Lifehacker points here to a Wendy Boswell’s Thirty Free Image Resources on the Web. Just Wednesday I posted about finding free photo sources, and here’s another great resource. I try to include some sort of graphic in every post, as it makes the site look better. I always try to observe the terms of use and you should too, for yourself and as an example for your students.
Today I’m showing some ECE students how to find and use free photos on their edublogs. Here’s a nice airplane from János at flickr.com to illustrate! 
Before I do that, I want to make sure everyone knows how to find images that are licensed for reuse. The Creative Commons license allows that, as long as you provide attribution – i.e., you have to give credit to the photographer. This video from the Creative Commons site makes it easy to learn how to search for CC-licensed images using the Firefox browser.
Watched the video? Know how to make sure your images are licensed for putting in your blog? Let’s go:
Among my favorite sources for this is flickr, with tons of images under the CC license from professional and amateur photographers around the world.
I’ve posted more stock image sources here and here and here at DV for Teachers. Have fun!
This list is very thorough. In Amit Agarwal’s How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website you’ll find tips on embedding:
50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop Tutorials | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine
Because you can never know enough about Photoshop.
Chris Pirillo runs LockerGnome, a huge, busy site full of pointers, tips, news, opinion, geektalk, and more. At his own site, last week he posted Top 100 Mac Apps.
I hadn’t heard of a few of these. Most are shareware, some are free. There are several similar apps too, so there’s some overlap. One that I hadn’t seen before includes HyperDither, which makes nice high-contrast 1-bit (black and white) images from your photos. It’s fun.
It’s geeky, but if you’re looking for options for slideshows for a web site, there are many suggestions from knowledgeable web jockeys at this TextDrive/Joyent Community Forum thread, Simple, browser friendly slide show.
Derrick Story on making cool slideshows on DVD:iPhoto 08 to iDVD – My Favorite Method.
Derrick contributes to the MacDevCenter at O’Reilly and blogs and podcasts about photography at The Digital Story.
Derrick Story details the overhauled Adjust Palette in the new iPhoto..
...I’m particularly enthused about the overhaul of the Adjust palette with the inclusion of Highlight and Shadow sliders. These are professional-level tools that can really help you improve your pictures.
I think the improved Adjust palette is a truly a highlight for iPhoto ‘08. Photographers now have the most vital image editing controls right there in their digital shoebox, eliminating the need to roundtrip to outside applications for the bulk of their editing work.
Pro photo editors make very frequent use of the adjustment capabilities he describes – this makes iPhoto a much more valuable application. Does anyone know of an app with a similar degree of control for free, or nearly so? If so, leave a comment.
I’m back from vacation. Will got his well-deserved black belt in Taido (pictures here) and we spend most of a week in Destin. And now, we return to our irregularly scheduled blogging with these 18 Exceptionally Useful Photoshop Shortcuts. I learned many of them at Photoshopworld in April and I’m glad to have this nice reference from Digital Photography School as a reminder.
The del.icio.us list at Popurls pointed to this nice list of Favorite 10 Free Stock Photo Download Sites at a blog named DazzlinDonna. Donna’s got some good links there, but this is a great one. Stock photos are good for presentations, videos, and more. Use them to emphasize a point, as a background for your slides (increase the brightness and decrease the contrast, and them move the image behind the text boxes on your presentation slides), embellish your web site, and more. And remember that free is good.
