Resources for Web Design and Digital Graphics Teachers
Design & Art Resources
- ARTiculation This site has a wealth of information, examples and activities related to principles and elements of design.
- Design Theory — Elements & Principles of Art & Design
Free stock photos & other images
- Dreamstime Click on the "Free images" tab.
- 123RF Select "Free images" from the "Image Categories" drop down.
- FreeFoto Free photographs for private non-commercial use on the Internet.
- FreeImages More than 2500 original stock photos all for FREE!
- Image*After Over 10,000 free textures and images available. Free for personal and commercial use.
- Microsoft Office Clip Art and Media Clip art graphics, animations, photos, and sounds for use in Microsoft Office products.
- MorgueFile Free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
- Pixel Perfect Digital Free high resolution images, textures, backgrounds, illustrations, digital art and stock photos for use in both personal and commercial design projects.
- Free Stock Photo Free photography for personal or commercial use - they have BEAUTIFUL sky photos.
- Free Space Photos A NASA site, all photos free for public use.
- AarinFreePhoto.com - These digital photo collections are free to use. Right now the galleries are a little limited, but they have over 950 images for you to choose from. More are being added.
- AMG Media - Free photos for you to use. All these digital photos (taken with Nikon Coolpix) are 72dpi. Click on the thumbnails to see the larger version for use on your website. You may use any of the royalty free photos shown as long as you give credit to the photographer.
- Art Favor - ArtFavor is the collection of vector and flash clipart, sounds, fonts, photos, pictures and images for designers, flash programmers and interested in creative web design
- ARS Image Gallery - Search the Agricultural Image Gallery—along with their complete online catalog of more than 2,000 photo images.
- Amazing Textures - A texture library with hundreds of free textures to download, high-resolution textures, images, backgrounds, wallpapers and texture maps. Check out their massive collection of tiled textures or see theirr users' top textures.
- Burning Well - BurningWell is a repository for public domain (free for any use) images. You are free to download, copy and use the photos you find here for any purpose. These free images were donated by photographers from around the world.
- Big Foto - The royalty free photo agency offering free use of all pictures (with link or reference).
- Buzz Net - Buzznet.com is a vibrant photo-sharing community. The site features an easy-to-use interface and powerful tools to create your own photoblog and start sharing your photos with your friends and meet friends from around the world.
- Barry’s Free Photos - Free Stock Photos…. Barry’s Free Photos offers over 2300 FREE stock photos in several categories.
- Creating Online - Free stock photos for personal or commercial use…set up in a forum.
- Cepolina - The album includes 3577 free photos available for download.
- Creative Commons Search - Full copyright applies to most stuff on the web. But this search helps you find photos, music, text, and other works whose authors want you to re-use it for some uses — without having to pay or ask permission.
- Copyright Free Photo Archive - A Community-Indexed Photo Archive. The photo archive at Gimp-Savvy.com has more than 27,000 free photos and images, consisting of over 2.5 gb of data. The goal is to make this archive a resource for collage and photo-montage using digital image editing techniques
- DHD Multimedia Gallery - The Gallery is a selection of mainly real-world-derived stock photography, clip-art, sounds and video clips, for use in web design, your PC screen wallpaper, etc. Gallery content has been used on many web sites, but also on book covers, TV caption cards, music videos, leaflets and school projects. Download for your free personal and commercial use, though please read the terms and conditions.
- Free Photographs - The Free Photographs Network is an online resource for royalty-free stock photographs for non-commercial use.
- Free Digital Photos - Free pictures for websites, newsletters and documents etc. For commercial and non-commercial use. There is no registration required or forms to fill in. Hundreds more photos are being added each month. The photos are web quality and are intended for web designers, or for use in any document, newsletter or presentation.”
- Free Photos Dot Com - Do you need free stock photos for your website, brochure or design work? FreePhotos.com is your answer. Free to download, no link back and no credit required.
- Free Photos Bank - A nice looking site which has free stock photography and is searchable and browsable.
- Free Stock Photos Dot Com - Download free photos for your personal/commercial design projects.
