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.
