100 public domain/free-use images, framed for display, full-perms for building
These 100 textures were downloaded from website repositories offering images freely available for private and commercial use: being public domain, out of copyright, or simply unconditionally licensed for all uses.
Some images have been cropped and enhanced, and they have all been resized to meet Second Life's "powers of two" dimensional constraints: to 512 pixels by 512 pixels. Finally, they have been uploaded, at L$10 a throw, and are now made available to you, without charge, and with full permissions: display them, remount them, or build with them as you wish.
The images are inside a single-prim, scripted, "Bright Frame". This can display single pictures, run slideshows, and will automatically resize itself to show each image in its original proportions. You are welcome to use it to display these or any other textures you care to drop into it: but please note that it contains a copy-only script, and is not offered for redistribution.
If you wish to extract the images from the frame and into your Inventory, simply right-click it, click "Open", and then at the bottom of the Contents window which appears, click "Copy To Inventory".
To use the frame, click it. This calls up a menu which allows you to display any of the images in the collection, or even start a slideshow which shows them in turn: automatically resizing the frame to the correct proportions as each appears.
The menu carries the following buttons:
[>] displays the next image.
[<] displays the previous image.
[list] displays a new menu, listing the names of the images, and a button to display each one.
[dimension] determines which side should be kept a fixed length as the frame resizes to accomodate each image. It calls up a new menu with [height], [width], or [longer] buttons. If you choose to fix the height, for instance, the frame will change its width to match the proportions of each image as it is displayed.
[size] sets the length of the side fixed above, to any value between 0.5 and 10 metres.
[border] allows you to display a black bevelled edge around each image, setting its width as a percentage of the size of the image, from 0% (no border) upwards.
[mode] calls up a new menu offering a choice of [static], which displays a single fixed image, [sorted], which slideshows the images below in the order they are listed, and [random], which chooses each new image to display by chance.
[delay] allows you to choose how long each image is displayed during a slidehow: between 5 seconds and an hour.
[brightness] calls up a new menu with buttons [bright], which causes your image to appear brightly lit independently of the time of day in Second Life or any local lighting, or [dull], which allows Second Life to light your image normally.
[text] switches on and off "floating text" showing the name and number of the image being displayed.
[access] allows you to control who can use this menu, the options being [owner], which restricts it to you, [group], which allows only members of the frame's group to use it, or [anyone], which allows public access.
[help] gives you a copy of this notecard.
The Bright Corporation wishes to acknowledge and thank the following organisations:
1. [ARS] AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE (UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE)
http://www.ars.usda.gov/disclaim.html
"Information presented on the USDA website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested."
2. [BW] BURNING WELL
http://www.burningwell.org/
"BurningWell is a repository for public domain (free for any use) images. You are free to download, copy and use the photos you find here for any purpose. Please donate your own."
3. [CVO] CASCADES VOLCANO OBSERVATORY
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Photo/copyright_info.html
"The maps, graphics, images, and text found on our website, unless stated otherwise, are within the Public Domain. You may download and use them. Credit back to the USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory is appreciated. If any material is referenced "Image courtesy of ..." or "Information courtesy of ...", etc., then please contact that source for permission for use."
4. [CEP] CEPOLINA
http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/
"Q: Are the photos of this site really free?
A: The images of the site can be downloaded for personal or commercial use, please:
- credit www.cepolina.com on your website
- do not use the images to clone this stock photo website
- do not link directly to the images of the website"
5. [FOB] FROM OLD BOOKS
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
"The images are mostly public domain (copyright-free, out of copyright) here in Canada, and often in other countries too, unless otherwise noted, and can be used as historical reference in teaching, royalty-free stock images, scrapbook clip art, or on your own Web site (learn how). You can also get them on DVD, or can donate money to encourage Liam to scan more images, or to help pay for the books."
6. [NASA] NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html
"NASA still images, audio files and video generally are not copyrighted. You may use NASA imagery, video and audio material for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits and Internet Web pages. This general permission extends to personal Web pages.
"This general permission does not extend to use of the NASA insignia logo (the blue "meatball" insignia), the retired NASA logotype (the red "worm" logo) and the NASA seal. These images may not be used by persons who are not NASA employees or on products (including Web pages) that are not NASA sponsored.
"If the NASA material is to be used for commercial purposes, especially including advertisements, it must not explicitly or implicitly convey NASA's endorsement of commercial goods or services. If a NASA image includes an identifiable person, using the image for commercial purposes may infringe that person's right of privacy or publicity, and permission should be obtained from the person. Any questions regarding application of any NASA image or emblem should be directed to:
"Photo Department
NASA Headquarters
300 E St. SW
Washington, DC 20546
Tel: (202)358-1900
Fax: (202)358-4333"
7. [NPS] NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
http://photo.itc.nps.gov/storage/images/help.html
"All photographs and images on this web site are "public domain" images. You are free to use these images without a release from the National Park Service. However, the photographs and images must not be used to imply National Park Service endorsement of a product, service, organization or individual."
8. [PD] PD PHOTO
http://pdphpoto.org
"PDPhoto.org is a repository for free public domain photos. Unless something is clearly marked as being copyrighted, you can assume it is free to use. But if you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that standards for such use are higher. Specifically, you should assume no model release was obtained. And pictures featuring products or property should be used with care. The photos are here to be used, but I don't want you to get either of us in trouble over it."
9. [PDP] PUBLIC DOMAIN PICTURES
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/
"About Public Domain Pictures.net
"PublicDomainPictures.net is a repository for free public domain photos.
"If you intend to use an image you find here for commercial use, please be aware that no model release was obtained and pictures featuring products or property should be used with care.
"The pictures are free for you to use and you should feel good about doing so. Let us know where you used them. It will make us happy."
10. [WMC] WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing
"Wikimedia Commons accepts only free content, that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose.[1] The details are explained below.
"Wikimedia Commons accepts only media
"* that are explicitly freely licensed, or
"* that are in the public domain in at least the United States and in the source country of the work.
"Wikimedia Commons does not accept fair use justifications; see below for the reasons. Media licensed under non-commercial only licenses also are not accepted."
Shan Bright
Chief Executive Officer