Where to Find Free Images and Art Resources for Blogs?

Where does one find images that can be posted online with­out infring­ing copy­right laws? That’s a common prob­lem faced by blog­gers, at least by the ones who don’t want a DMCA com­plaint filed against them.

With most of the online mate­r­ial belong­ing to some­one and being posted by some­one else, it’s easy to unknow­ingly become an accom­plice to con­tent theft. Some­how, it’s easier to tell when text is free for dis­tri­b­u­tion. What about all the ubiq­ui­tous art and images with no obvi­ous author­ship or copy­right notices? In many cases it’s impos­si­ble to tell. It would be desir­able to get them at the source, or at sites with clearly stated own­er­ship and dis­tri­b­u­tion poli­cies.
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Revised Thumbnail Creator for the Revolution Pro Theme

Some people were expe­ri­enc­ing prob­lems with the orig­i­nal thumb­nail gen­er­a­tor. Automa­tor is not exactly a robust piece of soft­ware making debug­ging not much fun.

I’ve broken the orig­i­nal appli­ca­tion in three parts with a main work­flow call­ing each one in turn. Although this is less ele­gant and a bit more com­pli­cated to install, it should be more reliable.

The down­load now con­sists of folder con­tain­ing 4 mini work­flows. Here’s how to get it work­ing: [Read more]

Thumbnail Creator for the Revolution Pro Theme

I’ve been unsuc­cess­fully look­ing for a way to auto­mate the cre­ation of thumb­nails for use in the home page of the Rev­o­lu­tion Pro Media Theme. After trying dozens of share­ware and free­ware titles, each one with its own lim­i­ta­tions, I’ve decided to write an Automa­tor plugin to gen­er­ate resized images that fit the slots in theme’s front page. The major prob­lem with the light­weight share­ware pro­grams was either the lack of pre­sets for spec­i­fy­ing mul­ti­ple dimen­sions for the icons, or the incon­ve­nience of access­ing those pre­sets. A large pro­gram like Pho­to­shop seemed an overkill for such a triv­ial and often repeated task.
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Apple Releases Aperture 2.0 Upgrade

Apple has just released a major upgrade to its pro­fes­sional photo soft­ware, Aper­ture. The new ver­sion comes with more than 100 improve­ments cov­er­ing user inter­face, RAW image qual­ity, com­pare and select tools, image pro­cess­ing tools, photo man­age­ment, print and web pub­lish­ing, work­flow, and Apple­Script. [Read more]

Apple Releases an Update for its Pro Applications

Apple has just released the ProKit 4.5 update to its line of pro­fes­sional appli­ca­tions. The update is avail­able through the Mac OS Soft­ware Update util­ity, or it can be down­loaded directly from Apple at: [Read more]

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