Free image editing software: GIMP

From contributor: Jane McGookey http://www.key-web.net | mcgookey@key-web.net A great open source image editing program is GIMP it has as powerful at photoshop but it is free (download from http://www.gimp.org). I highly recommend it for anyone doing web or newsletter graphics/images

Templates: Microsoft website

www.microsoft.com From the Microsoft home page, go to downloads and from there to the template section. There you will find lots of good, free templates in many categories including business cards, brochures, postcards and many others that can be adapted to church use. New ones are added continuously, so check back often. The templates are [...]

Image, clipart editing: WMF Image Editor

http://www.companionsoftware.com/ Source for WMF Image Editor, a great little program that allows you to edit clipart that is in the WMF format—Windows Metafile Format. It allows you to break apart clipart, delete parts, rearrange parts, recolor parts. Most of the clipart you download from the http://www.microsoft.comclickart/ site is in the WMF format.

Christian book Website, for clip art deals

http://www.christianbook.com/ This website has all kinds of clipart packages including denominational sets and ones that are no longer nationally distributed, but they are a bit hard to find on thewebsite. There isn’t a category for clipart on their home page, you need to type “clipart” into the search box for the clip art offerings to [...]

Jewish Clip art

www.jewishsoftware.com Useful for church communicators for when you want to have authentic, Jewish clip art perhaps for a teaching for the Jewish holidays or for an Old Testament study.

Microsoft free clipart

http://www.microsoft.com/, go to downloads and trials or go directly to: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx One of the best resources for free clipart. They have a fantastic selection that changes frequently. They feature topics according to the holidays, plus you can search the site for topics that are not featured currently. Really high quality companies put their clipart on [...]

Church Art Online; Communication Resources

http://www.churchart.com/ The classic site for church clipart; a huge variety of primarily traditional clipart available in a variety of forms. You can purchase it on disk, or you can subscribe to an online subscription. Great church jokes that you can put into your church bulletin are part of the clipart package.

Clip Art: my favorite …..

Task Force Image Galleryhttp://www.nvtech.com/ My personal favorite—I love this clipart! One disk, 32,000 vector-based images for $49.95. What I really like about it is not only the quality of the images, which is excellent, but that they are very easy to find and edit. The collection is on one disk and it is incredibly quick [...]