15 free image lending websites

Words and ideas may just flow from your brain anytime and you quickly update your blog or website. But many-times you may not find the perfect picture or photo to support your article.

To a handful of your viewers, images may not matter but in today's fast browsing site visitors visual impression is very important. A good image in between your article can make it more interesting and at times less boring! Sometimes a perfect visual reference can make your words more understandable.

Finding a perfect photo is much easier than finding a perfect royalty free/ copyright free photo. If you chose and use a copyrighted photo in your work sometimes you may land in to serious copyright issue related trouble. To avoid such cases what you can do is just register yourself to some good royalty free, free photo lending websites. I will be sharing 15 free and public domain photo base websites with you here. You only need to go through their 'Usage details' and 'Copyright agreements' for your knowledge, search and browse through their gallery, download your image and use it without any worries!

http://www.stockvault.net/
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
http://www.allfreeimages.net/
http://www.sxc.hu/
http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
http://www.freephotosbank.com/
http://www.unprofound.com/
http://www.freemediagoo.com/
http://morguefile.com/
http://www.deviantart.com/
http://worldart.sjsu.edu/
http://www.openphoto.net/
http://pdphoto.org/

Dominos Newsletter

Newsletters are one of the main tools for online marketing these days. Our inbox is flooded with new ones every day or week... but though subscribed do we go through them all?

Yesterday while going through my mails I was surprised to see the Dominos news letter September issue. Earlier they used to focus only on their product. A yummy pizza picture would the main attraction apart from the offers and new offerrings.

For a change this time it was different! I must say I liked going through the whole newsletter this time. Aesthetically it's too good. Hope it works as a good online marketing catch!

Spreading Love!

Here's a warm message to all my friends!

There might be violence and threat all over the world. But God will always protect his children.

We just need to keep our love for each other alive for us forever...

Just a 'Hi' to all my dear ones! Click to see my message!

Pixel

What are Pixels?
They are the building blocks of an image. When we view an image the individual pixels are not distinguishable to us. They together place themselves beside each other to form the image. It is the smallest unit of a picture.
Here is an example. The small circle is actually made up of several small sruares of different shades of yellow.




Vector Graphics
Vector images are smaller in size(not dimension). The image information is represented by formula.


Raster Graphics
In raster graphics the image is represend by the pixels unlike mathematical formula as in vectors.Fille formats like .bmp, .jpg, .tiff are raster formats.

Christmas header images!

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Bengali New Year- 1417

May this new year bring new joys and happiness in everyones life...

Subho Nabobarsho!

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Facebook replacing Fan with Like

Recently Facebook announced that thier analysis shows users are more comfortable to click on the tab 'like' as compared to the option 'become a fan'. the 'like button is clicked twice more than the become a fan. According to them a person feels more easier to express as 'i like xyz brand' than committing himself as a fan the same brand.

This simple usability change is yet to be seen on the facebook site.

Easter blog images

Here are some easter images... you can use tham as your blog headers!

Happy holi

Here comes the festival of colors! Wishing you all a very happy, safe and vibrant holi!

Happy New Year

Wishing all a very Happy New Year!

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No need of Designer!

Your Designer is very slow? Demanding for money? Not working the way you want?

forget everything! Here's some thing great for you!
Try this...

Life without Designers!

She is sad

Yes, these days I have become very irregular with blogging. Neither did I wish my blog on her anniversary…

Result?

She got very upset… and jumped down Page rank ;)

But now I am back…

It was my usual irregular chat time. A pop up came out with a ‘Hi’. It was my ol’ friend and colleague. He was about to come up with his next sentence and I started my interrogation… ‘Why didn’t you come on my wedding?’ ‘What happened to you all?’…bla…bla….

But no defensive words from him… ‘This time I have an invitation for you!’…

Me- ‘Great! Who is she?’

Kolkata Blogger’s Meet!

CCD; RDB Adlabs Sector V,

Salt Lake City, Kolkata8th August, Saturday!

I was surprised! Is it the same thing we used to discuss almost a year ago...?!! I can’t believe! Finally it is happening in Kolkata!

‘Yes… This time we have done it! Are you coming?’

Definitely! I am really excited to be there this Saturday. I will be a new experience all through I am sure. And the add-on is meeting my friends after quite a long time.

