Digital Media: Websites

Free high-quality photos available on the internet.

Founded in 1914 as the American Institute of Graphic Arts, AIGA remains the oldest and largest professional membership organization for design and is now known simply as “AIGA, the professional association for design.”

This collection is located at the Wallace Center at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

The CGSociety is the most respected and accessible global organization for creative digital artists. The CGS supports artists at every level by offering a range of services to connect, inform, educate and promote digital artists worldwide.

The DIA’s mission is to keep member companies up to date with the latest information in our fast changing industry, and provide a forum for information dissemination to help each member grow their business in a planned and profitable manner.

The DPLA is a discovery tool for public domain and openly licensed content held by the United States' archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions.

The Graphic Artists Guild primary purpose is to help our members build successful careers by equipping them with the skills and support needed to compete more effectively in an ever-changing field.
Guild members are creative professionals and those studying to become creative professionals. We serve graphic and interactive designers, illustrators, animators, web programmers and developers.

The Specialty Graphic Imaging Association is a proactive, fast-moving association supporting the leaders of the digital & screen printing community.

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.

List of sites featuring images of people who portray racial, ethnic, gender, and abled diversity.

The Getty Museum makes freely available all of the images to which they hold the rights or in the public domain. Read more about this project. They ask that you use this credit when using a digital image: Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program.

At the bottom of the page, select the drop down menu "usage rights" to search images free to use.

Images from the Library of Congress, now in the public domain.

Over 380,000 high quality, high resolution photos. Free for commercial use. No attribution required.

The Noun Project is a collection of openly licensed icons. Most icons can be downloaded as both .PNG or .SVG files. All icons can be downloaded free of copyright for a small fee (usually a couple dollars), or free of charge under the terms of a Creative Commons license. Note that when an icon is downloaded free of charge, the illustrator's name is in the lower left corner of the image. Attribution must still be given in an appropriate place near the use of the image.

Public domain contemporary graphics contributed by users.

Over 1.4 million royalty free stock photos and videos shared by a generous community of contributors.

A collection of over 44,000,000 freely available media files to which anyone can use and contribute.