RECOMMENDATION #1
Getty Images RF
http://www.gettyimages.com/CreativeImages/RoyaltyFree
Getty Images RF is the royalty-free version of the popular digital library Getty Images, where you can find a wide variety of pictures, vectors and illustrations, both for personal and commercial use. You need to register to use this resource.
All images on Getty Images RF are available in the JPEG format, and their resolution ranges from 72dpi to 300dpi, according to their size. Prices for each picture vary from $5 to $525.
F11Digital.com
http://www.f11digital.com/
F11Digital is a web-based image collection dedicated to digital photography, where you can browse and download royalty-free images to use for complementing your creative projects. Registration is mandatory to download, to vote and to comment the photos.
All images are in high-resolution, in the JPEG format, and they are available in different sizes. You can download the pictures to your computer by clicking the download button below every image (a ZIP download option is also available), or by sending them as an e-card (a digital postcard). F11Digital also allows you to save the images you like most while browsing the collection, with a digital lightbox (a non-intrusive digital notebook who follows you around the site and keeps track of all the photos you ask it to "remember").
FreeFlowerImages.com
http://www.freeflowerimages.com/
FreeFlowerImages.com is a website that collects images of flowers that you can use for your commercial and personal projects. You can browse through the photos by using either the search field or the list of categories. You can also find the pictures you need by looking at the colors of the flowers.
All the images are available in high-resolution, JPEG format and a size of 640×479 pixels. You can download them with a simple right-click action. The images contain no watermarks and you can request the website owner a larger version of your favorite photo in case you need a higher resolution.
http://www.everystockphoto.com/
welcome to everystockphoto.com
We are a search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo's license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.
RECOMMENDATION #2
1. PicSearch
PicSearch is one of my favorite image search engines. First of all, it is quite fast. Just type a search query, and it returns all the images that match your search almost immediately. My favorite feature of this free image search engine is that it shows the image size and image dimensions on the image results. This ensures that I immediately know which images fit the dimension that I am interested in.
It also comes with Advanced image search options, which includes searching for only Black & White images, search for images in any particular color, and search for images of specific size.
2. Ginipic
Ginipic is an image search engine that can you download and install on your computer. Ginipic lets you search for images from multiple sources, like, Picasa, Flickr, SmugMug, etc. It lets you search images from image search engines, and photo sharing websites. What I like most about Ginipic is that it can also search for images on your hard drive. So, if you already have some image with you that matches your search criteria, you can directly use that image, instead of searching for one from the web. Download Ginipichere.
3. Incogna
Incogna is another free image search engine. There are two features in it that I like: First of all, it comes with auto complete feature. Secondly, it also lets you search for similar images. To search for similar images, just click on any image in the search result, and then Incogna will show you similar images to that image. Also check out other free software to find similar looking photos.
4. Gazopa
Gazopa is the most innovative image search engine that I have come across. It lets you search for images by uploading an image. It will then find images similar to that. You can also provide URL for an image, and Gazopa will find similar images to that. Here is my favorite part: it lets you draw an image online, and then it search for similar images. I find this a really good option if you have a rough idea about type of image that you want. It also provides conventional image search so that you can search for images by providing a search query.
5. TinEye
TinEye is actually a reverse image search engine. In this, you start by uploading an image, or provide URL of an image. Then TinEye will search all over the web to find where is that image being used, where did it come from, and other information for the image. This is a good option if you think someone is copying your images.
SOURCE: http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/09/webware/best-image-search-engines.html
RECOMMENDATION #3
6 Free Websites For Public Domain Images & Free Stock Photos
July 21, 2011
By Tina Sieber
Public Domain refers to material that is ‘publicly available’ and not covered by intellectual property or copyrights. In today’s media, where visual art is abundant, there is a high demand for images, for example for webdesign projects. As a consequence, there are many stock photography websites where artists can sell their photographs or image designs. There are, however, also resources that feature royalty free stock photos that are in the public domain.Public Domain Pictures
This page is a repository for public domain images. It is maintained solely by its users, who can upload and download images for free. Some photos require a model or property release, when used commercially. This, however, is a general requirement for photos. Material can easily be browsed by various categories, including professional or seasonal photos. Image tags allow an easy search.
The page for each image contains detailed information about the license, the camera used to take it, and links to the artist. The website cleverly supports the creators by offering a premium download and the option to buy the artist a coffee.
Wikimedia Commons
Most images used on Wikipedia are part of the Wikimedia Commons, a database of over 10 million freely usable media files, including public domain images. Recently, for example, the Russian International News Agency has donated 100 historical photographs from their archives. Media files can be surfed by topic, location, type, author, license, and source. Each of these categories has subcategories, to refine the search. You can also search files by tags.
The dedicated page for each features details about the item, including the permission for use and any licenses associated with the file. For most media files you will find that the copyright has simply expired and it has thus moved to the public domain.
Image After
Image After describes itself as the raw base for your creativity. The images provided on this page all underline the same terms of use, which basically are that you can use the images for anything, other than building a page that is in direct competition with Image After.
You can simply search images or use the thorough options, which allows you to sort an image category for example by size, then filter it by color. You can also search based on image tags.
Public Domain Photos
The 5,000 photos and 8,000 free clip arts on this page can be used for any purpose, including commercial. The photos are typically provided in a single high resolution. They are tagged and sorted into categories, offering you two ways to easily find them.
Stock.XCHNG
This resource for free stock photos has been so popular that not only have we mentioned it multiple times on MakeUseOf, it was also recently acquired by Getty Images.
Stock.XCHNG presently contains almost 400,000 photos and many of them are royalty free with no further usage restrictions. You can quickly view the restrictions in the availability field underneath the respective image. Some artists request to be notified or credited, others only require standard restrictions, which are defined by the Stock.XCHNG.
To download material you have to sign up with Stock.XCHNG.
Flickr
Flickr is an obvious resource, yet it is often neglected. Using the advanced search feature, you can search only photos with a Creative Commons license that allows you to use the content commercially and/or modify, adapt, or build upon the content. These two licenses in combination essentially make the image ‘public domain’ in that you can use it for anything. However, the license restriction is that you have to credit the original creator.
If you are looking for very specific images, you should check out the public domain image resources listed on Wikipedia. They feature historical images, as well as visual arts, logos, books, and more.
