Image Search Engines 

A couple of tips

• Use keywords which might appear near the image
• Use a keyword which you would use to name the image file

 Google Image Search 

 Visoo - Text Inside Images 

 AltaVista / Yahoo 

 MSN Image Search  

 Ask.com 

 PicSearch 

 GoGraph 

 ClipArt.com 

 Photos.com 

 More Resources

• NetVue - image search engine. Results displayed as a full image slideshow, as opposed to thumbnails.

COMMUNITY PROJECTS

• PhotoTag - community photography project, where the camera goes travelling, passed from person to person.
• Trek Earth - browse photos within Continents, Countries, Regions, States and Cities

CLIP ART

• Clip Art Warehouse - thousands of clip art images, free but they prefer a link to their site
• Classroom ClipArt - for school kids. Lots of pop-up ads...

STOCK PHOTOS

• Fotosearch Stock Photography - every royalty-free stock photo that there is, available for purchase from the one site. Amazing search engine. Similar is Artzooks
• Free for non-commercial use: FreeFoto, Free Images UK, FreeStockPhotos, iStockphoto (free to use, but 25c per download), PhotoNet
• EveryStockPhoto - meta-search engine for creative commons photos, using Flickr, freerangestock, stock.xchng, ImageAfter etv.
• Inmagine - royalty-free stock photos - search 300,000 images
• Comstock - Offers images in three licensing models in three divisions – Royalty Free, Flat Rate and Rights Protected
• Pictures Now - search a large collection of digital images - art, illustration & photos
•  ShutterStock - monthly subscription for huge amount of royalty-free downloads
• CanStockPhoto - over 10 million professional royalty free stock photos, from $0.56 each

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

• Images Canada - provides central search access to the thousands of images held on the websites of participating Canadian cultural institutions. Images are free for personal use.
• Picture Australia - places and events in the collections of libraries, museums, galleries, archives, universities and other cultural agencies
• Matapihi (New Zealand) is your window onto the places, events and people of Aotearoa New Zealand. You can search around 50,000 pictures, sounds and objects

• BioScience Image Bank - 1400 images from Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Plant Sciences.

• Virginia Tech ImageBase - lots of agricultural and civil war pics
• US Dept of Energy
• NASA
• FEMA
• NY Public Library - a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.
• The Internet Picture Dictionary - multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESL students and beginning English, French, German, Spanish and Italian language learners of all ages.
• ...a big directory of similar resources can be found at Photographic Libraries or Wikipedia

VIDEO

• Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive - more than 5,000 free digitized movies (not Hollywood movies!)
• Open Video - thousands of video clips, many from the US Govt & NASA
• British Pathe - world's first digital news archive - the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970

FREE IMAGE HOSTING

Photobucket / PhotoJerk / 2and2.net / Flickr / Webshots

Stock photography consists of existing photos that can be licensed for certain uses. Customers include book & magzine publishers, ad agencies, tv, movie & documentary makers, web site creators, graphic artists and interior decorators. The use of stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time and help keep costs down. Stock photography databases are quick and easy to search, and images can be purchased online.

Stock photography is also known as photo archives, or image banks, and outside the U.S.A. they are often referred to as picture libraries. The phrase photo archive can refer to the website or even physical location where the photographs are stored. Photo archives are also sometimes called image banks.