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Free Image Sites and Online Editors
Here are some sites that provide royalty-free images you can use on your web sites for non-commercial purposes. Some might require that you register with the site, but none charge a fee.
Clip art:
- Microsoft Clip Art (if you have a valid MS Office license, any of their images can be used on your web site, too)
Stock photo sites:
You can find additional image sites in this article: 10 Places to Find Free Images Online and Make Your Content More Linkable.
To use images you find on the above sites follow these steps:
- Right-click on the image you want and choose "Save image as" or "Save picture as" to save it to your images directory for your web site.
- Find the image in your site in Dreamweaver and PUT it on the web server (like you do with pages you create for your web site).
- Open the page you want to include the image on in Dreamweaver.
- In Dreamweaver, click on INSERT > IMAGE.
- Find the image, click on it, then click the OK button.
If an image you want to insert on a page is too large, there are free online editors you can use to resize or crop the image to a more desirable size. Some also allow you to apply cool effects to the image. Try some of the following:
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