A site that has been recommended many times in comments to previous articles ismorgueFile. Unfortunately, the site was very slow when I tested it, hence it is not properly included in this article.
Comments:
http://compfight.com? It's a really nice tool to search images on Flickr.
http://www.123rf.com/?
SOURCE: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-free-websites-public-domain-images-free-stock-photos/
RECOMMENDATION #4
The Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. 2007 AT 11:16 PM | BY COBY LOGEN IN MULTIMEDIA
Thousands of photos taken by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duty are free of copyright and free to use. Based on my extensive review of government photo libraries, the best collections below. Or just use the search I made.
Search Public Domain Photos:
#1 — BestPhotos.US
Awesome, high-resolution photos of landscapes, sunsets, mountains, flowers, animals, science, and much more. You can browse or search. You can get the highest resolution available for all the images quite easily.Image Quality: Excellent!
Quantity: Search millions, browse thousands
#2 — Agricultural Research Service
Beautiful, high-resolution photos of plants, animals, agriculture, and agricultural research. Browse using the categories on the left. The site displays a request form when you choose to download the high-resolution photo, but you can simply bypass it by clicking “download photo”.Image Quality: Excellent!
Quantity: A few hundred
#3 — U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServicePhotos of scenery, wildlife, people in the outdoors, and miscellany. Enter search terms on the left. Try searching by "Virginia" or "eagle", then setting it to show 100 results per page (on the left).
Image Quality: Average – Excellent!
Quantity: Thousands
#4 — Department of Defense
Photos of soldiers, vehicles, and operations in Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines. Finding just the right photo is time-consuming, because the search tends to return thousands of results. You can also browse by category by clicking "search images by topic". New photos are added regularly. Try searching for "bomber" or "sunset".Image Quality: Good – Excellent!
Quantity: Thousands
#5 — Yellowstone National Park
Photos of everything in the park including scenery, plants, animals, wildfires, geo-thermal activity, park visitors, etc. The library is organized in helpful categories, but there is no search feature. Some photos are beautiful, but many are somewhat unimpressive. Ex:
Image Quality: Average – Excellent!
Quantity: Thousands
#6 — Antarctic Photo Library
Photos of amazing Antarctic scenery, transport vehicles, and scientists.
Image Quality: Great – Excellent
Quantity: Several hundred
#7 — Public Health Image Library
Photos of bacteria, disease-carrying animals, patients, public health research, and other topics. The advanced search is more helpful than the basic search. Some photos are decades old. Image Quality: Poor – Excellent
Quantity: Thousands
#8 — FEMAPhotos of disasters, recovery, community relations, congressional relations, and much more. There are many search options, but the search engine is picky about keywords. If you search for “fire” you won’t get a superset of the results from “wildfire” or “wild fire”. Try different search strings. No browse available.
Image Quality: Average – Good
Quantity: 16,000
#9 — Grand Canyon National Park
Gorgeous photos of the park and a few of wildlife. Easy to browse. The only drawback is that the collection is so small.Image Quality: Good – Excellent
Quantity: 125
#10 — NASA Image ExchangeWide variety of NASA photos including: Earth, shuttles, jets, and experiments. To get high-resolution, click "+ More Details” after performing a search. Unfortunately, high-resolution images are not available for many of the photos. Try searching for "f-15".
Image Quality: Poor – Good
Quantity: Several thousand
Find the Best Copyright-Free Photos on BestPhoto.US
First Runner-Up — U.S. Geological Survey – National Parks
Historical and some modern photos of all U.S. National Parks. Most of the photos are black and white, and there is no way to filter them out, but some of the parks have good color, high-resolution images. Image Quality: Average – Good
Quantity: Many thousand
Second Runner-Up — Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative
If you need amphibians, this is the place. Unfortunately, no large, high-resolution images are available.Image Quality: Average – Good (no high-res)
Quantity: 200
Third Runner-Up — Florida Integrated Science Center
Photos of Florida wildlife, alligators, Everglades, and other coastal climates. They have great shots, but none are larger than a few inches.Image Quality: Poor – Good (no high-res)
Quantity: A few hundred
Fourth Runner-Up — National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Includes photos of laboratories, scientists at work, new-age dwellings, and even Housing for Humanity construction projects. The catch is that the site charges $42.00 per high-resolution photo. This restriction is in place despite the fact that there is no copyright on these photos. If you want, however you should be able to get them free by filing a freedom of information act request with the Department of Energy. Image Quality: Average – Good (high-res for $42.00 fee)
Quantity: Several thousands
SOURCE: http://www.dotgovwatch.com/?/archives/8-The-Best-Copyright-Free-Photo-Libraries.html
RECOMMENDATION #5
U.S. Government Photos and Images
Find photos and images by topic. Some of these photos and images are in the public domain and may be used and reproduced without permission or fee. However, some photos and images may be protected by license. We strongly recommend you thoroughly read the disclaimers on each site before use.
Defense and International Relations
Air Force
Army
Coast Guard
Defense Department
Defense Visual Information
Marines
National Guard
Navy
State Department
Environment, Energy, and Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
Bathymetry, Topography and Relief
Bureau of Land Management
Cascades Volcano Observatory
Earth as Art
Energy Department's Digital Library
Energy Department's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Photo Library
Energy Department's Office of Science
Environmental Protection Agency
Grand Canyon National Park
Harper's Ferry National Historic Park
National Agricultural Library's Special Collections
National Agricultural Library
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Park Service
Natural Resources Conservation Service
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Multimedia Gallery
Yellowstone National Park
General Government
Government Printing Office
President Obama
State Photo and Multimedia Galleries
White House Photo Gallery
Health and Nutrition
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Image Library
National Cancer Institute
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Eye Institute's Photo, Image, and Video Catalog
National Human Genome Research Institute Photo Gallery
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Image Library
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Image Gallery
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Picture Gallery
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Image Library
National Institute of General Medical Sciences Image Gallery
National Institute of Mental Health Image Library
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Graphics Gallery
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Collection
History, Arts, and Culture
America's Historical Documents - Images and Transcripts
American Memory
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
Smithsonian Images
Money and Taxes
Department of the Treasury
U.S. Mint
Public Safety and Law
Customs and Border Protection
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Emergency Management Agency Photo Library
Homeland Security
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Secret Service
Science and Technology
NASA Multimedia Gallery
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Human Genome Research Institute Photo Gallery
National Institutes of Standards and Technology Laboratory Research
National Science Foundation Photo, Video and Audio DownloadsRECOMMENDATIONS: 6
RECOMMENDATION #6
U.S. Government Photos and Images
Find photos and images by topic. Some of these photos and images are in the public domain and may be used and reproduced without permission or fee. However, some photos and images may be protected by license. We strongly recommend you thoroughly read the disclaimers on each site before use.
