Clipart and Photo Image Sources for Greeting Cards

"It all starts with finding the right image"

E-Cards
- Valentine's Day
- St. Patrick's Day
- Easter
- Mother's Day
- Halloween
- Christmas
- Thinking Of You
- Birthday
- General Purpose

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- Arts & Crafts

Find the perfect clipart or photo image with our list of the Top 3 resources for royalty-free images that can be used freely on greeting cards for commercial use and personal use, or opt to purchase high quality clipart and photos for your cards and projects.

Royalty-Free Images

What are royalty-free images? This appears to vary somewhat, since many searches for royalty-free images end up being restricted to personal use only, and so I have to ask, how then are they royalty-free? The list below is for commercial use approved royalty-free images. There may be upfront costs for some of them, such as memberships or one-time fees, but once you legally obtain them, you can utilize them freely, as long as you do not use the images inappropriately as indicated by the original image owners. We use these same sources for many of the cards provided here at Create ECards.

The Graphics Factory

By far, The Graphics Factory provides the widest selection of truly royalty-free clipart, photos, animations, backgrounds, icons, and fonts found online, with over 2 million images available. In addition to a great search option, images are also listed by category, such as holidays, sports, entertainment, music, and skulls. Use of images does require membership which can be obtained for less than $3 a month with a 1 year membership. Some sample images are:

OCAL

OCAL, or the Open Clipart Library is the largest collaborative community that creates, shares and remixes clipart. All clipart is released to the public domain and may be used in any project for free with no restrictions. Includes tens of thousands of images that can be searched for individually, viewed in collections, or downloaded by the thousands via preset .zip files. Some sample images are:

Real Deal Clipart

Real Deal Clipart provides over 1000 fun country style clipart sets that you can use for personal or commercial use! Includes a very huge selection of great royalty free clipart! These images are very unique and are great for scrapping, making cards or designing web sites. This clipart is not free, but the cost is very low, plus you can opt to become a reseller of the graphics as well. Some sample images are:

Other Free and Low Cost Clipart and Photos

When you need a good image for personal use, or for commercial use where it will not be used as an item that resells, the clipart and photo sources below can be quite helpful. Some sources are free while others require membership fees or one-time fees for the use of their graphics.

Use of their clipart and photos requires a weekly to yearly subscription. Some sample images are:

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