紐約大都會博物館

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is providing 370,000 images as digital files in a CC0 public domain format, which means they can be freely used and edited by anyone without any copyright restrictions. In addition to scanned images, the collection also includes photographs of three-dimensional artworks. The museum is also participating in the Wikipedia Loves Art program, updating its collection information and related interpretive materials on Wikipedia and releasing structured data on Github. It also has partnerships with organizations like ITHAKA-Artstor and Pinterest, as well as other visual image-based communities, to promote the use and exposure of the museum's collection. It seems that in the future, the museum's ticket sales will continue to increase. The link provided is the museum's authorization statement, so be sure to read it before downloading these free images.

 

Warmify

Setting up a website to reduce resource loads, many people use CDN caching techniques, Warmify is a company that provides CDN services. In addition, there is a free website acceleration CDN for WordPress, allowing visitors to help you disperse image traffic, up to 10G of traffic is free, 1G over is 1.5 yuan. Interested web designers can give it a try.

 

Icons8

Icons8 is a free icon service that requires a link to the Icons8 website to be placed on your website or project. The download page also provides a link back to the Icons8 website. Additionally, the entire collection of icons can be downloaded as a package by registering with your email address. The package includes more than 30,000 icons. A paid option is also available for downloading vector format icons.

 

Zenkit

Sometimes designers have to work on multiple projects at the same time, and when they encounter a project they like, they will unconsciously spend a lot of time on details, and other projects will be forgotten. This project management website allows you to plan the time and deadline for each project and even take notes, and you can also share project permissions with colleagues, synchronize the process and progress of updating projects. Additionally, this online tool manages projects in a visual design style, with features such as lists, boards, tables, calendars, etc. Interested designer friends can give it a try.

 

Lorempixel

Sometimes when designing a website, the owner hasn't prepared images yet, and in this case, designers have to find substitute images to place in the layout of the website. This website provides simple code that can automatically configure random placeholder images for you, and it also supports responsive design and fast image loading. It is a simple and easy-to-use placeholder image generator.

2020.1026 update, the service appears to have ended.

 

photoskop

Before getting a DSLR camera, you can visit this online learning website for camera operation. By adjusting the aperture, shutter speed, and exposure values directly on multiple photo samples, you can see the effect of your adjustments, while also learning what these values represent. It is a good website for learning the basics of photography.

 

Jiemr

Material sharing This time I want to share bird illustrations, more specifically, bird illustration materials. This album was published in the 18th century. Before this, bird illustrations were not in line with the proportions of the real bird or the natural posture. But the author used a realistic style to complete the illustration of these birds. The book is now in the public domain and contains hundreds of bird illustrations. Designers, isn't this a good material for you to download?

 

PDF Candy

This is an online PDF conversion and processing tool that can convert PDFs to Word, images, Excel, PPT, and even convert these files to PDF. In addition to conversion, it also supports merging, splitting, compressing, encrypting, cracking, unlocking, flipping, deleting pages, and adding watermarks to PDFs.

 

Code.org

This is a non-profit online programming language learning platform, which can be switched to various languages. It is a very large learning resource. If you want to learn web syntax and web design, you can practice on this website. In addition, it is worth mentioning that this website, because it is not for profit, needs donations from everyone to continue its operation.

 

Photock

This is a completely free Japanese image library website, the whole website is with the rigor of Japanese, the level of photos is very fine, currently there are about six thousand plus photos of materials that can be downloaded, the download format has high resolution and low resolution, etc. four sizes can be downloaded. The interesting thing is that, in addition to the standard default classification of materials, the website also creates albums, such as the National Great Men Statue Album, Nightscape Album, etc. Color classification search, etc. If you like Japanese-style photos, you must come to this material website to take a look.

 

Pakutaso

Free materials from Japan, no registration required, with a lot of photos of East Asian faces, I'll mention that in addition to high resolution, there's also the option to download normal quality, the interface search is also very intuitive. Japanese-made free materials are really well-made. If you like them, you can donate to them. In principle, all pictures can be used for commercial purposes, but it's still best to check the usage authorization instructions. (Can't be used on pornographic sites, etc.)