Design
GDES-220 fall 2015 · American University Design
Instructor: David Ramos (ramos@american.edu)
Where you can find good, public-domain or free images.
Search sites
- Google image search (search for a term, look under search tools, and filter by usage rights)
- Bing image search (search for a term, then filter by license)
- Flickr Advanced Search (check the “Search within Creative Commons” and “Find content to modify, adapt, or build upon” boxes)
Image collections
- Unsplash publishes free, high-quality, relatively less generic stock images
- Getty Trust Open Content Images
- Wellcome Library
- British Library Mechanical Curator with one million public domain images
- Wikimedia Commons
- Public Domain Review
- Work created by a US Government employee, for the government, is always in the public domain.
Also
The best image may be one that you create yourself.
Remember to cite your images
See the guide to citing sources for this class.