Defense and International Relations
Air Force
Army
Coast Guard
Defense Department
Defense Visual Information
Marines
National Guard
Navy
State Department
Environment, Energy, and Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service
Bathymetry, Topography and Relief
Bureau of Land Management
Cascades Volcano Observatory
Earth as Art
Energy Department's Digital Library
Energy Department's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Photo Library
Energy Department's Office of Science
Environmental Protection Agency
Grand Canyon National Park
Harper's Ferry National Historic Park
National Agricultural Library's Special Collections
National Agricultural Library
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Park Service
Natural Resources Conservation Service
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Multimedia Gallery
Yellowstone National Park
General Government
Government Printing Office
President Obama
State Photo and Multimedia Galleries
White House Photo Gallery
Health and Nutrition
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Image Library
National Cancer Institute
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Eye Institute's Photo, Image, and Video Catalog
National Human Genome Research Institute Photo Gallery
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Image Library
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Image Gallery
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Picture Gallery
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Image Library
National Institute of General Medical Sciences Image Gallery
National Institute of Mental Health Image Library
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Graphics Gallery
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Collection
History, Arts, and Culture
America's Historical Documents - Images and Transcripts
American Memory
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
Smithsonian Images
Money and Taxes
Department of the Treasury
U.S. Mint
Public Safety and Law
Customs and Border Protection
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Emergency Management Agency Photo Library
Homeland Security
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Secret Service
Science and Technology
NASA Multimedia Gallery
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Human Genome Research Institute Photo Gallery
National Institutes of Standards and Technology Laboratory Research
National Science Foundation Photo, Video and Audio DownloadsRECOMMENDATIONS: 6
RECOMMENDATION #6
Ordered by size of collection, largest first:
Wikimedia Commons hosts only freely licensed images, sound files, and other media. With over 12 million uploaded files (January 2012) it is the largest free images only repository and it contains many public domain images. Media on commons can be used automatically on all Wikimedia projects just as if the media were uploaded to the projects directly. Commons is the primary repository of media for all Wikimedia projects. Media tagged with the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark can be found here
Public Domain Photos - Free for commercial redistribution and alteration - From January 1, 2011, public-photo.net was moved to a new domain: publicphoto.org. All photo from this site is 100% free for use. The site has more than 1,600 galleries, in over 19 thousand unique photos, and at least three galleries are added daily, that is up to 30-40 photos per day. Each images can be downloaded at least four dimensions: thumbnail, normal, large and very large. Photos are up to 4752 x 3168 maximum resolution. (old domain: moka.t2i.info - Moka Gallery) !
Google images hosts a large repository of LIFE images, Time claims blanket copyright to everything but this is simply untrue. (seehere and also see here) Anything more than 120 years old (i.e. - before 1889) is generally safe. (exception is if the original author died less than 75 years ago--45 years after these PD pictures have been taken--, the author lived in a state with Common_law_copyright, and the name of the author is known---and in that case Time itself is most likely in copyright violation.) You must remove the watermark if you use the larger image.
TotallyFreeImages.com - Totally free public-domain images - Largest archive on the Internet with over 494,000 hi-res professional-grade royalty-free images, 100% public-domain and ok to use with Wikipedia
Photos Public Domain Thousands of high quality public domain photographs free for any use with no restrictions. Collection includes textures, animals, nature, and a variety of stock images for any use including commercial.
Free Photo Gallery Public Domain Images - Free stock and recreational photos licensed under Creative Commons, usable for commercial and non commercial purposes.
Picdrome - Public Domain growing picture collection, no copyright, licensed under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication. All items free to download and use, without restriction.
Pixabay - Public domain images without any limitation (private and commercial use)
/ Alegri Photos - Public domain and Creative Commons images
Public-Domain-Photos.com
Public Domain Cliparts Over 8000 public domain cliparts.
4 Free Photos Public domain images.
Free Stock Image Site Collection of public domain stock images.
Montenegro Photo Free images of Montenegro (Former Yugoslavia).
FreeStockPhotos.biz A large collection of Public Domain, GNU, Creative Commons & custom licensed stock photos and clip art.
BestPhotos.us Search millions of public domain photos or browse the best
Ars Publik - A great collection of public domain images from around the web, hand-selected for use in web and graphic design.
Public Domain Pictures A large collection of high quality pictures for free. Possibility to contact the authors for original files.
http://ushistoryimages.com/ - A growing collection of free images related to United States history.
RepublicDomain.com is a place for free public domain photos and desktop wallpapers.
Scans of art from pre-1922 books and various photos, free for any use
Easy Stock Photos - Royalty free stock photos, pictures, images and information in the public domain - Collection of public domain photos organized by category in image galleries.
Phototeria.com The site presents a large Collection of Public Domain images only. Its Very easy to navigate Phototeria.com which benefits not so experienced users or young folks.
Reusable Art - An ever-growing collection of vintage drawings, illustrations and photographs from books, magazines and other printed materials. Original publication information is included with each image for copyright verification. All images meet or exceed the Berne Convention standard for a creative work to be in the public domain.
Karen Whimsy's Public Domain Images - Scans of engravings and other artwork from a personal collection of old books, magazines, and post cards. Updated regularly.
Word Processor Clipart - Public Domain clipart optimized for use in word processors. Browsable via site treeview and thumbnail pages. Complete collection also downloadable from ibiblio.
Project Gutenberg - 12,000+ books, only a few illustrated, but the number of illustrated books increases from week to week. There are thousands of PD images available.
GIMP Archive - 32,000+ Royalty-free photos, organized by keyword.
Open Clip Art - This project is an archive of public domain clip art. The clip art is stored in the W3C scalable vector graphics (SVG) format.
clker - Easy to search public domain images, directly usable in openoffice.org
Open Domain - public domain images from various sources in one-a-day blog format.
PD Photo - Large collection of mostly public domain photos. Read the license for each picture before use; also, model releases may not have been obtained for all photos.
