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- burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Well, although this isn't completely on topic, there are thousands upon thousands of royalty-free stock images at http://sxc.hu . I use it a lot.
- nomadpete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nice... there's a few nice repositaries of royalty images around. my current favourite is http://www.morguefile.com/ - always worth a look, especially for landscapes
- theOster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0flickr.com?
creative commons on many phots
more "artsy-fartsy" stuff too
- Thorpe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7This will be good for Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons then.
- raccettura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was just thinking the same thing... this needs to go in Wikipedia... would be nice if every article had at least 1 illustration if not more.
- barefootliam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Some of the images are already used by the Wikipedia. Please note that although most (not all) of the images are out of copyright, at least in the US and/or Canada, the overall collection of images is subject to copyright---in other words, please don't mirror it without asking!
If you do link from other sites, check http://www.fromoldbooks.org/howto/using-the-image.html and remember to include a link back to www.fromoldbooks.org so people who see the article on Wikipedia can find out more about the image.
Thanks!
- Geterix, on 10/12/2007, -16/+2Nice! Now all I have to do is copyright all of it and charge you suckers a mint for continued use!
- lixindi, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0that's hot
- RodeoRobot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Those place are beautiful. Why don't they make buildings like that anymore?
- vikingcoder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4There are still artisan builders who will.
http://www.castlemagic.com/
A source for building medieval style dream castles, castle plans, castle designs, and castles for sale.
Solid stone castles - Stone arched bridges - Cathedrals - Stone cottages - Medieval villages - manumitx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Their web design is from the same time period. :-)
- GoNoles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@vikingcoder
Great link! Man, I want a castle. Combine that with: http://www.hiddenpassageway.com/ and we're really onto something!
- vikingcoder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4There are still artisan builders who will.
- Wenham, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@Geterix: Don't talk daft, they are not your pictures to copyright.
- Geterix, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Didnt stop Disney.
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It needs a search engine!
- zcreem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It has one, not free but still
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Search/ - armbo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1zscreem beat me to it
- RodeoRobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Or you could do a google image search like "site:fromoldbooks.org cathedral"
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=site%3Afromoldbooks.org+cathedral&btnG=Search - barefootliam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As zcreem says, I have a search engine (based on XML Query). As for not free, there's no fee for using it, and the source is available on request. It's a little tricky to set up right now, unfortunately.
Higher resolutions (or original scans) are (freely) available on request in most cases, although if you ask for a lot I might prefer to send you a CD-ROM, and ask that you pay shipping and a small fee.
Liam
- zcreem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It has one, not free but still
- zcreem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice work, and decent resolutions available too!
Thanks - Pegritz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.everystockphoto.com is a great source of stock photography as well--and almost all of it CC-licensed! Best of all, they aggregate a lot of their material from companion sites like morguefile.com.
- manuelhp42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was going to say that...
http://news.com.com/2061-11200_3-6079645.html
- manuelhp42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was going to say that...
- scruffmaster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Here's where the action is: www.skins.be
- kjhatzi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have some castles and other medieval images on my http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/ page. Lots of free images for anyone to use.
- finkx, on 02/11/2008, -0/+0anyone need any scrapbooking templates check this out:
http://digg.com/arts_culture/ScrapBooking_Phrases_ ...
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