Educational Technology

Below are several sites where you can get royalty free images for your use.

These descripitions were taken from a great Photoshop resource
PhotoShop Pro .

http://www.swift-images.com/photoshop-pro/

Stock Xchng

Go to Stock Xchng

This is a very simple and easy site to navigate. Sign up with them and thousands of free stock photos are at your finger tips.

You can search by category, do advanced searches, visit the blog, and check out their tutorials on photography.

About all the photos come in at 300ppi and vary around 5 to 10 inches on the long side. This site is an excellent resource for a very large number of free images. I did a quick search for "fire" and up came approximately 1,000 photos. They even have one image of an aardvark!

YotoPhoto

Go to YotoPhoto Yotophoto is a search engine for free-to-use stock photographs and images. These are images that are either in the Public Domain or released under generous Creative Commons, GNU FDL or similar licenses.

Originally an experiment to facilitate easier image searching of the Wikipedia, Yotophoto eventually expanded to index other well known free image sites and now index over a quarter million free images!

The site is very easy to use and, as noted, there are an amazing number of available images. You don't have to register but when clicking an image, you will jump to the site where it comes from (stock.xchng, for example) and you may need to register there. The registering thing is no problem, though; you don't get spammed, and the site owners are just trying to keep track of how many are downloading what. This also helps them prevent an entire site's worth of images being ripped by someone with evil intentions.

Geek Philosopher

Go to Geek Philosopher

Many different categories of images to choose from here. Also, if you click the "Tao of Web" link at the top, you get links to a host of information about web sites and the internet: web basics, development tools, cyberspace life, and more.


Stock Vault

Go to Stock Vault

Stock Vault has a collection of over 7,000 royalty-free, high resolution images, templates, and logos.

Go to Stock Vault A nice feature of this site is that it has 3D rendered images available, like the one to the left.

You'll also find free tutorials, textures, and fonts on the site, as well as a bunch more.

DreamsTime

Go to DreamsTime By their own account, DreamsTime has over 1,370,000 images. You need to register and your membership gets you 7 free images per week.

You'll need to pay for the high resolution images, but the prices are quite inexpensive.

Free Range Stock

Go to Free Range Stock Sign up for a free membership and download high-resolution, free images. All images are at least 2400 x 1600 and can be used for commercial or personal projects.

A nice feature of the site is that if you don't find an image you're looking for, request it — they have a substantial archive not online yet, and may very well have it for you. There are also links to tutorials, and an online catalogue of 1,500 images (up to 2,000 coming soon).

Morgue File

Go to Morgue File Click the "Archive" link on the right to get going. They have a very large selection of high-resolution images. Just click the image to get a larger view then click for a zip file download.

If you do take advantage of their free registration, you can create your own lightbox where you can store all the images you've selected for future use. In addition to that, they have a link for the forum, blog, and even a jobs page.

Image After

Go to Image After This site is definitely worth a look. Registration is not required and searching for images is a breeze — there's an array of drop-down menus at the top where you can search by category, then sort by name, size, date, etc. You can even select a color and search the images for that (OK, the colors are listed in hexadecimal, for example #D5AAD5, but hey, I love that color).

The images are high-resolution and large. Give them a try.

PiotrPix

Go to PiotrPix There are about 2,000 images on this site. They come in at 1600 x 1200, but if you register (for free) you can get them in larger sizes.