A collection of free downloadable public domain images for crafters and web designers that have been rescued from old books, magazines, and other print materials. All of the images in this collection are copyright free in the United States and any country that extends copyrights up to 70 years after the death of the original artist making them in the public domain and free to use in your next scrapbook page, notecard or other craft projects.

A collection of free images for crafters selected by crafters.

Crafty Ideas

There are so many wonderful ways you can use the copyright free images shared on Reusable Art. From time to time we will be adding ideas, tips, and tutorials on how to use these free images for crafts, websites, and other projects where professional quality images are needed.

Keep in mind that these images are photographs, drawings, and sketches that may not be readily resized without a major loss of quality. Most images in the collection can be made smaller without losing quality but making the images larger may not always work.

We opted not to resize, clean up, or remove some of the original content to make the images more usable to help preserve the quality of the images as many file formats suffer a bit of degradation each time the image is resaved.

Many of the copyright free images are the perfect size to make notecards and with a coordinating colored frame or paper background would make charming and professional looking items.

Photoshop Tricks

Learn how to edit the copyright free images with Photoshop.