Chris Porter » Internet http://www.porter.im Thoughts on IM and ME Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:52:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Get iStockPhoto Free without a Coupon (and other stock photos) http://www.porter.im/istockphoto-for-free http://www.porter.im/istockphoto-for-free#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:59:51 +0000 admin http://www.porter.im/?p=288 I see this guy every where. I swear he must be the most known unknown in the world. Not only is he on bazillions of websites around the world from parked pages to dodgy med sites but I’ve also seen him on billboards in Portugal and leaflets in Uganda.

So, let’s get too it. How do you get stock photos for free without having to buy credits and without having a watermark on them?

Using TinEye.com the reverse image search-engine you can pick a photo from a stock photo website, right click on it and choose “copy image url”.

I love this search engine that I found at reddit.com – it’s one of those tools that’s mostly used for finding porn (or so I hear…)

Then paste that URL in to TinEye.com and it’ll search over one billion images for the stock photo you want. If it’s a popular image it’ll find it, and usually without a watermark.

Here’s the infamous business man example – 127 found!

Download, crop and re-use.

Disclaimer: This is naughty and I wouldn’t do it. You’re using the image without a license.

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To give you some idea, that is over 1000 times faster than the typical UK broadband speed.

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