If you do any visual art and would rather not part with any money, you know how hard it can be to lay hands on a free photo to use for a background, element, etc.
Sure, you can use Google and hope the author won’t notice something very familiar about that background in your next movie or advert.
You can try looking on Flickr, but its hard to find photos with the right Creative Commons licence.
Don’t you wish there was a great way to find hundreds of results with one simple click?
Enter YotoPhoto (beta), a new search engine (launched in May) that boasts an index of over 100 000 Creative Commons, Public Domain, GNU FDL, and various other free images. Advanced search lets you choose which words to exclude, places to search, and image sizes in pixels (px).

Thought they are free, remember that they are so under certain conditions, so make sure you read the licences carefully.

They have a registration option which currently gives you acccess to their forums and mailing list. They promise more options to available to members in the near future.

Test searches revealed good results. I’ll certainly be using this the next time I require a free image.

And last but not least, don’t forget the YotoPhoto Firefox extension.