Logo Design Web Stockphotos - Small but growing public domain stock photos released by photographer.
http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/public/public_domain.htm - Scanned and colorised etchings claimed to be PD images.If any page or image seems missing, replace http://www.sru.edu/depts/cisba/compsci/dailey in its URI withhttp://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/
Free Photos - Small personal photographic collection dedicated to the public domain.
http://www.mathpuzzle.com/loyd/ Images of pages of a 1914 book of puzzles
http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/index.html - This collection includes 417 fashion plates from 1806-1914 from some of the leading fashion journals of the time.
Public Domain Spain Photo Gallery - Photo archive containing a collection of free, public domain images and photos of Spain.
Public Domain Footage - Public domain archival stock footage and newsreels.
Public Domain Clip Art- 25,000+ Public Domain Clip Arts (good for printing). Categorized & searchable.
Finally Creative Gallery Hundreds of categorized photos free for public use. Images added frequently.
Public Domain Depot A collection of public domain photos and resources with many original photos from the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
Free Images Collection A collection of free, copyright-free, high resolution images.
Open Galleries A community source of free photography, hosting several galleries with photos from all over the world.
Free Digital Photos Over 240 different categories each containing royalty free large photos and images that are in the public domain. Free to use for personal or commercial purposes.
Dated Images A blog with weekly postings of dated public domain images.
http://photo-sleuth.blogspot.com/ - Articles providing old photographs with sourced research as to their origins and history.
Vintage Pixels A collaborative database of found vintage photos. Free for use in amateur and commercial projects.
Free Public Domain Images on PlanetEarthForFree.com - PlanetEarthForFree free public domain images page
The Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries -search for images on government sites
http://www.unclesamsphotos.com a detailed directory of the US Government's public domain image galleries
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/clipart.html (a lengthy list of categorised links to other public domain image sources, many of those links don't work though)
Clip Art/Public Domain at the Open Directory Project (a list of links to sites with public domain clip art)
http://images.google.com - this still requires one to check the copyright status of each image.
XPASE Public Domain - A directory of various public domain resources.
USCITES.gov - Endangered species photos, illustrations and video provided by the U.S. Delegation to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (commonly referred to as CITES)
http://www.archive.org/details/USGovernmentDocuments Government Documents scanned by the Internet Archive
NPS Historic Photograph Collection - National Park Service
http://images.fws.gov/ - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imagery
images.google.com - use the advanced search feature to return images from the site or domain ".gov". {{PD-USGov}} may apply to such images.
http://images.usace.army.mil/main.html - United States Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library
U.S. Library of Congress digital image archive. (Some images are still under copyright, so caveat emptor.)
http://nationalatlas.gov Lots of .GIF image maps, such as Congressional District maps, all in the public domain.
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Photo Gallery
U.S. Antarctic Program Photo Library
http://terraserver-usa.com/default.aspx - free public access to a vast data store of maps and aerial photographs of the United States originating from USGS. {{PD-USGov-USGS}} may apply to such images.
http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/ -Great resource for electron microscopy and histological images. Includes general biomedical and science-related images, cancer-specific scientific and patient care-related images, and portraits of directors and staff of the National Cancer Institute.
USDA Agriculture Research Service Image gallery A "complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff."
U.S. Census Bureau Photo Services - all images in the public domain but a photo credit is requested.
http://www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/ - Current DoD publicly released image
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/ - DoD Defense Visual Information Center (High-resolution US military imagery; use with {{PD-USGov-Military-DVIC}} license template.)
The Congressional Pictorial Directory - also available in book form.
Department of the Navy - Naval Historical Center Photographic Section
History of Medicine at the National Library of Medicine. Most but not all of the exhibitions are PD. Clicking on "Metadata" near the bottom of the page will generate a popup window with information that includes Rights usage for each page.
NOAA Photo Library
http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov - Congressional sites have a broad variety of public domain images, especially photographs of representatives and senators.
http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml - A portal to US Government images and photos. "Most of these images and graphics are available for use in the public domain"
USDA Online Photography Center
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Pathology and histology slides made by the US Government.
MedPix Medical Image Database Hosting by Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The terms of use of the site state that the original submitter may retain copyright. Nearly all of the submitters are US Government physicians. The status of the submitter is available to verify that an individual image is in the public domain.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Oakland Public Library. Not all are PD! The image detail page will state the status, PD images will be clearly marked "Public domain".
The Public Domain Review - A Blog by the Open Knowledge Foundation to easily access public domain resources.
[edit]Subject-based Collections
Ordered by subject, alphabetically:
[edit]Art
Note: Accurate photographs of two-dimensional visual artworks lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the painting's copyright has expired (which it has in the US if it was published before 1923). All other copyright notices can safely be ignored.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/
http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ - The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) is an American art catalog compiled by the Smithsonian Institute. It has many reproductions of American paintings. However, it is known to have a number of factual errors, so it should be used with great care.
http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artistindex.php - Images of the works of more than 2,600 realist painters, many in the public domain; check catalogue for dates of works and artists. Note: Accurate photographs of two-dimensional visual artworks lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the painting's copyright has expired (which it has in the US if it was published before 1923). All other copyright notices can safely be ignored.
[edit]Automotive
The Crittenden Automotive Library. Not all are PD! The image detail page will state the status, PD images will be marked "Public domain" or by year of publication if before 1922.
[edit]Computer-generated
http://pixabay.com/ - Public domain images without any limitation
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/mapit/ - Automatic public domain map generating program
http://ian.macky.net/pat/map/country.html - Set of public domain country maps
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/cin/index-e.html - Canadian Illustrated News, 1869-1883
[edit]History
http://ushistoryimages.com - Public domain images from United States history.
http://www.acliparthistory.com - Public Domain images of the History of the World. Also Natural History and Fancy letters suitable for school projects
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html Library of Congress American Memory site (Check copyright information for the separate items before deciding to use them!)
http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ngillus.htm Images from The Newgate Calendar. Mostly crimes and criminals from the 18th century. Also other works at http://www.exclassics.com
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ Collection images scanned from various old books that are now in the public domain. Searchable. Used to be under http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
http://www.john-leech-archive.org.uk/ John Leech sketch archives 1841 until 1864 from Punch magazine The page states they are long out of copyright and that they are believed to be public domain.
