Where can I get graphics for startup screens?

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Where can I get graphics for startup screens?

I really like to have some graphic on my startup/login screen when starting my applications.

In one of my past employments, we had this on startup/login screen:

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Where do you get your graphics for this purpose, and what are your favorites.

+1 A:

I'm a big fan of using fotolia.com. For a couple of dollars you get licensed, professional quality images and graphics.

Another good source for icons such as above is iconfinder.net. There's tons of free for-business icons there.

Nissan Fan 2010-03-09 19:03:04

+1 Good suggestions

Dustin Laine 2010-03-09 19:04:03

Legally you can use a www.istockphoto.com

Dustin Laine 2010-03-09 19:03:36

+1 A:

You should get a graphic designer to create a splash screen for your product. You should be careful not to use others' copyrighted imagery in your software, unless you know it is licensed under a non-restrictive license like one of the Creative Commons licenses. Make sure you understand and comply with whatever license your imagery has.

Mike Daniels 2010-03-09 19:03:46

Even for internal you should pay for what you use. Those are someone's intellectual property.

Dustin Laine 2010-03-09 19:05:06

@durilai: You know, you're right. You're probably not supposed to use copyrighted works for any commercial purpose, even internally. I'll edit to fix that.

Mike Daniels 2010-03-09 19:56:06

We have an official logo for our core products, and in release, that's what we use for the splash screen.

During development, we put funny pictures that we find from around the internet into a folder on a shared network drive. The debug build will randomly pick a picture from that folder, if it can access it, and use that as the splash screen.

Some favs: alt text