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Image Resources

This guide provides resources and tips for finding, using, managing, and evaluating images and image collections.

How To Use This Guide

This guide contains a broad selection of digital image resources. Follow the tabs to find image databases organized by discipline, guidance on copyright and citation, tools for managing and editing images, tips for searching for and evaluating images, and more.

Most of the resources in this guide are intended to help with images intended for educational use. For other image uses, be sure to ascertain copyright status.

Trompe-l'oeil painting of the reverse side of a framed painting, with visible nails and wood.
Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Trompe l'oeil. The back of a framed painting, ca. 1668-1672. Oil on canvas, 66.4 x87cm. Copenhagen, National Gallery of Denmark (https://open.smk.dk/artwork/image/KMS1989).