Need good quality still images for backing to Christmas song

7Phil77

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Nov 28, 2012 11:13

Hello again,

I realise this is strictly not a Cyberlink problem but I have run out of ideas!

I have a Christmas song of my own loaded on the Timeline in PD10 and went looking for suitable still images on the net to place along the timeline to help tell the story.
Wow!!! What a surprise I got!!! Everything I came across was all about the 160 x 120 pixel size ending up about 2.5KB size for the pic. When you put it on the timeline it is pathetically blurred/pixelated and a complete waste of time.

I did try an image converter but that didn't seem to work either.

I must also say that I've used plenty of my own pics for this same sort of application on other projects with no problems but they are all about 88KB or larger.

Any ideas where I can go to get free quality images please? And what size should I be going for?

Thanks in advance.

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James1

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Nov 28, 2012 11:33

Hi,
Try this site
http://www.thecliparchive.com/index.php?category=Motion_Backgrounds
or this one
http://hdwallpaper-s.com/54_14.html
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Carl312

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Nov 28, 2012 15:45

If you are hunting for images via Google Images if you click Search Tools > Any Size drop down > large.
You will get choices of 1024 x 768 (approximate) and up.

Google has many capabilities that most to not see or use.

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7Phil77

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Nov 28, 2012 23:39

Thanks guys for that. Using your advice I have already found some good pics for my project. Phil
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RonH

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Nov 29, 2012 04:25

Brilliant

Thanks for these tips.
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BarryTheCrab

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Nov 29, 2012 06:21

Don't forget to try the FLICKR downloader from within PowerDirector, I typed in "Christmas", and many many images were available. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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