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/ Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's online collection of digital images. Most will be {PD-art}. 90,000 images from rare books and manuscripts, search by keyword.
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org New York Public Library. Over 700,000 images scanned from books. Including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. There is a per-image usage fee even for public domain images.
http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/ Images scanned from old books. States that images on the site are the works of artists who "...have been dead for over seventy years, which makes them part of the public domain in many countries". Searchable by keywords.
America As It Was - a huge resource for vintage postcards in the U. S., organized by state. Any postcard first published in the U. S. before 1978 without an explicit copyright notice is PD. Lots of photos, aerial views, and maps of many U. S. locations.
"The Secret Museum of Mankind" - collection of anthropological photographs published in a 1935 book without copyright. Scanned and released under a CC-NC license, but images should be public domain, at least in the US, since they are faithful reproductions of PD images. (Warning: strong 1930's racist P. O. V.)
http://www.yestercards.com/ - a very large free database of vintage greeting cards and postcards published in the U. S. Indexed. Organized by category.
[edit]Specific periods
World War II Poster Collection over 300 posters issued by U. S. Federal agencies
Photos of the Great War many images of World War I, scanned in from public domain resources. Slight usage notice, which is probably compatible with GFDL (requires attribution and link, as does GFDL, requests e-mail notice of usage).
The Heritage of the Great War has several colour pictures from World War I (likely all PD, since the effort taken to scan/reproduce them probably fails to qualify for being a derivative work).
World's Armed Forces Forum (gallery for images taken from the French Ministry of Culture's website) hosts more colour images of World War I (likely all PD, since the effort taken to scan/reproduce them probably fails to qualify for being a derivative work).
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/ Child Labor in America 1908 - 1912 by Lewis W. Hine
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Thousands of on-line, copyright free photographs of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Great Depression and the New Deal, and World War II.
[edit]Literature
http://archive.org - Scanned-in books, maps, manuscripts, and historical documents; Public Domain; available in a number of formats including epub, kindle, and daisy; Searchable.
http://openlibrary.org - Project of the Internet Archive to provide a web page for every book.
http://books.google.com - Scanned-in books & historical documents. Keyword searchable. Great source for diagrams/illustrations. (not all public domain, many still in copyright) Books google believes are in the public domain are available for download as pdf. seeBridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.
http://gutenberg.net - Scanned-in books. Searchable.
http://catalog.hathitrust.org - Scanned-in books from partner universities. Searchable.
[edit]Logos and flags
http://www.wpclipart.com/flags/index.html 436 flags, countries listed alphabetically, also US State flags, historical and others. All in PNG format.
http://www.openclipart.org/
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html CIA World Factbook
[edit]Mexico
PlayaDelCarmenMexico.org Public domain photos of Playa del Carmen.
[edit]Music
http://www.ibiblio.org/mutopia/
[edit]New Zealand
Free New Zealand Photos Free photos of New Zealand under Creative Common license.
[edit]Postage stamps
Commons:Stamps/Public domain
[edit]Religion
http://www.theworkofgodschildren.org Collection of high-resolution Roman Catholic images of the Saints and religious imagery. All pictures have been released into the public domain.
http://www.coolnotions.com/PDImages/pd_StoryOfTheBible.htm Collection of Public Domain pictures from the Bible.
[edit]United States
[edit]Florida
Florida Memory Project Contain Public Domain images taken in Florida.
Florida Historical Society Contains historical photographs of Florida.
State of Florida Library Contains many photographs and documents dealing with Florida.
[edit]Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan Photos of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan campus.
[edit]Search Engines
Wayback Machine Search 150 Billion web pages preserved by the Internet Archive.
Google advanced search can search for free licensed or PD works
everystockphoto.com - Searching over 4.3 million public domain and creative commons photos including wikipedia and NASA. Free user accounts with drag and drop collections, and other features.
PicFindr.com - Searches a hand picked collection of public domain-, free stock photo-, and photo community sites. Includes the ability to search by rights! (whether you need to give credit, ask permission or not)
Spffy.com - Searches one billion stock photos and video, including free images, public domain, creative commons, royalty-free and rights-managed.
Recherchephoto.com - Searches public domain, and creative commons photos to use on your website.
SOURCE: Wikipedia
RECOMMENDATION #7
(Image sharing also being a good source)
Upload Photos Free – Top 10 Photo Sharing Websites
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Photo Sharing or Image Sharing Websites are sites where you can upload, organise and share your photos with others. There are many free photo/image sharing websites that you can use to upload and organise your photos. You can choose who you share your photos with.
Here are 10 Free Photo Sharing Websites:
1. Flickr
Flickr is one of the most popular and widely used online photo management and sharing applications in the world. It has two main goals; to help people make their photos available to others and to enable new ways of organizing photos and video.
2. Shutterfly.com
Shutterfly describes itself as the leading Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service where people express themselves by turning their everyday pictures into innovative and stylish keepsakes. Although it is designed primarily to share your images, you can also add textual content and a blog style news section to supplement your images.
3. Blurb.com
With Blurb, you’ll find all the tools you need to make your own photo book, whether you’re making a personalized wedding album, cookbook, baby book, travel photo book, or fundraising book. You can use one of the many free online bookmaking tools to create your own book as well as learn how to publish a book and more with how-to tips, tutorials and videos.
4. Mpix.com
Mpix is a division of Miller’s Professional Imaging. Miller’s was founded in 1939, and is the largest professional photography lab in the United States. You can upload and share images in albums for free as well as order prints and photo products at competitive prices.
5. Snapfish
Snapfish is a leading online photo service with more than 90 million members and one billion unique photos stored online. It is a multi-lingual site availble in many countries. You benefit from free online photo sharing, unlimited online photo storage. You can even purchases a variety of personalised photo products, ranging from calendars, mugs and mousemats, to books, puzzles and teddy bears.
6. KodakGallery.com
Kodak Gallery is one of the leading online destinations for storing and transforming photos. It was originally founded in 1999 as Ofoto and then purchased by In KODAK June 2001 when it was re-branded as KodakGallery. You get your own free sharing site where you can upload, store and share your photos with others.
7. WebShots.Com
With 7.2 Million* monthly visitors and more than 520 million photos to explore, Webshots is one of the largest photo- and video-sharing sites.
Webshots provides you with a variety of ways to enjoy photos and videos. You can share photos, videos and slideshows on Webshots and your personal website.
