Monday, January 25, 2010

Searching: Images

In searching for images, I either use Microsofts images, PrintShop - a purchased software program or Schools.Clipart. I like the one the county subscribes to. They have been improving their search engine and while not perfect, it does a fairly good job.

Using Absolutely All Free Clip Art is strange. When you do a search on the list, you get a list of pages and then you have to look at each page to see if it has what you want. Searching for Santa Claus didn't find anything. You have to search for Santa Clause, which was the movie. I found a couple of cute pictures fairly quickly, but the images save as very tiny images. Not really worth the effort. I would rather use the county clipart website.

One of the sites on the 10 Places to Find Free Images Online has been bought by Getty Images. SXC.hu is now Stock.XCHNG. It has a good search engine or you can browse through the preselected subjects. When you mouse over an image, you get a larger view to save from having to click to see the larger image. They have some really nice pictures. To be able to download, you do need to register.

FreeMediaGoo.com has some interesting pictures, but I couldn't find a search engine, you just had to browse to find what you might want.

MorgueFile also has some really nice pictures. That search engine is also a good one. You can download from there without signing up.

Going to Clipart.com I downloaded an image to use with a display on finances.











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