hi, i am finding it hard to locate images i can use for press.
at this stage i'm only looking for "abstract" or "texture" images which i can use as part of a background layer, most likely gradiated in transparency. images of skies, city scapes, tall glass buildings, water, patterns in nature, etc etc .. the problem i have is that most images that i can use royalty free are not detailed enough to be printed at the recommnended 300dpi (glossy brochure). stock image libraries that i have come across are too expensive for images at that resolution. my local photography shop (run by photography and optics enthusiasts) insist that i don't need a digitial camera with more than 2MP - i don't believe them! surely, the higher the pixels you can capture the more you can crop and play with the image before it becomes unusable - cropping an already small image will leave you with even less pixels obviously). some have advised that i use an analogue camera and scan the developed photos? can anyone advise on any of this? is a 5MP camera enough? can anyone recommended one that has a good end-to-end system (lens and processor, not just CCD). or perhaps someone knows of a cheap/free online resource of high quality images? one option which is a bit crafty is to use low resolution images and then blow them up and apply various artistic filters to hide the fact that they were originally of low resolution - even tracing it to a vector format. t