8. PicturePush.Com
PicturePush is a photo and video community built on the philosophy that you can upload everything you have in the highest quality possible and worry about what to share with whom later. Free accounts have a maximum upload limit but one of the advantages of this site is that you are allowed to upload and download images in high resolution.
9. Picasa Web Albums
Picasa a robust photo sharing and uploading site by Google.Picasa Web Albums offers free 1GB of storage, a robuts photo search engine, photo tagging, and a companion desktop photo organization tool. And it works well with Blogspot.com, so you can easily blog any photos you upload on your Picasa Web Album.
10. Photobucket
Photobucket is a popular place to store, create and share photos and videos for life. Upload all your best pictures, images, graphics, icons, and videos and share them by email or link them to your favourite sites like Facebook and Twitter. You can even personalize your photos by using our photo editor or make slideshows to share with friends.
SOURCE: http://www.kronikmedia.co.uk/blog/upload-photos-free-top-photo-sharing-websites/2245/
Wikimedia Commons hosts only freely licensed images, sound files, and other media. With over 12 million uploaded files (January 2012) it is the largest free images only repository and it contains many public domain images. Media on commons can be used automatically on all Wikimedia projects just as if the media were uploaded to the projects directly. Commons is the primary repository of media for all Wikimedia projects. Media tagged with the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark can be found here
Public Domain Photos - Free for commercial redistribution and alteration - From January 1, 2011, public-photo.net was moved to a new domain: publicphoto.org. All photo from this site is 100% free for use. The site has more than 1,600 galleries, in over 19 thousand unique photos, and at least three galleries are added daily, that is up to 30-40 photos per day. Each images can be downloaded at least four dimensions: thumbnail, normal, large and very large. Photos are up to 4752 x 3168 maximum resolution. (old domain: moka.t2i.info - Moka Gallery) !
Google images hosts a large repository of LIFE images, Time claims blanket copyright to everything but this is simply untrue. (seehere and also see here) Anything more than 120 years old (i.e. - before 1889) is generally safe. (exception is if the original author died less than 75 years ago--45 years after these PD pictures have been taken--, the author lived in a state with Common_law_copyright, and the name of the author is known---and in that case Time itself is most likely in copyright violation.) You must remove the watermark if you use the larger image.
TotallyFreeImages.com - Totally free public-domain images - Largest archive on the Internet with over 494,000 hi-res professional-grade royalty-free images, 100% public-domain and ok to use with Wikipedia
Photos Public Domain Thousands of high quality public domain photographs free for any use with no restrictions. Collection includes textures, animals, nature, and a variety of stock images for any use including commercial.
Free Photo Gallery Public Domain Images - Free stock and recreational photos licensed under Creative Commons, usable for commercial and non commercial purposes.
Picdrome - Public Domain growing picture collection, no copyright, licensed under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication. All items free to download and use, without restriction.
Pixabay - Public domain images without any limitation (private and commercial use)
/ Alegri Photos - Public domain and Creative Commons images
Public-Domain-Photos.com
Public Domain Cliparts Over 8000 public domain cliparts.
4 Free Photos Public domain images.
Free Stock Image Site Collection of public domain stock images.
Montenegro Photo Free images of Montenegro (Former Yugoslavia).
FreeStockPhotos.biz A large collection of Public Domain, GNU, Creative Commons & custom licensed stock photos and clip art.
BestPhotos.us Search millions of public domain photos or browse the best
Ars Publik - A great collection of public domain images from around the web, hand-selected for use in web and graphic design.
Public Domain Pictures A large collection of high quality pictures for free. Possibility to contact the authors for original files.
http://ushistoryimages.com/ - A growing collection of free images related to United States history.
RepublicDomain.com is a place for free public domain photos and desktop wallpapers.
Scans of art from pre-1922 books and various photos, free for any use
Easy Stock Photos - Royalty free stock photos, pictures, images and information in the public domain - Collection of public domain photos organized by category in image galleries.
Phototeria.com The site presents a large Collection of Public Domain images only. Its Very easy to navigate Phototeria.com which benefits not so experienced users or young folks.
Reusable Art - An ever-growing collection of vintage drawings, illustrations and photographs from books, magazines and other printed materials. Original publication information is included with each image for copyright verification. All images meet or exceed the Berne Convention standard for a creative work to be in the public domain.
Karen Whimsy's Public Domain Images - Scans of engravings and other artwork from a personal collection of old books, magazines, and post cards. Updated regularly.
Word Processor Clipart - Public Domain clipart optimized for use in word processors. Browsable via site treeview and thumbnail pages. Complete collection also downloadable from ibiblio.
Project Gutenberg - 12,000+ books, only a few illustrated, but the number of illustrated books increases from week to week. There are thousands of PD images available.
GIMP Archive - 32,000+ Royalty-free photos, organized by keyword.
Open Clip Art - This project is an archive of public domain clip art. The clip art is stored in the W3C scalable vector graphics (SVG) format.
clker - Easy to search public domain images, directly usable in openoffice.org
Open Domain - public domain images from various sources in one-a-day blog format.
PD Photo - Large collection of mostly public domain photos. Read the license for each picture before use; also, model releases may not have been obtained for all photos.
Logo Design Web Stockphotos - Small but growing public domain stock photos released by photographer.
http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/public/public_domain.htm - Scanned and colorised etchings claimed to be PD images.If any page or image seems missing, replace http://www.sru.edu/depts/cisba/compsci/dailey in its URI withhttp://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/
Free Photos - Small personal photographic collection dedicated to the public domain.
http://www.mathpuzzle.com/loyd/ Images of pages of a 1914 book of puzzles
http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/index.html - This collection includes 417 fashion plates from 1806-1914 from some of the leading fashion journals of the time.
Public Domain Spain Photo Gallery - Photo archive containing a collection of free, public domain images and photos of Spain.
Public Domain Footage - Public domain archival stock footage and newsreels.
Public Domain Clip Art- 25,000+ Public Domain Clip Arts (good for printing). Categorized & searchable.
Finally Creative Gallery Hundreds of categorized photos free for public use. Images added frequently.
Public Domain Depot A collection of public domain photos and resources with many original photos from the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
Free Images Collection A collection of free, copyright-free, high resolution images.
Open Galleries A community source of free photography, hosting several galleries with photos from all over the world.
