The Google LIFE Photo archive is one of my personal favorites: http://images.google.com/hosted/life
Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?
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Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?
#12You can search Flickr for Creative Commons images. These images have very flexible (and free) licensing. It's a bit of a jump to move from clip art images to photographs, but with fast internet and large image files, the use of clip art is dying out.
I was looking for easy ways to search CC images, and this website (which also has an openclipart search) also came up.
Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?
#13The Google LIFE Photo archive is one of my personal favorites: http://images.google.com/hosted/life
That 404s for me?
EDIT: Oh... they screwed up their http/https config. Only accessible via HTTP.
Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?
#14While it's not exactly in the same league, http://shareasimage.com is my go-to
Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?
#15I made canweimage.com to solve some of the pain points with generic image search engines in mind. All search results come from Wikimedia, so licensing is usually pretty liberal. You can also limit results to public domain only. No images on Wikimedia are watermarked, that I have seen.
Strict search is the only option on canweimage. It's not full proof either, but I check every file name in the results against a very long list of NSFW words and phrases. Any matches are filtered out.
While you'll still be dealing with dimension issues yourself, each result displays its dimensions. That can help pick more appropriate sizes.
Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?
#16The creative commons site provides links to popular search engines with with Create Commons licenses. Though these are not Clip art, there is a lot of material which you can use. Just needs a bit of searching.
Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?
#17You should look at Art4Apps: http://www.art4apps.org/
It's a library of images in the same dimensions and a uniform style, licensed under Creative Commons.
They created it for developers of educational apps, but it could work just as well for worksheets!
Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?
#18When I was building websites in the mid-90's myself and everyone I knew had something like "250,000 Clip Art Images" on 30 CDs or something like that. It came with a giant phone book-like directory of them all by name.
I'd be astonished if some publisher hadn't put that online even for some nominal fee. Anyone else remember this stuff?
Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?
#19When I was building websites in the mid-90's myself and everyone I knew had something like "250,000 Clip Art Images" on 30 CDs or something like that. It came with a giant phone book-like directory of them all by name. I'd be astonished if some publisher hadn't put that online even for some nominal fee. Anyone else remember this stuff?
IMSI MasterClips ("1,500,000" now.) [1]
Of course, the bulk of that number comes via 1-year membership to http://www.iclipart.com/
[1]: http://www.amazon.com/IMSI-00M15W10CC-MasterClips-500-000/dp...
Re: Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?
#20Depending on the age & topic you were teaching you could try http://sparklebox.co.uk or Teachers Pet - http://tpet.co.uk - these cover a variety of lessons & themes and are suitable for up to age 10.