BeeDeeDubbleU - 10:53 am on Apr 19, 2010 (gmt 0)

Anyway iStock.com is owned by Getty Images and is extremely reasonable.

iStock increased their prices significantly recently. I had just bought 100 credits. Most images of the type I use doubled in price. This was most annoying as I can no longer get what I paid for. I would avoid iStock at all costs. They use all sorts of stuff to trick you into buying higher resolution images than you need, etc. Quite unethical!

sxc.hu is a brilliant free stock images website

They have also been taken over by Getty. They still do some free images but their website now tries to channel visitors into paying for images.

Have a look at Fotolia and stay away from Getty. They are a bad lot.