TOP 25 SITES FOR PHOTOS AND IMAGES ROYALTY FREE AND COMMERCIAL USE

1. Aarin Free Images : Aarin is a site that provides high-quality free images that are free to use.
2. Archive: Archive is a library of photos and videos contributed by photographers, videographers, and education professionals that are free of use for the public.
3. Bigfoto : Bigfoto has free photos of freelance photographers who contributed so you can use the photos in your content and also good to give credit to the original photographers.
4. CreativeCommons:  CreativeCommons collective works of vector images photos, and music are free to use for creative purposes.
5. Compfight : Compfight is similar to Flickr where photos can be stored in an album on the web.
6. Dreamstime : Dreamstime contains free to use and premium HD stock photos.
7. Deviantart : Deviantart is a site soley for artist in digital and traditional art with many different art pieces from artists
8. Dotgovwatch.com is a site that has a collection of copyright free images that are free to use.
9. FInallyCreative: FinallyCreative is a royalty free photography site that allows use of photos for commercial use in creative projects.
10. Flickr : Flickr is a photo and video hosting site that also allows you to keep an album of your photos and share it through social media.  Users can indicate if the photo is an attribution or non-commercial use.
11. Fotolia :Fotolia is a high-quality photo place where you can buy, sell, and trade photos at affordable prices.  
12. Free Digital Photos : Free Digital Photos has photography images for commercial or non-commercial use.
13. ^{FreeFoto : FreeFoto.com is the #1 largest community of contributing photographers on the web.}
14. Free Images : Free images is a collective wealth of images from photographers that are free to use on web and printed materials.
15. FreeMediaGoo : FreeMediaGoo is a royalty free image site created by developers for developers.  The amount ofphotos that users can use are endless. 
16. Free Pixels : FreePixels has high-quality stock photos for creative photography and design projects.
17. Free Range Stock : Free stock photos are thousands of photos in high-resolution for commercial or non-commercial use at freerangestock.com. 
18. Getty Images : Getty images has primarily high-quality stock footage photos and videos for editorial purposes that many professionals use for their content.
19. Image * After : Image After offers high-quality photos with effects great for high-resolution and use of creative content.
20. Image Temple : Image Temple has stock royalty free photos that optionally can be used for commercial use.
21. Morgue File : Morgue File is a library of high-quality stock photos that are either no longer in use and can be used for personal or commercial use.
22. Ookaboo is a library of pictures under the Creative Commons license where you can use the images for creative works.
23. Open Photo : Open Photo is a community network of photographers that features many varieties of photos in categories of nature, animals, architecture, and more.
24. PD Photo : PDPhoto is a generated free public domain photography site that has copyright free images other than indicated. 
25. Pixabay : Pixabay.com is a sharing stock photo site containing up to 70,000 images and vector graphics.  There are many contributions in stock that are copyright free.  
26. Shuttershock : Shuttershock is a library of high-definition stock photos, vector art images that are royalty free. 
27. Stock Exchange : SXC is a contains almost a half a million quality stock photos by over 30,00 photographers.  Many photographers donate their works for projects.  
28. StockVault : Stockvault.net is a photo sharing network for photographers and designers to share images as if it were a marketplace or exchange.
29. Vintage Pixels : Vintage Pixels is an archive stock photo site that includes historical images and many other contributing photos that are free of use.
30. Woophy (World of Photography) is a Dutch established website  that allows photographers and designers to contribute ideas on improving photo searches on the internet.

Top Free Video Editing Programs-Open Source

Aside from Hollywood's standard industry FCP X and Adobe Premiere, here is a list of opensource freeware basic Video Editing Programs that you can use for general editing purposes.

Avid Media Composer

Avid video editing is great for a beginner and can be used in the operation systems PC, MAC, and Linux.  Avid is Great for encoding, and allows you to alter and modify effects in the video.  Choose the video and audio output, change design, and size of the video.

FileLab

FileLab is a online editing program like Windows MovieMaker for Youtube.  When you get a youtube account, users can enable Youtube video editing tool where you can import video and audio, add text, add transitions, and add annotations to your video.

LightWorks

Recently, LightWorks has been released for open source/ freeware software and great for large projects.  LightWorks was the premier hollywood video editing software for films.  You can add effects and filters with a more complex interface but creates stellar results.

Kdenlive

Kdenlive is similar to WindowsMovie Maker and an easy drag and drop interface where you can import and easily add effects, still shots, and music to video.

OpenShot

OpenShot is an easy automatic snap together Video Editing software where you can apply different effects and transitions to video.

  

WindowsMovie Maker

WindowsMovie Maker is the general platform used in PC that allows you to do basic video editing and great for beginners.  WinMovieMaker allows you to import video files, edit video, add simple effects and transitions, and add audio.  Many YouTube videos are cut with WindowsMediaMaker, iMovie, and the online application provided by YouTube FileLab.  There are many similarities between all basic video editing platforms.  However, each video editing software offers different features and depends on what you need for your media project.

Virtual Dub

Virtual Dub is a program for capturing video from web cam.  It allows you to transcode video in different formats and allows you to do basic video editing.