Sourcing Copyright Friendly Images

John Allan Jennifer Wicks

Overview•Types of Images• sources

•Create it Yourself•Creative Commons•Legal Hosts•Expired Copyright

bitmap

• A grid with squares• Squares are called pixels

bitmap

• Pixels are placed in each pixel to build an image

vector vs bitmap

Vector

Vector

1. Lines2. Points3. Curves4. Angles5. Handles

Image types – vector vs bitmap

Image types - icons

Image types – 3D icons

Image types – clip art• Openclipart.com• http://www.clker.com/

Image types – line art

Image types – illustrations

Image types – photographs

Copyright Friendly image sources

•Search•Creative Commons•Expired Copyright•Legal “free” Hosts•Create it Yourself

Search Engines

Search Engines

Creative Commons

• Images, video, audio, text, animations•Use or repurpose others work• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

• Share your work•Use the license chooser widget• http://creativecommons.org/choose/?field_jurisdiction=ug

CC resources

• Watch this video for further understanding

• Copyright and image is depth with great examples

• Creative Commons Infographic

Expired copyright sources (Public Domain) • Characteristics• Created before 1924• Published without a Copyright notice before 1989

• http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/?medium=image

• https://www.flickr.com/commons/

• http://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=original-format%3Aphoto%2C+print%2C+drawing

Legal Images Hosts

• Tricks•Keep citation information

MorgueFIle

• Morguefile offers a wealth of photographs that a teacher could insert into their worksheets, web spaces or other media. The conditions listed at the website are quite open.• Pics4Learning is a copyright-free image library for teachers and

students. The Pics4Learning is a collection of thousands of images that have been donated by the general community including students and teachers.

OpenClipArt is a necessary element in many teacher website or worksheets. This site provides teacher developers over 35,00 free and usable clip art in logical categories.

Sources of icons

The Noun Project http://thenounproject.comIconFinder https://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=image&license=2&price=free

Free icons web http://www.freeiconsweb.comAll kinds of Images: allkindsofimages.comFree icons web http://www.freeiconsweb.comPixabay http://pixabay.com/en/photos/?q=icons&image_type=&catSpeckyboy http://speckyboy.com/2010/05/14/30-fresh-icon-sets-for-developers-and-designers/

Sources of photographs

http://pixabay.com/en/photos/?image_type=photo

http://www.morguefile.com/archive

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images

http://www.nps.gov/media/multimedia-search.htm?d=Type:Photo&o=date:D:L:d1

https://www.flickr.com/commons

Sources of illustrations

http://pixabay.com/en/photos/?image_type=illustration

Image authoring

• Create your own• Resources• Tools• Features • Tracing with Layers• Optimizing

• Pixlr Editor • http://apps.pixlr.com/editor/• http://apps.pixlr.com/o-matic/

• https://dribbble.com