- Free Media Goo - Free and royalty free photos.
- GeekPhilosopher - GeekPhilosopher’s stock photo, background, and desktop wallpaper collection. These quality images are free to use.
- Free Stock Photos - Free photography for personal or commercial use.
- From Old Books - Scanned images, engravings and pictures from old books.
- Holy Land Photos - Free Hi-Res Photographs of the Holy Lands.
- Image Base - Free Stock Photography in categories Nature / Outdoor, People, City, & Concept / Object.
- Images of the World - Free photographs from locations around the world
- Pics4Learning - Copyright-friendly Images for education
- PD Photo - PDPhoto.org is a repository for free public domain photos. Unless something is clearly marked as being copyrighted, you can assume it is free to use.
- Photo Rogue - Have you looked long and hard for a photograph of something, and never found it? That’s where PhotoRogue.com comes in. You can request a picture of anything you want, and volunteer photographers will go out and attempt to actually take the picture you want. It’s entirely free, although there is no guarantee that your request will ever be filled.
- PhotoCase - Photos from this site may be used for commercial and noncommercial self-contained original work. You can download up to three photos per day. If you need to download more, the site requires buying download credits through its shopping section.
- Stock Xchng - Browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over 170.000 quality stock photos by more than 10.000 users! Need a wallpaper for your desktop? Need a pic for your commercial website design? Looking for inspiration? Have a look around.
- Stock Vault - Download high quality stock photos, textures, and other images completely free.
- UnProfound - This collection of photos is for anyone to use in just about any way they’d like. You may NOT, however, redistribute these photos individually or en masse, as photos, to any other websites or offline buyers. The photos themselves are still the intellectual property of their respective owners.
- Visipix - A repository of over 100,000 Fine Art and Photo Museum Pictures. These are free to use, but you need to credit VisiPix and the artist.
- Woophy - Woophy has a collection of over 23,000 photos from around the world and over 4300 cities are represented.
- Yellowstone National Park - Over 9,000 image digital slide files of Yellowstone National Park with captions is now online.
- Vintage Pixels - Vintage Pixels is a large database of historical, high quality, royalty-free images which allows people to share their archived photos. You can download images for print, or use in graphic design, as well upload images to add to the ever growing album of vintage images. The best part - it’s all free!
- Open Photo - Another free site for free photos. The Open Photo Project provides royalty-free photographs via Creative Commons Licensing.
- Wikimedia - The Wikimedia Commons is a project that provides a central repository for free photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, and media of all sorts, used in pages of any Wikimedia project. Currently it contains 300,000 files and 25,137 collections.
- Wallpaper Stock - You can find a nice selection of pictures in many categories. They are meant for desktop wallpapers, but they work as stock photos as well.
- Retrokat Medieval Freebies - A good selection of parchment backgrounds, illuminated-style letters and woodcut-style graphics.
- TheFreeSite - Clip art, photos, icons and buttons.
- The Free Graphics Store - links to websites that have free graphics of all kinds, fonts, software, CGI scripts, Java applets, JavaScript and more.
- Ender Design: Realm Graphics - backgrounds and seamless textures.
- Graphics4Free - free custom bullets, dividers, backgrounds, and buttons.
- Original Country Clipart by Lisa - country-style graphics for web or print.
- AmboGraphics - wallpapers, tiled backgrounds, buttons and bars.
- GR Sites - large collection of background textures arranged by color.
- EOS Development - original graphics for your web page that include textured backgrounds, buttons, bullets, etc.
Sites for Building Flash games
- OOS - OutsideOfSociety - oos.moxiecode.com/
A website dedicated to Flash games development. You can find amazing examples of games made entirely in Flash. While lots of examples and tutorials are made in Flash 5, there are also those made in Flash 8. Great, great site! For learning, inspiration and playing. Don't miss it!
- Robert Penner's ActionScript code - www.robertpenner.com/
Mr. Penner has some great ActionScript code available for download at his website. Superb easing equations (ideal for Flash games) are posted there: click on the easing equations link on top of the page. Both ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 are shown.