Thursday, February 6, 2014

Images, Part 1

I can't help but notice most of the "animals reading" on Wikimedia Commons are cats.
Image by Eleassar via Wikimedia Commons
Some of my favourite sites for free images:
Fotopedia (just make sure your search is for items labeled for reuse)
Google Images (with Search Tools set to "labeled for reuse")
Icon Finder
Stock.xchng
fuzzimo
Vecteezy
Vector4Free (despite the fact that the ads on it are insane. Don't click on any of those)

I created a Wordle, but it was way too annoying to post the image here. You had to post an image that was a link to the image on Wordle and that image was too small and poor quality. Why do they get to keep and host the image? I guess because it is free. So yah, Wordle fail. 

3 comments:

  1. The way I got around the wordle fail was by doing a screenshot of the page, pasting in paint (repositioning and resizing) and saving as a jpeg. Took me about 3 minutes compared to the 10 i spent being frustrated by wordle.

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  2. Thanks Patricia. MS Paint...so basic and yet so handy.

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  3. I did that thing where I posted the crappy Wordle image, good thinking though, Patricia!

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