Tuesday's Tech Tips: How to Find Free Images, Legally and Ethically PDF Print E-mail

It's easy to find free, as in cost, and as in speech, images that you can use in your own projects, even if they are commercial.  We will share some of our favorite sites and tools, and describe some of the legal pitfalls to watch out for.

Links mentioned in this week's Tuesday's Tech Tips:

Tuesday's Tech Tips: Legal and Ethical Free Music for Christmas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8tqgeoksYM

http://creativecommons.org/

http://www.sxc.hu/

http://www.freerangestock.com/

http://www.morguefile.com/

http://www.flickr.com/

ttp://commons.wikimedia.org/

http://nix.nasa.gov/

http://everystockphoto.com/

Music:

BS - E_volution
From the album "Best of":
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/56529
Creative Commons Licensed CC-BY 3.0

Images:

.| Future |. by Clix
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/487218/
Stock.xchng License

Sleeping Kitty
by michiru_
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1304240
Stock.xchng License

Young woman sitting with an encyclopedia
by royalshot
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1288795
Stock.xchng License

Woman with headphones listening to music
by royalshot
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1288797
Stock.xchng License

Tesla learning organic chemistry
By ragesoss
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ragesoss/83980370/
Creative Commons Licensed CC-BY-SA 2.0

Flickr Licenses
by Acablue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_Licenses_edit.svg
Public Domain

Louis & Chanel taking a nap
by Stephan Brunet AKA Macphreak
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis-&-Chanel-taking-a-nap.jpg
Creative Commons Licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0

A view of Earth as the Apollo 11 Command Module nears the surface of the Moon
NASA Kennedy Space Center
http://nix.larc.nasa.gov/info?id=AS11-44-6549
Public Domain

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