You are also invited! See u @ Bloggers’ Meet!

Cool ecards for Valentine's Day!

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HAPPY 2009!!

Hello all!
One more year has passed... There were so many Highs and Lows... Successes and failures... happiness and mourning...
Its time to welcome the New Year with all good memories!

Here's wishing you a very happy and prosperous year ahead... May all your dreams come true!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

Free Header Images- Christmas Special

The Festive season is knocking the door! Here are some free Christmas header images for your blog or website. Last time we discussed about how to give your logo a cool christmas look. Lets spread the christmas charm everywhere!

Related posts: Free Christmas logo

We Salute

We salute all who lost their lives in the fight against terrorism. We salute who gave thier lives in the fight against terrorism.

We salute India!

Shubho Bijoya

Here is an awesome animation on the elements of Durga puja from NID (National Institute of Design.

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Cards for Durga puja scraps

Here are some durga puja cards. Send them to your far-near and dear ones!





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Walt Disney- A pioneer and innovator

...1919, an 18 year old left home to find work. He joined an art studio and started creating ads. In 1920 he formed a similar ad company with his friend. It had a bad start. He started working for another Ad company (Kansas City Film). His interest in animation made him start his own animation business.

With his friend Iwerks he joined a popular showman Newman to air their cartoons 'Laugh O Grams'. It was a hit. Follwing this they stated their own studio, which had a short life span due to lack of fund. Along with his brother he started a studio in Hollywood this time. Their new series 'Alice Comedies' was a success. Again 'Oswald the Lucky Rabbit' with Universal Pictures was a big hit. But the Universal Pictures had the rights of Oswald.

He wanted to created a new character to replace Oswald... and Mickey Mouse was born. Flip the Frog , Willie Whopper,Comicolor,Silly Symphonies, Betty Boop, The Three Little Pigs, Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia , Peter Pan, Cinderella and many more started coming in.

He was our very known Walt Disney. Walter Elias Disney was a film producer, animator, director, screen writer, voice actor, entrepreneur... He won 26 Oscars (record- four in one year) & 7 Emmy Awards!! He died of Lung cancer in 1966. His 'The Walt Disney Company' in one of the largest entertainment house in the world today.

Here is something interesting for us all:
How Walt Disney Cartoons were made!

8 ways to get marked

Marking your name on the web is useful. All you need to do is do what you are doing but in a focused way. Building ones identity makes you more reliable to your customers, fetches you more work and brings you recognition. Of course, first you need to be good at your work. These points can only bring you recognition, its your work which will retain it.

Here are 8 easy ways for designers to mark their name on the web:

1. Blogging- Blogs are available free from Google, Wordpress etc and many paid ones like Typepad etc. Create a blog and do regular posts. Not necessarily textual post, it can be one of your pass time sketch, vector etc. Get comments and discuss on your piece of work.
   



2. Forum participation- Google to get some interesting and well-known sites which allow free forum participation. Here are a few- designerstalk, Graphicdesignforum, Webdesignerforum etc. Register with your original name if possible. People come here for design related problems, new technologies, design techniques etc. Participating these forums can be of great fun. You can even showcase your work and get good feedback.



3. Commenting- Without any doubt I can say that you visit quite many blogs or sites every day. Can you recall when you last commented on any post? This is something we often forget to do. Adding a simple comment with your real name and your site link preferably can make you popular. More people read it, more is your name is marked.



4. Tutorials- If you come out with some good experiment, pen down that in your blog. Good articles can be bookmarked, digged etc by others.



5. Free Graphics- You can make free gif animation, wallpaper, avatars, blog headers etc and post them in your blog/site for public use. If your works are really cool then your visitors will remember your site for sure till they need it again.



6. Portfolio- You can create your portfolio and put it up on your personal blog/site. Else you can get many websites which provide spaces for any user’s portfolio. Maintaining an updated portfolio is very important for all these days. Sites like Designdirectory etc are helpful.



7. Social networking- This is quite popular already among all in facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Myspace etc. Several groups created by users in the social networking sites every day. People get invitation, join and view the art pieces, thus the group owner becomes popular.



8. Others- You can even upload your works in flickr, youtube, Picassaweb etc. Popularize your name by registering under design directories like Dexigner, Designdirectory etc.