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Alt text helps your stats
We’ve already discussed why you need to add an image to your social media posts, which you can read about here. Images receive more interactions than other types of content on Facebook or Twitter, but a lot of us don’t caption our images. Even more, those of us who use a Content Management System (CMS) […]
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Image sizing – trial and error
Images are vastly important to the success of your social media posts. If you missed our post about this, you can check it out here. But the main point is this: images make an impact. It is for this reason you need to make sure they fit the content you’re posting. This means ensuring the […]
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The Importance of Imagery
Have you ever seen a picture and immediately stopped to read the text underneath it/beside it/on it? Chances are you have, and that’s because your eye was drawn to it. Boldly colored fonts on a brightly contrasted background are also good ways to catch your eye, but we’ll talk about that another time… For now, […]
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Vector Graphics – easy edits
Graphic design is everywhere, and most people don’t even realize. A vector is a form of graphic design, as these images are created digitally using vectors. This post will describe what exactly vectors are, and what they can be used for. Vector graphics are created using geometric and mathematical equations, most often in the form of […]
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Stock image companies and copyright
Copyright infringement is serious business, but it happens a lot more than you think, and unintentionally. The internet is wonderful for finding things. Type a word into a search engine and you’ll be given hundreds of thousands of results. The difficulty is then trying to find the original source for the content. The internet is […]
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Happy New Year 2017: New Feature Releases
New Year, New Feature Releases! Happy New Year from the team at GraphicLeftovers.com! After acquiring GL in July of 2016, we are happy to turn the page from 2016 into 2017, where the benefit from months of planning will come to fruition. Our first product update of the year has just been released, here are […]
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Limited Time Offer – Additional Deposit Bonus
GraphicLeftovers has been providing buyers with affordable premium royalty-free stock photos and vectors for over 8 years! With millions of stock photos and vectors, and thousands of new high quality […]
Exciting News at GraphicLeftovers
Over the last 8 years, GraphicLeftovers has been one of the highest quality, yet most affordable providers of stock photography & vectors in the industry. Founded by a developer and […]
Kevin Weir’s Wonderfully Weird Ghostly Animated Gifs
We love cool animated gifs (who else brought you the entire collection of Google FIFA World Cup Soccer gifs?) The other day we noticed the work of Droga5 (NYC) art […]
Vintage Sexual and Creepy Valentine’s Day Cards
You won’t find these on the shelves of Hallmark Gold Crown Stores, although your grandparents did! Times and tastes have changed and eventually, your grandchildren will laugh at the Miley […]
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The Coolest Little BIG Photography Trick
Remember when Tilt-Shift was the BIG thing, making real photos look like little toys? Well, photographer and model builder, Michael Paul Smith has created a set of photos that are […]
All the Google Animated FIFA World Soccer Cup Gifs
Everybody loves animated gifs! We told you they were gaining in popularity with online publications and, of course, Google is once again having fun with their logo on their search page. […]
The Coolest Pop Icon Car Illustrations
Our list of the coolest pop culture TV and movie icons was so well received, we thought you’d like more! Here’s some cool car illustrations based on TV and movies. Can […]
HARDWOOD! — Tree Cartoons That Go Out on a Limb!
It’s spring… finally! Our friends in the forest, well…they are the forest… are blooming and growing, shading us, giving us oxygen and, according to Xeth Feinberg’s tree cartoon series, HARDWOOD!, […]
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Charles Addams’ Creepy Children’s Book Illustrations
If you haven’t heard of Charles Addams, or his famous creation The Addams Family, that ran for decades in The New Yorker, and more recently, made into movies, then none […]
The Weirdest Books in the World (NSFW)
The last literary journey, “Terrible, Horrible, Ghastly Book Cover Art” (NSFW) was so well received, which makes us worry about the state of reading and/or publishing, we decided to give […]
Do It Yourself Doodles!
