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30/9/07 - Handy!

If you've ever tried to design a website or blog, you've probably felt the need to add images to your creation. It can be easy to see the Internet as a free-for-all, but images belong to the people who created them. Staying legal means you'll have to either create your own images or buy them from stock sites. Fortunately, there are a number of sources for free images, and we've collected them here. So read on for 100 sources where you can find free stock images: and don't worry - they're all legal! Most Popular These resources are some of the most popular free stock image sites on the Web and with good reason. If you're looking for some mainstream images, these are the first place to try.

"Convert an image and process to a text file of the original image. Convert picture to text. Ascii Art. ascii photo, ascii image, ascii convertion, asciiart, ascii picture, convert image text, image to text, image to ascii, picture to text"

19/4/09 - "earth album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr. To begin your journey, just click somewhere on the map, e.g. "India". Note-- since the top Flickr images are used, the images change every few weeks; bookmark this site and check back for a different experience in a month!" Superb resource, just add keyword/sunset after the URL to see amazing sunsets from around the world.

24/7/08 - Uses Google Images but it strips out the thumbnails and displays the full-sized picture, giving you a better idea of its usefulness.

You never know when you might want to create one of these! Uses over a thousand images from Flickr to create any image you upload.

List of images for teaching division, subtraction, and fractions, decimals, ratio, proportion, percentage

17/11/07 - "Generate a color palette based on an image"

Put together collages of online images

18/4/08 - Decent list of sites with copyright-friendly or free images.

1/9/07 - Ronseal

Mostly very high quality / resolution images of plants and animals.

26/8/07 - Bigger than Getty Images but with potential copyright issues.

30/7/08 - "Every item comes with a choice of image size and format as well as complete source information for proper citations in school projects. No advertisement-filled pages with pop-up windows or inappropriate links here. A friendly license allows teachers and students to use up to 50 items in a single, non-commercial project without further permission."

Searches Flickr and Creative Commons for images.

29/3/09 - "Visualgeography.com lets you explore the world through images, flags, money, language, maps and other information."

The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. This is the world wide web's morguefile.

15/09/2011 - High resolution images / Free Wallpapers from the Terra Galleria photo gallery

20/11/2011 - Stunning images

18/08/2010 - Thinking Skills tools, the most obviously useful of which is "Dot Dash", a simple mind-mapping application that offers images, text and coloured backgrounds.

19/4/08 - Grouped according to subject/topic. High resolution and better than having to Google everything.