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Where To Find Quality Images That Are Free For Commercial Use
By Pat Reed, Wed Dec 7th
Are you in need of free quality graphic images that can be usedon your web site or for other reasons? Do you find yourselflimited by the phrase "FREE for personal use only?" If youanswered yes to these questions, then this article is writtenjust for you. What will you find here? Twelve Resources thatwill provide you access to thousands of free quality images thatcan be used for commercial applications. Whether you need to usethese images for your web site, print ads or brochures it willnot cost you a single penny. For some of these sites, the onlyrequirement is that you abide by the end user agreement which isusually just crediting the source. Below are 12 imagerepositories that you should know about: Public Domain Image Resources Wikepida offersthousands of free public domain images that can be used undertheir licensing agreement. The license agreementsgrants free access to their content in the same sense as freesoftware is licensed freely. content can be copied,modified, and redistributed so long as the new version grantsthe same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of theWikipedia article used (a direct link back to the articlesatisfies the author credit requirement).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources Image*After Image*After is a large online free photo collection.You can download and use any image or texture from their siteand use it in your own work, either personal or commercial. Atthe time this article was written, they had over 14, 000 freequality images http://www.imageafter.com
PD Photo - Public Domain Photos PD Photo is a public domainphotography site started by Jon Sullivan. The site is arepository for free public domain photos with thousands ofimages to choose from. www.pdphoto.org Creative Commons Photos Creative Commons Public Domain Photosoffers free audio, images, text, video, and other formats thatare available for commercial and non-commercial purposesdepending on the license. Creative commons grants 6 types oflicensing agreements so make sure you read how each of thelicense agreements work. http://creativecommons.org Microsoft Media Elements Microsoft Media Elements offers tons offree clipart, animated objects and photographs for you to use.However, Microsoft only offers their free media resources tousers of their Office 2003 System, or any of its otherapplications, also for any product that includes
Microsoft ClipGallery or Microsoft Clip Organizer. Please make sure you ReadMicrosoft's' END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (EULA) FOR MICROSOFTONLINE CONTENT before downloading. The user agreement can befound at: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tou.aspx .Otherwise, you may view their free image resources at:http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us Pixelperfectstock.com offers a growing collection of highquality backgrounds and textures that can be used in bothpersonal and commercial design projects. Every image isavailable in four sizes. http://www.pixelperfectstock.com AarinFreePhoto.com AarinFreePhoto.com offers free images forpersonal and commercial use. You may download and use theirimages on your web site, print ads, brochures or any endproducts: http://www.AarinFreePhoto.com FreePhotos.com Freephotos.com offers images that are free todownload with no link back and no credit card is required.http://www.freephotos.com The PHIL which stands for Public Health Image Library (PHIL)offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC'spictures. The PHIL allows public health professionals, themedia, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and theworldwide public to use this material for reference, teaching,presentation, and public health messages. The content isorganized into hierarchical categories of people, places, andscience, and is presented as single images, image sets, andmultimedia files. http://phil.cdc.gov/Phil/home.asp OpenPhoto OpenPhoto offers hundreds of free stock photos thatcan be used free for commercial and non-commercial use.http://openphoto.net Stock.XCHNG Stock.XCHNG offers a huge gallery containing over100.000 quality stock photos. Whether you are in need of awallpaper for your desktop or a picture for your commercialwebsite design? They offer a variety of images of practicallyevery category you can think of. http://www.sxc.hu NOAA Photo Library The National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration photo library offers over 16,000 free digitizedquality photos. The only requirement from NOAA is that the endusers give the National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration/Department of Commerce credit for the use ofphotograph unless otherwise instructed to give credit to thephotographer or other source. http://www.photolib.noaa.gov About the author:Pat Reed is a researcher and editorial consultant on governmentnews that educates, informs, and promotes the well being ofsociety. For more helpful tools, articles and how-to guidesvisit http://www.communitydispatch.com
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