Free Photo Shares - Thursday Tech Tip

For today's Tech Tip, I am going to show you a few of my favorite file share sites.   I use these sites a lot in my work because I make a lot of posters, and I don't want to run into any trouble with copyright issues.

The first file share that I use a lot is from Microsoft.  All of the photos are free-share, meaning that they do not have copyright issues.  Lucky for me, there are hundreds of files on this file share; and lots of instrument pictures.  At work, most of my posters are concert related.   Therefore Instrument backgrounds are common.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/   -  This is the address for the microsoft images - I recommend bookmarking it so that you can use it whenever you need it.

This is an example of the results you get with a simple search.   I used the word "instrument".

This is a second site that I use, although it is not nearly as exhaustive as the Microsoft file share.... http://www.copyrightfreephotos.com/    The downside to this site is that it does not have the search function available with the other site, but there are good quality images.  

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/    This website has a very well organized selection of free photos, it also has a search function.   The left-hand navigation menu has a list of categories (and sub-categories) of thousands of popular photos.  

http://www.stockvault.net/   The stockvault website is more on the design-heavy side.   It is a valuable resource for design conscious individuals, although it has less type-specific images. 

http://freerangestock.com/index.php   Free stock photos are also available from this site - and there are some very high quality stock photos on this site, and guess what?  There is a search function! 

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