Free clip-art directory — need illustrations for your web pages, fliers, reports, e-books, ads, etc.?
Just found a great directory of sites offering free clip art.
Need artwork for your web pages, reports, e-books, assessments, Power Point presentations, flyers, etc.?
The site makes one big mistake that I’m finding a lot of people making. Mentioning it here so you won’t fall for it.
It describes Google Image Search as a source for free clip art.
Wrong.
Google Image Search is a handy index of images found on web pages. Just as regular Google search is a handy index of written content found on web pages.
Most images found on web pages — just as most written content — are subject to copyright laws. You need permission to use them, may have to pay a licensing fee and may be required to publish a line crediting the artist or photographer.
There are copyright-free and royalty-free (meaning you pay nothing for each use) clip-art collections available on the web.
Some you have to pay for. This listing is for ones that are completely free — and includes photos as well as drawings.
Additional resource I like: Inexpensive source of royalty-free images — istockphoto.com. Not as consistently high quality as Getty Images and other professional stock art services, but you can find extreme quality there and the price is a tiny fraction of the others. Plus you get to give credit and encouragement to photographers and artists who are in the early stages of building their professional reputation.
– ken winston caine
