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Images

Our Favorite Image Sources

More Images Sources

  • OpenPhoto has hundreds of stock photos licensed for free commercial and non-commercial use.
  • OSU Stock Photos
  • OSU’s International Affairs maintains a Picasa site with over 100 OSU images available to the OSU community
  • Bigfoto.com offers pictures from around the world, including America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Pacific.
  • EveryStockPhoto.com is a search engine for creative commons photos. This is a single integrated search, allowing users to bookmark their photos with private and public tags.
  • FreeDigitalPhotos.net has over 2000 free images that you can use in commercial and noncommercial work. You are not allowed to sell, redistribute, or claim these images as your own. You can browse by category or search for exactly what you need.
  • FreeMediaGoo.com has a large collection of images, audio, textures, and other visual mediums that you can use for free with some restrictions.
  • FreeFoto.com has a large collection of free photographs (link back and attribution required).
  • FreePhotosBank.com allows users to have non-exclusive, non-transferable license to images. You can search for photos, see which photos are the most popular, and which ones have the highest ratings.
  • Fotogenika.net has photos for free download for personal, educational, and nonprofit use. The site includes categories such as architecture, animals, people, and textures.
  • MorgueFile.com offers stock photographs in high resolution digital.
  • Stock Exchange offers high quality images taken around the world by amateur photographers. The photographers establish the terms, so read the fine print, but most pictures can be reused immediately.
  • Turbophoto.com provides free stock images from 10 categories all of which are in the public domain.

Image Editing

  • Pacasa is free photo editing software from Google.