Free Digital Photos Over 240 different categories each containing royalty free large photos and images that are in the public domain. Free to use for personal or commercial purposes.
Dated Images A blog with weekly postings of dated public domain images.
http://photo-sleuth.blogspot.com/ - Articles providing old photographs with sourced research as to their origins and history.
Vintage Pixels A collaborative database of found vintage photos. Free for use in amateur and commercial projects.
Free Public Domain Images on PlanetEarthForFree.com - PlanetEarthForFree free public domain images page
The Best Copyright-Free Photo Libraries -search for images on government sites
http://www.unclesamsphotos.com a detailed directory of the US Government's public domain image galleries
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/clipart.html (a lengthy list of categorised links to other public domain image sources, many of those links don't work though)
Clip Art/Public Domain at the Open Directory Project (a list of links to sites with public domain clip art)
http://images.google.com - this still requires one to check the copyright status of each image.
XPASE Public Domain - A directory of various public domain resources.
USCITES.gov - Endangered species photos, illustrations and video provided by the U.S. Delegation to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (commonly referred to as CITES)
http://www.archive.org/details/USGovernmentDocuments Government Documents scanned by the Internet Archive
NPS Historic Photograph Collection - National Park Service
http://images.fws.gov/ - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imagery
images.google.com - use the advanced search feature to return images from the site or domain ".gov". {{PD-USGov}} may apply to such images.
http://images.usace.army.mil/main.html - United States Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library
U.S. Library of Congress digital image archive. (Some images are still under copyright, so caveat emptor.)
http://nationalatlas.gov Lots of .GIF image maps, such as Congressional District maps, all in the public domain.
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Photo Gallery
U.S. Antarctic Program Photo Library
http://terraserver-usa.com/default.aspx - free public access to a vast data store of maps and aerial photographs of the United States originating from USGS. {{PD-USGov-USGS}} may apply to such images.
http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/ -Great resource for electron microscopy and histological images. Includes general biomedical and science-related images, cancer-specific scientific and patient care-related images, and portraits of directors and staff of the National Cancer Institute.
USDA Agriculture Research Service Image gallery A "complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff."
U.S. Census Bureau Photo Services - all images in the public domain but a photo credit is requested.
http://www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/ - Current DoD publicly released image
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/ - DoD Defense Visual Information Center (High-resolution US military imagery; use with {{PD-USGov-Military-DVIC}} license template.)
The Congressional Pictorial Directory - also available in book form.
Department of the Navy - Naval Historical Center Photographic Section
History of Medicine at the National Library of Medicine. Most but not all of the exhibitions are PD. Clicking on "Metadata" near the bottom of the page will generate a popup window with information that includes Rights usage for each page.
NOAA Photo Library
http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov - Congressional sites have a broad variety of public domain images, especially photographs of representatives and senators.
http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml - A portal to US Government images and photos. "Most of these images and graphics are available for use in the public domain"
USDA Online Photography Center
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Pathology and histology slides made by the US Government.
MedPix Medical Image Database Hosting by Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The terms of use of the site state that the original submitter may retain copyright. Nearly all of the submitters are US Government physicians. The status of the submitter is available to verify that an individual image is in the public domain.
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Oakland Public Library. Not all are PD! The image detail page will state the status, PD images will be clearly marked "Public domain".
The Public Domain Review - A Blog by the Open Knowledge Foundation to easily access public domain resources.
[edit]Subject-based Collections
Ordered by subject, alphabetically:
[edit]Art
Note: Accurate photographs of two-dimensional visual artworks lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the painting's copyright has expired (which it has in the US if it was published before 1923). All other copyright notices can safely be ignored.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/
http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ - The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) is an American art catalog compiled by the Smithsonian Institute. It has many reproductions of American paintings. However, it is known to have a number of factual errors, so it should be used with great care.
http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artistindex.php - Images of the works of more than 2,600 realist painters, many in the public domain; check catalogue for dates of works and artists. Note: Accurate photographs of two-dimensional visual artworks lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the painting's copyright has expired (which it has in the US if it was published before 1923). All other copyright notices can safely be ignored.
[edit]Automotive
The Crittenden Automotive Library. Not all are PD! The image detail page will state the status, PD images will be marked "Public domain" or by year of publication if before 1922.
[edit]Computer-generated
http://pixabay.com/ - Public domain images without any limitation
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/mapit/ - Automatic public domain map generating program
http://ian.macky.net/pat/map/country.html - Set of public domain country maps
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/cin/index-e.html - Canadian Illustrated News, 1869-1883
[edit]History
http://ushistoryimages.com - Public domain images from United States history.
http://www.acliparthistory.com - Public Domain images of the History of the World. Also Natural History and Fancy letters suitable for school projects
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html Library of Congress American Memory site (Check copyright information for the separate items before deciding to use them!)
http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ngillus.htm Images from The Newgate Calendar. Mostly crimes and criminals from the 18th century. Also other works at http://www.exclassics.com
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ Collection images scanned from various old books that are now in the public domain. Searchable. Used to be under http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/
http://www.john-leech-archive.org.uk/ John Leech sketch archives 1841 until 1864 from Punch magazine The page states they are long out of copyright and that they are believed to be public domain.
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/ Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's online collection of digital images. Most will be {PD-art}. 90,000 images from rare books and manuscripts, search by keyword.
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org New York Public Library. Over 700,000 images scanned from books. Including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. There is a per-image usage fee even for public domain images.
http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/ Images scanned from old books. States that images on the site are the works of artists who "...have been dead for over seventy years, which makes them part of the public domain in many countries". Searchable by keywords.
America As It Was - a huge resource for vintage postcards in the U. S., organized by state. Any postcard first published in the U. S. before 1978 without an explicit copyright notice is PD. Lots of photos, aerial views, and maps of many U. S. locations.
"The Secret Museum of Mankind" - collection of anthropological photographs published in a 1935 book without copyright. Scanned and released under a CC-NC license, but images should be public domain, at least in the US, since they are faithful reproductions of PD images. (Warning: strong 1930's racist P. O. V.)
http://www.yestercards.com/ - a very large free database of vintage greeting cards and postcards published in the U. S. Indexed. Organized by category.
[edit]Specific periods
World War II Poster Collection over 300 posters issued by U. S. Federal agencies
Photos of the Great War many images of World War I, scanned in from public domain resources. Slight usage notice, which is probably compatible with GFDL (requires attribution and link, as does GFDL, requests e-mail notice of usage).
