Creative Commons 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. Here are some recently added bits and pieces: Attribution (CC BY 2.0) » 95407355 photos (See more) Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND 2.0) » 25257163 photos (See more) Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) » 118423716 photos (See more) Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 2.0) » 64576491 photos (See more) Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) » 135529936 photos (See more) Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 2.0) » 50066962 photos (See more) Public Domain Dedication (CC0) » 4962727 photos (See more) Public Domain Mark » 14526235 photos (See more) "Creative Commons is a non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright." creativecommons.org Briefly... Attribution means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit.
Free PNG Credit Card, Debit Card and Payment Icons Set (18 Icons) Advertisement Today we are glad to release a Payment Icon Set, a set with 18 payment icons in PNG format, in the resolutions 32×32px — 128×128px. This set was designed by Phil Matthews1 and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The icons are inteded to be used on e-commerce websites where you can show what types of payment the shop accepts. Download the icon set for free! You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. Behind the design As always, here are some insights from the designer: This icon pack includes 18 different payment icons in PNG format. Thank you very much, Phil! It's done.
Free Medical Icons Set (60 Icons) Advertisement Today we are glad to release a Free Medical Icons Set, a set with 60 original medical icons in .png 32 bit in resolutions 32×32px and 128×128px. This set was designed by the user interface design agency Centigrade1 and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The icons can serve as great in-app icons for desktop or RIAs in the medical domain. With perspective and reflective effects these can be a real stunner on landing pages or in touch screen application menus. Download the icon set for free! You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. Behind the design As always, here are some insights from the designers: There are a lot of free icon libraries out there, however, only few of them focus mainly on medical icons and we wanted this gap to be closed. Thank you very much, guys! It's done.
Over 45 Free Speech Bubbles to Make Your E-Learning Courses Talk If you add characters to your elearning courses, odds are that you’re also adding some speech bubbles. PowerPoint comes with the ability to create your own text callouts, but I find that I like to use ones that look more organic than the PowerPoint shapes. I try to create my own. I created some speech bubbles for a recent project so I’m making them available for you to use as you wish. On a side note, you’ll notice that the download links go to the new community site’s download section. Rounded Speech Bubbles Download rounded speech bubbles here. Squared Speech Bubbles Download squared speech bubbles here. Thought Clouds without Tails Download thought clouds here. Thought Clouds with Tails Download thought clouds with tails here. Bonus Tips Organic fonts look great in speech bubbles. Hope you can use the speech bubbles (and the other free stuff) for some elearning projects. Tidbits: I’m in Orlando this week at the Learning Solutions Conference.
The Best Free Stock Image Resources on the Web Update – we launched Pablo a new tool to create beautiful images for your social media posts in under 30 seconds You can use Pablo right from the get-go, no need to login or create an account. Just quickly create amazing images super fast. You can try out the first version of Pablo right now – no login required. Just head to and give it a try! We’d love to hear your thoughts about Pablo on Twitter, just hit us up @buffer and hope it makes creating images for your social media posts much easier for you. Ok, back to the blogpost! Here on the Buffer blog, we think a lot about visual content. We’ve shared our own study on the importance of images in Twitter posts for more social sharing. But there’s one question we get asked quite often: Where can you find free, good quality images that are cleared to use for your blog posts or social media content? It’s a question with a lot of different answers and caveats. What is Creative Commons? What is public domain? 1.) 2.) 3.)