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(Building a list of roleplay/worldbuilding resources)
 
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* [http://imgur.com Imgur]
 
* [http://imgur.com Imgur]
 
* [http://photobucket.com Photobucket]
 
* [http://photobucket.com Photobucket]
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==Stock Photography==
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When looking for images to use in your photo-manipulations, avatars, site layouts, etc., it is necessary to make sure that you do not break any image licenses and therefore infringe upon someone's copyright. Simply because you found the image via Google Image Search doesn't mean that you automatically own all of the rights to it.
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===Public Domain===
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===Licensed Stock Photography===
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===Royalty-free Photography===
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| Images that are found on these sites are completely free for you to use with no restrictions whatsoever.
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| Images that are found on these sites are likely to be bound by a license of some sort. Usually they are free to use for non-commercial purposes. Please be sure to read the licenses and give credit where credit is due.
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| You have to pay to use the images on these sites, but generally a percentage of the proceeds go directly to the artist/photographer themselves.
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* [http://www.burningwell.org/ Burning Well]
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* [http://www.oldbookillustrations.com/ Old Book Illustrations]
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* [http://www.public-domain-image.com/ Public Domain Images]
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* [http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/ Copyright-Free Photo Archive]
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* [http://www.clipart-history.com/ A Clipart History]
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* [http://www.historypicks.com/shop2/default.asp Historical Image and Stock Public Domain Pictures]
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* [http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/stockart/ deviantART Stock Images]
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* [http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ Flickr Creative Commons]
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Revision as of 14:01, 19 December 2012

Character Building

Character Development

Name Generators

World Building

Software

Writing

Art & Design

Image Hosting

Stock Photography

When looking for images to use in your photo-manipulations, avatars, site layouts, etc., it is necessary to make sure that you do not break any image licenses and therefore infringe upon someone's copyright. Simply because you found the image via Google Image Search doesn't mean that you automatically own all of the rights to it.

Public Domain

Licensed Stock Photography

Royalty-free Photography

Images that are found on these sites are completely free for you to use with no restrictions whatsoever. Images that are found on these sites are likely to be bound by a license of some sort. Usually they are free to use for non-commercial purposes. Please be sure to read the licenses and give credit where credit is due. You have to pay to use the images on these sites, but generally a percentage of the proceeds go directly to the artist/photographer themselves.