Comments on: Need Stock Images? http://www.valnelson.com/web-marketing/web-content/need-stock-images/ Make Your Mark... On the Web... On the World Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:28:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Val Nelson http://www.valnelson.com/web-marketing/web-content/need-stock-images/comment-page-1/#comment-1030 Val Nelson Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:20:11 +0000 http://www.valnelson.com/?p=243#comment-1030 Two more secrets to coming up with images for your blog or website: 1) Create a word cloud (art made from words you insert) at <a href="http://www.Wordle.net" rel="nofollow">Wordle.net</a>. It's fun and free. 2) Take a screenshot of something on the web you're referring to. Here's how: http://take-a-screenshot.org/ Two more secrets to coming up with images for your blog or website:
1) Create a word cloud (art made from words you insert) at Wordle.net. It’s fun and free.
2) Take a screenshot of something on the web you’re referring to. Here’s how: http://take-a-screenshot.org/

]]> By: Stephanie Willen Brown http://www.valnelson.com/web-marketing/web-content/need-stock-images/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Stephanie Willen Brown Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:08:22 +0000 http://www.valnelson.com/?p=243#comment-147 I love Stock xChng at <a href="http://www.sxc.hu/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sxc.hu/</a>. You can search by topic, and they have great stock images for free. They also have images for sale. I use the free images in my lectures a lot -- and the images for sale occasionally give me ideas about other search terms I could use to get related images. I also like searching Flickr for "Creative Commons" images -- these are free for non-commercial use. Here's a search for Creative Commons images of cats: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=cat&l=cc&ct=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=cat&l=cc&ct=0</a> And I just remembered that I blogged about this, including a link to Australian librarian Judy O'Connell's list of free images online (her list is at http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2007/11/24/find-free-images-online-my-list/; mine is at http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/12/images-online.html ) I love Stock xChng at http://www.sxc.hu/. You can search by topic, and they have great stock images for free. They also have images for sale. I use the free images in my lectures a lot — and the images for sale occasionally give me ideas about other search terms I could use to get related images.

I also like searching Flickr for “Creative Commons” images — these are free for non-commercial use. Here’s a search for Creative Commons images of cats: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=cat&l=cc&ct=0

And I just remembered that I blogged about this, including a link to Australian librarian Judy O’Connell’s list of free images online (her list is at http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2007/11/24/find-free-images-online-my-list/; mine is at http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/12/images-online.html )

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