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Free Images

Postby Pat » Fri May 28, 2010 3:12 am

Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not!
Don't let the name scare you! :D

http://www.morguefile.com/

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Re: Free Images

Postby tdew » Fri May 28, 2010 5:48 am

Wow, what a great source for menu backgrounds and extra fills. Thanks for telling us about it. We should all contribute some pictures for others to use.

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Re: Free Images

Postby Astra » Fri May 28, 2010 7:01 am

Pat,
thanks for the link.

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Re: Free Images

Postby Robert Barnett » Fri May 28, 2010 7:26 am

Here is another one I really like. BTW once you create an account (which you will need to down to get the larger sized images) please share some of your own images.

http://www.sxc.hu/

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Re: Free Images

Postby AMD » Fri May 28, 2010 11:48 am

Robert,

I agree that sxc is a wonderful site. For those images actually needing permission--I have never been denied usage permission. The images are great resolution and most are uploaded with nice clean contrasting backgrounds for easy extraction. It is, seriously, one of the best-kept Internet secrets, in my opinion.

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Re: Free Images

Postby Robert Barnett » Fri May 28, 2010 3:36 pm

And, the have some nice things including some scrapbook page layouts and other page like elements. Great site. Use it often.

Please people remember to share. Not everything should cost money!!!!

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Re: Free Images

Postby rlsu » Fri May 28, 2010 6:16 pm

Thanks for the link. Will definitely use some of the images for backgrounds!
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Re: Free Images

Postby BarbaraC » Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:01 am

I had no idea these sites existed. Both will be a boon to me because I long ago ran out of my own photos to use for the display of my products. I very carefully read the terms of use and was happy as a clam (are clams happy?) to discover that I'm free to use the images to show off my frames. Whoopee!

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Re: Free Images

Postby DickK » Tue Jun 01, 2010 5:07 am

stock.xchng is a good resource. It's parent company also owns the iStockPhoto site that it's associated with. The latter is better but not free and not cheap. Stock.xchng images are ones I've used in nearly all the seminar presentations I do on presentation skills and a few show up on my blog. The terms of use are typically easy--give credit and (sometimes) notify the owner of whatever use you make.

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