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Graphic Design: Images

This guide will help graphic design students with materials and resources for the Graphic Design programs

EBooks from Galileo

Resources & Links

Digital Public Library of America

 

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

 

Imaging

Chapter in open textbook

 

Wolfram Demonstrations Project - Art

Interactive art illustrations.

 

Emojipedia — [free] — every emoji, ever

 

Vectr - Free Online Vector Graphics Editor

Vectr is a free graphics software used to create vector graphics 

 

Illlustrations

A large set of open-source illustrations library

 

VECTOR VS. RASTER IMAGES: CHOOSING THE RIGHT FORMAT

 

What’s the Difference Between Raster and Vector?

 

Creative Commons Media

Search for media with CC licenses all over the web.

 

Big Foto

A royalty-free photo agency offering free downloads of ALL pictures on their site.

 

Design & Illustration Tutorials

Image Editing

 

Coverr

Coverr is a source of beautifully shot stock videos that are free to download for commercial and non-commercial use, no attribution required.

 

Black Illustrations 

Illustrations portraying Black people in their everyday lives - free to use for creating graphics, presentations, or other content.

 

GIMP

The longstanding favorite, full-featured, free and open source image editing application. Like Photoshop, the learning curve is steep, so check out the GIMP tutorials.

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Images

Using Images in Graphic Design

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Open Access Image databases

Browse these search engines and sites to find images. Most are open access but some may require attribution. Be sure to follow all copyright laws based on each image.

 

Flickr

Millions of photographs uploaded by users. do an ”Advanced Search”,  to search images for the license of the image that is needed. Ex. Creative commons.

 

Pixabay

Over 960,000 images released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.

 

Morguefile

Over 350,000 high quality, high resolution photos. Free for commercial use. No attribution required.

 

Photos Public Domain

Contains clip art and photos released under a Creative Commons license.

 

FreeImages

 

Open Photo

A photo community with thousands of Creative Commons licensed photos in various categories.

 

Wikimedia Commons

 

Wellcome Library images

Contains over 170,000 of medical, biomedical, and social history images, both historical and contemporary. All images are available for use under a Creative Commons license.

 

Unsplash

All photos published on Unsplash are licensed under Creative Commons Zero which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer or Unsplash.

 

Wikimedia Commons

 

Gratisography

Photos are licensed under CC License Zero and can be used for commercial purposes.

 

Pexels

Thousands of high quality public domain images all licensed under a creative commons zero license.

 

FoodiesFeed

High quality photographs of food available to download for blog posts, articles, websites, templates, mobile apps, backgrounds, etc

 

Wunderstock

Wunderstock is a free photo library that offers public domain photos and Creative Commons images on Flickr.

 

Pxhere 

CC0 images. No attribution required.

 

Pexels 

another large and popular royalty-free photos directory.

 

Burst is a free stock photo platform that’s powered by Shopify. The image library includes thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images shot by a global community of photographers. Burst provides designers, developers, bloggers, and entrepreneurs with access to beautiful free stock photography.

 

TinEye Labs

 

Avopix Free Stock Photos

 

Open Clipart Library

A free clipart library. Unless noted, content on this site is waived of all copyright and related or neighboring rights under the CC0 PD Dedication.

Openclipart.

Since 2004, Now with 167611 clipart.

Icons

City Icons

Variety of cultural city icons for multiple countries that can be downloaded.

 

Open Icon Library

Open collection of icons.

 

Open Clip Art

Clip art and icons

 

Public Domain Vectors

60,000 vector images in public domain.

 

Food Icons.zip

A collection of foreign food icons 

 

OpenPeeps

Handdrawn vector graphics. Mix and match. License: CC0

 

Iconscout

a leading platform that features over 3M royalty-free icons, illustrations, and  3D assets from thousands of contributors around the world. 

 

Font Awesome

the web's most popular icon set and toolkit, also it's open source.

FlatIcon

FlatIcon is the largest database of free icons available in PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD and BASE 64 formats. Flaticon offers users, high quality graphic designs: totally editable vectors carefully selected by their design team in order to provide users with great content that can be used in both personal and commercial projects - all for free!

 

Material Icons

Delightful, beautifully crafted symbols for common actions and items

graphic editing tools

Inkscape-a free and open-source vector graphics editor for traditional Unix-compatible systems such as GNU/Linux, BSD derivatives and Illumos, as well as Windows and macOS

GIMP, is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks.

Krita- a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.