Don Pedro's Free Internet Pictures

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Picture Copyright

Below you will first find some links to internet sites with copyright-free pictures. Further down are Don Pedro's free pictures, these are also copyright-free. In general you must be careful when taking pictures from a website and then using them on your own site as "decoration". If you take a small picture and use it as reference or link to the site it comes from, I don't think that site owner would make very much noise. On the other hand, the proper and polite way would be to inform the other site owner / webmaster about what you have done with his/her picture.

See Don Pedro's Picture Copyright on the Internet, WIPO ( English, Français, and Español ), and Janice Byer. Details on background of copyright and international problems with copyright on the Internet.

Free archive collection with free texts, pictures, music, and movies (videos).
Free pictures from Europe, Far East (Asia), about nature and transport etc. Use the search function to find what you are looking for.
Doggie graphics, free to use on non-commercial sites. Check terms of usage before you use the images.
Pictures of marine underwater life.
Free Magic Clip Art.
English / Greek portal for free photos and videos.
Copyright free ship photos from Mitsui OSK Line.
250 tornado pictures plus free pictures of clouds, of the earth taken from satellites, undersea etc. much more.
Over 300 free screen savers.
Over 2.500 free pictures with search function.
Over 10.000 free pictures, including icons. These are free also for commercial use.
Public image reference file with over 18.000 free photos, even for commercial use.
New York Public Library Gallery with over 360.000 digital images free for non-commercial use, for instance on your own personal web site. If you want to use something and you are not sure wether allowed or not - you can contact and ask for permission.
More than 7.000 free e-books over 70 years old. As the book copyrights have already expired, so have the copyright for those pictures you can find in these books. Books in 28 languages, including such as and Sanskrit. When you take a picture on the net, be very careful when there is no copyright note. If your computer doesn't support the Acrobat/pdf reader you can download Adobe Reader 8.0 for free (64 MB).
10 sources to massive amounts of free to use photos.

When you get some B/W pictures you can put colours on them, see Don Pedro's How to Add Colours to B/W Photos.

How to Choose and Use the Pictures

When you put your mouse arrow on top of a picture on this page you will get a yellow "pop-up" rectangle giving you "Picture description and file size: xx KB". This is for your convenience only, in case you are restricted to use a very small ( file size ) picture. Both physical size (... x ... pix.) and file size (KB) is different for each picture. The file size therefore makes difference in download / display time when you put the picture(s) on your page(s). On the internet you check a picture's physical size by putting your mouse arrow on the picture, give a "right-hand-click" and --> "Properties".

How to copy a picture:

Most browsers: you put your mouse arrow on the picture you want, give a "right-hand-click" and choose "Save picture as ...".
Mac users: follow your browser's instructions.
AOL browsers: switch off picture file compressing function first, then follow "Most browsers".

All pictures are interlaced GIF format with transparent background or progressive JPG.