Big image reference databases.

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  Joost polycount sponsor

  Sep 2015

  Flickr, Pinterest and especially Ebay can be very useful for certain things. Some books have loads of reference that's very hard to find online. Museums are also great if you're willing to put in the effort

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  Stinkfoot polycounter lvl 11

  Sep 2015

  I vote pinterest, but be careful! you tend to get lost in browsing pictures for hours and hours and hours....

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  clinington polycounter lvl 10

  Sep 2015

  Flickr is great, I usually just try searching loads of different keywords until I find what I need. If I'm really struggling to find anything online I will start searching for books that might contain relevant images but that's very rare.

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  ZacD ngon master

  Sep 2015

  Flickr is good, but annoying when you have to work around them trying to stop you from saving pictures. I also like Google Maps for specific locations, they show images taken at that location and street view is nice at getting a 360 look at the area. Taking pictures yourself is really nice if you can.

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  clinington polycounter lvl 10

  Sep 2015

  ZacD wrote: »

  Flickr is good, but annoying when you have to work around them trying to stop you from saving pictures.

  True! Forgot to mention that.

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  poopstick polycounter lvl 3

  Sep 2015

  Thanks guys, quickly tried Flickr, great resource but the fact you can't save is really quite lame, Pintrest seems decent though, thanks for the recommendations.

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  Sep 2015

  

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  Bruno Afonseca polycounter lvl 17

  Sep 2015

  Get a chrome extension called "I'm a gentleman". It allows you to bulk-download images from any website or go one by one, even images that are protected somehow.

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  RedRogueXIII polycounter lvl 17

  Sep 2015

  American historic photos in bulk?
  http://www.shorpy.com/
  http://images.google.com/hosted/life

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  arcade- polycounter lvl 3

  Sep 2015

  These two are pretty good to check out when you need historical reference:
  
  Library of Congress photostream on Flickr
  
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  US National Archives photostream

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