1. Wikimedia Commons. Has media - images, sound, video that features on the wikipedia site - search for what you need. 2. CC Search. Search sites that have images that are attributed under the Creative Commons Scheme. Be sure to check the type of licence for your image before you use it. 3. stock.xchng Lots of high quality stock photos, free download, and they usually don’t require link attribution. 4. flickr is an image sharing site that anyone can sign up to for free and use to share their pictures with family friends, and whoever else is interested. However not all images are free to use. The easiest thing to do is simply to search for images under the attribution license only (just use the link below the image and you’re good to go). That means you are free to use and alter the images as long as you link back to where you found it on flickr. 5. Iconfinder A little known gem. Iconfinder is a search engine with free icons for websites. Look for “Allowed for commercial use” before you save an icon. |
6. Microsoft Office Images Microsoft clip art is available online along including photos and animations on the Microsoft Office website. 7. freepixels has high quality and very professional looking images 8. everystockphoto The ultimate stock photo search engine. When you search for images on everystockphoto, you are practically searching several sites with free and royalty free images at the same time (including a few of the sites on this list). You must read up on the license for each image since they have different rules on the different sites. 9. Kozzi Easily organize images for a larger project with their lightbox feature. Kozzi offers photos, clip art and video. 10. imagebase Free high resolution images. 11. openphoto Another great source of free pictures. Make sure you read the license agreement of the image you are interested in using. 12. Image*After allows for free redistribution and allow you to edit the images and use them however you want. |
Tin Eye
Some people are now using Tin Eye reverse image search engine to track down who has illegally used their images or photos. You can upload an image or URL of an image, and Tin Eye will find where that image has been used on the internet. Tin Eye Reverse Image search engine can be used to track where images and photos are being illegally used on the internet. This widget from Tin Eye shows 97 different alterations to the Mona Lisa painting, along with which websites they came from. |
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