Where To Find Great Ideas And Arresting Images (For Free)
Pictures tell a thousand words but where do we get arresting images for our presentation slides? And for free?
One site I will strongly recommend is stock.xchng but recently I have been using pictures from flickr. Seth Godin wrote an entry on it last week.
If you need photos for a presentation or website or brochure, try Flickr.
Go to advanced search, choose Creative Commons Commercial license and search away. The breadth is extraordinary, but what will amaze you is the quality. And the license is a generous gift from the photographer to you.
Another tip: when you are trying to brainstorm, Flickr is a great place to find connections between ideas that hadn’t occurred to you. Even if you don’t use the picture, the ideas are priceless. Do a search on lobster or clouds or crowds or quality and see what comes up.
Two last thoughts: be sure to check out the HDR images, and don’t forget to sort by “Most Interesting.”
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[Eric] Here are some of the flickr images I used recently for my presentation.
And my personal favorite - works ALL the time!
