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This website may be useful:
http://recursostic.educacion.es/bancoimagenes/web/

Banco de Imágenes (image bank) for educational purposes. They are all original images "donated" to the bank by their authors under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported

And one more repository:
http://www.pics4learning.com/

Image Use Policy
The Pics4Learning collection is intended to provide copyright friendly images for use by students and teachers in an educational setting. The original photographers of each image retain the copyright to these images and have graciously allowed their use in this collection. The images may not be sold as an image collection or partial image collection. Images in the Pics4Learning collection may be used by teachers and students in print, multimedia, and video productions. These could include, but are not limited to, school projects, contests, web pages, and fund raising activities for the express purpose of improving student educational opportunities.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/

http://openglam.org/2013/01/17/keep-it-free-national-gallery-of-art-us-creates-open-access-policy/

https://images.nga.gov/en/page/openaccess.html

http://www.nga.gov



NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts. More than 22,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.



You can download NGA images from here: https://images.nga.gov/en/page/show_home_page.html

"Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale's museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new "Open Access" policy that the University announced" http://news.yale.edu/2011/05/10/digital-images-yale-s-vast-cultural-collections-now-available-free



http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields&filter%255B%255D=resource_facet%253A%2522Resource%20available%20online%2522

http://publicdomainreview.org/images/ 

Added zooming functionality to the ClipFlair Image component (still work in progress)

Not only can it zoom classic web images (JPEG, PNG), but it can also host DeepZoom tiled (.DZI) and sparse images / DeepZoom image collections (usually saved as .xml) files

http://studio.clipflair.net?image=http://zoom.it/wR4i

http://studio.clipflair.net/?image=http://zoom.it/h

http://studio.clipflair.net/?image=http://zoom.it/WwI0

http://studio.clipflair.net?image=http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/Silverlight/SampleBrowser/ClientBin/GeneratedImages/dzc_output.xml

http://studio.clipflair.net?image=http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/Silverlight/SampleBrowser/ClientBin/Source/dzc_output.xml

http://studio.clipflair.net?image=http://openseadragon.github.io/example-images/pnp/pan/6a32000/6a32400/6a32487.dzi

http://studio.clipflair.net/?image=http://openseadragon.github.io/example-images/highsmith/highsmith.dzi

one can make DeepZoom (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645050%28VS.95%29.aspx) tiled images and DeepZoom image collections with various authoring tools, including DeepZoom Composer
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24819 (can read more about that tool at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd409068%28loband%29.aspx)

however, the easiest way is to use http://zoom.it service ( http://zoom.it/pages/create/) to make a DeepZoom image wrapper (hosted at that site) for any big image on the web (giving the original image URL). e.g. http://zoom.it/wR4i is a ClipFlair Poster (the respective DZI image is at http://cache.zoom.it/content/wR4i.dzi so internally ClipFlair's image component converts zoom.it URLs to get the real .DZI image and show it)

in ClipFlair Studio Image component you can now use:
ALT + LEFT MOUSE BUTTON CLICK to Zoom-in
ALT + RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON CLICK to Zoom-out
MOUSEWHEEL to ZOOM in/out
MOUSE DRAG to PAN arround the zoomed image
or use the Zoom-in / Zoom-out and Zoom-to-fit UI controls displayed over the image

Note that at all ClipFlair components you can use CTRL + LEFT/RIGHT
MOUSE BUTTON CLICK or CTRL + MOUSEWHEEL to zoom in/out their whole User
Interface (together with their content). If you do that over an empty
position of the activity container, it zooms in/out the whole view on
the activity (each activity is a virtual 5000x5000 space currently).

ClipFlair Activities also have a zoom-to-fit option turned on by
default (you can turn them over with the wrench button on the activity
titlebar to uncheck that option's checkbox) that tries to fit the
activity contents in the current activity window size.