Finding Free Halloween Graphics For Your Website Or Publication
The Internet has not only brought us a myriad of graphic possibilities, it also brings a lot of headaches. You want to use Halloween graphics on your website or publication to illustrate your content and attract more readers - but how to do that without violating copyrights on those same Halloween graphics? You could try drawing things yourself, but that can take up way too much of your time.
Free Image Hosting Sites
This is a dicey area among website developers and photographers. Many online publications use images like Halloween graphics pulled from free image hosting services like Flickr or Photobucket. Even if you go to websites that claim to be a collection of all of the free stock photos, images or graphics, quite often they will link you to images from these free image host sites. Some of these are copyrighted - but usually they will have a watermark on them or you will be able to download them onto your computer.
Web Eye Candy
If you are looking for moving Halloween graphics for your website or blog, then you will have a much easier time of it. There are many websites that collect graphics and clip art of all kinds of categories - even those that collect just smileys and emoticons will usually have several moving Halloween graphics to choose from.
Search for these sites for Halloween graphics yourself - NEVER download anything from a pop-up ad or an attachment from an email. Even be wary of a friend sending you an attachment - especially if it's file sharing in a peer to peer (P2P) network. These often contain malware (malicious software) that will eventually lead to your personal information being stolen or your computer going haywire.
For Traditional Publications
If you are an editor or designer for a traditional print publication, then you can still go to websites to find non-animated Halloween graphics for free. This is assuming that you rely on a computer system to set up your publication. You might even be able to download the Halloween graphics off of the site onto a disc and then transfer the images from the disk into your publication software.
Sometimes, the best way to be sure you can do it is just to try. You can find not just images for your publication, but borders, backgrounds and spooky fonts. Sometimes you can even find free coloring pages, cut out tags or decorations that you might want to give to your readers.
