Remember that you need rights to the images you use on your web site. Even if you take the photos, if there are recognizable people in the images you need to get their permission to use the image publically. Be very careful if your photo includes the artwork around campus - the artists have full rights to the use of these images.
This is the best place for pictures of campus and campus dignitaries. University Communications can help you with these.
ARTstor has images for education and scholarship use. You can search and browse approximately 550,000 images contained in over 50 collections within the ARTstor Digital Library. ARTstor also includes tools for using large numbers of images in lectures and presentations.
Creative Commons has images, videos, and audio. Peruse their offerings. Both stock photos and Flickr's Creative Commons pool of photos are available to your use.
Use photos from freefoto.com for no cost but with attribution (provide a link to freefoto.com).
The Microsoft site, despite the title, offers not just clip art but also images and sounds for free use.
Sign out a camera from Classroom Services or the Student Tech Center and take your own photos. If people are in the images get their permission, or crop to eliminate faces, or take crowd scenes with individual faces too small for recognition.
Also be careful if your photo includes the art work on campus. Some sculpture on campus can be included on university websites as long as you provide appropriate copyright and credit lines (which you can get from the Sculpture Collection web site). These imageable sculptures include these works (the 72 dpi applies to the web, other resolutions are for print usage):
Resolution to use (dpi) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist | 72 |
150 |
300 |
Notes |
| Fred Bassetti | x |
x |
x |
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| Richard Beyer | x |
x |
x |
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| James FitzGerald | x |
x |
x |
Courtesy of Estate of FitzGerald |
| Lloyd Hamrol | x |
x |
x |
please check with Western Gallery before using |
| John Keppelman | x |
x |
x |
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| Robert Maki | x |
x |
x |
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| Isamu Noguchi | x |
please check with Western Gallery before using credit line: ©The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum - |
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| Norman Warsinske | x |
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Other sculpture photos may not be used. Also note that if your photo contains part of a sculpture you still need to include the copyright info, just say "Detail of".
When you do use digital images, be nice to your users and size them properly for the web. This photoshop tutorial can help you size and save your images for the web.
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02.21.2008