Tracy Parish has a large collection of free resources, including images. You need to check the licenses on each site, and in some cases the individual images. Anything Creative Commons (CC) licensed usually requires attribution to the source; other images may as well.
Hi there Lorraine! We have a couple of roundups of stock photos that the community has created and curated from other sources. Anything we share is free to use! Check 'em out:
Hi Lorraine, and welcome! I think most of us feel your pain with finding cheap & free images for courses. All of the advice and resources in this thread are spot-on, but I have a few more suggestions for you:
Subscribe to Tom Kuhlmann's Rapid E-Learning Blog since he's really great about sharing the free and low-cost image sources he finds and uses for his projects.
Check out our Downloads hub which is constantly refreshed with all sorts of free assets shared by members of the E-Learning Heroes community. For instance, Ashi Tandon, recently shared these wonderful and fully customizable characters she created in PowerPoint. There are also tons of free icons, buttons, background graphics, and fully-built Storyline & PowerPoint interactions you can download and then drop into your courses...or reverse engineer to learn from.
I've also had success running searches for 'commercial use with modification' on, say, Flickr. I like to use public domain images because their quality tends to be quite high.
Hi Lorraine - I would totally recommend checking out MorgueFile.com - there's a free images section, images are contributed by creatives for use by creatives - no attribution is necessary. I contribute my photos and have had almost 80,000 views and 46,000 downloads.
Also--learn more about Creative Commons licenses and then use http://search.creativecommons.org/ to search for photos with licenses that apply to your material.
I've found this list of websites with free stock images really helpful: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/238646. Some sites have already been mentioned here, but it's helpful to see which sites need credit with images and which don't
Fantastic website to advertisement our business talks and to know each other quires to solve our problem by discussion. Thanks to this website because they provide free images.
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Hi Lorraine and welcome to the forum.
Here are a couple off the top of my head
http://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/45-free-stock-images-e-learning-courses/
http://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/complete-list-free-stock-image-sites-e-learning/
Images:
https://pixabay.com/
http://www.pexels.com
Videos:
http://www.coverr.co
https://videos.pexels.com/
Hi Wendy,
Thanks so much for these. Are all images from these sites free to use and do I need to reference the websites anywhere on the course?
Thanks,
Lorraine
Tracy Parish has a large collection of free resources, including images. You need to check the licenses on each site, and in some cases the individual images. Anything Creative Commons (CC) licensed usually requires attribution to the source; other images may as well.
https://e-learning.zeef.com/tracy.parish
Hi there Lorraine! We have a couple of roundups of stock photos that the community has created and curated from other sources. Anything we share is free to use! Check 'em out:
Get Hundreds of New Images, Free
Stock-Up on Gorgeous Imagery with these 7 Stock Photo Downloads
Hi Lorraine, and welcome! I think most of us feel your pain with finding cheap & free images for courses. All of the advice and resources in this thread are spot-on, but I have a few more suggestions for you:
Another option is to look for images in the public domain. The New York Library has many:
http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain
I've also had success running searches for 'commercial use with modification' on, say, Flickr. I like to use public domain images because their quality tends to be quite high.
Free Digital Photos has very professional photos of people, business items, etc for free. http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
Hi Lorraine - I would totally recommend checking out MorgueFile.com - there's a free images section, images are contributed by creatives for use by creatives - no attribution is necessary. I contribute my photos and have had almost 80,000 views and 46,000 downloads.
www.pixabay.com - images
www.coverr.com - video snippets
http://www.pdpics.com/ - images
https://unsplash.com/ - images
Also--learn more about Creative Commons licenses and then use http://search.creativecommons.org/ to search for photos with licenses that apply to your material.
I've found this list of websites with free stock images really helpful: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/238646. Some sites have already been mentioned here, but it's helpful to see which sites need credit with images and which don't
Fantastic website to advertisement our business talks and to know each other quires to solve our problem by discussion. Thanks to this website because they provide free images.
I have some free characters available on my website.
Try http://allthefreestock.com/ for a collection of resources from multiple sites :)
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