new photoshop user, helpful sites?

[kingrottenboy]

Hello I am new to the photoshop world and really enjoying the program and all, a little low on cash, can anyone reccomend web sites that have free patters, or an image catalog.

Lets say I wanted to find a high quality pic of something ordinary like a teapot. is there a good website that has a good selection and a very good price (free of course would be best)

[ElectrifieD]

I hope this helps
http://www.sxc.hu/home

[Medley]

I was going through my archives and found a couple of useful sites.

http://www4.army.mil/armyimages/ - Hi-Res public domain US army images
http://www.af.mil/photos/ - Hi-res public domain US air-force images
http://www.ensky.com/stockphoto/index.php
http://www.amgmedia.com/freephotos/index.html - Low-res but would be good for something!
http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/free_image_archive/ - Good range of images
http://www.textureking.com/ A lot of interesting hi-res textures
http://www.morguefile.com/
http://www.freeimages.co.uk/ Some good images- mostly low res
http://www.imageafter.com/ Good images- often a bit quirky
http://www.mayang.com/textures/ My favorite texture site
http://photo.itc.nps.gov/storage/images/index.html US Nat'l Park Service image archives

OK, that might have been more than "a few". Hope they help.

-Medley.

[mmilosav]

You can find thousands of free items created by the digital scrapbooking community here:

http://digifree.blogspot.com/

Maria

[CopperDesk]

http://www.sxc.hu/home is best in my point of view.

Medley has also posted an excellent list. you can check them, thats what i'm doing right now..

Or you could check the mother of them all

http://www.bluevertigo.com.ar/bluevertigo.htm

it is some sort of database of free photo sites.