This page is split into four categories: sites for hosting and manipulating your own images, sites for creating slide shows of your images, places to get images and textures, which are good for backgrounds.
RESOLUTION
Work that is meant to be posted on the web does not have to have a high quality or resolution. Web images can be 72 dpi. However if images will be printed, they need to have a higher resolution, eg. 300 dpi. If possible, you may want to specify in a site's search engine that you are looking for high resolution images, if you are planning to print your work. For more on this topic, do an internet search for "image resolution."
Google Images offers an Advanced Search (http://www.google.ca/advanced_image_search?hl=en) that allows you to search for images with large sizes. The higher the size, the better the image quality for non-web uses or for resizing it. You can also search by licence eg. free for reuse, etc.
PicSearch is another excellent site for searching for images is picsearch.com. Once you go to their website, click on "Advance Search" and select "Very Large (800 pixels or more)" from the drop down menu.
Searching this way will help you find large pictures where you don't have to worry about poor resolution.
COPYRIGHT
Remember that when using the creative works of others to always abide by copyright requirements. There are many sites that allow you to use and even manipulate work posted on the web. Some of these sites offer Creative Commons licenses while others offer up work for educational purposes. My philosophy is to always note where you get information, even if it is free. You can be discrete when citing sources - use a small footnote character and have the source at the bottom of the page or on a resources page at the end of a document.
Flickr tool for attribution: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/04/a-handy-new-tool-for-giving-proper.html#.U0NDoFcVA2w
Sites for Hosting or Photo Editing
- http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/ - web hosting site
- Big Huge Labs - create posters, special effects and much more
- Bubbleshare
- Dumpr a fun application that puts your photos in interesting settings
- E-Scrapbooking - scrapbooking but also good for school projects
- Flickr - create on-line, tagged albums of your pictures
- Flickr Toys - create posters, comics and other media with your photos
- fodey.com - generates newspaper clip with your text
- ImageChef - ceate text in a snow globe, in the sand, on a license plate...way fun!
- gnoted - free on-line image editors
- Kyolo - adds speech bubbles to images
- LetterPop - create attractive newsletters
- Make 3D - make photos appear 3D
- My Home Library - create bookplates
- Paint.Net - downloadable program (free) that offers layers, cropping, resizing, limited filters. You can't draw a straight line, unfortunately but otherwise, a useful program.
- PhotoStory
- Picasa - downloadable program from Google. Helps organize images and has built-in editing tools.
- Picapp - embed images for free on your blog
- PicBite.com - add speech bubbles to any photo
- Picjuice - online photo editor
- PicMonkey - basic editing and some special effects
- Picknik - web-based Google site. Edit photos, make a collage, add effects, stickers, frames and more. Fun!
- Pixenate.com - upload images and do some basic and fun effects incl. Warhol and Polaroid image
- Pixlr.com - web-based, lots of built-in filters, layers. Note: found this somewhat slow.
- Polaroize - make photos look like a Polaroid image
- Reshade allows you to resize images online
- ResizR - resize photos that are too large
- RTravel - share your travel photos and videos
- says-it.com create concert tickets, official seals, vinyl records, etc.
- Scrapblog - scrapbooking
- Sign Maker - make your own freeway highway signs
- Snipshot.com - online photo editing tools
- SlideRocket - create presentations
- Splashup - photo editing software that's like a Photoshop lite (has layers)
- SumoPaint - web-based, has lots of amazing effects including 3-D cubes and more. Warning: sometimes freezes, so be sure to save often. Also, as of last time I used this, it wouldn't let you copy and paste from the web; you could only save to your computer, then open.
- Tabblo - scrapbooking
- Tiny Media: create icons
- webresizer.com - resize and optimize images for web, some other tools, too
Slide Shows
See Mixed Media and Video Tools for more tools.
Sources for Images and Clipart
Remember to check for copyright requirements.
Some sites require attribution to the site, photographer and may also request a link back to the site.
Not all sites are good for younger children. Please check before use.
- CalPhotos: search more than 100,000 images of people, places, animals, and landscapes.
- ClassroomClipArt Includes photos and clipart
- Clipart etc.
- Discovery School's Clipart
- Dorling Kindersley clipart
- Encyclopedia of Life
- everystockphoto.com Creative Commons licensed
- Exploratorium
- Firstgov.com Photos from various US government agencies
- Flickr - use advanced search to look for Creative Commons images
- FlickrStorm - www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm - search with filters for creative commons licences
- Free Media Goo - small library of low res images, textures, audio samples.
