Copyright Free Images
These are all good places to look for copyright free images. Which is an important thing.
Mainly photographs
- Unsplash – excellent quality, large images which are totally free to use
- Pexels – good size, totally copyright free images
- Free Images – does exactly what it says. Good size and quality images
- Pixabay – public domain images are entirely free to use. You can't download the largest size without becoming a member of the site and you might get Captchas slowing you down a bit, but still a good source
- Snappy Goat – really wide range of images. Avoid the sponsored ones at the top. Also has a cool name
- StockSnap – good quality, but avoid the Shutterstock branded images at the top of each search
- Wikipedia – almost all images should be copyright free – there can be issues with logos etc...
- Wikimedia Commons – lots and lots of images which are searchable. All free again
- ISO Republic – quite large and good quality photos
- Morgue File – good size and reasonable quality. But make sure you're searching in Morgue File and not one of the stock photo sites listed on it
- Public Domain Pictures – you have to avoid the Ad pictures – they will cost money – and you can only download a reasonable size without paying, but, so long as you're careful what you're trying to download, a good source.
- Life of Pix – nice, high quality images. Watch the Adobe Stock adverts though
- Magdeleine – high quality photos but harder to search and you need to make sure you use the CC0 photos only. Not as highly recommended as some of the other sites here, but it might have just what you're looking for
- Stock Vault – high quality and big enough – just avoid the right hand column of images as these aren't free
- Pic Jumbo – decent range of good quality photos, but watch the premium area and the calls to sign up to e-mail
- E2BN Gallery – images and sounds
- Geograph – excellent for pictures of places or things in the UK. Generally pictures aren't that big so better for web use rather than for print documents
Backgrounds
For cartoon style backgrounds, Vecteezy is a good place to look. But there are issues with it. You'll need to filter for free images to start with. It will then look like you need to be logged in to download images, but close the pop up and they should download, although you may be limited to a number of downloads a day. And it may well be blocked in school. And it downloads ZIP files that you need to extract – right click and extract all and then pick out the image needed.
Vecteezy also includes PNG, Photoshop and Vector graphic images as well as photos and vector style backgrounds.
Cartoons, Icons and Vector Graphics
- Sweet Clip Art – simple clip art which is good for developing simple characters from or for cartoon style images. Check the individual licence to check for use; most are totally free
- Open Clipart – totally public domain. Use the search bar – there are some good images here. Make sure you download PBG versions
- Icon Archive – pretty reasonable icon style art here in all sorts of categories
- Public Domain Vectors – excellent for clip art and other vector files. Well worth a look for lettering etc... as well
- Dry Icons – icons only, but there are some really nice ones to choose from
- Flat Icon – only icons, but a good source if that's what you want
- Free Pik – vector graphics
- The Noun Project – icons mainly. This is an excellent resource, but you will need to set up an account to use it. If I teach you then I probably can't suggest you do that, especially not using your school e-mail account
Barcodes
Sometimes you need to generate a barcode. These are good places to try:
- Barcode Generator – change the drop down to Code 128 (standard), although there are other options
- UK Online Labels – you need to put a valid barcode number into the box at the bottom. I suggest copying the example given (012345678905)