Online Reference:
Image Collections
Fee-based collections (includes Royalty Free)
| AAP Newswire Multimedia | An eclectic mix of Australia’s richest and most diverse news images which includes video news footage, interactive graphics, image slideshows, cartoons and approximately three million images. |
| Getty Images | Creates and distributes the world's best and broadest imagery collections. |
Free Collections
| Australian Pictures in Trove | A great collection of digital pictures featuring Australia, including links to photographs from State and National Library collections. |
| Design Packs | Offers free, high quality image collections that can be use in both personal and commercial web design projects. |
| Every Stock Photo | A license-specific photo search engine, currently indexing and searching millions of freely licensed photos, from many sources, and presenting them in an integrated search. |
| Flickr: Creative Commons | Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license. |
| Idee Labs | This playground showcases Idee's ground-breaking visual search technologies. Use the MulticolorEngine to search for images by colour or use TinEye to conduct a reverse image search. |
| Image*After | A large, online, free photo collection with images and textures that can be downloaded and used in personal or commercial works. |
| Open Photo | A moderated photo community with the goal of uniting image consumers and producers through friendly Creative Commons licensing. |
| Stock.XCHNG | A leading free stock photo site with a huge gallery containing over 350,000 quality stock photos. |
| Wikimedia Commons | A media file repository who’s content of images, sound and video clips are available to everyone. Copy, use and modify any images freely as long as the terms specified by the author are followed. |
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