- Freerange - offers high resolution images, although the search function is unreliable.images
- Geek Philosopher - free for commercial and personal use (with link)
- Geoffrossphotography.com/index.php - Lanscape photographer
- Gimp-Savvy: community-tagged photos from public domain sources
- Image*After More than 16,000 copyright-free textures and photos
- Incredible Clip Art & Images Public domain sites from the Incredible Art Department
- Justcreativedesign.com/2008/04/08/creative-photographs/ - good source for creative writing
- MorgueFile.com has a generous licence. Search by categories, keywords, colour, etc. a
- NBII Digital Image Library - animal photos
- OCL /Open Clip Art Library
- Openphoto - an organized collection of stock photos. Thumbnails of related shots also available.
- PdPhoto.org - free public domain photo database
- Photo Dropper - creative commons
- PicApp
- PicFinder
- pics4learning.com images for educators & students
- Pixel Perfect Digital - neatly organized stock photos in many categories.
- Public-Domain Photos - large collection of public domain (free to use) photos and clipart
- SchoolCenter Image Gallery
- Stock.xchng.com has a huge library of photos but licence agreements are a little compicated.
- Smashingapps.com/2009/03/22/50-stunning-examples-of-architecture-photography.html
- Smithsonian Images photos on science and history
- Stockvault's images are free for non-commercial use. High quality photos, logos, clip art, etc.
- taggalaxy.de - a visual search
- The Visible Earth: pictures from NASA
- Unprofound - no licence restrictions and you don't have to register to use.
- Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons licensed photos
- WP Clipart
- Zemanta - Creative Commons and public domain
- 25 Free Stock Photo Sites
- 26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog
- 4 Free Photos - collection of over 700 free images offered by the photographer
- America From the Great Depression to World War II: FSA/OWI 1935-1945 American Memory collection
- American Memory Collection: Library of Congress. (click on "Photos and Prints" and check the "Copyright and Restrictions" section for each collection)
- American Memory Maps Collection
- AnimalPhotos.info
- Art Images for College Teaching
- ArtServe:art and architecture from the Mediterranean, India, Japan, and Cambodia)
- Beholdcc Use the boxes before you search to select licensing
- BurningWell (public domain, high resolution photos)
- CarPictures.cc
- Centre for Bioscience ImageBank
· Collection of Public Domain sites: http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/public-domain-photographs.html
· Community Indexed Photo Gallery - http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/
- Compfight.com
- Compfight: A Flickr Search Tool
- Copyright-Free Photo Archive (off GIMP)
- Creative Commons A multimedia CC search, searches across Google, Flickr, Yahoo!, BlipTV, SpinXpress, and OWL Music Search, allowing searchers to specify a search for media to use to modify or for commercial purposes
- Creativity103.com (abstract backgrounds)
- Daguerreotype Portraits and Views 1839-1864
- Department of Agriculture Image Gallery
- Department of the Interior Photo Resources Library
- Digital Librarian Images (check for licensing)
- EduPic Graphical Resource - Free Photographs and Graphics for Education
- Excellent collection of resources from Springfield Township High School's Library
- Flickr Free Use Photos Photo sharing, no attribution necessary
- Flickr Storm (select appropriate Creative Common license from pull-down menu)
- Flickr/Library of Congress: The Commons:
- Flickr: The Commons (contributions from major institutions)
- FlickrCC Blue Mountains Displays attribution
- Flickr's Creative Commons Pool: Browse through the images provided by Flickr users who have chosen to offer their pictures under a Creative Commons license. A Flickr Advanced Search also allows you to search for these images easily.
- Fotogenika
- Free Digital Photos
- Free Historical Stock Photos
- Free Images
- Free Photo 1
- Free Photos Bank
- Free Pixels:images may be used for both personal and commercial purposes under the limitations of this license
- FreeFoto.com
- FreeMediaGoo
- GeekPhilosopher
- GetMedia
- Graphic Maps.com
- Great Images in NASA (GRIN)
- Hamilton Museum of Art
- Images of American Political History
- Internet Moving Images Archive - read Conditions of Use for copyright info
- Jeff Bailey's Tech Tool Kit
- Library of Congress Photo Stream on Flickr
- Metropolitan Museum of Art - read copyright info on http://www.metmuseum.org/copyright.htm)
- MorgueFile "provides the public and creative community with free photos..
- NARA's (National Archives and Records Administration) NAIL Search
- NARA's Search Tools
- NASA Image Exchange
- NASA Multimedia Gallery
- NASA Photo Archive
- NASA's Planetary Photojournal
- National Health Museum(AccessExcellence)
- National Library of Medicine: Images from the History of Medicine
- Nations Illustrated - Find pictures by country, province/state, cities - free
- NOAA - National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library
- NOAA Photo Library (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
- Open ClipArt Library
· Open Photo: http://openphoto.net/
Community Indexed Photo Gallery - http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/
Open Photo: http://openphoto.net/
Collection of Public Domain sites: http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/public-domain-photographs.html
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