According to her blog intro she has over 3,500 images and according to her own description she is a self-proclaimed Franco-phile. Graphics Fairy– this site has numerous, high-quality vintage images, digital papers, textures, and other embellishments often saved as either.
Canadian digital scrapbooking sites professional#
At least a couple of these sites are owned by professional graphic designers, and they provide high resolution images in zipped files and downloadable sites that are safe and bug free. So I compiled these sites as sites that provide great images and have generous terms of use. Very often you might find free images but either the download sites are filled with computer bugs or excessive ads or the images are low resolution quality and require a lot of digital cleanup work.
Canadian digital scrapbooking sites pdf#
png files at 72 dpi for use on the web or images at 300 dpi as pdf files which are suitable for printing. I just wanted to let you know about some of the better, free high quality vintage image resources that are available and I have found online.īy high quality images, I mean either downloadable images saved as. I expect that this blog’s readers are above these concerns or practices, but even so that doesn’t change the fact that it is still difficult finding these images and blog owners with generous terms of use. So there usually is a generous, kind community that develops around these blogs and sites. On the bright side though, most vintage ephemera blog site owner’s usually provide generous terms of use to their readers because they know it improves web traffic and increased visits to their sites.
This is the dark side of having access to free authentic, vintage downloadable images.įor the most part, what these visitors fail to understand is that there are copyright laws that protect blog site owners and their scanned photos or images. To some degree, I can understand the blog owner’s restrictions, too often unscrupulous blog visitors will download images and then repackage them as downloadable images, post them for resale on CDs, on their own websites, or sell them as digital collage sheets sold on Etsy or other online sites. You can find yourself spending hours searching on Google, Flickr or Bing, just to find a good quality image and then to find out that the terms of use (TOU) limits you solely to your own personal DIY crafts or the image can not be used for commercial purposes at all which includes, using the image online or on your web page or blog designs. If the search for good quality vintage decorative collectibles and other items is difficult, it can be just as or even more difficult to find high quality, free vintage ephemera images to use for your digital scrapbooking or DIY craft projects.