dkessaris at
www.WebLoggers.Org gave us these resources for free stock images
www.morguefile.com (very good) From the home page:
The term "morgue file" is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file that holds past issues flats. Although the term has been used by illustrators, comic book artist, designers and teachers as well. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. This is the world wide web's morguefile. ~ Over 50,000 free photos.
http://sxc.hu/ homepage:
Welcome to Stock.XCHNG, the leading FREE stock photo site!
Whether you just want to browse our huge image gallery or want to share your personal photos with others, this is the site for you!
Browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over 100.000 quality stock photos by more than 9.000 users! Need a wallpaper for your desktop? Need a pic for your commercial website design? Looking for inspiration? Have a look around.
Share your photos with fellow designers! SXC is a friendly community of photography addicts who generously offer their works to the public free of charge. If you have some nice photos that you'd like to share with others, join us!
http://pdphoto.org
Free Public Domain Photo Database
I have thousands of royalty free pictures here. Please use and enjoy them.
http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
http://freestockphotos.com/
http://www.freefoto.com/
http://www.freephotosbank.com/
http://aarinfreephoto.com/
http://www.creativity103.com/
http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/photos.htm
http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/
Thousands of images in over a hundred categories.
http://yotophoto.com/[/url]
here are a few more FREE IMAGE RESOURCES:
http://www.clip-art.com/ index and ratings of 20 free image sources
http://www.flamingtext.com/ca.html
http://screamdesign.daz3d.com/free.html
(login required, looks worth it)
http://www.openphoto.net/
The Open Photo Project (
http://openphoto.net) is a photo community operated by Michael Jastremski
(
http://oldtimeynerd.net), a photographer from Philadelphia, PA, USA (
http://www.phila.gov) . The goal of this site is to unite image consumers and producers through friendly Creative Commons (
http://creativecommons.org) licensing.
http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/ - text from this url:
The photo archive at Gimp-Savvy.com has more than 27,000 free photos and images, consisting of over 2.5 Gbytes of data.
The images and photos found in this archive come from three main sources: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Each of these sites clearly state that their photos and images are in the public domain and give the conditions for their use. Please read their statements. more at the site...
http://www.imageafter.com/
Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.
http://www.stockvault.net/
http://www.flickr.com/ From the About page:
Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world - has two main goals:
1. We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them.
2. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos.
http://www.ourmedia.org/
We provide free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches.
http://search.creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons Search
Full copyright applies to most stuff on the web. But this search helps you find photos, music, text, and other works whose authors want you to re-use it for some uses -- without having to pay or ask permission.
http://www.freemediagoo.com/
FreeMediaGoo.com was created for developers by developers. We provide a way for developers to gather assets that can be used in print, film, TV, Internet or any other type of media both for commercial and personal use.
The content we provide is royalty free. No need for annoying links and no limits to the amount of images you can use.
http://free-stockphotos.com/
http://www.photorogue.com/
You can request a picture of anything you want, and volunteer photographers will go out and attempt to actually take the picture you want. It's entirely free, although we don't guarantee that your request will ever be filled.
http://www.barrysfreephotos.com/
Barry's Free Photos offers over 2300 FREE Stock Photos
http://www.bigfoto.com/
bigfoto.com, the royalty free photo agency offering free use of all pictures (with link or reference)
http://www.free-photographs.net/
The Free Photographs Network is an online resource for royalty-free stock photographs for non-commercial use.
http://gallery.hd.org/index.jsp
The Gallery is a selection of mainly real-world-derived stock photography, clip-art, sounds and video clips, for use in Web design, your PC screen wallpaper, etc. Gallery content has been used on many Web sites, but also on book covers, TV caption cards, music videos, leaflets and school projects to name a few! Download for your free personal and commercial use, though please read the terms and conditions.
http://fromoldbooks.org/
Over 850 images scanned from old books, most with multiple high-resolution versions! They are all public domain (copyright-free, out of copyright) unless otherwise noted, and can be used as historical reference in teaching, royalty-free stock images, scrapbook clip art, or even on your own Web site (learn how). You can also get them on CD-ROM, or can donate money to encourage Liam to scan more images, or to help pay for the books.
http://www.photocase.com/
Many thousands of high quality images.
http://www.visipix.com/
Visipix museum: Fine Art-Photos-Clip Art All copyrights are free
Claims over 1 million images; all 2,200 works of Van Gogh, for example
5 search methods: Full text search with words and syllables, 3 Data trees for persons, places and themes, Combination search plus Boole algebra, Keyword lists and much more
http://www.BurningWell.org
BurningWell is a repository for public domain (free for any use) images. You are free to download, copy and use the photos you find here for any purpose. These free images were donated by photographers from around the world, do you have any photographs you would like to donate?
That rounds out the list somewhat. Taken from the FREE RESOURCES section of
www.WebLogging.Org via the same at
www.WebLoggers.Org
Regards,
Keith
