PictureImage+sources

=Free Image Libraries= You can legally use a huge number of images available on the web. Here are a few to get you started.

Still Images
[| EduPic Graphic Resource] Designed specifically for teachers there are some excellent pictures for you to use on this site. [|YotoPhoto] This site does Creative Commons searches of other sites such as Flickr, Morguefile and Stock Xchange. [|ARCive - Images of Life on Earth] This website is trying to document in photos and in movies every living thing on earth. You can use their pictures for free for non-commercial, educational uses. [|EveryStockPhoto] This site searches many of the free Stock Photo sites (such as the ones below) and brings back results from all of them. Very useful. [|Morguefile] A searchable database of photos posted for free. Some owners of the photos ask that you let them know if you are planning to use them. [|Stock Xchng] A huge database of images that are free to use. [|Flickr] This website is a photo sharing community was a VERY large number of photos contained within. Check what licence the photographer has attached to their photo before downloading. There is a handy way of searching Flickr with [|Flickr Storm]. [|Flickr Related Tag Browser] This is a novel way to search flickr photos. Type in a search term and the results appear in the middle with other related search terms in a circle around the results. [|Image After] Not the simplist looking website but still has a number of free photos. [|Studio 25] Create an account to use these free images. Great quality. [|Fotogenik] Another very large free photo site [|ICT Teachers Photo Library] A little limited in the number of pictures but all can be used for educational purposes. [|A large list of other sites!] If you still want to find some images, you could go through some of the other sites listed on this page. [|Northumberland LEA Clipart]Free to use for education on 12 commonly used topics. [|Pics4Learning] - a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. [|Warren and Genevieve Garst Photographic Collection]- a huge number of pictures of animals from the collections of these wildlife photographers. Fair use copyright rules apply. [|De Tools of the Trade Clipart Links] Links to a number of sites containing clipart that educators can use. [| National Geographic Photo Galleries] A huge range of photos on many different topics. [|Earthalbum] A cross between Flickr and Google Map - click on a country and then get images from Flickr for that country [|New Zealand] A website about NZ with photo galleries.

Desktop Images
[|VladStudio] The lower resolution pictures on this site are free but I paid for a lifetime subscription for a whole $35 US to get the higher resolution pics. The designs are gorgeous.

Animated Images/ GIFs
[|Free animated gifs]  A range of topics including a number of alphabet animations that can be put together to make words.

Reducing Size of Images
File size too large? Use one of these to help cut it down to size so it loads quickly [|Online Image Optimiser] Load images to this website and it will reduce the size for you.

**Image Editing and Sharing**

 * [|Flickr]
 * [|Phixr]
 * [|Picasa]
 * [|Picnik]
 * [|SplashUp]
 * [|FotoFlexer]
 * [|Slide]
 * [|Scrapblog]
 * [|MyPictr]
 * [|ToonDoo]
 * [|BigHugeLabs] - Flickr applications