Pictures make your information more interesting.

Greetings to all! I present to you my First Post On Habré, it is the unifying symbiosis of several posts of my personal blog [ ], and now we’ll talk about a universal thing that will help increase sales of your product, delay an extra ten visitors on your website, and make a simple intelligible story out of a complex multi-letter article. There will also be descriptions and addresses of the repositories of these things.

And this thing is called "Picture".

What is the point?

The idea is simple to ugliness: the text must be accompanied by informative pictures on the topic. Most likely, this is understandable to everyone, but in practice not many people care about it, and those who care, out of turn, receive their advantages on the road to success.
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Three weighty arguments "For"

1. First - pictures, and after - the text. In any text, the picture stands out so strongly that we notice it faster than the actual text.
2. The picture prepares for the text. Looking at the picture, we immediately recall a lot of related facts. After that, it is much easier to perceive what is written.
3. Enough to see once. Words describe the main points. In the picture, in addition to the basics, you can lay a lot of different side trifles, each of which may be of interest to one extra reader.

Vivid example

A very vivid example in favor of pictures is the comparison of Apple iPod and Microsoft Zune HD sites, in particular, the pages of their technical characteristics.



Apple iPod VS. Microsoft Zune HD



We have two, radically different, approaches (one is common, the other is correct):

1. Microsoft draws a page for those who like to read the technical parameters in the form of dry numbers. Who is not in the subject, he does not need to look and know.
2. Apple works for the buyer - an ordinary person who, if he doesn’t understand the intricacies of technology, will still linger on even such a highly specialized page, because looking at the bright explanatory pictures is always interesting, and then look at it and figure it out.

Next, I list the places where many of the desired images inhabit.

We are looking for pictures: free photobanks

The search for pictures from Google and Yandex is ideal for finding photos of something specific: an event, a person, a product. Search engines will give you all this in different angles and poses. The situation is more difficult in finding high-quality photographs on general topics; any metaphorical images.



Stock.xchng is a bank of free stock photos. Stock photos are perfect for general themes. Despite its free, the photos are really high-quality, and there are about 400,000 of them here. Registration is required to download full-size images, but in most cases 500 pixel thumbnails will be enough for the web.



“ Photo laboratory is the owner and distributor of the largest collection of exclusive high-resolution free photos (Free Stock Photo Images) for commercial use.” About 250.000 photos in the database. Convenient search. There is an interface in Russian, but keywords to the pictures are written in English. For full-length download registration is required (preview for free).



Photos.com is more than two million very high quality stock photos. It is impossible to download for free, BUT, but we have a preview by hovering the mouse over the pictures WITHOUT (!) Watermarks. Direct + printskrin = high-quality photo 300-400 pixels wide, which is enough for Internet resources.



Stockvault - More than 15.000 good stock photos, while absolutely free! Free download of full-size photos without registration .



Inmagine - a lot of good pictures. Free clean previews 400 pixels wide. Cool chip - button "Related Pictures" under each picture. Works fine.



DeviantArt - a hefty resource in all areas of graphics. There is a separate section of stock photos .



Morgue File - absolutely free storage of photos. The only negative is that the photos are not always stock, sometimes quite handicraft copies come across.

Another good stock with a hefty amount of photos advised gadson :

Metaphors in pictures

Often, as a accompanying picture you need to use not a photo, but some kind of metaphor. In this case, it is worth looking for the right one in icons, because they are made in such a way as to convey the necessary meaning as simply as possible. Modern icons are drawn in sizes up to 256 pixels, which is quite enough for an explanatory picture.

Icon Bank Overview

Iconspedia

• Convenient and accurate search: on demand throws out 40 icons per page - it's easy and quick to choose.
• There are many categories with a strange division into subcategories - it is better to use the search.
• Convenient separation by sets - in the search both icons and sets are displayed separately, and sets, as is known, are valuable due to their monotony.

Icon Archive

• Display more than a hundred icons on the page.
• Disadvantage - built-in search from Google. Upon request, we get a list of text links, and you need to click on each one in order to view whether the icon rolls or does not roll.
• Detailed categorization. It is better to use it than search.
• For some, it will become an invaluable treasure: a separate base of “Old School” icons of 32 x 32 x 8-bit format.

Icon Finder

• Design made specifically for easy search for icons. There is a separate search in sets .
• From nice features: viewing icons in various sizes and on a different background.
• Really a huge amount of quality icons.

Free Icons Download

• Browse only icon sets.
• Again, the built-in search is a Google search, which is not convenient for icon searching.
• There are not many icons at all, but you can look here for the best.

DeviantART
And again deviantArt. Section icons . The search is carried out within the category, so finding icons on the topic is not difficult. One of the advantages of such a portal with respect to clean archives is more activity. Here, living people actively spread and discuss their own and others' developments, respectively, more fresh and good.

Habrayuzer ilyafd reported another good icon bank:


IconLook

All serious

Recently, a general increase in popularity towards gravataras, galleries on any resources is being looked through; hot interest in all sorts of icon sets; accompanying posts and news pictograms. Soon one of the rules will be: whoever has a better picture, he won.