With the Picture Mixer, you can merge pictures and text into 3D scenes such as billboards or fluttering flags. The Picture Mixer helps you get started using Blender (a free and open 3D graphics tool) to make interesting pictures and animations.
We collect basic 3D designs and let you customize them and preview the results quickly online. When you are happy with how things are set up, we'll run blender and generate a nice high-quality result for you. If you would like to try your hand at Blender yourself, you can download the design and play around with it as you like.
Repository for free public domain photos. If you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that no model release was obtained and pictures featuring products or property should be used with care. The pictures are free for you to use and you should feel good about doing so.
DOWNLOAD REQUIRED
Download the free POLADROID application and launch it
Drag & Drop your photos
Wait... wait.... wait again... or shake the picture.
Then look at or print your POLADROID picture :)
The Image Gallery is provided as a complimentary
source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural
Research Service Information Staff.
Oldie but a decent one from the government for images and pictures. Remember that with most government sites you are free to use the pictures but some such as NASA do require that you cite the source.
Combine sharing pictures and narration and what do you get? Slidestory! Slidestory is a new, exciting and FREE way to make presentations and share them on the Internet
If you're looking for pictures for your learning materials, courseware or presentations, why not browse Training Reference's free to use collection of original images.
The galleries below contain over 170 photographs, covering a wide range of subjects. The images are on average around 80k each, so they shouldn't take to long to download.
You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selection of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures.
When you are done, you the option to add a title and explanation, then you can save the story so you can put a link in your resume or send to your Mom (she pay print it out and tape it to the fridge, or she may criticize your creativity, your mileage and mom may vary). Plus we offer the ability to tweet your story!
Education users
Professors, students and teachers are free to use it in classroom presentations and demos, dissertations and other non-commercial academic works, researches and all related not-for-profit activities. The use of our files is still bound by a license but its use is completely free as long as:
(1) the downloaded image is used according to its terms and conditions;
(2) humanline.com is accredited as the source by a credit line or an active link to our website; and
(3) it is not distributed to third parties.
via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/04/humanline-thousands-of-historic-images.html
Part of being a good writer is understanding the impact images have in your work. What you write should be supported and enhanced through your choice of imagery.