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Copyright-Free Photo Search
Copyright Free Photos
(of course Flickr Creative Commons is a
great place, but it's blocked)
Thanks to Hey Jude,
http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/find-free-images-online-my-list/
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Bigfoto.com offers
pictures from around the world, including America, Asia, Europe, Africa,
and Pacific.
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Clip Art for foreign/second language instruction. Basic but still
valuable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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FreeFoto.com
says it is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet
(link back and attribution required).
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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)
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Pics4Learning collection is intended to provide copyright friendly
images for use by students and teachers in an educational setting.
Lesson plans also included.
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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.
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TurboPhoto provides free stock images from 10 categories all of
which are in the public domain.
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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.
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Riya - Visual Search
provides royalty free images.
Riya contains images of
People and
objects. Each of these also contain subcategories.
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Wikipedia: Public domain image sources - though in this case you
will need to check the copyright.
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Yotophoto is now
indexing well over a quarter million Creative Commons, Public Domain,
GNU FDL, and various other ‘copyleft’ images.
Digital Resources
for Projects: Recommended websites for images, audio, video. Thanks to
Websites: Audio & Video for
Projects
Free Audio Clips
Free MP3 Downloads
Free Sounds and Music
Free Play Music
If you are using Freeplay Music for…Educational, Non-Commercial use
(limited to student use on school grounds and classroom - non
broadcast) - Then Freeplay's musical compositions and recordings
may be used without fee.
Incompetech.com
Royalty free piano solos. You must attribute the work in the manner
specified by the author or licensor.
Loopasonic
Loopasonic is a Free Audio
Resource for everyone from electronic and acoustic musicians to film and
video producers and multi media designers. The site is packed with free
loops and samples, sound & audio files and useful links. All the music
loops and sounds are free to download. This site also includes Garage Band
loops for MACs.
United Streaming
(Subscription Service)
Students are allowed to keep projects containing unitedstreaming video
clips for their personal portfolios. Teachers are allowed to keep projects
containing unitedstreaming video clips through the duration of the
subscription. (This also holds true for for clipart and images.) Per our
unitedstreaming rep, our grant projects may be displayed on a website, as
long as the website is “password protected”. Example” Blackboard. |
Copyright-Free
Music Search
Other
Places to Find Images & Music for Projects
DK Clip Art
This mini site will help support class and homework activities
with downloads of DK's famous photographs that can be included in
your school projects. They can also be used just for fun!
Free Audio Clips
Free MP3 Downloads
Free Sounds and Music
Microsoft Design Gallery Live
A great source for clip art. Loads quickly and has a search
engine. You need to own Microsoft Office to use this site
Microsoft Creativity Fun Pack
Download sounds, video
titles, music tracks, music transitions and sound effects to go
with Windows Media Maker
NASA
Visible Earth
Earth from Space
NASA Image Gallery
Johnson Space Center
For all non-private uses,
NASA's Terms Of Use are as follows: The imagery is free of
licensing fees. NASA requires that they be provided a credit as
the owners of the imagery
Open Clip Art Library
This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be
used for free for any use.
Pics 4 Learning
Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers
and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands
of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and
amateur photographers. Unlike many Internet sites, permission has
been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images
donated to the Pics4Learning collection.
PD Photo.org
PDPhoto.org is a repository for public domain photos. Use the
photos for anything, including commercial uses, other websites,
school projects, articles, ads, whatever. Public domain means the
photo is not protected by copyright and may be freely used by
everyone. Unless something is clearly marked as being
something other than public domain, you can assume it is free to
use.
School-Clip-Art.com - Educational Clipart
The clip art you find at School-Clip-Art.com are provided FREE for
educational use.
USDA Online Photography Center
The USDA Online Photo Center provides a complimentary source of
high-quality digital photographs, a select few of which appear on
these web pages. The buttons (scroll way down the page) below are
categories, followed by sub-categories of images. Click on the
thumbnails to see larger images with caption material. Click the
image again for a 640 pixel image to download.
US Fish and Wildlife Digital Library System
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's online digital media library
contains the National Image Library--the Service's collection of
public domain still photos. You may search all the images through
the National Image Library link, or you may search by individual
collections, which are listed underneath. Each of these
collections stated that the photographer & library be credited as
part of your sources.
Wikopedia Commons
A resource list of image sites on the web. Many are public domain,
but some are note. You still need to check the copyright status of
images.
Yellowstone Digital Slide File
Contains pictures of Yellowstone Park. These images are in the
public domain and may be reproduced, free of charge with the
proper credit line.
Yotophoto
When using Yotophoto you should 1) search for the image you would
like to use 2) Verify the license or usage conditions for the
image 3) Use the image, be sure to comply with any conditions
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