

PowerPoint MVP Ellen Finkelstein has talked about this issue of finding image resources as well. This site and Youtube has a number of free tutorials that you can follow to do this. Mmm…that is a piece of cake! ( Photo credit: Our last visit to a cafe)Īnother creative solution to create the diagrams or icons that represent your ideas within PowerPoint itself. No question of wondering about license terms there. We take photos of common objects like newspapers, clips, computers etc. Our mobile cameras work beautifully in good daylight. This is something we started doing a while ago. We have found huge collections of Clipart and Photos using this method. Usually a large collection is accompanied by a book that lists images of the contents. Be sure to check the quality and contents of the CD.

These are large collections of royalty free images available for use. Go over to your local bookstore and look for graphics, clipart and photo collection CDs. Sign up with a stockphoto site like iStockphoto and download royalty free images there. As they mention, it is generally good practice to provide credit. Microsoft has provided more information about copyright here. You may want to look at that before using freely available images online. Iconsarchive has such a search available.įlickr, the popular photo sharing site offers Creative Commons photos with specific license terms. Many icon sharing sites, allow you to specifically search for “Commercial Free” icons. īookmark public domain clipart sites like PDClipart

Then click on the Search Tools, and Usage Rights menu to find these search options.īookmark and download from public domain sites like Public Domain Pictures and our favorite. Change your search from Web to Image Search. Google allows to search for images by License type. The term “Public Domain” signifies content that is not subject to copyright protection. You could search for public domain clipart and photo sites. Search for Public Domain. If you still have older versions of PowerPoint and office installed somewhere, you could find some clipart that was downloaded to your machines. Here are some alternatives to find free and paid clipart and photos. They now expect you to use the Creative Commons licensed images from Bing.īut if you are like us, that is just not enough. This is the original post from Microsoft Blog. This is how your Insert Online Pictures option now looks: As of January, the automatic update to PowerPoint 2013 has removed the Office clipart search option. In Dec 2014, Microsoft announced the closure of Office Clipart section.
