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12 best places to get free images for your site

12 best places to get free images for your site
Adding a few high quality photos is a great way to improve a website, article or presentation - but be careful. A search engine like Google Images will quickly locate just about any shot you could ever want, but using them will almost certainly violate someone's copyright. What's more, search tools like TinEye mean there's a very real chance that the original photographer will find out what you've done. Which could be embarrassing, and maybe expensive, too. Fortunately there's a simple and safe alternative. Just look for your free images in a library of stock photos, where the photographer has already given away most, or all of their rights. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Liked this? Sign up for TechRadar's free Weird Week in Tech newsletterGet the oddest tech stories of the week, plus the most popular news and reviews delivered straight to your inbox.

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How To Create a Pure CSS Polaroid Photo Gallery Magical things can be done by combining various CSS properties, especially when some of the new CSS3 tricks are thrown into the mix. Let’s take a look at building a cool looking stack of Polaroid photos with pure CSS styling. View the Demo Check out the demo to see what we’ll be building. Remember, because we’ll be using a couple of CSS3 properties, users with IE won’t see the complete effect, but fully supporting browsers such as Firefox and Safari will be treated to the whole experience. We’ll use basic CSS to style up the photos into a Polaroid style images, then inject some additional styling with shadows and rotation, then use the z-index property to alter the stacking order of all the objects.

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