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I'm working on an ADA sign project where a nursing home wants flowers incorporated into the design for the room and hallway signs. I've been poking around on the net and not really finding all the flowers I need (9 total) plus, everything I've seen so far has been $50 per picture for a simple 300 dpi image.
I need nice pictures of Arbutus, Buttercup, Lupine, Daisy, Lilac, Trillium, Iris, Violet, & Roses. If you know of a place with reasonable prices, please let me know. Thanks
PS. wish they would have come up with the idea sooner where I could have taken some pictures before everything died.
-------------------- Dave Sherby "Sandman" SherWood Sign & Graphic Design Crystal Falls, MI 49920 906-875-6201 sherwoodsign@sbcglobal.net Posts: 5397 | From: Crystal Falls, MI USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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Dave...Corel has a bunch of flowers in it's clipart collection. I don't know what you need exactly, but that might be a start.
I think you have Corel???
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Dave, I hope this does'nt sound stupid . . . oops ....too late right when you make that statement. . .
Anyway, does it HAVE to be from the computer?? Could'nt you find the pics in other places and scan them onto your computer??
For example, calendars . . . I save or buy the ones with cool pics in a file cabinet as art references . . .a calendar is like $6-$15 . . .I suppose later, when I get a scanner, I can put them on disc . . .or is that some kind of infringement??
Also, pics from magazines of flowers, birds, pets, deer, fish, automobiles, etc . . . stuff I'm likey to paint and need good references for . . .
I just figger I'm saving them anyway, just eventually in a less cumbersome, smaller form....
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go to goole.com check images and do your search.... you'll find tons of pictures
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Dave, I found a scret out about using real, real small pics that can be blown up real big and still look great.
Noticed the Wright Flyer. That was a little tiny pic that I laid down on the counter and took a high res. picture of it with my digital camera. I was then able to use that pic and blow it up for the bus. I came out really great.
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I did the google thing. There might be some good stuff out there, but even with google I'm getting 1000's of web sites listed and so far everything has been either very low rez, not available, or $50 per image. istockphoto.com looks promising but it looks like I'll be a few flowers short. Going to check out corbis.com next.
Edit. Just checked out corbis.com. Every flower we need is there, exactly as we need it. A lot of flower pictures elsewhere showed a single flower. We were looking for each type more as a bunch in each catagory. Now I need to see what they charge.
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-------------------- Dave Sherby "Sandman" SherWood Sign & Graphic Design Crystal Falls, MI 49920 906-875-6201 sherwoodsign@sbcglobal.net Posts: 5397 | From: Crystal Falls, MI USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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Sheila asked "Do you think saving and using 'photographs' of animals, or flowers, as references for 'paintings' would be copyright infringement??" ----------------------- Good Q. As a kid, I wanted to draw a portrait of President Kennedy. Impossible to do from life, so I did what real portrait artists would do c. 1960: Grab all the photos I could, and put them up all around me. Did I infringe on Life magazine's copyright? Should I have called the White House to schedule a sitting, and waited for a reply?
Now, suppose I collect a bunch of flower pix and incorporate some of them into a design. Will I get a lawyer-letter identifying his client's iris? And another declaring that his client could pick out HIS rose anywhere? Man, wouldn't I be up a tree!
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Dave, here's another source for stock photography. I get unlimited brochures and mailers from tons of stock image companies, throw most of em away since I dont have much need.
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