Everyone doodles! That’s the great thing about doodles — anyone can do them and they can be incredible works of art. Then there’s David Jablow. David’s doodles, using a 1950s doodle […]
The Robots of 1920: Paintings by Jakub Rozalski
Remember Dinotopia? The fictional utopian society where humans and dinosaurs lived a symbiotic existence? The original book, written and illustrated by James Gurney sold millions of copies in 18 languages and […]
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The Weirdest and Worst Book Art for Kids (NSFW)
Mitch O’Connell is a well known illustrator and a fan of flea markets, thrift stores and apparently a hoarder of weird and funky stuff. His blog is a collection of […]
Nelson Diaz: The Latest Victim of Internet Memes
One day you’re posting a vacation picture of used bounce house yourself, just standing on the beach and within 48 hours, you find people posting that photo, plus a little […]
Are We Doomed to Engrish Packaging? (NSFW)
English is the hardest language in the world to learn. That’s why I have such respect for those who can learn and speak English, usually better than me can. It’s […]
Are Animated GIFs the New Standard Web Images?
Web experts claim that people prefer videos and images to written copy on websites. Many news stories open with a video as a featured image for a story/article. It makes […]
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The Coolest Pop TV and Movie Culture Icon Illustrations
DKNG Studios (Dan Kuhlken and Nathan Goldman) has made different illustrations referring with icons to cult pop culture films and TVshows. From Up to Ghostbusters through Back To The Future. […]
Terrible, Horrible, Ghastly Book Cover Art (NSFW)
We do judge a book by it’s cover. Sorry to dispel the old notion that it’s what’s underneath that counts because it usually doesn’t work with books and illustrated-cover snack […]
Wondrous Weird Thrift Store Art
Thrift stores offer a wide range of art to adorn your walls at low, low prices… if you can stomach pretty bad art! Sometimes it’s paint-by-numbers art and sometimes it’s framed […]
Nightmare Art From Your Happy Childhood Memories
We all have happy childhood memories of those characters we loved and watched throughout our childhood, so, naturally someone like Dan LuVisi has to come along and ruin it for everyone! […]
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Free Breast Cancer Survivor iPad Backgrounds
GL Stock Images is proud to promote Breast Cancer Awareness month with free iPad/tablet backgrounds. This October, we are celebrating […]
Damn You Art School: A Solution to Missing Professional Information
There are some great art schools out there. If not for my instructors and the school, I wouldn’t have made […]
Free Retro Facebook LIKE Buttons
Add some retro flavor to your blog posts with these fun Fifties Facebook Like buttons. All buttons are in PNG format […]
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Free Humorous Celebrity Quotable Cards
Say Happy Birthday, Happy Mother’s Day or congratulate the newlyweds with these fun retro cards featuring humorous quotes from famous […]
Free Typography Class from Lynda.com via Facebook
That’s right, art and design scholars! All you have to do to earn the right to take a free, eight-hour […]
Christmas Themed Facebook Timeline Images
Ring in the holidays with these festive Christmas themed timeline images for your Facebook page from GL Stock Images. We’ve […]
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Vintage Look iPad (HD/RETINA) Apple Backgrounds
Apple’s new iPad Mini hit the stores last week and sold out quickly. If you were lucky enough to get one […]
Apple Themed Christmas iPad Background
The holidays will soon be here, so deck the iPad with this fun Christmas themed background from GL Stock Images.
Steve Jobs Tribute iPad Backgrounds
We here at GL Stock Images are truly saddened by the passing of Steve Jobs. He will be missed by […]
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Vintage Santa Claus
Create your own vintage holiday cards with this jolly Santa Claus illustration. Available in vector format.
The Big Apple iPad Wallpaper
Welcome to the Big Apple! Give your iPad a unique wallpaper featuring the Statue of Liberty holding her torch with […]
Love Soup
A fun Valentine themed illustration featuring a bowl of hearts and two spoons. Available in vector format. Download and enjoy.