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Where to Find Images
(especially royalty free ones)
Read up on what Creative Commons licenses mean and don't mean. Did you find a photo on the internet that you're interested in using? Find out who took it. Just because a photo isn't licensed for reuse, that doesn't mean you can't ask.
- Wikimedia Commons(their Reuse Guide is useful)
- Flickr's Commons includes quite a few public archives. ** Their Public Domain pool looks polluted, but they may clean it up.
- PingNews a great Flickr pool of archival photos
- New York Public Library
- Smithsonian Archives
- Museum of the City of New York
- Library of Congress American Memory Project
- Ibiblio has a thorough but clunky archive of images of artworks that are in the public domain.
- Free Images is a free stock photo library
- Morgue File is a free stock photo library
- Google's advanced image search lets you specify the terms.
- Flickr advanced searches
- Metropolitan Museum Archives are available through their Open Access Policy
I have a long list of open and/or royalty free clipart on my Pinboard account.
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RiniArt is a great repository of illustrations.
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Open Clip Art is just that
Figure out your system and stick to it, but make sure that you have adequate metadata for your images, that you know who to credit and what the terms of reuse are.
I use ExifTool to add comments and credit directly to each image's metadata. Example:
exiftool -Credit="Ricardo Nelson ricardonelson.com/" -Comment="Original URL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/abcnoriogala2011/5748079010/" Dropbox/Photos/Myself/no_rio_gala.jpg
Once I run that command, if I run exiftool Dropbox/Photos/Myself/no_rio_gala.jpg I can see that my comment and credit are included in the photo's metadata. If you're not a fan of the command line, keep a text file with the information you need in it.