Images, Clip Art, Photos

This is a photo of broccoli that I 

manipulated using Kalieder software

Here are some of my favorite resources for locating, editing, sharing, and storing photos and clip art.

Sources for Images 

Flickr  http://www.flickr.com/  is a great place to store and share your photos.  It is also  a great place to get copyright free photos, just use the advanced search feature, and check the box "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content".

Every Stock Photo http://www.everystockphoto.com/     A  search engine for free photos. They come from many sources and are license-specific.  Many are Creative Commons licensed.

http://www.sxc.hu/home  Stock.xchng is a source of photos, many Creative Commons licensed.

http://www.morguefile.com/archive/

The morguefile free photo reference archive provides the public and creative community with a repository of free raw photo materials.   No registration required to download photos.  Creative Commonsl license.

The Associated Press Photo Archives - http://ap.accuweather.com/  The Photo Archive is an electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. It is made available in this format to schools K-12, colleges and universities and public libraries by AccuWeather, Inc. As this is a subscription service, it can only be accessed with a password.

Image Editing and Transforming

Photoshop.comhttps://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html create, edit, store, share photos here.  It is free to join, and then you can edit photos on line for free.  This online tool has many of the features of Photoshop software.  Free but you may need to register.

Photovisi  http://www.photovisi.com/http://www.photovisi.com/ Make your own wallpaper or collage online and free

Free online photo editor  http://www.onlinephototool.com/index.php Edit or apapt a photo online If you register at Onlinephototool.com, they save (as a .gif, .jpg, .png, .bmp). all your edited images and photos online.

Vuvox   http://www.vuvox.com/  Use photos from your Flickr account or a random internet feed to create a collage.

Animoto   http://animoto.com/ go here to make an amazing video with just a few photos.  Animoto automatically adds transitions and effects to produce an almost professional video.  You need to register, but the basic service is free.  Once you make a video it is stored, and they even help you upload it to youtube. I took some pictures of my vacation to Arizona, chose the music, and Bam!  I had this great video.  Here is the result  on youtube  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzLXnMOp4_k and if youtube is blocked try this:  Arizona_Dreamin_.flv

Image Storage and Sharing

Photobucket - one of the most popular image hosting services around, favorite amongst MySpace users. Makes it very easy to post your images to social networking sites; gives you 25 GB of monthly traffic and 1 GB of storage with images themselves being up to 1 MB in size.

FreeImageHosting.net - Register to host your images for free. Maximum file size is 3,000 KB.

ImageShack - The most popular image hosting service. Upload images up to 1.5 MB and embed them in any web page. You can make a slideshow here as well.

SlideShare - SlideShare is a content sharing site where you can host and display presentations. Maybe you would use it to show your professional work, or just for personal photo sharing, power point presentations about your latest entrepreneurial idea, or graphics you designed.

Snapfish - Snapfish is run by HP, they let you store and share your photos for free, and prints are cheap with highest quality at 12¢ each. You can also have things like mugs and cards made with your pictures on them.

Tips for Taking better Pictures

Digital cameras have more to do in preparing to take a photo than do film cameras. Like film cameras, they have to focus the lens. However, they also have to take a pre-exposure to get proper color balance. The good news is that they are able to achieve better exposed, better color-balanced, and in many cases better focussed images than film cameras.  The bad news is that in that extra second you may miss an action shot.

The simplest to overcome this is to just push the shutter button down half way as you are awaiting the action you are trying to capture.  Keep pressing until you are ready for the photo, and then press the rest of the way.

National Geographic- http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-tips/digital-photography-article.html

An article on getting the most out of digital photography