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Festive Image Ideas

fiadmin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:25:43 +0000

Time to open the first door on the advent calendar!

Don't worry were NOT going to post a news story every day until Christmas! But, we recently added a guide on using freeimages to create personalised greetings cards. Read the full article here.

All being well this will probably be the last news update until the new year, so i'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy holiday season and all the best for the New Year

100 Free Photos - World Travel, Australia, Textures and Urban Concepts

fiadmin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:26:03 +0000

For a limited time you can download 100 great quality high resolution sample stock photos via http://imagelive.co.uk

4 Galleries are available with 25 images each:

Destinations (world landmarks)
Australian Icons (stock photos of places in australia)
Rush (urban and transport related images)
Textures (various background and texture images)

Images are free to use in non-commercial and charitable works on-line, see the site for more details

http://imagelive.co.uk

Links

fiadmin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:22:07 +0000

Links to other sites featuring free stock photos, or resources related to free stock images (directories and tutorials etc)

royalty-free-stock-images.com
directory of other images agencies and free sites

budgetstockphoto.com
directory of 100's of free photo libraries, public domain and paid sites

christmasstockimages.com
small collection of free seasonal themed stock photos

morguefile.com
a great choice of images and no attribution needed

Tilt Shift Maker

fiadmin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:28:44 +0000

Tiltshiftmaker.com is a free website that allows you crate an effect similar to that produced using a tilt shift lens (the wrong way). It allows you modify a suitable image to make it appear to have a narrow depth of field; this fools the eye into thinking that the image is of a model or miniature subject. The best way to understand it is to look at the samples below or some of the sample images in the tiltshiftmaker website.

Not all images are suitable, if you could fake the effect with any image then there would be no need for the lens. It works best with images that already have small subjects, aerial photos or those taken from buildings, images of architecture also seem to work well, the only way really to know is to give it a try.

We tried it on a few of our images, it was as simple of cutting and pasting from the “copy image location” of our preview photos into tilstshitmaker to give it a test. As an alternative you can try out some of their sample images, browse a gallery of images other people have 'miniaturised' or upload a photo from your own computer. Here's the results from a couple of images from freeimageslive:

View original image by contributor fmanto

If you create some convincing looking miniatures from your own photos then feel free to share them with other users in our photographers area

Linking to your photographer profile

fiadmin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:18:03 +0000

A quick tip for photographers who contribute their images to this site

we offer a range of ways for you to link to your profile from an external site:

Note that you need to substitute your user name (login name) were shown in the urls below

Hyperlinks

Your photographer profile page can be seen at

http://freeimageslive.co.uk/users/<yourusername>

An 'html feed' of your most recent images is located at

http://freeimageslive.co.uk/recent_images/<yourusername>

Your RSS Feeds
you can also use the following rss feeds to display your most recent images on another website or software that can read an RSS feed

http://freeimageslive.co.uk/recent_images/<yourusername>/feed

your blog feed:

http:/freeimageslive.co.uk/blog/<yourusername>/feed

Ideas

You can use the rss feeds to include a series of your latest images in a blog or website. At present we do not provide code for doing this directly, you can use the recent_images feed above with many different blogging platforms and website software to add a sidebar of 'my latest images' - this is often described as 'aggregating another rss feed' or including a 'news feed'.

Developer Tools

fiadmin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:49:16 +0000

Developers Information and Linking details

Link to Image search

You can add a link to search results from freeimages live by linking to

http://www.freeimageslive.co.uk/
search_images?keywords=<yourkeywords>

you can also link to all images in a specific category, to discover the url for this it's easier to use the search category with no keywords and click find (on the left hand menu) the url will look something like this (images categories are numeric)

http://www.freeimageslive.co.uk/search_images?keywords=&category=1

RSS Search Feed

Insert 'feed' into the path of the search urls above and you can access an RSS feed of new images matching your criteria as they are uploaded

Access updates when new images are added to the site matching specific criteria

http://www.freeimageslive.co.uk/search_images/feed?keywords=money&catego...

The following tags pertinent to redistribution of images are included in the RSS field:

<dc:creator> the username for attribution

<link> the url of the image page

<title> raw image title

Attribution requirements for rss feeds

All feeds generated by freeimageslive are provided under a creative commons attribution license.

As per our standard image use terms images must be attributed to freeimageslive.co.uk / {username}, the user name is included with each item in the search results. It is permissible to display the thumbnail images without attribution in search results on an external site provided that image links to the image page included in the feed, the same applies to displaying a raw feed of recent images etc, provided that each image links to the image page then each image need not display a separate text attribution.

Note: We currently only support listing of the first 10 matches in the search feed. If you require more details please contact us for access to a customised search url.

New Images RSS Feed

Syndicate new stock images added to the site

http://www.freeimageslive.co.uk/recent_images/all/feed

Photographer and recent uploads feeds

access an RSS feed of recent uploads by and individual photographer

http://www.freeimageslive.co.uk/recent_images/<username>/feed

Send visitors to images uploaded by an individual photographer at (html page)

http://www.freeimageslive.co.uk/recent_images/<username>

or to their photographer page at (html page)

http://www.freeimageslive.co.uk/users/<username>

Bandwidth Acceptable Use

Attention is drawn to our terms and conditions for image use

10) This term only applies to sites which hotlink to our images: (i.e. you access images direct from our servers on your site choosing not to host the image yourself). Where "cut and paste code" is provided this is designed to benefit simple low use websites and forums who are unable to self host images. If you hotlink to images on our servers we operate an acceptable use limit of a peak of 10,000 image impressions per day. Excessive use of images from our server e.g. 'leeching' or hot linking to images from a very popular website (more than 1/4 million image impressions per month) may result in us blocking access from your domain.

The above limit is flexible: we block sites on an individual basis, those genuine sites which link to freeimageslive as specified and send relivant, non-robotic direct page accessing visitors are accetable; on an as needed basis such sites can generate more image impressions. Sites which leech only image files and do not link to their related freeimageslive pages will most certainly be blacklisted.