Clips Art, Images, and Media

This page contains links to clip pages that people have found particularly useful. If you would like to add a link to this page, send me the URL (kalmbach@ilstu.edu).

If you use a graphic that you find on the web, be sure include a credit for that image with a url, just as you would site any source. See my page on giving credit for strategies.

Graphic Search Engines

Google Images Google has the best search engine by far.
Altavista Image Search
Search.com Image Search
Creative Commons Has a search engine you can use to try to locate content that people have made available under a creative commons license. You can search for audio, images, video, or text.

Starting Points

Anthony's WWW Images. Large open source collection of images. A huge collection.
Free Graphics What is cool about this site is the effort the author has put into categorizing and filtering these sites. It can take a while to get to real pictures, but the results are almost always worth it.
e-server multi-media collection

Image Databases
I only include databases which permit downloading of their images for personal, research, or noncommercial use.

NASA Image library
http://www.archive.org/ Lots of searchable public domain archives.
flickr has an advanced search engine where you can search for only images that are tagged with a creative commons license. Your favorite picture site might have a similar feature. While you can use creative commons licensed media in your class projects, you should always credit your sources.

Textures and Backgrounds

Absolute Textures and Backgrounds - great site for backgrounds - has everything imaginable
Squidfingers. Very elegants lots of cool stuff. Thanks to Kyle Jensen for the link.

Sounds

The Daily Wav
archive.org sound archive
Audacity Open Source Sound Editor (all platforms)

Fonts/Typography

http://www.dafont.com/
http://typetester.maratz.com/ You can easily compare the look of different fonts on the web.

Color

If you know of any other media resources which you think that students in the class would find valuable, please email me the URL at kalmbach@ilstu.edu.