Some of the resources are free and some are paid resources.

(The numbers for the listing does not signify any ranking or order)

1. Google Images

This is the most used site by users all over to search for images. Although it takes effort to find high quality images suiting your needs but with the enormous repository of images one gets a lot of options. It is free of cost which is a huge advantage. But you must ask for copyright from image owners.

2. Dreamstime

It is also a great website for searching through your required images. The site hosts more than 9 mn images. You can opt for different categories of images. You can get free images which are royalty free. Other than that you can also get high resolution images which you can get through paid credits. You can also download collections of royalty free images.

3. Flickr

One of the best resources for high quality images for all purposes. The images are posted by users all over and you can also find real life images. The quality of images here is amazing. You must ask the owners for copyright ownership. Most of times you will receive the permission to use the images.

4. stock.xchng

With images more than 350000 with more than 30000 photographers, this an amazing site used by numerous users as a source of image usages. You can also share your photos with people. Also you have option of chatting with other users to get a required image. It has a great images to be used in a presentation which can really change the outlook of your presentation.

5. Photosbank

This is a site which makes your image search extremely easy and the account registration is an very simple process. I suggest you use this site as a resource if you are unable to find image of your choice from other mentioned sites but definitely worth a look.

6. Free Digital Photos

This site hosts numerous photos and you do not need any account to download photos. The site design is quite nice and the image search is also quite simplified.  Just navigate to the required photos and download them.

7. Openphoto

It is a good resource for high quality images. the site has a strict policy of hosting only high quality images. Thus you can choose from high quality images.

8. MorgueFile

MorgueFile is also a popular site which lets you use images without any registration and lets you use the images without special permissions.

It also has an online classroom teaching photography tips and tricks for users. It does not pose licensing problems and is an easy site to obtain image for use.

9. Photorack

It is also a nice collection of images categorized like a forum. The photos are organized according to the category, so it is easier to look for your required photos. Surprising is that the site does not have a search feature.

10. FreePixels

Although the images are not as much as you would find on other sites but the images are of high quality. It is a nice resource to look for high resolution images.

Although there are more great sites to add to the list, but this is a good number of resources to check into for your required image, I will shortly update the list with more stock image websites.

With TinEye, when an image is submitted, the application creates a compact and unique digital signature or ‘fingerprint’ for it, it then compares this fingerprint to every other image in its index to retrieve matches.

TinEye makes use of image identification technology rather than keywords or meta data or watermarks of the image.

Tineye is a useful application, it might take some more time for it to become popular but still its a very handy application and can be of use in many situations.

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GiniPic is a desktop image search client that searches images from various sources and gives you plenty of options to quickly find and choose the image you are looking for. GiniPic is currently only available for Windows. I haven’t tried to port it in Linux using Wine. But will give it a shot and update this post.

Homepage

http://www.ginipic.com/

Description

Ginipic takes image search to a whole new level. Now you can search image search engines, photo sharing websites or your own local picture collections simultaneously. Find what you’re looking for and use it instantly in your own creation – document, presentation, art work – you name it. Work alongside other applications with Ginipic in Dock mode.

Features

1. Best part about it is it’s free.
2. Search multiple sources at the same time.
3. Drag & Drop or save in one click.
4. View hundreds of results on a single page.
5. Preview in detail any search result.
6. Tag your favorite pictures.
7. Save the image directly without going to the source.
8. Check for the license information of the image instantaneously.

GiniPic in action

I am looking for the service to get an editor as well just like snagit so it can become one stop shop for managing and editing images for bloggers.