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PLACES TO FIND COPYRIGHT-FREE IMAGES
Thanks to the
Hey Jude
Blog
Flickr's Creative Commons
is a
great resource for photos (but it's blocked at school).
Bigfoto.com
offers
pictures from around the world, including America, Asia, Europe, Africa,
and Pacific.
Clip Art for foreign/second language instruction.
Basic but still
valuable.
EveryStockPhoto is a search engine for creative commons photos,
located in Vancouver, BC. They aim to be a community for designers,
developers, photographers and other media publishers who want better,
easier access to license-specific media on the web. This is a single
integrated search, allowing users to bookmark their photos with
private and public tags, and increasingly we will be offering
advanced searching options, rating systems
and other tools.
FreeDigitalPhotos.net has over 2000 free images that you can use in
commercial and noncommercial work. You are not allowed to sell,
redistribute, or claim these images as your own. You can browse by
category or search for exactly what you need.
Yotophoto
is now
indexing well over a quarter million Creative Commons, Public Domain,
GNU FDL, and various other ‘copyleft’ images.
FreeMediaGoo.com
has a large collection of images, audio, textures, and other visual
mediums that you can use for free with some restrictions. You do not
even have to credit the images. The site also features some amazing
digital images if you are looking for something different.
FreeFoto.com
says it is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet
(link back and attribution required).
FreePhotosBank.com
allows users to have non-exclusive, non-transferable license to images.
You can search for photos, see which photos are the most popular, and
which ones have the highest ratings or the most downloads.
Fotogenika.net
has photos for free download for personal, educational, and nonprofit
use. The site is well organized, and it includes categories such as
architecture, animals, people, and textures.
The
Geo-Images Project attempts to make images (mostly photographs) that
are useful in teaching geography more widely available. Navigate via map
points on the globe, and capture images around common themes. Love the
one on transport! and community is cool too!
MorgueFile.com
offers stock photographs in high resolution digital. With over 55,000
images, divided into several categories, they are sure to have something
you can use. The thumbnails are small, but your search results display
quickly, and the photos are of top quality. (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 morgue file)
Pics4Learning collection is intended to provide copyright friendly
images for use by students and teachers in an educational setting.
Lesson plans also included.
Stock Exchange offers high
quality images taken around the world by amateur photographers. If you
have an interest in photography, you can even submit your own pictures.
There are various searching options and over 100,000 images. The
photographers establish the terms, so read the fine print, but most
pictures can be reused immediately.
TurboPhoto provides free stock images from 10 categories all of
which are in the public domain.
UVic’s Language
Teaching Library
consists of about 3000 images useful in the
teaching of basic vocabulary in a variety of languages. Its purpose is
to provide a set of those graphics most basic and useful for low-level
language-teaching, and at the same time, to make them as easily
searchable as possible. Transparent an matte images included.
Riya
- Visual Search
provides royalty free images.
Riya contains images of
People and
objects. Each of these also contain subcategories.
Wikipedia: Public domain image sources - though in this case you
will need to check the copyright
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