Free Image Resources
These are a few free and legal image resources that can help you to find good images to add to such things as blog posts.
"Open source" images
These are images that are licensed very freely under such licenses as
Creative Commons Attribution/Sharealike, Free Art License, the
GFDL, or even in the public domain. They should be free to use anywhere without needing to get permission, though care should be taken to follow the specific terms when applicable. In most cases, you should take a look at these sites first.
- BurningWell - All public domain images
- Cepolina Photos
- Free Artistic Photos - A blog that contains public domain images. Unfortunately, it is hard to search through.
- GIMP Savvy Photo Archive - A community maintained public domain image gallery.
- imagebase -- A collection of photos (and some other content) licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License license.
- Lima's Pictures from Old Books - Scanned in images from public domain books.
- Open Clipart Library - All public domain clipart.
- PD Photo - A gallery of mostly public domain images and some Creative Commons images.
- TOFZ - A collection of urban photos available under the Free Art License or a liberal Creative Commons license.
- unprofound -- This site is unique as the images are sorted by hue. I have confirmed with the site administrator that these images are public domain.
- Wikimedia Commons - The storage place for all free media used on Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia).
US Government image galleries
These are image galleries on US government sites. All images produced by the US government are in the public domain.
Free with some restrictions
These are images that are free for some purposes, but are restricted as to how they can be used. If you are doing anything noncommercial, this should be no problem.
