3,469,400 free stock photos. Lot’s of naked people.

You know when you start off reading your morning feeds and happen to click on a link, then another, then you have no idea how you got to the site you ended up at but you’re glad you did? Such is the case with todays afternoon dose of rss for me and it landed me on everystockphoto.com. This site is awesome. Think iStockPhoto without the i – that is if i somehow stood for “costs money”…

I’m a big fan of rss. I’ve probably racked up about 100 hours in developing test sites and services in the past two months that are based on rss. I’m guessing the people behind everystockphoto.com feel the same way because that’s how this site works. See, they don’t actually host these images. They’re (presumably) getting feeds from many different sites that offer photos with royalty free licensing – such as Flickr, stock.xchg and a slew of other sites I’ve never heard of – and creating the worlds largest free photo database. Needless to say, it’s awesome.

I’m not offended easily nor do I find anything offensive about the naked human body. Most of us creative types aren’t. But if you are, careful what you search for. Tons of naked people from tasteful black and whites to dongtastic (awesome word, no?) snapshots of naked buddies in the surf grace the pages. This probably isn’t worth the mention but putting naked people in the title got a lot of you to click the link so I owed it to you.

I’d love to round this out with a half dozen or so more free sites, but the community at MySpacePros.com has spent the last year doing that for us. If you want the most comprehensive list of designer resources check out the Design Resources thread at MSP.

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