4 Free Photos Blog

1 year ago the domain 4freephotos.com has been purchased and the website was seeing it’s first visits on the internet. So let’s wish 4 Free Photos Happy Birthday.

The website was started with around 600 images from my personal collection that have been made during some of my trips in Europe.

Here are some statistics of the website after it’s first year:

Free images for education

As some of our visitor are using the images in educational purposes I have assembled a list of links and some collections for quick access to images related to education or that can be used in school projects.

This is both aimed to students and teachers.

List will be updated as more areas are added.

Here it follows.

Here is a movie I stumbled upon with a very creative use of some free photos, one of them taken from our website.

Image used is this one below and you can see it at minute 2:12:

I have done some updates during the past few days.

Since the website was started in April last year:

Total Downloads = 18760
Total Views = 206335
Total Photos = 1407

I wish everyone Happy Holidays and may the New Year bring you everything you wished!

4freephotos.com will be here when you come back from vacation to provide more and more free images.

Probably you have noticed a couple of changes on 4freephotos.com If not here they are:

-  5 new automated translations: Chinese, Japanese, Italian, German and Russian;

- Twitter integration of the upload feature;

- Improved language selector, with rollover menu.

I have setup a page on facebook, as well as a group.

You can now become a fan of 4 Free Photos.

Star Christmas tree

Start with a blank square document. It is important for the document to be square in order to generate the correct shaped star.

Select the needed colors for the star (foreground and background).

In the top menu go to Filter->Sketch->Halftone Pattern. Make contrast max (50) and Pattern Type to line. Make sure the size you choose is large.

Again in top menu go to Image -> Rotate Canavas -> 90CW (clockwise) and then crop the image to a square if it is not already square.

Now it’s time to make the stripes a star. To do that go to Filter -> Distort -> Polar coordinates (select Rectangular to polar).

Depending of the use you can appy more effects, for example I used two masks to create the fade.