Pictures and Photos Editing Presentations Photo Book Generators

Pictures and Photos

• Picsearch

• Pics4Learning: like Picsearch, Pics4Learning’s photos are student-safe and also copyright-friendly, which means you’re free to use any photos you find.
• Flickr: not a search engine, but it’s a great place to search for photos. Use its Advanced Search. register for free, and take advantage of Flickr’s safe-search option.Use Flickr Creative Commons to search for copyright friendly images.
• FlickrCC Blue Mountain: Easily find photos on flickr that have been released under the creative commons license, with the attribution details displayed in the right hand section.
• FlickrStorm: Select appropriate Creative Common license from pull-down menu after clicking on the Advanced button. 
• Behold: is a Flickr search engine of more than 1 million images. Tick on the boxes  to specify the licensing you'd prefer.
• Wikimedia Commons: a database of images, music, and videos that’s available for educational purposes, as long as you attribute their source. To find out the owner of an image or its licensing agreement, just click on the picture.
• Creative Commons: allows you to search for multimedia across Google, Flickr, Yahoo!, BlipTV, SpinXpress, and OWL
• The Smithsonian: the Smithsonian Institutes Flickr stream

• The Commons: A library of Congress/Flickr project which allows searches of the world's public photography archives.

• Google Images: not all these images are free to use as you wish though
• Public Domain: These photos are not copyrighted, and have been placed in the public domain for free personal and commercial use.
• Public Domain PIctures: Contains free public domain photos which are free for you to use.
• U.S. Government Photos and Images: Most of these images and graphics are available for use and reproduced without permission or fee. Do read the disclaimers with care however, as  some images may be protected by license.
• Shahi: is a visual dictionary which brings Wiktionary content with flickr images. 
• Panoramio:photos from around the world many of which are panoramic, upload your own and submit to Google Maps and Earth.
• World Press Photo Contest Archive:An archive of winning photos fron over half a century of human history and a showcase of successive styles in photography and reportage.
• Kalooga Photo search: search and preview galleries based on the links and references between web pages, not just the name of the photo.

Editing

• Dumpr: Photo effects and free, no registration needed

• Picasa photo editor can be downloaded for free.

• Picknik: Online photo editing, no registration required. Powerful editing tools plus effects, fonts, shapes and frames.

• Pixer.us: Online photo editing, no account required

• FotoFliexer: Edit photos online, no account required, easily access and edit photos in Picasa, MySpace,Flickr,Photobucket and more, plenty of fun effects available

• Pixenate: Online photo editing, no account required, easily access FaceBook and upload to Flickr, plenty of fun effects

• Phixr: Online photo editing, registraton required.
• Blibs: Online photo editing, not registration required
• Photosize.com: is a free online photoresizer. No registration required.

Presentations

• Slideshare Upload your presentations to the web.

• Scribd is a great tool for English Language Learners because it allows students to upload their papers and illustrations, and Scribd immediately also converts it into audio so, in addition to seeing their story, they and others can hear it, too.  Check out this example Larry created for how Scribe can be used for Talking Stories (press the play on the Listen toolbar on the bottom right hand side below categories and tags).
• Picasa Web Albums: Online photo albums, slideshows and photosharing.
• Google Presentations: Just upload or create your slideshow using your GoogleDocs account.
• Voicethread: Create interactive slideshows, with added audio and invite others to collaborate on your projects.
• Animoto: Free unlimited 30 second slideshows, including music and text.
• Slide: Create fun slideshows wiht effects and embed them in Facebook, BeBo, Hi5, Myspace, blogs and more.
• Prezi: A presentation map construction application, which allows you to define paths, zoom in at given points, add text, links and media.

 

Photo Book Generators

• MixBook: digital scrapbook-online, free account, embeddable
• One True Media: Video and photo mixing,online, free account, embeddable
• Blurb: digital scrapbook, free downloadable,uploadable
• My Publisher: digital scrapbook, free downloadable,uploadable