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Q: Royalty Free Media ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   6 Comments )
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Subject: Royalty Free Media
Category: Business and Money > eCommerce
Asked by: phoenixrising-ga
List Price: $50.00
Posted: 11 Jul 2005 11:20 PDT
Expires: 10 Aug 2005 11:20 PDT
Question ID: 542225
I am learning how to create multi media products using MacroMedia's
Flash software and would like to know where I can find royalty free
media, both pictures and audio content?
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Subject: Re: Royalty Free Media
Answered By: kriswrite-ga on 11 Jul 2005 16:21 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hello phoenixrising,

Fortunately, there are many online sources for royalty free artwork;
some are totally free, while others charge a nominal fee. Some good
choices include the following:


?	Gimp Savoy Photo Archive, http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE which
has more than 27,000 photos and images for free

?	DHD Multimedia Gallery, http://gallery.hd.org/index.jsp has both
images and sounds for free

?	Free Foto, http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp has 69807 images, which
are free for private use.

?	Free Photographs, http://www.free-photographs.net/ also has a large
selection of royalty free graphics

?	Free Tock Photos, http://freestockphotos.com has a good selection of
free photos, plus links to other free photo websites

?	Image After, http://www.imageafter.com has a variety of free photos
and textures available.

?	The Morgue File, http://www.morguefile.com/ has a large free photo archive

?	Pics for Learning, http://pics4learning.com has copyright free
images in a variety of subject areas.

?	The Smithsonian, http://smithsonianimages.si.edu/siphoto/siphoto.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=home
also has a large database of images that are free for personal,
non-commercial use

?	Copyright Free Photo Library, http://www.ecarboot.net/photolibrary/
is another good resource

?	I would also check out Wikapedia?s public domain photo sources at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources

?	Foto Search, http://www.fotosearch.com/stock-photos-categories/ has
a very nice collection of royalty free images, available for a variety
of fees

?	Imagine, http://www.inmagine.com/ has what they call ?the world?s
largest royalty free collection? of images?950,000 total?available for
a fee





For audio, try the following resources:

?	AKM Music, http://www.akmmusic.co.uk/, which offers royalty
free/copyright free music for a fee

?	Acoustica, http://www.acoustica.com/sounds.htm has a variety of free
sound effectshttp://www.acoustica.com/sounds.htm

?	Koumis, http://www.koumis.com/soundfx.htm also offers free sound effects

?	Ljudo, http://www.ljudo.com/default.asp?lang=tEnglish&do=it has
about 1,200 free sound effects

?	Partners in Rhyme, http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/ has royalty free
music for a fee, plus free downloads

?	Incompetech, http://www.incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/ is another
source for royalty free music

?	Royalty Free Downloads, http://www.royaltyfreedownloads.com/ charges
a small fee for audio collections

?	Public Domain, http://www.publicdomain4u.com/  offers a variety of
free audio files that are royalty free

?	Flash Kit, http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Instruments/ is a good
source for sound effects

?	As is Stonewahed, http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html

?	And A1 Sound Effects, http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/noflash.htm

?	Also try the Absolute Sound Effects Library, http://www.grsites.com/sounds/



Good luck and have fun!
Kriswrite


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"royalty free" photographs
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"copyright free" audio
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"royalty free music"
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"public domain music"
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"royalty free sound effects"
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phoenixrising-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $50.00
I am VERY HAPPY with my results. I had two questions that I was going
to ask one regarding content and the other one regarding copyright
laws. I figured I'd ask the first question and see what sort of
results I got before proposing the second question. One of the links
the researcher found had a link leading to several other links
concerning intellectual property and multimedia. So I got my second
question answered for free. The key words are also allowing me to
continue the research on my own. Thanks very much. This is money well
spent.

Comments  
Subject: Re: Royalty Free Media
From: kriswrite-ga on 12 Jul 2005 06:58 PDT
 
Thank you for the terrific rating...and the generous tip! I'm pleased
that my answer was so helpful to you :)

Kriswrite
Subject: Re: Royalty Free Media
From: crabcakes-ga on 12 Jul 2005 11:16 PDT
 
In addition to Kriswrite's very thorough and well done answer,
http://istockphoto.com/   has very inexpensive and professional
images, ranging only $1-$3 each, with a huge variety. Not free, but a
large inexpensive, and royalty free image collection.
Subject: Re: Royalty Free Media
From: fluxgold-ga on 13 Dec 2005 13:46 PST
 
hallo guys,

i get some of my songs that i need for my projects from
http://www.massivetracks.net
ist called gemafreie musik ( royalty free music ) ...they have  cool song packages 
with different song length edits, flash loops, and single sounds to
mix your own version of the song.
Sound fx too ....thats why i like this site :)) and the price for each
package is very low ( starting at 22 $ ).
 you can pay with paypal or money order and download your song in a few seconds.

well, check out that site guys...

cya 

fluxgold
Subject: Re: Royalty Free Media
From: jewelzphoto-ga on 02 Jan 2006 11:32 PST
 
You can get a free image at <a
href="http://absolutestockphoto.com/custRegister.php">Absolute Stock
Photo</a>
that has a $35 value.
Subject: Re: Royalty Free Media
From: totallyphotos-ga on 16 May 2006 07:48 PDT
 
Another new site with new, fresh material is http://www.totallyphotos.com
Royalty free and fixed price images.
Subject: Re: Royalty Free Media
From: clox-ga on 18 Jun 2006 02:50 PDT
 
A new site with fresh and unique royalty free music is http://slicktracks.com.

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