How to Find Royalty-Free Pictures and Sound for Your Projects

In CC Search you can search for images, videos, and music that are in the COMMON DOMAIN: the creators of the works have given over the rights to these items and have agreed to let anyone use them. Therefore, for these images, videos, and music pieces you need only link to this person's Creative Commons license, and you DO NOT have to cite the image, video, or music piece. 

NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historicalmaps, vintage posters, rare prints,photographs and more. 

SoundGator offers free sound recording downloads,organized in 23 categories, such as "Crowd Sound Effects," "Nature Sound Effects, " and "Machine Sounds." You do have to register on SoundGator in order to download recordings. After registering you can download recordings directly to your computer to re-use in your projects. 

Musopen's collection of free recordings contains performances of the works of more than 150 composers. You can stream the music from Musopen for free. You can also download five recordings per day for free from Musopen.  

Sound Bible.com resource for finding and downloading free sound clips, sound effects, and sound bites. All of the sounds on Sound Bible are either public domain or labeled with a Creative Commons license. You can find sounds for use in podcasts, videos, slideshows, or other multimedia creations.  

The Free Music Archive provides free, high-quality, music in a wide range of genres.. Anyone can download music from FMA for use in podcasts, videos, and other digital presentation formats. The music collections can be searched by genre or by curator.