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Clip Art Money and Time Saving Tips for Church Communications

16 September, 2012 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Images add another layer of meaning to our communications and in other videos I've shown you how to find lots of free ones. This video gives you a strategy for how to make the most of the images that you get for free. It shows you how to modify them and gives you advice on planning ahead for using them.

Following are links for material related to the video, just click on the title to go to them:

  • PLAYLIST of additional videos on sources for FREE CLIP ART.
  • PLAYLIST of how to download and use PAINT.NET
  • Additional video preview of free clipart with copyright information.
  • The Text, PDF, and template of the simple church bulletin illustrated here.

Below is the video in standard resolution and following that the video in HD for ECC Members.

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Free Clipart & Photo Websites, Webinar On-Demand

18 August, 2010 By Yvon Prehn 6 Comments

Copyright questions answered
We can copy anything we find on Google, but that doesn't mean we should as church communicators. How to know? The following guidelines will help.

We all want free images to use in our church communications, but where can we find ones that we can use without guilt and without violating the Terms of Use for some of the sites?

Though there are hundreds of sites that claim to be "free" out there on the web, most of them have hidden agendas, are actually teasers for payment sites or have such restricting rules and terms of use that they are unpractical for use in a church setting.

After many hours of research and shifting through the websites, I've come up with four of them that I highly recommend (plus one obvious one many people forget about). These sites have excellent quality images, primarily photographs (not just tacky clip art) and their generous reproduction rights make them free in cost and guilt-free for churches to use. [Read more...]

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