Finding free images

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Here are some places to find great free images for your projects. Many photographs—particularly those from government sources—are in the public domain, which means they are not protected by copyright.

If you have a favorite image source that you don’t see here, share it with other Macworld readers in this article’s forum.

Source	Royalty-Free
Center for Disease Control - Public Health	Yes
CIA World Fact Book	Yes
FreeDigitalPhotos.net	Yes
FreePhotosBank	Yes
Images of American Political History	Yes
Library of Congress American Memory site	Yes ¹
Morgue File	Yes
The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth	Yes
NASA Image Exchange	Yes ¹
NASA Visible Earth	Yes
National Park Service Digital Image Archive	Yes
NOAA Photo Library	Yes
PD Photo	Yes
stock.xchng	Yes
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library	Yes
U.S. Air Force	Yes
U.S. Antarctic Program	Yes
U.S. Department of State	Yes
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services	Yes
U.S. Government Image Portal	Yes
U.S. Navy Eye on the Fleet Photo Gallery	Yes
USDA Agricultural Research Service	Yes
U.S. Department of Agriculture On Line Photography Center	Yes
Yotophoto.com	Yes

¹ Free for educational or informational purposes; some rules may apply for use in commercial projects.

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