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Free Christmas Stock Photos
The Christmas is coming and Christmas decorations are being prepared. However, it’s not only time to spice up your living environment: your designs could use a bit of the Christmas spirit as well. A week ago our readers asked us to release a set of Christmas-related stock photos; so when a couple of days later Min Thu dropped us an e-mail suggesting to provide us with some Christmas stock photos, we just had to do it.
So, as requested, in this post we are glad to release Christmas Stock Photos Set, a set of 60 original Christmas-related photos in JPG in the resolution 2500×1666px. This set was created by Min Thu especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
Preview
Download the photos for free!
You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sublicensed or otherwise made available for download. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word.
- large preview
- download part 1 (.zip, 11 Mb, 26 files)
- download part 2 (.zip, 12 Mb, 34 files)
Thank you very much, Min! We appreciate your efforts.
[Offtopic: by the way, did you know that there is a Smashing eBook Series? Book #1 is Professional Web Design, 242 pages for just $9,90.]
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December 20th, 2009 3:37 amThis is great! love its for free…
- 3December 20th, 2009 3:49 am
Great selection, but to late for using it on my website … I’ve already make my christmas design …
- 4December 20th, 2009 4:12 am
Wow, this is great! Thank you Min and SM for making these wonderful photo’s available to us.
Have a great X-mas and a great 2010.
Cheers,
Patrick
- 5December 20th, 2009 4:43 am
Thanks guys! I love the french decoration.
Merry Xmas everyone!
- 6December 20th, 2009 4:53 am
Nice images guys, thanks!
Merry Christmas to you =) - 7December 20th, 2009 8:02 am
Thank you so much! The icons were really useful too.
- 8December 20th, 2009 9:25 am
Very nice! Thanks a lot!
- 9December 20th, 2009 9:33 am
Great pics, though the timing is somehow a little late.
- 10December 20th, 2009 11:32 am
Nice Christmas spirit…you should have started your comments with “Bah Humbug”. If you can’t be nice, be quiet.
Thanks Smashing Magazine and Min Thu – Merry Christmas
- 11December 21st, 2009 4:41 am
Hey, I just said that there are great – just that maybe it would’ve been better to release them a week or 2 early.
And regarding Christmas spirit you should check yours. You started to criticize my comment without a reason.Have fun this winter SM and a productive New Year. Cheers!
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- 12December 21st, 2009 6:41 am
Andy,
In fact, SM team really wanted to release it since last week as they told me about this set but we do not know behind the scene of SM, they seem to be very busy doing a lot of great stuffs for their readers. Even the Smashing book was delayed for a few months, wasn’t it? :) Anyway, we like SM no matter what!
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- 13December 20th, 2009 11:58 am
Nice images. Thank you, really needed some for a card we are sending.
Here a few more if needed that we found, some of them quite ok quality:
http://www.4freephotos.com/702aadf90dd01693ae037cac67d58305-lightbox.html
Merry Xmas everyone! - 14December 20th, 2009 7:29 pm
I am a huge fan of S.M but this might be the worst post i have ever seen.
- 15December 20th, 2009 10:50 pm
Believe me, I’ve seen worst. I know some of these shots are horrible, with a little bit of twist, it might become something better
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- 16December 20th, 2009 9:44 pm
This is great. Thanks for a great gift to designers, and others.
Santa
- 17December 20th, 2009 11:24 pm
Thanks Team! It is very thoughtful gesture and executed it well to make it available just in time for the festivities.
- 18December 20th, 2009 11:27 pm
I’m used to stunning posts or freebies from smashing mag.
This is one of the below-average (for smashing mag) freebies from you guys… - 19December 21st, 2009 5:26 am
Brilliant thanks, i’m one of those cheeky people who love their free stuff!!!
- 20December 21st, 2009 6:00 am
Thank you so much for sharing these. As with many other free things in life, I will store them away until the need arises for them. In any case, your generosity is appreciated.
- 21December 22nd, 2009 11:26 pm
The pictures cheered me up in what seems to be a lonely day in the office, a day prior to Christmas eve, with so many colleagues already on vacation.
Many thanks to Min Thu and Smashing Mag for sharing these in true Christmas spirit!
Merry Christmas & a Happy 2010 to all! - 22December 26th, 2009 7:13 am
Thank you so much for these fun images! Bah to the humbugs who posted anything less than grateful thanks here! They are the sad ones…..you guys rock!
- 23March 16th, 2010 1:51 am
You can find tons of free Xmas stock photos on a brand new free stock photo site: http://www.rgbstock.com
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This is excellent. I’m always interested in free stuff.
This will be very useful as well. I’m going to use it for some projects that I’m currently working on .
Thanks Smashing Magazine!