The Heritage of the Great War has several colour pictures from World War I (likely all PD, since the effort taken to scan/reproduce them probably fails to qualify for being a derivative work).
World's Armed Forces Forum (gallery for images taken from the French Ministry of Culture's website) hosts more colour images of World War I (likely all PD, since the effort taken to scan/reproduce them probably fails to qualify for being a derivative work).
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/ Child Labor in America 1908 - 1912 by Lewis W. Hine
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Thousands of on-line, copyright free photographs of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Great Depression and the New Deal, and World War II.
[edit]Literature
http://archive.org - Scanned-in books, maps, manuscripts, and historical documents; Public Domain; available in a number of formats including epub, kindle, and daisy; Searchable.
http://openlibrary.org - Project of the Internet Archive to provide a web page for every book.
http://books.google.com - Scanned-in books & historical documents. Keyword searchable. Great source for diagrams/illustrations. (not all public domain, many still in copyright) Books google believes are in the public domain are available for download as pdf. seeBridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.
http://gutenberg.net - Scanned-in books. Searchable.
http://catalog.hathitrust.org - Scanned-in books from partner universities. Searchable.
[edit]Logos and flags
http://www.wpclipart.com/flags/index.html 436 flags, countries listed alphabetically, also US State flags, historical and others. All in PNG format.
http://www.openclipart.org/
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html CIA World Factbook
[edit]Mexico
PlayaDelCarmenMexico.org Public domain photos of Playa del Carmen.
[edit]Music
http://www.ibiblio.org/mutopia/
[edit]New Zealand
Free New Zealand Photos Free photos of New Zealand under Creative Common license.
[edit]Postage stamps
Commons:Stamps/Public domain
[edit]Religion
http://www.theworkofgodschildren.org Collection of high-resolution Roman Catholic images of the Saints and religious imagery. All pictures have been released into the public domain.
http://www.coolnotions.com/PDImages/pd_StoryOfTheBible.htm Collection of Public Domain pictures from the Bible.
[edit]United States
[edit]Florida
Florida Memory Project Contain Public Domain images taken in Florida.
Florida Historical Society Contains historical photographs of Florida.
State of Florida Library Contains many photographs and documents dealing with Florida.
[edit]Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan Photos of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan campus.
[edit]Search Engines
Wayback Machine Search 150 Billion web pages preserved by the Internet Archive.
Google advanced search can search for free licensed or PD works
everystockphoto.com - Searching over 4.3 million public domain and creative commons photos including wikipedia and NASA. Free user accounts with drag and drop collections, and other features.
PicFindr.com - Searches a hand picked collection of public domain-, free stock photo-, and photo community sites. Includes the ability to search by rights! (whether you need to give credit, ask permission or not)
Spffy.com - Searches one billion stock photos and video, including free images, public domain, creative commons, royalty-free and rights-managed.
Recherchephoto.com - Searches public domain, and creative commons photos to use on your website.
SOURCE: Wikipedia
RECOMMENDATION #7
(Image sharing also being a good source)
Upload Photos Free – Top 10 Photo Sharing Websites
29 JANUARY 2012 AND LAST MODIFIED ON FEBRUARY 2ND, 2012 AT 11:59 PM, NO COMMENT
Photo Sharing or Image Sharing Websites are sites where you can upload, organise and share your photos with others. There are many free photo/image sharing websites that you can use to upload and organise your photos. You can choose who you share your photos with.
Here are 10 Free Photo Sharing Websites:
1. Flickr
Flickr is one of the most popular and widely used online photo management and sharing applications in the world. It has two main goals; to help people make their photos available to others and to enable new ways of organizing photos and video.
2. Shutterfly.com
Shutterfly describes itself as the leading Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service where people express themselves by turning their everyday pictures into innovative and stylish keepsakes. Although it is designed primarily to share your images, you can also add textual content and a blog style news section to supplement your images.
3. Blurb.com
With Blurb, you’ll find all the tools you need to make your own photo book, whether you’re making a personalized wedding album, cookbook, baby book, travel photo book, or fundraising book. You can use one of the many free online bookmaking tools to create your own book as well as learn how to publish a book and more with how-to tips, tutorials and videos.
4. Mpix.com
Mpix is a division of Miller’s Professional Imaging. Miller’s was founded in 1939, and is the largest professional photography lab in the United States. You can upload and share images in albums for free as well as order prints and photo products at competitive prices.
5. Snapfish
Snapfish is a leading online photo service with more than 90 million members and one billion unique photos stored online. It is a multi-lingual site availble in many countries. You benefit from free online photo sharing, unlimited online photo storage. You can even purchases a variety of personalised photo products, ranging from calendars, mugs and mousemats, to books, puzzles and teddy bears.
6. KodakGallery.com
Kodak Gallery is one of the leading online destinations for storing and transforming photos. It was originally founded in 1999 as Ofoto and then purchased by In KODAK June 2001 when it was re-branded as KodakGallery. You get your own free sharing site where you can upload, store and share your photos with others.
7. WebShots.Com
With 7.2 Million* monthly visitors and more than 520 million photos to explore, Webshots is one of the largest photo- and video-sharing sites.
Webshots provides you with a variety of ways to enjoy photos and videos. You can share photos, videos and slideshows on Webshots and your personal website.
8. PicturePush.Com
PicturePush is a photo and video community built on the philosophy that you can upload everything you have in the highest quality possible and worry about what to share with whom later. Free accounts have a maximum upload limit but one of the advantages of this site is that you are allowed to upload and download images in high resolution.
9. Picasa Web Albums
Picasa a robust photo sharing and uploading site by Google.Picasa Web Albums offers free 1GB of storage, a robuts photo search engine, photo tagging, and a companion desktop photo organization tool. And it works well with Blogspot.com, so you can easily blog any photos you upload on your Picasa Web Album.
10. Photobucket
Photobucket is a popular place to store, create and share photos and videos for life. Upload all your best pictures, images, graphics, icons, and videos and share them by email or link them to your favourite sites like Facebook and Twitter. You can even personalize your photos by using our photo editor or make slideshows to share with friends.
SOURCE: http://www.kronikmedia.co.uk/blog/upload-photos-free-top-photo-sharing-websites/2245/
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