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General |
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| Backgrounds Archive | Free backgrounds; great for PowerPoint |
| Two step-by-step tutorials to learn how to use Microsoft Paint | |
| MultiColor Search Lab | Chose up to 10 colors and this engine searches Flickr Creative Common images by the inclusion of the colors chosen |
| PicMarkr | Add a watermark to your photos |
Borders, Backgrounds, and Buttons |
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| All Free Backgrounds | Hundreds of free background tiles to chose from |
| Background City |
Textured, embossed, pattern backgrounds and more Note: A link back to this site is required. |
| Cool Text | An online graphics generator for web pages |
| Flaming Text | Headings, buttons, bullets, etc. with step-by-step instructions |
| 3-D Text Maker |
Make 3-D Text |
Clip Art |
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| ARG! Cartoon Animation | Over 2,500 free, original, animated GIFs including a dancing cartoon alphabet and dancing words |
| Clipart ETC | 35,000 pieces of free clipart and growing every month |
| DK Clip Art | Photographs to support class and homework activities |
| Educational Clipart | Clipart organized by subjects from Teacher.com |
| Free Fever | Copyright free clipart |
| Graphic Maps | Free clipart includes continents, flags, globes, outline maps, USA and world images |
| Kitty Roach's Graphics and Sounds | Original, animated graphics and sounds |
| #1 Free Clip Art | Categorized clipart |
| WP Clipart |
Public domain clipart |
Photographs |
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| AICT | Art Images for College Teaching provides free-use educational resources of historical photos |
| AMG Media Works | Royalty free photos to use as long as credit is given to the photographer: Ernest von Rosen, www.amgmedia.com (low-res photos free; hi-res must be purchased) |
| American Memory Collections | An extensive collection of historic photographs, maps, motion pictures, manuscripts, etc. Library of Congress site. |
| Behold CC | Search for high quality Flickr images |
| Calisphere | Historical images collections for educators (University of California) |
| Cepholinia Photo | Free photo archive about travel and nature |
| EduPic | Free photographs and graphic for educators |
| EdTechTeacher | An extensive list of Internet sources containing public domain images |
| 5-14 Curriculum | Illustrations and photographs free for educational use. Credit Learning and Teaching Scotland archive. |
| Flickr | Creative Common licensed images (be sure to check which level the image is on) |
| Flickr Storm | Search collections of Flickr images |
| FreeFoto | 131,886 free images with 181 sections organized into 3623 categories |
| FreePixels | Free photographs arranged by subject |
| Image After | Free photo collection |
| Kitzu | Free, educational, copyright-friendly media resources |
| LIFE Photo Archive | Millions of photographs from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available through the joint work of LIFE and Google. Photos are free to print and use for not-for-profit organizations |
| MorgueFile | Provides the public and creative community with free, high resolution photo materials |
| NASA Graphics | Space and flight images |
| National Archives Exhibits Hall | Historical photographs and documents |
| National Image Library | Wide assortment of selected images, publications, video and audio clips by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Natural Resources Conservation Service | Contains natural resource and conservation related photos from across the USA |
| NOAA Photo Library | Free photos in the public domain with more than 20,000 photographs of weather events, animals, coastlines, the Antarctic, and more |
| Open Photo | A collection of photographs for free noncommercial use |
| PD Photo | Large collection of public domain photos, unless something is clearly marked as being copyrighted |
| Photos in the News | National Geographic photographs of current events for classroom use |
| Photo Laboratory | Awesome collection of colorful photographs; requires a free registration |
| Pics4Learning | Large collection of thematic digital images |
| Smithsonian Images | Images from the Collections of the Office of Imaging and Photographic Services |
| U.S. Government Graphics and Photos |
This site functions as a portal to other government sites offering images with most items in the collection in the public domain |
3-Dimensional ImagesNote: 3D glasses are needed to view the 3-dimensional effect |
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| How to Make 3D Glasses | Make 3D glasses to use with 3D images |
| 3D Anaglyph Photos | 3D images as well as instructions for creating 3D photos in Photoshop |
| 3D Bug Gallery | Get up close to a variety of bugs in 3D |
| 3D Images of Nature | 3D nature photos include amphibians, birds, geology, plants and more |
| 3D Images of Japan | 3D photos taken in Japan |
| 3D Image Library | Over 20,000 3D images: places around the world, animals, science, sports |
| 3D Journal Gallery | 3D photos including places throughout the world |
Web Graphics |
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| BigNoseBird | Coordinated web page sets: buttons, navigation, background images |
| Cartoon Cottage | A variety of web page graphics |
| Clipart by Lisa | Country clip art; must be purchased |
| Creating Online | Easy to use online tools and resources |
| ELATED Image Kits | Images you can download for free to build a website |
| Free Graphics | Free custom made buttons, bullets, dividers and other quality graphics |
| School Icons Web Graphics |
Backgrounds, buttons, sets (requires a link back to their site) |
Image Searches and Resources |
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| Alta Vista Image Search | A comprehensive image and video search |
| Google Image Search | A comprehensive image search |
| Dogpile Image Search | A comprehensive image search |
| Picsearch | A comprehensive image search |
| Yahoo Image Search | A comprehensive image and video search |