OPEN & FREE IMAGES

Nowadays we have a huge amount of software, books, articles, videos, music, images, etc, that we could use for free, and still many people don't know about it. We call all this open & free resources (free as in freedom) and is the result of the effort coming from many projects (open & free projects), which represent by now a real cultural movement that is involving the whole planet in many areas.

Yaop! aims to inform about these resources, emphasizing what all this means for education (rather than for information) and for its future. To accomplish this goal, we publish information about the open projects we get to know from around the world, giving a short description of each one.

But Yaop! itself is an open & free project and as such it offers an always growing high quality photographs collection, doing this way its own cultural contribution.

So, go ahead and see how you can take advantage of these resources!

MESSAGES AND NEWS

Nov. 2008 - It's been a long time. For almost a year and due to several reasons this site haven't been updated. We want to apologize for this. Anyway Yaop! has been serving very well. We have change some thing that you will notice for sure and of course there are new images. Look for the new images at: Art, Plants, Animals, Mixed, and Macro. Enjoy!

- - - - - > ESPAÑOL: la version española de este proyecto no estará más a disposición. Hemos tomado esta decisión para aligerar la carga de trabajo y concentrarnos en una sola versión "universal" en inglés, que será más rica de contenidos. Gracias por tu interés.

- - - - - > ITALIANO: la versione italiana di questo progetto non sarà più disponibile . Abbiamo preso questa decisione per aleggerire il carico di lavoro e velocizzare le cose, concentrandoci cosi su una sola versione "universale" che sarà più ricca di contenuti. Grazie per il tuo interesse.

Dec 31 2007 - new projects with many new content (software, projects, etc) - no new images for now.

Sept 14 2007 - new images: Animals, Mixed.

Sept 13 2007 - new images: Animals, Scapes.

Jun 15 2007 - new images: Plants, Mixed, Scapes, Street Artists, Animals.

Mar 28 2007 - new images: Plants, Mixed, Macro, Street Artists.

Mar 19 2007 - new images: Mixed + some general retouches.

Mar 11 2007 - Resources pages have been reorganized in a more logical structure, by topics + Images: Mixed.

Feb 18 2007 - there are news and new images (very big panoramas!): Scapes.

Feb 06 2007 - new images: Macro.

Feb. 2007 Changes inside Yaop! - Yaop will not write articles any more. We have always have wanted to write and publish articles and news from the start and we did, even if there weren't a huge production. But now we'd rather prefer to be focused mainly on publishing free high quality photographs (as always), other than information about the open resources(as always also), letting other things be part of future initiatives. Thanks for your support.

Jan 23 2007 - new images: Scapes - panoramas !

Jan 08 2007 - new images: Scapes, Mixed, Street Artists, Art.

What our images are used for? - many people is downloading our images and we'd like to let you know what Yaop! users are doing with them. If you also find our material useful and/or you're already using it and you want to tell us about what you're doing with it, don't hesitate to e-mail us - it's good for you and for us!

Our images are used in these fields: Traditional Art [to get inspiration to draw or paint], Digital Art [in 3D, to have good backgrounds to render on and in 2D techniques, as a resource of materials, surfaces, and even textures], Educational [to publish brochures and/or local magazines - for school and/or associations], and in computers as desktop backgrounds.