Compfight is a home brewed flickr search tool specifically for the advertising / design community. The rails based ajax search bar pulls in a flickr feed at speed so that you can quickly scour the site.
You can restrict your search to the Creative Commons with “only”, and use the “commercial” setting for commercially usable assets. Blue bars indicate flickr is holding an original. Linger your cursor over the image to display dimensions. For nothing but originals switch Seek Original to “only.”
Source: http://www.compfight.com/
Do you have any products like CDs or DVDs for your readers? Sometimes, you would like your readers know the actual look of the CDs or DVDs. However, It takes quite a bit of time to desgin a CD or DVD case. You do not have to worry about it now, because some of the talented Photoshop designers have created some stunning CD / DVD case templates in PSD format for us. You can customize them easily. You can download them and use them for your products, however, a link back would be appreciated.
1. DVD Case Template by Manicho
2. DVD Plastic Case Template by Manicho
3. Jewel Case Template by LeMarquis
Requirements: –
Demo: http://manicho.deviantart.com/art/DVD-Case-Art-PSD-file-61443492
Demo: http://manicho.deviantart.com/art/dvd-Plastic-Case-PSD-file-86546288
Demo: http://lemarquis.deviantart.com/art/JEWEL-CASE-PSD-FILE-69316052
License: License Free or Creative Commons License
Everystockphoto is a license-specific photo search engine. Currently they index and search millions of freely licensed photos, from many sources, and present them in an integrated search. They make an effort to show as much information as they have about particular photos on the photo page, including source, license, dimensions, photographer, and other data. The license is almost always shown below and left of a photo, and clicks through to the specific license page. Membership is free and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos. You can add your favourite photos to your collections as well.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.everystockphoto.com
License: See Individual Images
Freerange Stock was formed with the goal to provide quality stock photos for free. They feel that free stock photos can be good photos. Freerange is an advertising revenue supported photographic community – photographers get paid when users click on the ads that appear next to their submissions. Images on the site are either shot by Freerange Stock, drawn from Freerange archives, or contributed by a talented community of photographers.
Just sign up for a free membership, log in, and download high-quality, high- resolution free stock photos and free textures. All images are at least 2400 x 1600, and photos can be used for commercial or personal projects.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.freerangestock.com
License: License Free
DesignPacks.com offer free, high quality image collections that can be use in both personal and commercial web design projects. Each collection features a group of 15 images that share a common theme. They’ve created dozens of collections based on a variety of themes. Every DesignPack can be downloaded as a single ZIP file. File sizes vary between 3-5MB. You can browse the Image Catalog to see what’s available.
Although DesignPacks.com mentioned that there will be new sets added monthly, it seems like they have stopped updating the site since 2005.
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Demo: http://www.designpacks.com
License: License Free
LogoTemplater is creating free blank logos templates and free vector art images in Adobe Illustrator EPS files for free download. Use their graphics designs for your website icon graphics. All logo templates are vector illustrations. It’s easy to change colors, add text or transform each of the free vector logo template design. Many of these logo templates look very nice, you can create your own logo easily with them. It can save you lots of money for hiring logo designers.
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Demo: http://www.logotemplater.com/
License: License Free
PicMarkr lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images online and free. It is useful when you need to protect your copyrights or if you want to add comments to your photos. It is easy to use with minimum settings, no need to download or install anything. You simply need to upload files from computer or grab them from your Flickr account. It also allows batch image processing, it can saves you a lot of time when you are adding watermark to many images.
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Demo: http://picmarkr.com
License: License Free
Are you looking for some photos under creative commons? Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through photos under each type of license. You might be able to find some fresh and nice photos for you website.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
License: Creative Commons License
One of of the most popular free stock photos site – Morgue File. The idea to build the web’s morguefile was conceived by Michael Connors as a college student in 1996. The term “morgue file” is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file that holds past issues flats. Although the term has been used by illustrators, comic book artist, designers and teachers as well. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.morguefile.com/
License: License Free
Public-Domain-Photos.com contains over 5,000 high resolution free photos for personal and commercial use. You may use these images for any purpose, but if some photo contains logos and products you need to be careful. Using someone else’s trademark commercially can get you sued. They have some cliparts you may find useful as well.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://public-domain-photos.com/
License: License Free
