A Great Way to Store & Share Community-Sourced Images!
Dec 22, 2014
Since we're always looking for free elearning images - and since we all understand the value of sharing assets in the community - I wanted to share what I've learned about an image-sharing community that anyone can join and use.
You probably know that MorgueFile's images are cost-free and attribution-free, but I never realized it was designed to be a take-one-give-one self-sustaining resource - and that anyone can take part.
They caught my eye with their daily mobile challenges, which are a lot of fun (and which I wrote a post about), but I could also see using the site as a way to share elearning-appropriate images with each other. You can search using tags, and I was thinking maybe using one we'd all recognize (in addition to content-specific tags) could potentially be a way to find each other's contributions there?
I know our community members have offered up lots of great photos in the past (including Dianne Hope's gorgeous pics of the Outback), but thought I'd suggest the MorgueFile repository as a way of doing the same in a more easily-discoverable and social way. (Here are my contributions so far, too!)
What do you think?
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Love the make-your-own-lightbox-to-share challenge idea, David! I am SO in.
As a freestyle fan I'd love to choose my own theme/approach, but I'm sure there are others who would love to work off of a most-wanted list of categories or photos for specific purposes.
Jackie wrote "The number one thing I tend to look for - after any specifics I have in mind - is that the image is as big as I can get it. That way I can crop it any way I'd like - whether to focus on an object or choose the orientation I need - and it'll still look good even at full screen. "
That means the perfect photo for us as learning designer has different criteria that the perfect photo that a photographer creates normally or that we print and put on the wall.
A typical photographer puts the main object near the middle. Not exaclty in the middle but in the 1/3-2/3 area (golden ratio). The photo that we can use as background needs the main object in the left/right side or /top or better bottom area. We need background in the rest where we can put text or interaction elements on the photo.
Well, keep in mind that's simply how I approach using photos. I see them as bits of form, color, and light that I can manipulate. I don't worry about how the photographer composed them since I'm going to recompose them for my own purposes.
I'm sure you'll get very different answers and approaches from others. :)
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