List Of Free Image Sources
Here's a ****load of links for you to steal pictures from. Except (maxlulz), they're mostly free anyway, so you can't steal them - free isn't good enough for you? bum.
Keep in mind though, some of these links will have media that is not free. Watch your licensing.
Specifically Creative Commons-licensed
- openphoto -- mostly CC photos, but some clipart too
Clipart
- Clipart Guide -- subscription service for royalty-free clipart
- Free Clipart -- pseudo-PD, linkback appreciated
Government Sources
- US Department of State Photos -- public domain (PD)
- Bio Image Explorer -- images may have usage restrictions (pseudo-CC)
- US Ag. Research Service -- "complimentary" (PD)
Other Miscellaneous
- World Digital Library -- Free cultural images from around the world (PD)
- CopyrightExpired -- images published before 1923 (PD)
- FreeFoto -- link back and attribution required (pseudo-CC)
- Flickr Commons -- publicly held photos on flickr (PD)
- Gimp Savvy Archive -- free for use, but check restrictions like model releases (PD)
- Burning Well -- photographs (PD)
- CG Textures -- textures and some photos (no clear license)
- Copyright Free Photos -- royalty-free (PD)
- Face Transformer -- face transformer (good for effects)
- Image*After free photos and textures -- free photos for any use (PD)
- Flickr PD Pool -- Flickr PD pool (PD)
- Free Image Gallery -- totally free images (PD)
- Flickr Copylefted images -- Flickr copyleft
- Stock Photo Search -- search engine, stock photos with various licenses
- Old Book photos -- mostly PD images scanned from old books
- Stock Photo Vault -- photo sharing site, images have embedded sitename
- PD Photo -- royalty free pictures, mostly PD but not all
- Free Stock Photos -- free stock photos for any use
- Free Range Stock Photos -- free stock photos for any use (PD)
- Morguefile -- not-quite-entirely free stock photos, license here
Miscellaneous Stock Photos
- Photolab -- royalty-free images
- Stock.XCHNG -- royalty-free images
- FreeDigitalPhotos -- completely free images
- PD Stock Photos -- stock photography (PD)
- Texture King -- stock photos of textures (PD)
Wikimedia / Wikipedia Links
- Wikipedia PD images -- Wikipedia images tagged Public Domain (PD)
- Google search of Wikipedia -- quick link to a Google search of Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons PD -- all Wikimedia pages tagged PD (PD)
- Wikipedia Free Use -- pages linked to Copyright Free Use template
- Wikipedia -- pages linked to PD-Release (PD)
- Wikipedia PoD -- Wikipedia picture of the day (high-quality images, may not be PD or CC)
- Wikimedia Commons Mayflower -- search Wikimedia Commons (various)
Links to Lists of Links!
- Thirty free image sources -- article on where to find free images
See also
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