I use resources from all over the internet to create covers and graphics, and to teach myself new techniques. These are some of the best sites I have found and used for completely free photos, fonts, textures, vectors, clipart, tutorials and more. Be warned - I thought I had kicked my font problem until I found DealJumbo ;).
Some have thousands of things, some just a few, but they all have something useful. I hope others may find them useful to. And ALL RESOURCES are 100% legal.
If anyone has any to add, please do comment - always glad of new resources!
If I find more I will add to the list.
Royalty Free, Use for Anything (Personal & Professional) Image Sites
- Pexels.com - best site out there at the moment IMHO
- Rene Asmussen on Pexels.com - some seriously great posed photos perfect for book covers and promo material
- Unsplash.com
- Pixabay.com - sometimes have to weed through some crap to get to the good stuff
- UnrestrictedStock.com
- StockPhotosForFree.com
- NegativeSpace.co
- Picography.co
- Gratisography.com - quirky
- DesignerPics.com
- NY Public Library
- StockSnap.io
- DealJumbo.com
- SpoonGraphics.co.uk - some free (great stuff), some for paying members
- FreePik.com
- All-Free-Download.com
Textures
- LostAndTaken.com
- Textures.com
- TextureKing.com
- Texturer.com
- DealJumbo.com
- SpoonGraphics.co.uk - some free (great stuff), some for paying members
Clipart
Fonts (some free for commercial use - some only personal use)
Vectors
Tutorials
- Line-Of-Action.com - drawing tutorials
- SpoonGraphics.co.uk - Photoshop & Illustrator
- Mandelbulb.com - fractal generator
- Palette Generator
- ObsidianDawn.com - Photoshop brushes (credit required)
- SensiStock - pose reference
- Pixeden.com - Photoshop mock-ups
- CoverVault.com - Free Photoshop mock-ups - many of various book displays - brilliant for author marketing
- DealJumbo.com - mockups
- Incompetech - Royalty Free Music - Kevin Macleod creates royalty free music for which liscenses can be purchases or credit given under Creative Commons.
Thanks, Tasha! These would have been very useful when I was looking for Creative Commons stuff and royalty free music for my kids to use in their book trailers for English, in case any of them wanted to post them to YouTube. I did find one wonderful site(wish I could remember it) which had musicians allowing you to use their work free and “buy us a cup of coffee if you like it”. People do that sometimes, maybe to promote their other work.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. I think that's why people upload their work to many of the image sites too.
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