10 Incredible sources of Free Clipart, graphics, images you can use commercially

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Free clip art and graphics aren't always free. Many of us, , even accomplished artists, rely heavily clip art and stock graphics to get the job done. There are thousands of sites with such art available but they are a potential legal and ethical minefield, because you are usually required to compensate the artists when you use them on a commercial site.

There are lots of articles pointing you to free graphics sites. These sites almost always require payment for commercial use. Gee, thanks.

The free clip art and stock graphics here are all not only free to acquire, but they are also royalty free and rights cleared, meaning you can use them on your site without having to pay anyone.

Freerange Stock
Wouldn't it be great if pro photographers gave up some of their images for the good of the world, and could maybe make a couple bucks in the process? Done and done. Freerange Stock has many excellent stock photographs you can use free, even in commercial ventures. They hope to make it back in Google ad revenues. I hope they do. Revenues are shared with the photographers.
http://freerangestock.com/index.php

Flickr Creative Commons Attribute License (Beware!)
Flickr is a huge site consisting of nothing but user-uploaded content, so it can be used in your commercial products, right? No! At least, not unless you search using the right advanced options. Flickr allows use of the Creative Commons Attribution licensing scheme, which is surprisingly badly explained on the Creative Commons main license page. Here's the lowdown. Attribution lets you use the content commercially. You simply have to credit the original author. So use Flickr images to your heart's content as long as you restrict your search to the right terms.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=&l=comm&ct=0&mt=all&adv=1

Stock.XCHNG FREE stock photo site
Probably the best known of the free image sources here, Stock.XCHNG (or possibly just stock.xchng; their usage is asn inconsistent as their URL is weird) has such slickly commercial images that you wonder how they manage to stay in business. With a user interface rivaling that of, say, the Corbis site, it has quality to match in its selection of 400,000 images. In many cases if you whipped out a presentation using these images no one would guess they came from a totally free source. Perhaps the best for the kind of images you would like to appear in a corporate PowerPoint snoozer (but I mean that in a good way; they are what people hope to get when they're doing a presentation).
http://www.sxc.hu/

PDClipart.org Public Domain Clip Art
Browse this during your downtime and you'll find some real gems. It is a comprehensive and well categorized site that verges perilously close to commercial quality. I have used some of the image credits to track down artists for additional work.
http://www.pdclipart.org/

freestockphotography
An up-and-comer, this site is perhaps the smallest but its average image quality is strikingly high. The vast majority could appear in a magazine spread and the results would never screen low budget.
http://www.adigitaldreamer.com/gallery/index.php

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