One of the secrets of producing professional communication pieces, be they print or on the web, is having good quality visual resources. Here are some sites that I use regularly for these tasks:
Art:
| IStockphoto.com | A paid site that has a great selection of photos and illustrations at a very reasonable price. |
| ChurchArt Online | A subscription site that has a good selection of church related clipart and cartoons, many of which are in a vector format that can be resized and easily edited. |
| everystockphoto | I have just started using this and it seems to be a clearinghouse for a number of free sites, including the Flickr attribution area. It works pretty well. |
| Flickr: Creative Commons | Flickr is a great photo storage and services site, and it allows photographers a variety of licensing options. This is the main search page for those licenses with Creative Commons licenses, some of which allow for open use with attribution. |
| stock.xchng | Similar to IStockphoto, focused on photographs. They offer some free pix, but they are really a come on to encourage the purchase of pix along the lines of IStockphoto. |
| Christian Theological Seminary | Public Domanin religious images |
| HermanoLeón Clipart | Clipart produced by the Franciscans in South American. Interesting and different looking stuff. |
| DIBUJOS DE CEREZO – CICLO A – INDICE GRAFICO | More clipart from South American, but tied to the lectionary. |
| Open Clip Art Library | I use this occasionally, but haven’t had very much success in finding art that is useful for my purposes. |
| deviantART | Sometimes I am not looking for specific are pieces as much as inspiration. deviantART is a sharing site for artists and there is some cool stuff to check out there. |
| Liam’s Pictures from Old Books | Looking for something old? Liam has been scanning images from old books in the public domain for use in your work |
| Duke Image library | Some interesting things along the way. |
Fonts:
Video:
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