One way to acquire images is to borrow them from another website. Not all images on the Web are free to use. Special rules apply for education because of the Fair Use Section of the Copyright Law. Images from government websites are generally free for use, but you must still check for a copyright notice. For all others, whether you download their image or put it on your site by linking to it, you must write a letter to ask for permission. Keep the letter on file. The following link contains a sample form letter you can fill in to request permission to use an image.

Sample letter: http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/posting.html

For other modes of acquiring images, review the skill development activities in the Still Image Input section.

Once you have found an image, saving it is easy.

In addition to help with Saving images, the skill development activities in this section include:

Manipulating images

Finding images

Saving Images on a Mac:

Step 1

Find the image you want and obtain permission if necessary.

Step 2

Place your cursor on the image and hold the mouse key down.

Step 3

Choose Save Image As.

Step 4

Save the Image on one of your drives. You may wish to rename the image.

Saving Images Using a Windows Machine:

Step 1

Find the image you want and obtain permission if necessary.

Step 2

Place your cursor on the image and right click the mouse.

Step 3

Choose Save Picture As.

Step 4

Save the Image on one of your drives. You may wish to rename the image.

Listed below are links to sites that contain clip art & science images you might find helpful.

Clip Art:

Transportation, Computing and Science clipart images

• http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/clipart/tech/index.html

Science Images:

NASA's multimedia gallery & rules of usage.

• http://www.nasa.gov/gallery/index.html

• http://www.nasa.gov/qanda/nasa_online.html

EarthKAM websites contain a variety of images from space.

• http://www.ncsu.edu/earthkam/simulation/

• http://www.earthKAM.ucsd.edu/

General science Images.

• http://www.whyfiles.org/coolimages/

NC Geological Survey website contains a variety of geological maps.

• http://www.geology.enr.state.nc.us/

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