Finding new free photos for your content is not easy. With copyright issues coming in and Google always trying to remove copyright materials from its search results, it is becoming harder and harder.

What sort of free photos you are looking for?

People who are looking for free photos is mostly looking for stock quality images. They might be for using in their college work or maybe for using in their artworks.

If it's for artworks or other things, some are searching for vectors instead of images. If you are a UI designer or a developer, chances are your are in the search of icons.

So here are top of my picks regarding the free photos/vectors and icons.

Unsplash.com

Unsplash.com is one of the best free images site available on the internet

Undoubtedly, one of the best free images offering site. It has a sleek and clean UI. Site loads really fast. You can download images without an issue instantly. No ads at all. Easy to find images. Great results.

Vecteezy.com

Best source for people who are looking for free vectors. There are thousands of illustrations freely available for the designers. If you want, you can even purchase premium designs at a lower price as well.

Iconspedia.com

This is the best source of icons you can find. They have both premium and free icons. What's even better is you can download icon packs in one go. That would be really easy for people who are looking forward to download icons together at once.

These are my most used sites which I use all the time. What are yours? Let me know if you use anything specific which is not listed above in the comment box.

Well, as a regular Photoshop user I faced a really weird situation few days ago. My Photoshop (I'm using CS3 extended FYI :D )  version hangs out every time it loads. It does not even load the standard UI. I had to use windows task manager to terminate the photoshop.exe process.

I was really astonished to see such a thing because I've never faced it before.So I took a moment and analyzed what is really happening. After loading and terminating Photoshop for few times, I became aware that it happened every time while "Reading Preferences" on the splash screen.  So, this has something to do with Photoshop's preferences. After search through on Internet (which Google did a really good job for me), I came up with an answer.

We have to delete the Photoshop's preference file manually. To do that, press Ctrl + Alt + Shift keys and open Photoshop using Right Click on Photoshop icon and choosing open. (While pressing those three keys, you won't be able to double click and launch Photoshop). 

And that's that!!! You are ready to go!