How to find free illustrations for your multimedia projects

How to find free illustrations for your multimedia projects

Source: 404 Illustrations Since my artistic skills are lacking, I love it when I stumble upon free graphics that I can use. Although 404 Illustrations‘ goal is to provide graphics for 404 pages (those pages that come up when you try access a page that doesn’t exist) a lot of the graphics are generic enough that…

Smithsonian releases 2.8 million images into public domain – with more to come

Smithsonian releases 2.8 million images into public domain – with more to come

For the first time in its 174-year history, the Smithsonian has released 2.8 million high-resolution two- and three-dimensional images from across its collections onto an open access online platform for patrons to peruse and download free of charge. Featuring data and material from all 19 Smithsonian museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives and the National Zoo, the…

The Creative Commons’ new image search is online with over 300 million images

The Creative Commons’ new image search is online with over 300 million images

Creative Commons is a licence for creative works that allows the creator to offer different terms than what is possible under copyright. Most Creative Commons works are licensed Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) or Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). Attribution means you have to give the creator credit, noncommercial means the work can’t be used in a commercial setting,…

Resize multiple images with BIRME – Bulk Image Resizing Made Easy

Resize multiple images with BIRME – Bulk Image Resizing Made Easy

Resize multiple images with BIRME – Bulk Image Resizing Made Easy. Source: BIRME – Bulk Image Resizing Made Easy 2.0 (Online & Free) No log in required. Upload the pictures that need to be resized or cropped. Then select the size and let it go. By default, it will crop, but if you select auto width…