Images for your website: Find, Edit & Optimise

ReSearch

Keywords: Vector, Image, Pictures, Photographs, Icons, Editorials, Footage, Badges
Google
- free education pictures

Pixabay - https://pixabay.com/
Google Search>Images>Free
Aggregators (for searching multiple media types)
- Creative Commons - http://search.creativecommons.org/ - Aggregate search on different commons sites for different media from images to sounds and videos. Media are opensourced and free to use. Some if Attributed.
Flickr Commons - https://www.flickr.com/commons
Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Vectors
- Vector.me - http://vector.me/ - Also with Logos
- Free Vectors - http://www.freevectors.com/ - Download thousands of Free Vector Graphics
Icons Only
- Find Icons - http://findicons.com/
- Flaticon - http://www.flaticon.com/
- Icon Finder - https://www.iconfinder.com
Free Digital Photos - http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/ - Free pictures are small sized. Larger ones have to be purchased
Freepik - http://www.freepik.com/

References

Reviews
- Freely Available Images and Multimedia for Educational Use: By John Hopkins University http://www.cer.jhu.edu/mediaresources.html
- Top 5 Sites to Find Images for Student Use: By Edublogs - http://edublogs.org/2010/09/17/edublogs-weekly-review-top-5-sites-to-find-images-for-student-use/
- The Best Online Sources for images by Larry Ferlazzo - http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/10/11/the-best-online-sources-for-images/
Sites
- Pics 4 Learning http://pics4learning.com/
- Edu Pics - http://www.edupics.com/ - coloring pages, pictures, photographs and handicrafts, especially for Primary Students

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57591630-285/embed-instagram-photos-or-videos-on-your-web-site/ - Single Photo or Video
http://www.websitesforquilters.com/blog/2013/08/26/how-add-instagram-feed-your-website/ - Using a 3rd Party Website
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/instagram-api-developers/lqRlNYW9_LY

Considerations:

Have a lossless version e.g. .raw, .tiff, .png, .psd
For Photographs use jpg
Find perfect balance between quality and compression settings (Use progressive setting or adjust Image quality)
2-3mb images can be reduced to 80-120kb with little change in quality using the 30% of original quality.

Preparing Image Files before Uploading with Wordpress - https://om4.com.au/client/preparing-image-files-before-uploading-with-wordpress/
Tips for Optimizing your Web Images - http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/web-designer/tips-for-optimizing-your-web-images/
Website Image Size and Format Guide (For Drupal) - https://techdocs.blogs.brynmawr.edu/3704

Google Sites

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