Following is a video review of a very useful church image and communication website: www.creationswap.com.
This site not only has free images for you to download and use in your church, but it also sells complete template sets at very reasonable prices. Though you need to have Photoshop to modify them yourself, they offer printing and personalization services on the site. Check it out below.
****PLEASE put in the comments section if you have used this company. Also, share what other image, printing, or other services you find useful.*** I'll try to do video reviews so people have a brief idea of what's on the sites. Thanks so much!
Great find, thanks Yvon!
You are welcome–couldn’t wait to pass it on!
If your church prepares worship slides and has a subscription to a service such as GracewayMedia.com, there are many still images that could be adapted to printed communications. (A one year subscription for unlimited downloads of still images at gracewaymedia.com is $249.) All still images come with text and without text, allowing you to add your own text to the images. Very handy if you use Publisher or Indesign. I often resize a graphic, or select one section of a graphic, and then add my own text to make a new unique slide. I haven’t used these images yet for printed pieces, but, Yvon, your article has given me some ideas to consider.
GracewayMedia.com also has a FREE section. Go to the bottom of any web page and select “Free Content”.
GracewayMedia allows your church or ministry to use all images in any way you wish to, to promote your ministry. But you can not give images to another church/ministry that has not subscribed to the service. (Of course, the Free Content could be used by any ministry.)
Ewald,
Thank you so much, I look forward to checking this out!
Many blessings to Canadian brothers and sisters in Jesus!
Yvon
Our church uses Creation Swap every Sunday for our worship slides and announcements. Their free selection is HUGE and high-quality — I’ve never been disappointed. I like that you can search by file type because it quickly eliminates what we can’t utilize. Their .jpg selection is limited compared to the total number of files available, but most certainly isn’t a small collection.
Don’t forget to click through if your interest is piqued by a design. Sometimes within a design there are three or more images that go together as a theme.
Great product!
Thanks so much for your comment! Nothing beats insight from a current user.
Blessings,
Yvon