Free Clip Art

Readers share their favorite sources of free images for use in desktop publishing.

Pick and choose the shamrocks and leprechauns you want to use or learn how to draw your own. Here are free graphics, tutorials for Photoshop, Illustrator, and other programs, and other imagery and icons for use in your St. Patrick's Day projects.

Several years ago the Roswell incident, the Mir Space Station, and the Mars expedition stirred renewed interest in space exploration and extraterrestrials. I couldn't resist jumping on the band wagon. This feature is pure fun but I hope you'll pick up a tip or two — or at least a bit of inspiration.

Download zip files of five different colorful web alphbets including snow-capped letters, dripping blood letters, and wood pattern letters. Each file contains 26 capital letters. Some have a few punctuation characters.

Download scans of black and white pen sketches of animals and objects. Each image is available in GIF for online display and TIF for printing.

Backgrounds, buttons, food, letters, aliens, faces, blinkies, and more -- free for your use, created by Jacci Howard Bear - your About Guide to Desktop Publishing

Yes, first we're offering free clip art and then we're telling you to use less of it. Funny, isn't it? While there are no hard and fast rules on how much is too much, use these commonsense guidelines and tips to improve the use of clip art in your layouts.

Offers a delightful collection of freeware and shareware clip art masquerading as fonts including balloon faces, medical drawings, and crowns. Beautiful!

This computer artist has given desktopPublishing.com samples of his artwork to give away including computer illustrations, engravings, and ornamental art.

Download mostly public domain B&W line drawings of aircraft, animals, boats, money, people, trees, and more. Organized by category.

Sample these public domain images of people, insects, buildings, and objects. Includes black & white and color photos and sketches.