither “alpha” nor “beta”, it’s just not finished yet. I found it already works really well. I typed in a couple of terms and off it went searching on 4 different sites and coming back very quickly with thumbnail results.

As part of your search you can specify if you want to give credit for the image, not alter it in anyway or ask permission to use the image. Depending on your choices, the search engine will return different results. I know that I’ll be using this service regularly.