How to find free images?
Searching for images
The first source is the search engine Google Images.
"The most comprehensive image search on the Web."
Google has created options for rights in its image search engine.
The Advanced Search interface offers a range of options to refine your search, including options about copyrights and right to reuse.
This may be defined in the query too, based on the following parameters:
Filters
&as_rights=cc_publicdomain &as_rights=cc_attribute &as_rights=cc_sharealike
So if you're looking for royalty-free images about "programming", the request will be:
http://images.google.com/images?q=programming&as_rights=cc_publicdomain
In a group keywords are separated by the %20 code, example:
programming%20php
Going directly to sharing sites
Some sites provide lots of images and icons available for free...
- A list of resources on Wikipedia.
- Commons. On the site itself.
- Wikiwix. The images tags allows to search free images on Wikipedia.
- Burningwell.org. Repository for public domain images.
- Vector buttons and images. qVector is a sharing site for vector elements.
Icons
- Another list for icons from Commons.
- Pixuff. Free icons and images.
- The noun project. Free icon of any thing.
- Vector desktop objects. Big icons.
Images generator
- Robohash.org generates images of robots from a text. Based on identicon.
See also
