5 Great sources for Free to use Pictures
Finding and using free images for commercial projects can be sometimes tricky and if not used correctly (for example grabbing Pictures from Google search) can get you in a real problem. Here is a list of 5 places where you can get Pictures really for free.
There are several sources of genuinely free to use images available to personal use and commercial projects.
1. Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
It has more than 4.5 million images on all subjects. Images are available in high resolutions, god enough for commercial printing.
License types vary from image to image but any restriction are clearly displayed alongside the image. All images on Wikipedia use the creative commons license.
2. Morgue File
For a large Collection of images of just about everything. It has a very well design search Engine. Many of the photographs are licensed for non-commercial use only and you have to contact the photographer to request permission.
3. Stock Exchange
Like the one before is to a great Collection, in some cases it also asks for permission of the photographer.
4. Mayang Free Texture
http://www.mayang.com/textures
For an enormous amount of good quality textures of any kind: clouds, Rocks, wall, plants and even cars.
5. Nasa
For shots of rockets, planets and space scene in general there is no better place than Nasa.
Do you know another free resource?
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“Do you know another free resource?”
yes, for free stock photos you might also want to look at:
http://stockvault.net
http://www.freeimages.co.uk
http://creativity103.com
http://stockarch.com
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Hi Javier, I’m impressed with this list! I came here thinking I would see some of the same old tired resources that I already know but I see three here that are new to me. I visit the Nasa site all the time and I found a few goodies over at Stock Exchange. I’ll be sure to look into the others asap.
I have a question about Stock Exchange, is there a way to search by keyword and get free images only in the search results? I haven’t figured out how to do that yet.
Thanks for the resources!
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Ileane, thanks for your comment, glad you find this new resources.
About your question in Stock Exchange even in the advance mode, the search results always show in the first row iStockphoto images. I guess is the only downside. : )
What a great resource!
Thanks for the information. Now I can explore other place for pictures.
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A few months back I did a post for finding premium and free images on the web and I hadn’t heard wikicommons or morgue file.
I mostly use stock exchange, but I get tired of the limited images there. So now I can try out these other sites for more images when needed. Thanks for sharing this list.
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